Emily Krutzelmann, Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance
Posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2021
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Emily Krutzelmann graduated from our Environmental Technician program in 2016 and has been working for Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) since. “Up until earlier this year, I was working as a field/lab technologist in Burlington at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters, but just recently changed positions and am now a water quality technologist with ECCC’s Hudson Bay Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Division in Winnipeg!” shares Krutzelmann.
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“I’ve always loved water, so it seems natural that I would end up working with it!” Before joining our AC community, Krutzelmann attended university, “I did a research practicum and undergraduate thesis on how wastewater exposure affects fish behaviour, which kind of kickstarted my interest in the environmental sciences and made me realize I really enjoyed fieldwork. The Environmental Technician program gave me a lot of the fundamental hands-on skills that I was missing from my previous undergraduate education and introduced me to a variety of equipment and procedures that I still use in my work today! This program also allowed me to secure a summer student position with ECCC, which led me to my full-time job after graduation.”
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Krutzelmann reflects on her top program-related experiences during her 16 months of studies, “for sure the Applied Research projects that we worked on in our final semester. My group was working on a controlled tile drain monitoring project on agricultural land in Renfrew County and this project exposed me to using a wide variety of different types of environmental monitoring equipment, which was an invaluable experience! Our class also did a case study in the College’s stormwater pond, where we installed water level wells and completed elevation measurements to map out the water table to simulate what would happen with a spill of a deleterious substance. Generally, all of the outdoor field trips and hands-on experience outdoors were invaluable! The skills you’ll gain from the Environmental Technician program are all practical skills that you will use in a career in this field. It’s a great opportunity to try a bit of everything under the ‘environmental technician’ umbrella and decide where you want to focus on.”
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