Cherie Miller, Stream Water-Quality Studies Section Chief & Water-Quality Specialist

Education

Ph.D.

Chemistry, 1992, University of Maryland

M.A.

Hydrogeology, 1987, The Johns Hopkins University

M.S.

Environmental Sciences, 1985, University of Virginia

B.S.

Biology, 1975, Rollins College

Employment and Interests

Hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993 to the present:
-- Water-Quality Specialist for the MD-DE-DC Water Science Center of USGS
-- Project Chief for the Chesapeake Bay Fall Line Toxics Program
-- Surface-Water Specialist for the USGS Potomac NAWQA program

Visiting Assistant Professor at Franklin and Marshall College (1992-94)

Chemist at the Texas State Department of Health Laboratory (1975-1981)

Areas of Interest

• Trace-Metal Geochemistry in Chesapeake Bay
• Pathogens and Pharmaceuticals in Surface Waters

Awards and Honors

• STAR Performance awards -- USGS (1999, 2001, and 2003)
• Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography (DISCO XI, 1993)
• GRID award (for oral presentation of research) University of Maryland (1991)
• Gilman Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University (1985-1988)
• F.H. Moore Distinguished Teaching-Assistant Award - University of Virginia (1984)
• COSIP Fellowship - Rollins College (1974)

Participation in Scientific Societies and Workgroups

• SETAC member
• Chesapeake Bay Program Toxics Subcommittee member
• AWTA member
• MWMC Data Management Committee
• Maryland's State Water Quality Advisory Committee (SWQAC), Water Management and Conservation Subcommittee member

Selected Publications

Miller, C.V. and Klohe, C.A. 2003. Summary of water- and sediment-quality data for Anacostia River well sites sampled in July-August 2002. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-73.

Miller, C.V., Foster, G.D., and Majedi, B.F. 2003. Baseflow and stormflow metal fluxes from two small agricultural catchments in the Coastal Plain of the Chesapeake Bay Basin, United States. Applied Geochemistry 18:483-501.

Soeder, D.J. and Miller, C.V. 2003. Ground-water contamination from lead shot at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Sussex County, Delaware. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4282.

Foster G.D., C.V. Miller, T.B. Huff, and E. Roberts. 2003. Pesticide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and polychlorinated biphenyl transport in two Atlantic Coastal Plain tributaries and loadings to Chesapeake Bay. J. Environ. Sci. Health A (in press)

Anderson, A.L., Miller, C.V., Olsen, L.D., Doheny, E.J., and Phelan, D.J. 2002. Water quality, sediment quality, and stream-channel classification of Rock Creek, Washington, D.C. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4067.

Adelson, J.M., G.R. Helz, and C.V. Miller. 2001 "Reconstructing the rise of recent coastal anoxia; molybdenum in Chesapeake Bay sediments." Geochim Cosmo. Acta 65(2):237-252.

Helz, G.R., Adelson, J.M., Miller, C.V., Cornwell, J.C., Hill, J.C., Horan, M., and Walker, R.J., 2000. Osmium isotopes demonstrate distal transport of contaminated sediments in Chesapeake Bay. Environ. Sci. Technol. 34:2528-2534.

Miller, C.V., Foster, G.D., and Huff, T.B.. 2000. "Organic compounds and trace elements in the Pocomoke River and Tributaries, Maryland." U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-57. Available at http://md.usgs.gov/publications/ofr-99-57/

Foster, G.D., Lippa, K.A., and Miller, C.V. 2000. Seasonal concentrations of organic contaminants at the fall line of the Susquehanna River basin and estimated fluxes to northern Chesapeake Bay. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 19:99-110.

Ator, S.W., Blomquist, J.D., Brakebill, J.W., Denis, J.M., M.J. Ferrari, Miller, C.V., and Zappia, H.. 1998. "Water quality in the Potomac River Basin, MD, PA, VA, WVA and DC., 1992-96." U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1166.

Miller, C.V., Denis, J.M., Ator, S.W., and Brakebill, J.W. 1997. "Nutrients in streams during baseflow in selected environmental settings of the Potomac River Basin." JAWRA. 33(6):1155-1169.

Helz, G.R., Miller, C.V., Charnock, J.M., Mosselmans, J.F.W., Garner, C.D.,and Vaughan, D.J. 1996. "Mechanism of removal of Mo from the sea and its concentration in black shales; EXAFS evidence. Geochim. Cosmo. Acta. 60(19):3631-3642.