“I enjoy working on renewable energy projects and helping make sure these projects are sustainable with minimal impacts on the environment.”
Dr. Rachel Russo has over 10 years of hydropower-specific experience and 20 years of air quality-specific experience and specializes in developing and conducting environmental monitoring and environmental compliance studies. She performs quantitative and qualitative analysis and interpretation of scientific and technical data specifically related to air quality, water quality, terrestrial, fisheries, fish passage, aquatic habitat, and recreation resource projects. She conducts quality assurance/quality control procedures, and data analysis as well as writes, reviews, and edits scientific reports and license application documents for environmental projects and the FERC relicensing process. She conducts background research and writes and reviews resource sections for National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents.
Rachel has a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire, a M.S. in Earth and Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire and a B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.