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Ceil Strauss is the Minnesota State Floodplain Manager. Ceil has been in the Floodplain Program at Minnesota DNR since 2002 and worked with the Minnesota DNR an additional 14 years, mainly as an Area Hydrologist in the western Twin Cities area. She is past chair of the national Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM).
Before coming to DNR, Ceil spent over three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya (East Africa) working with farmers on building ponds and raising tilapia. She has a BA in biology from Lawrence University (Wisconsin) and an MS in water resources management from the University of Michigan.