Ms. Griffin is a geochemist who has experience applying geochemical methods in various settings and materials, including marine environments, contaminated groundwater, vapor intrusion, and soil sites. She is skilled in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of soil, water, and organic materials, field and laboratory data. She has experience with petroleum hydrocarbon, PCBs, VOCs, RCRA metals, and hexavalent chromium contamination and remediation. She was a member of the SSP&A field team for the Bannister site redevelopment project in Kansas City, MO, and specialized in managing contractor implementation of procedures specified in the site Soil Management Plan, conducting research on historic conditions contained in the site’s extensive archives, and providing evaluation of geochemical and hydrologic data generated at the site to support environmental remediation decisions and investigations. Ms. Griffin’s recent work focuses on providing evaluation of historic and recent geochemical data and the planning of sampling and field oversight events.

Ms. Griffin’s academic research background centers around forensic chemistry, the use of stable and radioactive isotopes in the environment and organisms, development of statistical verification for biochemical based records, and marine climate change.

EDUCATION
  • MS, Geology, Iowa State University, 2012
  • BS, Marine Science, concentration Physical Marine Science, minor Earth Science, University of Maine, 2009
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Environmental Sampling and Laboratory Testing
  • Corrective Action Plan and Sampling Plan Development
  • Environmental Stable Isotope Analysis
  • Document Research and Geochemical Data Review
  • Marine and Aquatic Sciences
  • Science Outreach/Education
PATENTS
  • Griffin, Shelly, and Petersen, Benjamin. Well-Fouling Abatement System and Method for Wells. U.S. Patent No. 11619113. Filed June 22, 2021. Published April 4, 2023.
AWARDS AND HONORS
  • John Lemish Award: Outstanding Research Excellence: 2011
  • Top Paper Award Iowa State Graduate Student Seminar: 2011, 2013, Runner-up 2012
  • Overall Top Poster and Presentation, University of Maine School of Marine Science Senior Capstone Project: 2009
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
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PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

  • Petersen, B., Cohen, H., and Griffin, S. 2025. Design and Sitewide Implementation of an Unconventional Antifouling System for Pumping Wells, WM2025 Conference, March 9-13, 2025, Phoenix, Arizona

  • Lower-Spies, E .E., N. M. Whitney, A. D. Wanamaker, S. M. Griffin, D.S. Introne, and K. J. Kreutz. 2020. A 250-Year, Decadally Resolved, Radiocarbon Time History in the Gulf of Maine Reveals a Hydrographic Regime Shift at the End of the Little Ice Age, JGR Oceans, v. 125, no. 9. doi: 10.1029/2020JC016579

  • Wanamaker, A.D., Griffin, S.M., Ummenhofer, C.C., Whitney, N.M., Black, B.A., Parfitt, R., Lower- Spies, E.E., Introne, D., Kreutz, K.J., 2018. Pacific climate influences on ocean conditions and extreme shell growth events in the Northwestern Atlantic (Gulf of Maine). Climate Dynamics. doi: 10.1007/s00382-018-4513-8

  • Marali, S., Schöne, B. R., Mertz-Kraus, R., Griffin, S. M., Wanamaker, A. D., Matras, U. and P.G. Butler, 2017. Ba/Ca ratios in shells of Arctica islandica—Potential Environmental Proxy and Crossdating Tool. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 465, pp. 347-361. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.018

  • Black, B.A., Griffin, D., van der Sleen, P., Wanamaker, A.D., Speer, J.H., Frank, D.C., Stahle, D.W., Pederson, N., Copenheaver, C.A., Trouet, V. and S. Griffin, 2016. The Value of Crossdating to Retain High-Frequency Variability, Climate Signals, and Extreme Events in Environmental Proxies. Global Change Biology, v. 22, no. 7, pp. 2582-2595. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13256

  • Marali, S., Schöne, B. R., Mertz-Kraus, R., Griffin, S. M., Wanamaker, A. D., Butler, P. G. and K.P. Jochum, 2016. Reproducibility of Trace Element Time-Series (Na/Ca, Mg/Ca, Mn/Ca, Sr/Ca, and Ba/Ca) Within and Between Specimens of the Bivalve Arctica Islandica–A LA-ICP-MS Line Scan Study. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 484, pp. 109-128. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.024

  • Dawson, Andria, Austin, D., Walker, D., Appleton, S., Gillanders, B. M., Griffin, S. M., Sakata, C., and V. Trouet, 2015. A Tree-Ring Based Reconstruction of Early Summer Precipitation in Southwestern Virginia (1750-1981). Climate Research, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 243-256. doi: 10.3354/cr01315

  • Griffin, Shelly M. Applying dendrochronology visual crossdating techniques to the marine bivalve Arctica islandica and assessing the utility of master growth chronologies as proxies for temperature and secondary productivity in the Gulf of Maine. Thesis. Iowa State University, 2012. doi: 10.31274/ETD-180810-1103