Problem Solver
Clay Clifton
Areas Clay Clifton is Knowledgeable in:
coastal water quality and its effects on human health
Techniques Clay Clifton Uses:
Confer with team to determine what data or information is needed to answer the question, and then ensure you have it. Confer with reputable sources and authorities for verification and assistance if needed. Identify all possible alternatives to resolve the problem. Review again with team and implement.
Clay Clifton's Problem Solving Skills:
- Ability to design and implement sanitary survey and source identification studies for coastal watersheds
- Excellent ability to interpret results for fecal indicator bacterial tests with respect to accuracy of health risk determinatio
- Interpretation of surface water quality data for qualitiative analysis using physical, nutrient, and bacterial indicators
- Determination of health risk using concentration and exposure information for recreational waters
- Knowledge of physical coastal oceanography processes, including dynamics of surf zone littoral currents and tidal interactions
- Excellent analytical skills for data interpretation and summarization of disparate data sources
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including working knowledge of Spanish language
- Highly proficient in MS Office, including Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point
- Knowledge of food safety - Registered Environmental Health Specialist with California Dept of Public Health, #7843
Clay Clifton's Problem Solving Experience:
- I coordinated intra-agency response, investigation and public notification of contamination events affecting public beaches.
- I wrote a Quality Assurance Project Plan for a non-profit organization's laboratory so that the data could be used for the assessment of surface water quality.
- I modified an Access database for a county health department's ocean water monitoring program. The database lacked the required functionality in order to capture, analyze, and export all relevant data from one data base.