New Senior Chemist in the Office of Water Quality To: "E - All WRD Employees" cc: "David A Rickert, Chief, OWQ, Reston, VA" Subject: New Senior Chemist in the Office of Water Quality Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:52:14 -0400 From: "David A Rickert, Chief, OWQ, Reston, VA" To: Water Resources Division From: David A. Rickert Chief, Office of Water Quality Subject: New Senior Chemist in the Office of Water Quality The Office of Water Quality (OWQ) is pleased to announce that Pete Rogerson is now a senior chemist in the OWQ. Pete joined the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in November 1986 as the first chemist for the newly created Methods Research and Development Program at the National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL). Beginning in September 1988, Pete served as Chief of the Program. In January 1992, Pete became Chief of the NWQL. During Pete's tenure as Chief, the NWQL has: (1) established an outstanding fiscal control system and Working Capital Fund for better management of the NWQL; (2) implemented a number of important new low-level methods into standard production; (3) increased the annual sample income from $8.5M to $12M while eliminating backlogs of results, and (4) greatly improved the documentation of methods and the quality of analyses. Pete has also been instrumental in coordinating with the General Services Administration for the construction of the new laboratory facility. In his new position, Pete will bring his environmental and analytical knowledge into the OWQ to advise the Division on the types and levels of chemicals that we need to measure to meet public needs and to provide leadership for planning the development of new field and laboratory methods and the required quality-control data. In this capacity, Pete will provide Division leadership for collaborative methods development activities with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada, will represent the USGS on the Interagency Method and Data Comparability Board of the new Water-Quality Monitoring Council, and will serve as the Department of the Interior representative to the National Environmental Accreditation Conference (NELAC). Please join me in welcoming Pete to this important new position. Pete's userid is ROGERSON and his phone number is 303/467-8001.