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Heather Golden
Title: Physical Scientist
Contact Information:
Office of Research and Development
US EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory
Ecosystems Research Division
960 College Station Road
Athens, GA 30605
Phone: 706-355-8327
Email: golden.heather@epa.gov
Education
Ph.D. Forest and Natural Resources Management (Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, 2007
Dissertation: Role of multiple stressors on watershed nitrogen response across New York State
M.A. Geography (Physical Geography and Geomorphology), East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 1998
B.S. Earth Science, Frostburg State University Frostburg, MD, 1995
Expertise
- Watershed-scale fate and transport modeling, including effects of coupled stressors on aquatic ecosystems
- Process-based and empirical watershed modeling approaches for ecological risk and exposure assessments
- Multi-scale estimates of atmospheric, landscape, and topographically-regulated sources and fate of nutrients to surface water systems using spatial modeling techniques
Previous Experience
Research Fellow, US EPA Greater Research Opportunities, Syracuse, NY, 8/2004-5/2007
Research Assistant, New York City Watershed Agricultural Council, Syracuse, NY, 8/2002-6/2003
Watershed Planning Specialist, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/2002-8/2002
Environmental Scientist (Consultant), Mackin Engineering Company, Pittsburgh, PA, 3/2000-1/2002
Watershed Planner, Canaan Valley Institute, Davis, WV, 6/1999-3/2000
Research Assistant, US Department of Agriculture, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 1/1997-5/1998
Research Assistant, New Jersey Sea Grant , East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 8/1996-1/1997
Publications
Golden, HE, EW Boyer, MK Brown, TS Purucker, and RH Germain. In Press. Spatial variability of nitrate concentrations under diverse conditions in tributaries to a lake watershed. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Golden, HE, CW Knightes, EJ Cooter, and RL Dennis. In Press. Modeled watershed runoff associated with variations in precipitation data, with implications for contaminant fluxes: initial results. US Geological Survey Water Resources Report: Proceedings of the Third Annual Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, September 8-11, 2008, Estes Park Colorado.
Elliott, EM, C Kendall, EW Boyer, DA Burns, G Lear, HE Golden, K Harlin, Bytnerowicz, A, and R Glatz. In Review. Dual nitrate isotopes in actively and passively collected dry deposition: Utility for portioning NOx sources, understanding reaction pathways, and comparison with isotopes in wet nitrate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
Golden, HE, EW Boyer, MG Brown, EM Elliott, and DK Lee. 2008. Simple approaches for measuring dry atmospheric nitrogen deposition to watersheds. Water Resources Research 44: W00D02, doi:10.1029/2008WR006952.
Golden HE and EW Boyer. 2008. Contemporary estimates of atmospheric nitrogen deposition to the watersheds of New York State, USA. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment doi:10.1007/s10661-008-0438-8.
Purucker, ST, HE Golden, GF Laniak, LS Matott, DJ McGarvey, and K Wolfe. 2008. Free and open source GIS Tools: Role and relevance in the environmental assessment community, in: M. Madden, ed., The GIS Manual. Bethesda, Maryland: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).
Golden, HE. 2007. Role of multiple stressors on watershed nitrogen response across New York State.Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York.
Phillips JD, HE Golden, K Cappiella, B Andrews, T Middleton, D Downer, D Kelli, and L Padrick. 1999. Soil redistribution and pedological transformations in coastal plain croplands. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 24: 23-39.
PRESENTATIONS
Golden, HE and CD Knightes. 2008. Modeling Watershed Mercury Response to Atmospheric Loadings: Response Times and Simulation Challenges. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2008, San Francisco, California, December 14-19, 2008.
Golden, HE, CD Knightes, EJ Cooter, and RL Dennis. 2008. Modeled Watershed Runoff Associated with Variations in Precipitation Data, with Implications for Contaminant Fluxes. Third Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, Estes Park, Colorado, September 8-11, 2008.
Golden, HE, CD Knightes, EJ Cooter, and RL Dennis. 2008. Simulating Runoff from a Grid Based Mercury Model: Flow Comparisons Resulting from Multiple Precipitation Sources. Computational Methods in Water Resources XVII International Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, July 9, 2008.
Golden, HE, CD Knightes, EW Boyer, MJ Brown, and RH Germain. 2008. Watershed Nitrogen Modeling: Coupling Diverse Approaches Using a Case Study from New York State. National Water Quality Monitoring Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, May 20, 2008.
Golden, HE, EW Boyer, and RH Germain. 2006. Patterns of Wet Nitrogen Deposition in Forested and Mixed Land Use Watersheds of New York. Society of American Foresters 2006 National Convention Proceedings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28, 2006.
Golden, HE and EW Boyer. 2006. Estimating the Spatial Distribution of Wet Nitrogen Deposition for New York State. US Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Fellowship Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, September 26, 2006.
Golden, HE and EW Boyer. 2006. Distribution of Contemporary Wet Nitrogen Deposition in New York State’s Watersheds. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, New York, USA, September 11, 2006.
Golden, HE. 2005. The Spatial Distribution of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition & Links to Water Quality: Studies from New York and South Korea. Guest Speaker, Watershed Sciences Lab Group, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, September 28, 2005.
Golden, HE, EW Boyer, DA Burns, EM Elliott, CA Kendall, and TJ Butler. 2005. Elucidating Sources and Factors Affecting Delivery of Nitrogen to Surface Waters of New York State. Eos Transactions, AGU Fall Meeting Supplement 86(52), Abstract #B51A-0187, December 5-9, 2005.
Golden, HE. 2005. Approaches for Estimating the Spatial Distribution of Atmospheric Nitrogen. Guest Speaker, Seoul National University, Department of Forest Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea, July 29, 2005.
Golden, HE, EW Boyer, EM Elliott, CA Kendall, DA Burns, and TJ Butler. 2004. Quantifying Atmospheric Nitrogen Sources in Major Watersheds of New York State. Eos Transactions, AGU Fall Meeting Supplement 85(47), Abstract #B13B-0219, December 12-17, 2004.
Golden HE, EW Boyer, RH Germain, & CA Kendall. 2004. Role of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in Forests of New York. Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Fellowship Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, October 11, 2004.
Golden, HE. Spatial and Temporal Variation in Historic Alluvial Sedimentation in the North Carolina Coastal Plain. 1998. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Abstracts, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1998.