Nathan Schaepe holds a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He has been working as a hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey Nebraska Water Science Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, since 2008. He has been involved with multiple surface water and groundwater water-quality projects and is the project lead for the Nebraska Water Science Center’s (NEWSC) component of the USGS National Water Use compilation. Schaepe is also the NEWSC geospatial information systems (GIS) specialist and has been involved in several GIS-intensive hydro-geomorphology projects involving the Platte and Niobrara Rivers.