Amy Mackey

Amy coordinates restoration work in Raccoon Creek and other area watersheds and assists with environmental projects as needed.  She has experience with watershed project planning and maintenance, chemical, physical, and biological monitoring, and planning and facilitating outreach and education events. Amy supervises AmeriCorps members, interns and students, provides technical assistance to the local non-profit group, the Raccoon Creek Partnership, and teaches chemical and biological monitoring techniques and identification to students (undergraduate and graduate).  

Amy helps coordinate Voinovich School STEM education events at the U.S. Department of Energy Science Alliance at the former uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio and in schools in the surrounding communities.  Approximately 1,500-2,000 elementary, intermediate, and high school students participate in these events annually and are educated about watersheds, acid mine drainage impacts and remediation, chemical and biological monitoring, and get hands-on experience with live fish, macroinvertebrates, and other STEM activities.  

Amy has achieved and maintains Ohio EPA credible data collector status for chemical monitoring, benthic macroinvertebrate sampling, fish sampling, and habitat evaluation.  She collaborates with landowners, citizens, universities, non-profits, businesses, local, county, state, and federal agencies and has worked with the Voinovich School since 2007.