PAIGE S BECKER, EIT

O’Neill School of Public and psbecker@iu.edu

Environmental Affairs 303-895-8058
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

EDUCATION

PhD Indiana University, Bloomington, IN June 2018 - Present

Environmental Sciences
Minor: Hydrologic Modeling
Advisor: Adam Ward

MS Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO August 2017 - May 2018

Major: Hydrologic Sciences and Engineering

BS Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO August 2013 - May 2017

Major: Environmental Engineering
Minor: Renewable Energy

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Summer 2018 - Present

Advisor: Adam Ward, Ph.D.
Understanding river corridor exchange in high-gradient head water systems through
the combination of field methods and numerical modeling.

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO Fall 2017

Graduate Research Project
Advisor: John McCray, Ph.D.
Comparing Effects of BioChar on Metal Solutions at varying pH

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 Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 2015 - 2017
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Re-Inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt)

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Science Communication Award March 2021

Presented by the Dean’s Office of the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs,
Indiana University at Bloomington.
Amount: $200

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award

October 2021- June 2022
2020 Solicitation 2
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Collaborated with Dr. Scott Painter to examine the performance of river corridor
exchange models and implementing reach- to- network scaling of these models.

PRESENTATIONS

Poster Presentation, “How transferable are river corridor exchange metrics across
geologies and scales, and what are the associated uncertainties of studying
representative reaches?” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2020

Oral Presentation, “How do within- and between-site comparisons limit the

transferability of river corridor studies across geologies and scales?” American
Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2019.

Poster Presentation, “Potential for Metal Removal in Low pH Waters Using Biochar
Geomedia,” Geological Society of America Fall Meeting, November 2019

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

DIY Water Monitoring, Data Portals, and Watershed Modeling Workshop

CUAHSI, OPEnS Lab, and Stroud Research Center
Avon, PA, September 2019
Description: Workshop focused on ways to build affordable sensors, field deployment
and water-proofing techniques, and open source data portals for uploading data.

Watershed Science Master Class

CUAHSI, Biosphere 2, AZ, January 2018
Description: discussed different techniques for modeling watershed process. Used
techniques to analyze data from the Landscape Evolution Observatory to model
processes.

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MENTORING

American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee (H3S)

Committee Member, 2021 – Present
Co-Chair for Outreach and Social Media
Working to provide student and early career hydrologists with opportunities for
professional development, networking, and social interaction. Work with AGU
Hydrology Section to put together events. Work with CUAHSI to help organize
webinars.

Association of O’Neill PhD Students

Environmental Science Representative, 2020 - Present
Point of contact between students and Program Director and Dean. Working with
students, program directors, and Deans to continue improving the student experience
in the PhD program. Advocating for better working from home conditions during the
pandemic and advocating to drop the GRE requirement for the program.

Graduate and Professional Student Government Spring 2021

Research Award Reviewer
Evaluated 4-5 applications for research awards given to graduate students at Indiana
University. Provided detailed evaluations for each application based on criteria for the
applications.

Research Experience for Undergraduates

Tiana Fabiana, Oregon State University – Cascades, 2019
Morgan Schultz, Salish Kootenai College, 2019
Tadd Bindas, Merist College, 2018
Hunter Stanke, Michigan State University, 2018
Billy Stansfield, University of Conneticut, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Geophysical Union, Member 2019- Present

Society of Women Engineers, Member 2013-2019
American Society for Civil Engineers, Member 2013-2019
 Student Chapter Positions
o Vice President, 2016-2017
o Outreach Officer, 2015-2016
o Freshman and New Member Representative, 2014-2015

FIELD AND LAB SKILLS

Surveying: Surveying experience with Total Station and sight level and scope in
floodplains and mountain headwater catchments

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 Solute Tracers: Can conduct solute tracers in streams using various tracers (salt,
Uranine, Rhodamine) and various deployable loggers, and analyze data using method of
moments, and breakthrough curve numerical models.

Stream Gauging: Use of velocimeters, tracers, and other techniques to estimate stream
flow in streams of all sizes.

Long-term monitoring: Installation and wells and equipment to record data for
months to years across multiple watersheds.

Laboratory Skills: Competent in various environmental engineering wet lab skills

including: titrations, alkalinity, DNA extraction, water quality analysis techniques.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming: Matlab, R and RStudio

Modeling Applications: COMSOL Multiphysics, ArcMap, QGIS, HEC-HMS

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Environmental Engineering Intern Summer 2017

QEP Resources, Inc, Denver, CO
Helped to conduct audits and surveys on sites, update site diagrams and databases,
conduct OSHA standard safety protocols

Environmental Engineering Intern Summer 2016

Phillips 66 Borger Refinery, Borger, TX
Conduct audits and surveys of tanks, assessed compliance with SPCC plans, developed
diagrams of tanks in CAD based on surveys for accurate measurements, conduct OSHA
standard safety protocols

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REFERENCES

Dr. Adam Ward, Associate Professor

O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University
Room 418 MSB-II
702 N. Walnut Grove St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812-856-4820
Email: adamward@indiana.edu

Dr. Steve Wondzell, Research Ecologist

Pacific Northwest Research Station
U.S. Forest Service
Corvallis, OR
Email: steve.wondzell@usda.gov

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