Susan Davies is an aquatic biologist with an MS in aquatic entomology from the University of Maine. She led the Biological Monitoring Section, and then was Water Quality Standards Coordinator at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for most of her environmental career. She has also worked extensively with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the European Commission, to provide technical expertise in use of aquatic organisms as water quality indicators. Susan’s work experience include lots of field biology, “bug-counting”, and data analysis with lots of great people, and she now especially enjoys musical connections playing rhythm and percussion for a big group of great fiddlers in and around Belfast.