Joining the Marine Extension Team (MET) as an AmeriCorps/Maine Conservation Corp volunteer in 2003, Keri works on ecosystem health-related projects. Her work is primarily focused on the Maine Healthy Beaches Program, a statewide effort monitoring water quality and protecting human health along Maine 's coastal beaches. Keri also provides training and support to various water quality monitoring groups statewide.

Keri is currently taking graduate courses at the University of Maine , which she will apply towards an M.S. degree. She enjoys hiking in the mountains, kayaking, sailing, and water and snow skiing.

B.S. (Zoology; Biological Aspects of Conservation) University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
Environmental Studies Certificate, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 2002

Keri M. Lindberg
Marine Professional
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Knox/Lincoln Counties
377 Manktown Road
Waldoboro, ME 04572
Phone: 207.832.0343 x122 or
1.800.244.2104
Fax: 207.832.0377
Email Keri Lindberg

Launched in 2002, the Maine Healthy Beaches program (MHB) was established to ensure that Maine 's saltwater beaches remain safe and clean. The program, involving 20 coastal beach communities, performs standardized monitoring of beach-water quality, notifies the public if health risks are detected, and informs both residents and visitors what to do to avoid water-related illness at the beach.

Due to an increasing number of high bacteria scores at several beach sites in both the 2005 and 2006 swim seasons, the MHB program experienced the most advisories and closures posted on several of the 46 participating beaches. In conjunction with its partnering agencies and organizations, the MHB program conducted several special studies to determine the potential and actual pollution sources affecting swimming areas. Key components of these special studies include: intensive and targeted monitoring, wet-weather sampling, sanitary shoreline/watershed surveys, dye tests, and Acoustic Doppler profiling of water currents.

Esperanza Stancioff is the coordinator and Keri Lindberg is the co-coordinator of the MHB program. For more information on the program, check out the Web site at www.MaineHealthyBeaches.org

Based on the online database, a public interface to the Maine Healthy Beaches Web site has been created for the public. A series of Web pages allows the public to access current beach conditions, information on specific beaches in the program, monitoring sites, and bacteria results. Other parameters will be added this year, including temperature, salinity, and tidal stage per sample site and date. http://www.mainecoastdata.org/public/