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Nate DePriest
Water Resources Engineer
Nate is Water Resources Engineer for West Virginia Water Research Institute. Nate manages engineering services and supports watershed, mine land reclamation, and critical materials projects. Nate grew up in Fairmont, WV and attended West Virginia University for his Bachelors, Masters, and PhD degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research was focused on reclamation of surface coal mines in central Appalachia. After several years as a consulting engineer working on mining and other energy projects, Nate returned to West Virginia and WRI due to an interest in research projects relevant to the state.