About Us

Carol Thornton

Hydrologist

Specialties

• Hydrology Analysis
• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Coordination and Compliance
• Stream Hydrology and Field Surveys
• Geomorphology
• Soils
• Technical Writing
• GIS

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Geology, University of Oregon
• Masters of Science, Hydrology/Hydrogeology, University of Nevada, Reno

Experience

Since working with TEAMS, Carol planning expertise has taken her to Forest Service Regions 2, 3, 5 and 6. She has worked on a variety of NEPA projects including; timber sales, salvage sales, recreation residence renewals, and invasive plant environmental impact statements. She has also performs stream surveys and prepares watershed analyses.

Previous to working for TEAMS, Carol worked as a hydrologist for BLM for two years. She wrote timber sales NEPA reports, performed stream surveys, collected sediment and temperature data. Additionally, she collected water quality data around a mining superfund site and working on the team to research clean-up options.

Carol worked for the Desert Research Institute for three years. During this time she gathered data for a variety of projects including; transport and fate of mercury used in gold mining in the Carson River, coring and describing lake sediments, and many projects related to geomorphology in Nevada. She collected and databased chemical and isotope data for springs and wells in southern Nevada and modeled groundwater flow for an aquifer in southern Nevada using deuterium as a tracer. She collected information on a gold mine in northern Nevada that pumped out large amounts of groundwater, and in the process, was causing local wells and springs to go dry.

Carol has worked with TEAMS since 2002.