About

Curriculum Vitae

Maryann McGraw

New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau

1190 St. Francis Drive Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502

Education

M.A. Geology, University of Texas, Austin Texas, December 1983.

B.A. with Honors Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin Texas, May 1974.

Positions Held

2003-    Wetlands Program Coordinator, Wetlands Team Leader, Water Resources Manager I, New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Current Bio: Maryann McGraw is the Wetlands Program Coordinator and the Wetlands Team Leader with the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Surface Water Quality Bureau. Maryann has managed projects funded by CWA Section 319(h) since 1998. Maryann currently manages projects funded by CWA Section 104(b)(3) and the New Mexico Wetlands Program since 2003. The heart of the Wetlands Program thus far, has been the development of Wetlands Action Plans by watershed groups as part of their Watershed Based Plans. In 2006, the Wetlands Program began developing the NM Rapid Assessment Method (NMRAM) to

characterize wetlands resources in New Mexico and has completed Montane Riverine Wetlands Version 2.4, Lowland Riverine Wetlands Version 2.3, and Confined Valley Rivirine Wetlands Version 1.3, Springs Ecosystems NMRAM Version 1.0, NMRAM for Playa Wetlands of the Southern High Plains Version 1.2, and NMRAM for Riverine Wetlands Regulatory Version 1.4. In 2009, the Wetlands Program began a comprehensive effort to map, classify and assign wetland functions to all wetlands in the state, and has thus far mapped and classified wetlands nearly all wetlands in New Mexico except for those on tribal lands. The goals of the New Mexico Wetlands Program are to implement our wetlands monitoring and assessment strategy, develop wetlands water quality standards and a comprehensive program to protect and restore the State’s scarce wetlands resources. Currently, the Wetlands Program has drafted standards for playa wetlands and lowland riverine wetlands. The goals of the New Mexico Wetlands Program are articulated in the New Mexico Wetlands Program Plan that was approved by EPA in 2011 and updated and approved by EPA in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and in 2021.

Maryann was a past Board Member of the Association of State Wetland Managers providing to the board the perspective and challenges of a growing wetlands program in the arid West. She has served on the Steering Committee to develop a Strategic Plan for the EPA National Wetlands Program. Maryann is also a member of the National Wetlands Monitoring and Assessment Workgroup and the Society of Wetland Scientists. Maryann has presented on wetlands topics at the ASWM State/Tribal/ Federal Coordination Workshops 2009, 2010 and 2011, and 2013 and at EPA Region 8 Wetlands Program Capacity Building Workshop in 2010, and at the National Wetlands Monitoring and Assessment Work Group Meeting in 2008 and on several ASWM webinars, in 2016 for ACWA on the development of narrative standards for wetlands, at SWS Meetings in Denver where Maryann presented NMRAM for Playa Wetlands, NMRAM for Lowland Riverine wetlands (Gila Watershed) and SWS Rocky Mountain Chapter about NMRAM for Confined Valley Riverine wetlands. Maryann has been a member of the National Wetlands Condition Assessment Team for New Mexico collecting soils and other data in 2011, 2016 and 2021 and has managed funds and reporting for the NWCA.

Previously, Maryann worked for the New Mexico Department of Transportation (DOT) as an Environmental Specialist since 1993 where she provided input for natural resources protection as a part of transportation project design, wrote NEPA documents and was in charge of developing mitigation plans and projects for wetland impacts.

She has previously taught landscape ecology and restoration classes at Santa Fe Community College including Wetlands, Riparian Restoration, Dryland Restoration, Bioremediation, and Natural History of Arid Lands.

Maryann paints en plein air in pastel and oil, concentrating on New Mexico’s scenic vistas and how time and seasonal changes affect those places. Maryann served on the board of the Pastel Society of New Mexico as Program Chair for 5 years and Treasurer in 2007, is a signature member of Chicago Pastel Painters, Pastel Society of New Mexico and Plein Air Painters of New Mexico and is a member of Plein Air Artists Colorado, Pastel Society of Colorado and American Impressionist Society.

Maryann has provided Friday food deliveries for homebound clients for Kitchen Angels since 1996.

Fellowships

Shell Companies Foundation Fellowship 1979

Current Professional Membership

Member - National Association of Wetland Managers (NAWM) Member – Society of Wetland Scientists, Rocky Mountain Chapter

Certifications

Certified COE Wetland Delineator Training Certified Floodplain Manager

Additional relevant classes and training

3 Rosgen River Restoration Classes Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Protocol Training Spring Inventory and Assessment Training

Summary of Related Experience

Experience in land restoration includes the planning, design, and construction of wetlands and riparian areas, selection of sites and monitoring. I developed designs for mitigation wetlands, chosen appropriate plant species, provided cost estimates for excavation, disposal of excavated material and plantings. My work at the NRCS Los Lunas Plant Materials Center included propagation, maintenance and installation of wetland plant species. I helped develop plans for the restoration of habitat for the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher and Meadow Jumping Mouse, and the protection of listed plant species and their habitat in highway right of way. I have trapped and relocated prairie dog colonies and coordinated the protection of bird and bat species. I have worked with engineers to develop box culvert structures with fish passage, and to reconstruct streambeds to their original configuration after construction.

I have experience working with the majority of regulatory and resource agencies in the state for environmental compliance. I have written Environmental Assessments and other NEPA related documents. I currently lead the New Mexico Wetlands Roundtables for agencies and NGOs with an interest in wetlands.

Recent Awards:

2018 National Wetlands Award for Wetlands Program Management – Environmental Law Institute

2018 New Mexico Environment Department Employee of the Year 2018 New Mexico Environment Department Employee of the Quarter 2010 Research Award – New Mexico Riparian Council

2010 Radical Center Award for Civil Service – The Quivira Coalition

Recent Publications:

McGraw, M. and Johnson B., 2023.  East Fork of the Jemez Watershed Wetlands Action Plan. New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe,  New Mexico.

Muldavin, E.H., E.R. Milford, and M.M. McGraw 2021. New Mexico Rapid Assessment Method: Confined Valley Riverine Wetlands Field Guide. Version 1.13. New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

McGraw, M.M., E.H. Muldavin, and E.R. Milford, 2018. Rapid Assessment of Arid Land Lowland Riverine Wetland Ecosystems: A New Mexico Case Study. In Wetland and Stream Rapid Assessments, Development, Validation, and Application, (eds) J. Dorney, R. Savage,

R.W. Tiner, and P. Adamus, Elsevier, Inc. 2018, pp. 387-400.

Muldavin, E.H., E.R. Milford, and M.M. McGraw 2017. New Mexico Rapid Assessment Method: Playa Wetlands Field Guide. Version 1.2. New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Muldavin, E.H., E.R. Milford, and M.M. McGraw 2016. New Mexico Rapid Assessment Method: Montane Riverine Field Guide. Version 2.1. New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Muldavin, E.H., E.R. Milford, and M.M. McGraw 2016. New Mexico Rapid Assessment Method: Lowland Riverine Wetlands Field Guide. Version 1.1. New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Muldavin, E.H., Bader, B.J., Milford, E.R., McGraw, M.M., Lightfoot, D., Nicholson, B.,

and Larson, G. 2013, New Mexico Rapid Assessment Method: Montane Riverine Wetlands Field Guide, Version 2.0, New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 39 p. and appendices.

NMED, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Wetlands Program 2012, New Mexico Wetlands Technical Guide #1: Wetland Functions, New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 36 p.

McGraw, M.M. and Jansens, J.W. eds. 2012, Exploring Springs and Wetlands and Their Relationship with Surface Flows, Geology, and Groundwater in the La Cienega Area, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Wetlands Program Project Report, New Mexico Environment Department,

Surface Water Quality Bureau, 125 p.p.            3

Muldavin, E.H., Bader, B.J., Milford, E.R., McGraw, M.M., Lightfoot, D., Nicholson, B., and Larson, G. 2011, New Mexico Rapid Assessment Method: Montane Riverine Wetlands Manual, Version 1.1, New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 90 p. and appendices.

Muldavin, E.H., Bader, B.J., Milford, E.R., McGraw, M.M., Lightfoot, D., Nicholson, B.,

and Larson, G. 2011, New Mexico Rapid Assessment Method: Montane Riverine Wetlands Field Guide, Version 1.1, New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 39 pp. and appendices.

Morgan, D. and M. McGraw 2010, Healthy Streamside Wetlands, A Guide to Good Stewardship for Southwestern Bosque and Riparian Wetlands. New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Wetlands Program Booklet, 27 p.

Griffith , G.E. Omernik, J.M., McGraw, M.M., Jacobi, G.Z. Canavan, CM., Schrader, T.S., Mercer, D., Hill, R. and Moran, B.C. 2006 “Ecoregions of New Mexico” color poster with map: Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey (map scale 1:1,400,000)

Other publications:

McGraw, MM 1979, Depositional Environments and Their Relation to Porosity in Upper Smackover Formation (Jurassic), Paup Spur Field, Miller County, Arkansas: ABSTRACT, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, Vol 63.

McGraw, M.M. 1984, Carbonate Facies of the Upper Smackover Formation (Jurassic), Paup Spur-Mandeville Fields, Miller County, Arkansas, in The Jurassic of the Gulf Rim, Proceedings of the Third Annual Research Conference, Gulf Coast Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, pp. 255-273.

Gustavson, T.C, McGraw, M. M., Tandy, M., Parker, F., Wohlschlag, D. E., Meriwether, J. 1977, Potential environmental impacts arising from geopressured-geothermal energy development Texas--Louisiana Gulf Coast region, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Sciences Transactions Vol 44, 1977-11-16.

Gustavson, Thomas, M. M. McGraw, and Mills Tandy. United States Department of the Interior. Ecological Implications of Geopressured Geothermal Energy Development. March 1978.

White, W.H., McGraw, M.M. and T. Gustavson, 1978, Environmental Analysis of Geopressured- Geothermal Prospect Areas, Brazoria and Kenedy Counties, Texas, Publ. Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin Texas, Department of Energy, Geothermal Energy, 203 p.