Emily Cooper-Hertel - Klamath Meadows Partnership Coordinator
Emily was born and raised in central Arkansas, where she fostered a love for the outdoors on family fishing trips from the lake in her childhood back yard, to the White River, or on beach trips to the Gulf of Mexico. After receiving her BA in Environmental Studies at Hendrix College in her home state, Emily moved out west in 2012 to pursue a career in restoration. She has lived, studied, and worked in Northern California for over 10 years, during which she received her MS in Environmental Science at Humboldt State University and worked in a variety of instream, riparian, wetland, and uplands restoration and monitoring efforts. Her research and past work focused on fish habitat assessment; hydrogeomorphic typing; ecological response to streamflow management; native plant revegetation; and restoration planning, design, implementation, and monitoring. Much of her experience is in fisheries biology, plant ecology, and ecohydrology through both field and GIS-based applications.
As the KMP Coordinator, Emily maintains relationships among a coalition of scientists, public agencies, tribal groups, non-profits, private companies, and academics with the shared interest in better understanding, highlighting, and restoring meadow habitats of Northern California through meaningful collaboration. This is achieved through outreach, meadow inventory and assessment, and restoration planning, design, implementation, and monitoring.
Outside of work, you may find Emily adventuring around Northern California anywhere from surfing the coast, rafting the rivers, backpacking the mountains and meadows, or finding time at home in the garden and with her family.
Email Emily: ecooperhertel@thewatershedcenter.com