Kelly Black
Ms. Black has twenty years of professional experience applying quantitative tools to environmental problem solving. Ms. Black’s in-depth knowledge and experience with systematic planning tools used by EPA, DOE, and DoD allows her to utilize her statistical background to assist project teams with resource optimization. Her focus is on ways to maximize the value of these data through improved access and analysis techniques.
She has served in a number of leadership roles including team leader for Strategic Interface for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Restoration Program. In that role, she developed strategies to improve the quality of decisions and products, while increasing awareness across technical teams of similarities between their approaches and problems.
She has co-authored several EPA QA guidance documents, provided statistical expertise for a wide range of environmental problems, and has worked on several web-based interactive tools for emerging environmental areas, such as brownfields development efforts, valuation of ecosystem services, and validation of proficiency testing data.
Ms. Black is widely recognized within the EPA community, and has gained a reputation for explaining complex statistical concepts without extensive use of jargon.
Ms. Black represents the United States on the technical committee for the Application of Statistical Methods within the International Organization For Standardization (ISO TC69).
She holds an M.S. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S. in Statistics with minors in Economics and Sociology from Montana State University.
Contact Information: ; 303-358-6134
Ms. Black has twenty years of professional experience applying quantitative tools to environmental problem solving. Ms. Black’s in-depth knowledge and experience with systematic planning tools used by EPA, DOE, and DoD allows her to utilize her statistical background to assist project teams with resource optimization. Her focus is on ways to maximize the value of these data through improved access and analysis techniques.
She has served in a number of leadership roles including team leader for Strategic Interface for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Restoration Program. In that role, she developed strategies to improve the quality of decisions and products, while increasing awareness across technical teams of similarities between their approaches and problems.
She has co-authored several EPA QA guidance documents, provided statistical expertise for a wide range of environmental problems, and has worked on several web-based interactive tools for emerging environmental areas, such as brownfields development efforts, valuation of ecosystem services, and validation of proficiency testing data.
Ms. Black is widely recognized within the EPA community, and has gained a reputation for explaining complex statistical concepts without extensive use of jargon.
Ms. Black represents the United States on the technical committee for the Application of Statistical Methods within the International Organization For Standardization (ISO TC69).
She holds an M.S. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S. in Statistics with minors in Economics and Sociology from Montana State University.
Contact Information: ; 303-358-6134
