Staff
Dave Braun Water Resources Management Service Leader / Senior Water Resources Scientist

Dave has 21 years of experience in the water quality field, conducting a wide variety of water resources assessments and field experiments, including fate and transport studies of nutrients, pesticides, and microbial pathogens from agricultural fields, water quality and flow monitoring programs, and illicit discharge detection and elimination (IDDE) assessments. He is responsible for designing field studies, developing investigation methods and procedures, collecting and interpreting environmental data, and preparing reports. Dave also assists local governments with water resources planning.
Years of Experience 27
Years at Stone 25
Education
Master of Science, Water Resources, 1997, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Thesis: Phosphorus Export Patterns in Relation to Land Use in the LaPlatte River Watershed, Vermont
Bachelor of Arts, Biology, 1992, Bard College, Annandale, New York
Markets
Expertise
- Agricultural Stewardship
- Stormwater Assessment & Permitting
- Edge-of-Field and Conservation Practice Monitoring
- Study Design & Directorship
- Agricultural Conservation Practice Design
- Agrochemical Fate & Exposure
- Watershed Planning
- Prospective Groundwater Studies
- State Regulations
- Hydrology and Water Quality Modeling
- Water Quality & Flow Monitoring
- Illicit Discharge Detection & Elimination (IDDE)
- Environmental Systems Modeling
- Water Quality
- Surface Water Monitoring
- TMDL Implementation Support
- Simulated Rainfall Runoff
- Retrospective Groundwater Studies