Meet . . .

Eileen O'Neill Soil Scientist Major Land Resource Area # 127 South Soil Survey Project Office

Graduating from the University of Maine in 2001, I worked at many different jobs and moved often before settling down with NRCS in West Virginia. I was working for a small consulting company in Richmond, VA doing soils investigations for drainfield permits when I spent a weekend whitewater rafting in WV. I was so impressed by the beauty of the New River Gorge, I moved to the area a couple of months later. I worked as a rafting photographer and as a mountain bike tour guide prior to joining NRCS as a Soil Scientist in 2003. Currently, I am the project leader for the Fayette and Raleigh Counties Soil Survey Update, and part of a team working on a new project to apply digital soil mapping techniques to National Park Service lands around the Bluestone, Gauley, and New Rivers. I spend most of my free time mountain biking, trail running, kayaking, or otherwise playing in the woods and in the rivers. Someday, I plan to own a small organic vegetable farm and raise goats, chickens, and maybe even some children.

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