Emmy is an Engineer-in-Training (EIT) with five years of experience in the water resources and fisheries fields. As an ecohydrologist, Emmy supports restoration and enhancement projects by conducting a wide array of field surveys, including Real Time Kinematic (RTK) topographic surveys, total station surveys, bathymetric surveys via boat and Hydrone-RCV (Remote Control Vehicle), discharge monitoring with Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and FlowTracker-Handheld ADV (Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter), and water quality monitoring with sondes and handheld instruments. She also supports projects by processing and analyzing field data, building surfaces using ArcGIS Pro and AutoCAD Civil 3D, drafting plans in AutoCAD Civil 3D, and writing technical reports and memos.

Before cbec, Emmy graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, with a focus in Environmental Engineering. Following graduation, she served with the California Conservation Corps Watershed Stewards Program (WSP) for two years, where she worked with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife monitoring steelhead trout in Big Sur, and subsequently with the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in Santa Rosa, conducting flow monitoring studies in the Eel River, Trinity River, and Navarro River Watersheds. Emmy also worked for the California Department of Water Resources as a designer on State Water Project civil public works projects.