MPSL-MLML Staff

MPSL-MLML Staff

For more information about MPSL-MLML and our services, please contact Marco Sigala via phone or email.

The MPSL-MLML Help Desk phone line acts as an information resource and assists participants in submitting projects to MPSL-MLML.  Information regarding program-compatible database formats, management guidelines, and quality assurance systems is available.

For Help Desk questions, please contact Stacey Swenson via 831-771-4114 or email.


Marine Pollution Studies Laboratory - Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
7544 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
Phone: 831-771-xxxx, where xxxx is the 4-digit extension you see listed
Email: ####@sjsu.edu, where #### is the email name you see listed
Fax: 831-771-4189


Data Management Team

Quality Assurance Team

Students Supported by MPSL-MLML since 1992

MLML Theses supported by MPSL


Data Management Team

Marco Sigala
Program Manager
Office: Norte
Phone: 4173

Marco provides expertise at MPSL-MLML in study design, field sampling, project logistics and coordination, GIS mapping, and database management with an emphasis on habitat and taxonomy data.  He graduated from the University of California San Diego in 1997 with a B.S. in Biology and with a Master's degree in Marine and Estuarine Sciences from the University of Maryland in 2000. His research focused on estuarine benthic communities and larval recruitment.

Resume Available Upon Request

 

Stacey Swenson
Program Assistant/Database QA Specialist
Office: Norte
Phone: 4114

Stacey Swenson has 27 years of experience in the quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of environmental data, which includes extracting and analyzing data in an EPA Superfund lab, and then later in her career, interpreting and validating data while working at a 3rd party data validation consulting firm.  She has incorporated these QA/QC skills (e.g., analytical chemistry analyses, verification, validation, report writing, and environmental QC protocols) to the database management QA program.  She developed both the data verification and validation processes that are currently in use for the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) including the processes that are used for SWAMP’s Bioaccumulation Oversight Group (BOG) data to determine fish advisories for human health for the state.  She is the project manager for the MPSL-MLML Regional Data Center including the data vocabulary review lead ensuring comparability between various entities providing environmental data sets to the California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN).

Resume Available Upon Request

 

George Radojevic
Program Assistant/IT Manager
Office: Norte
Phone: 4168

George is currently a project assistant for MPSL-MLML. George received his A.A. Degree in Computer Information Systems - Systems Programming in 1994 from De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. He also received an A.S. Degree in Marine Science and Technology in 2004 from Monterey Peninsula College in Monterey, CA. Prior to joining MPSL-MLML, he worked for 18 years in the software technical support industry. One of his crowning achievements is a marine technician internship aboard the Research Vessel Seward Johnson in the Sargasso Sea.

Resume Available Upon Request

Quality Assurance Team

William Hagan
QA Researcher and Manager
Office: Off-site
Phone: (206) 527-3313

William Hagan has over two decades of experience in environmental science. He began his career as a chemist specializing in the analysis and speciation of ultra-trace metals in a variety of environmental matrices. He then transitioned into quality management in the private sector before joining the Marine Pollution Studies Laboratory in 2005. Will has partnered with the State Water Resources Control Board (Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program, California Integrated Water Quality System), the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Office of Water, Office of Spill Prevention and Response), several Regional Water Quality Control Boards, the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, and numerous other public, private, and non-profit organizations.

Students Supported by since 1992

MLML Students

Rusty Fairey Matt Edwards Aroon Melwani Berkeley Kaufman
Brenda Konar Eli Landrau Robert Leaf Kyle Reynolds
Eric Johnson Lisa Kerr Tom Kimball Paul Thompson
Ross Clark Michele Jacobi Jon Walsh Selena McMillan
Stewart Lamerdin Alex Culley Allison Myers Aurora Alifano
Cassandra Lamerdin Carrie Bretz Jennifer Hughes Kim Quaranta
James Downing Nisse Golberg Heather Robinson  George Leonard
Jason Cope Jason Felton    

UCSC Students

Erin Maloney Brad Hunt Roslynn Dunn  

CSUMB Students

Mark Gleason Kate Thomas Meghann McDonald  

High School Students

Brian Stewart      

MLML Theses supported by MPSL

Smith, Don
Trace Metals in Mussels transplanted to San Francisco Bay.

Fairey, Rusty
Sampling and Analysis of Trace Metals in Sediment Interstitial Waters.

Moser, Doreen
Trace element and organochlorine compounds in harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi) along the Pacific coast.