Krissy Hopkins is a Research Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey based out of the Washington Water Science Center in Tacoma, WA. She supervises the Watersheds and Fluvial Systems Section at the Center and works on projects that assess how urban development alters the amount of water and pollutants delivered to streams and rivers. She has worked for the U.S. Geological Survey for nine years at offices in Tacoma, Washington, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Reston, Virginia. Krissy completed her Ph.D. in geology and environmental science at the University of Pittsburgh and a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis, Maryland.