Our Team

Daniel Kusnierz has served the Nation for twenty years, developing an understanding of the cultural importance of the Penobscot River to the Nation while refining his own technical skills. He has developed a watershed-wide water quality monitoring program with more than 95 weekly-sampling locations, set up a laboratory, and conducted investigations of toxic contaminants (including dioxins, furans, PCBs and mercury), and their impact on the aquatic environment. His expertise also includes investigations of algal blooms and nutrients, dam removal, bio-monitoring using aquatic insects, and assessing and controlling non-point source pollution and biological/ecological assessment of wetlands. Daniel uses the water quality data for permitting, licensing and affecting policy change.