Hydraulic Engineer
Verdantas, Mississippi, United States
Dr. Doug Shields has over 47 years of experience in water resources and environmental engineering, including 12 years for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and 22 years as a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the National Sedimentation Laboratory in Oxford, Mississippi. Doug’s research focused on response of fluvial systems to human influences and development of environmental design criteria for all types of channel stabilization and modification projects, including stream bank erosion controls and management of riverine backwaters. Doug has completed consulting projects dealing with stream restoration, erosion protection of riparian cultural resources sites, stream bank erosion, geomorphic assessment, local flooding, vegetation on levees, large wood, and effects of floodplain and riparian vegetation on flow resistance. He is the senior author for the stream restoration chapter in the American Society of Civil Engineers Manual of Practice 110: Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Measurements, Modeling, and Practice.
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