Details to the Office of Water Quality--Mark A. Nilles and G. Douglas Glysson

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Subject: Details to the Office of Water Quality--Mark A. Nilles and G. 
         Douglas Glysson
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:26:31 -0400
From: "Nana L Frye, Editorial Assistant, Reston, VA" <nlfrye>


Mark Nilles has accepted a detail to the Office of Water Quality (OWQ) to 
coordinate U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) responsibilities for atmospheric 
deposition. Mark will:  (1) provide oversight for the 75 USGS stations in 
the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP)/National Trends 
Network (NTN); (2) coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and 
numerous other organization concerning the NADP stations; and (3) 
coordinate atmospheric deposition issues for OWQ. Mark will be located at 
the Denver Federal Center.

Mark brings deep knowledge of atmospheric deposition and the NADP/NTN to 
his new role. Since 1990, Mark has supervised the Acid-Rain 
Quality-Assurance Project in the Branch of Technical Development and 
Quality Systems, which provides the external quality assurance for the 
NADP/NTN. During this period, Mark also met and worked with nearly all of 
the other agency people responsible for coordinating NADP/NTN.

Doug Glysson has accepted a detail OWQ to:  (1) coordinate technical 
discipline reviews; (2) represent OWQ on a three-office effort to develop 
guidelines for conducting multi-discipline technical reviews; (3) serve 
as the focal point for OWQ communication with the Regions; and (4) 
oversee surface water, water-quality instrument and sampling methods 
development.

Doug brings a wide range of experience to this position. He has served in 
field, subdistrict, district, and regional offices as well as the Offices 
of Water Quality and Surface Water, and most recently in the Office of 
Water Data Coordination (OWDC). In OWDC, Doug was involved with the 
Intergovernmental Task Force on Monitoring Water Quality which developed 
a National strategy for improving water quality monitoring in the United 
States.

Mark and Doug assume their details in part to replace Paul Kapinos, who 
retired on October 3, 1996, following a 28-year career with USGS; and 
John Gray, who recently transferred to the Office of Surface Water.

Mark's userid is manilles and his phone number is 303/236-1870 extension 
307. Doug's userid is gglysson and phone number is 703/648-5019.