Carrie Monohan

Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians, Director of Natural Resources

Dr. Carrie Monohan earned her Ph.D. in Forest Resources and Hydrology in 2004 from the University of Washington. Her dissertation work addressed the relationship between water quality in agricultural streams and diminishing salmon habitat.

Carrie is the Director of Natural Resources at Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians. She was the Science Director at The Sierra Fund from 2010-2024, where she designed and directed research to fill critical data gaps in water quality regulation, abandoned mine remediation, and prioritization of conservation efforts.  

Dr. Monohan is also an Adjunct Professor and Lecturer at California State University at Chico where she teaches courses in the Geological and Environmental Sciences Department. Dr. Monohan supervises graduate student research in the projects that she directs at The Sierra Fund. These research efforts include: sediment and mercury loading; storm flows; meadow hydrology, abandoned mine assessment, identification of mercury and other heavy metal contamination sources.