Kristian K. Gandrud |1204 W. Stuart St. Fort Collins, CO. |720.938.2285| kgandrud.weebly.com | krisgandrud1@gmail.

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Education

B.S. WATERSHED SCIENCE | DECEMBER 20TH 2015 | COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

Major: B.S. Watershed Science
Related Course Work: Land use hydrology, hydrologic measurements, hydrogeology, environmental river
mechanics, watershed science, water quality, water law & rights, chemistry I & II, biology I & II, geology, soil
physics, soil science, diffuse urban & point source pollution as well as GIS & computer sciences.

Technical Abilities

COMPUTER PROGRAM ABILITIES

Microsoft Office: Word 2016, Excel 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Publisher 2016, Outlook 2010 & Access 2016
GIS: ArcGIS 10.2.2 2014, Arcscene 2014, & ArcGIS Collector 2015
GPS: Garmin & Trimbel GeoXT products - photo capture, waypoints, tracks, logs, area averaging & upload.

MODELING ABILITIES
Soil: Colloidal, vapor, chemical [concentration & transport], solute, temp, RUSLE, ET, PET, & PAW flux modeling.
Hydrologic: Curb load & sediment transport, critical flush, BMP based erosional reduction & performance, urban
RO, ground & surface water flow, area normalized Q, aquifer depletion, & flow schedule modeling.
Extent: Basal occupied area, spread rate, abatement, eutrophic extent, & seed dispersal extent modeling.
Hydrologic Graphing: Hydrograph development, stage discharge curve development, & VA discharge graphing.

FIELD ABILITIES

Colloidal exposure:
Erosion Control: Slope grading, BMP installs, detention basins, site evaluations, re-vegetation & seeding.
Soil Sampling: Destructive ring & lateral pit sampling, steady state infiltration, Msat, critical flux sampling.

Hydrologic Exposure:
Storm Water Management: Conveyance, infrastructure, BMP, outflow & deposition zone inspections.
Surface Water Instruments: Integrated depth samplers, sub surface drop samplers, d-net, ARI mesh net samplers,
DO profiling meters, Secchi disk, PCS 35 multi-meters, Pygmy & Mcbirney flow meters wading rod calibration
3+ -
Surface Water Analytes & Parameters: Fe ,Zn, Pb, Mo, Cu, TP, TKN, No3 , TSS, TDS, TP, CHL-A, As, DO,
Conductance, Temp, E-Coli., sample storage, transport, temperature, light, preservation, CP & COC requirements,
DUP & Decon. Procedures.
Surface Water Management: Riparian restoration, grading, seeding, re-vegetation, bank armoring, prioritized
implementation, monitoring plan development, inlet, outfall, depth & loading site analysis, as well as USGS
integrated multi-habitat macro-invertebrate analysis, nutrient cycling assessments, land cover change & storm
water load assessments, saturation & infiltration excess overland Hortonian flow, nutrient uptake & digestion
assessments, as well as hyporheic zone & ground water conductance.

Biologic Exposure:
Vegetation Surveys: Parcel, transect, quarter quad, gridded biologic surveys & area gridded & littoral surveys.
Biologic Monitoring: Species type, extent & propagation monitoring, disturbed site, abatement efficiency & risk
rating evaluations, community forest canopy health assessments as well as control stand and treatment analysis.
Invasive Plant Mitigation: IPM, selective herbicide trainings, application rates, mixes, and timed implementation.
Instruments & Machinery Exposure

Instruments
Remote Instrument & Monitoring Station Implementation: Remote surface water monitoring station development
instrument housing, wiring, remote power set up, as well as data download & trouble shooting, YSI probes,
pressure transducers, Campbell CR 10X loggers, ISCO samplers, IPM approaches, selective herbicide trainings,
application rates & mixes, as well as timed implementation.

Machinery
Machinery: Bobcats, motorized augers, lifts, AT & UTV vehicles, super duty trucks (250 450 lines), & watercraft.
Trailering: Flat, covered, & watercraft trailering [parking: 10-35ft lengths] on hitch, goose, & long neck attachments.

Technical Writing & Trainings

Technical Writing
Grant Writing: Content & cost estimates for GOCO & National Forest Foundation Grant proposals.
Report & Manuscript Generation: Annual, synopsis, field study, project reports and manuscript development.
Notice & Briefing Reports: Enforcement notices, legal briefings, council reports, & media content development.

Trainings & Certificates

Certified - Lakes & surface water provider Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Minnesota - 2015
Certified Oil & Gas Site & Safety Embridge Energy Partners North Dakota 2015
Trained - COC & water quality sample receiver RMB Environmental Laboratories Minnesota - 2015
Trained Terrestrial invasive flora ID Colorado Department of Agriculture Colorado - 2016
Trained BBP & PPE lab & sample collection safety RMB Environmental Laboratories Minnesota 2015

Experience

INVASIVE SPECIES & BIOLOGIC MANAGEMENT SPECALIST | TOWN OF VAIL | 2017

For this position I managed and coordinated the Town of Vails Invasive species program. This work required
managing conservation corps crews on IS abatement efforts, directing and developing work plans for hired private
contractors, coordinating biologic inventories and management operations with the USFS White River National
office and conducting National Forest Foundations and Great Outdoors Colorado grant and bidding material as well
as conducting onsite walkthroughs for grant organization members. Moreover I acted as a dispute liaison between
private residents and commercial applicators and also conducted lunch and learn sessions, lead landscape trainings
for commercial companies, and provided site consultations to over 100 local entities and residents. Additionally, I
conducted over 2,436 biologic surveys, consulted on riparian restorations projects and nutrient cycling parameters
as part of the Restore the Gore program. Moreover, I personally wrote the Town of Vail Noxious Weed
Management Plan, which was fully adopted by town council, approved the legal department, and implemented
under my term. Beyond this I developed a digitalized management form submission and field collection platform
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which reduced notification and entry time by 1/12 and QA/QC checks by 1/3rd freeing up both IT, GIS, and field
crew hours. Moreover, I provided project guidance and was the primary contact to hired open lands and biologic
control consultants.

INVASIVE SPECIES & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INTERN | TOWN OF VAIL | 2016

For this position I personally performed vegetation surveys for over 2,400 parcels within the Town of Vail and
uploaded collected field data into our organizations internal SQL server utilizing a custom interface on ARCGIS
collector for invasive species which I developed. Uploaded data could then be download [as a 2D array] and input
into an invasive species area extent and tracking model [which I also developed] that automatically generates
model results into annual and synopsis reports for the state. Additionally, I evaluated conveyance lines and
outflow points utilizing our streets app to identify linkages between stormwater system intakes, conveyance
channels and outflows to consult construction agencies on how to better improve stomwater BMP efficiencies by
evaluating pre-existing stormwater infrastructure. Moreover, I worked directly with hired contractors, construction
agencies, and the plethora of large private entities to help coordinate environmental program and compliance
efforts, generate right of way agreements, host trainings, and provide ground support.

CLIENT SERVICES & CONSULTING INTERN | RMB ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS | 2015

For this position I conducted the required field work for over 300 lakes program clients including the routing
monitoring, sample collection, & QA/QC requirements for our biologic surveys. These surveys required gridding
out the littoral zone of lakes and streams, verifying the presence of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS), the severity, and
tracking their movement within the littoral zone. At this position our firm also designed and implemented slope
stability projects to reduce sediment loading for multiple lake districts. These efforts required directing
conservation crew and excavation companies to cut back critical slopes, cover exposed soils with biodegradable
cover materials and introduce native seeding and planting procedures. I was also directly involved in generating
client reports and deliverables that summarized the years findings, discussed abatement performance results, and
prioritized implementation projects.

NUTRIENT EXCHANGE FIELD TECHNICIAN| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY| 2014 -15

For this position I was responsible for the proper construction, installation, wiring and monitoring of remote field
instrumentation to evaluate hyporheic exchange in RMNP over two years. I personally built, wired, installed,
marked [Trimbel], mapped, and removed over a dozen groundwater wells and four surface water stations with YSI
housings, pressure transducers, solar stations and Campbell CR10X data loggers. Moreover, I conducted all the
metabolic uptake testing, discharge measurements and sample filtration procedures for collected piezometer and
surface water station sampling.

AEROSOL INSTRUMENT FIELD TECHNICIAN| DROPLET MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES| 2008 - 2010

For This Position I was the primary field technician working on the Aerosol Spectrometer [UHSAS]
instrument. This position required me to perform installation, system checks, in flight systems monitoring, de-
installation, and on site trouble shooting for Droplets [UHSAS] instrument onto the Global Hawk autonomous
drone aircraft. In total I overcame various inflight overheating issues by reconfiguring the internal instrument
configuration installing micro fans, increasing heat dissipating surface area, and distancing PC board
configurations via aluminum mounting expansions components; with the retrofits in place we were able to
maintain continues operation for over 30 hours of flight. Furthermore, at the end of our research contract I
conducted operations debriefs explaining our research our team was later awarded by the flight research center
for our contributions to the research effort as a whole.

References

Gregg Barrie Senior landscape architect Town of Vail gbarrie@vailgov.com

Moriya Rufer Director of Client services RMB Environmental Laboratories moriyar@rmbel.info
Tim Covino Associate Professor of Watershed ScienceColorado State Universitytim.covino@colostate.edu
Pamela Wegener Nutrient Exchange Project ManagerColorado State UniversityWegenerpamela@gmail.com