Service Award: Ashley Rhea, Five Years
Ashley Rhea, OCC/Water Quality monitoring specialist, was recognized at the November meeting of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission for five years of service to OCC and the state of Oklahoma.
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Ashley joined OCC in 2007 shortly after moving to Oklahoma from her home state of Missouri. She worked as a water quality specialist and conservation plan writer in the Illinois/Spavinaw Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) projects and was based in Delaware County. In 2009 she took a water quality specialist position in Cherokee County with full-time monitoring duties and primary responsibilities of operating and maintaining automatic water samplers.
Ashley Rhea earned a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation/Management from Missouri State University in 2005. Among the jobs she held following graduation was a research position in which carbon sequestration was measured in forested, clear-cut and selectively cut areas.
Ashley and her husband Rodney reside in the Tulsa area with son Braden and daughter Ever.