DONALD P. ROSEBOOM Hydrologist

EDUCATION
Masters of Chemistry, MS at Bradley University, 1976
Bachelor of Arts, BA at Monmouth College, 1966

STARTED WITH THE USGS: 2002

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Watershed Programs: After directing watershed-scale monitoring projects on nutrients, pesticides, and sediment at the Illinois State Water Survey since 1976, Don founded the Non-Point Pollution Control Program, which included the development and testing of innovative methods of stream restoration at the watershed scale. The program determined the magnitude of watershed sources of water-quality pollutants including sediment.

During measurements of the erosion rates of unstable channelized streams, unstable channels were documented as major sources of sediment and nutrients in the agricultural Midwest. A series of 4-12 years watershed-monitoring programs in Cedar Lake watershed (1976-80), Court Creek (1981- 2001 and continuing), Crow Creek (1986-93) lead to requests by the Illinois EPA to development of two major National Watershed Monitoring Projects in urban Waukegan River watershed (1994-2003 and continuing) and the agricultural Lake Pittsfield watershed (1992-2003 and continuing).

The program developed and tested methods of stream stabilization that reduced sediment input from the channel and mitigated sedimentation degradation in-channel by instream habitat enhancements. The State of Illinois has funded stream restoration programs by the Illinois EPA with additional 319 funding, Illinois Department of Agriculture, and Illinois Department of Natural Resources as the result of this program.

Program highlights include:
1. An urban USEPA National Watershed Monitoring Project in Waukegan, IL, in its 10th year.
2. An agricultural USEPA National Watershed Monitoring Project in its 11th year.
3. A USEPA Urban Stream Restoration Manual coauthored with Dr. Chester Watson at Colorado State University and Dr. Robert Newbury of Canada.
4. Peer Review of the Federal Inter-Agency Stream-Restoration Document.

WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Kansas, 1998, Indiana, 2001, Michigan 2000 and 2001, funded for 2004 Illinois, 1994-2001 annually, two funded for 2003

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Advanced Stream Bank Stabilization workshop, Waterways Experiment Station, MS, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000; Illinois Rock Island District, 1999, 2000, 2002

Natural Resources Conservation Service: National Bioengineering NRCS Team; Ohio, 1998, 2001, Minnesota, 2001, Nebraska, 1998

Illinois Water Science Center of NRCS 201 Stream Stabilization, annual 1996-2003

Illinois Department of Natural Resources, annual C2000; Watershed Management Conference, 1996,1998, 2000

International Erosion Control Association Stream Restoration, 1996,1997, 1999. State Floodplain Managers Assoc, Illinois 2000, New York 2002

NGO's Nature Conservancy 2000, Isaac Walton League, 1996, 1997; American Fishery Society, 1994, 1996, 1999; American Farm Bureau, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003.