Lakeland, FL - April 21, 2010
BCI Engineers & Scientists, Inc. is pleased to announce that Nirjhar Shah, PhD has passed the Association of State Floodplain Managers’ (ASFPM) exam to achieve the status of Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM). The ASFPM CFM Program is directed toward individuals from a wide variety of occupations, interests, and educational backgrounds who have routine floodplain management duties. The ASFPM Certified Floodplain Manager Program was put in place to lay the foundation for ensuring that highly-qualified individuals are available to meet the challenge of “breaking the cycle of disaster losses and stopping its negative drain on the nation’s human, financial, and natural resources.”
Dr. Shah joined BCI’s Water Resources group in 2008, and is working on watershed management plans, flood studies, and water resource initiatives for projects in the Central Florida area. Dr. Shah has done extensive research centered on developing models to predict the extinction depth of plant species for any given soil conditions. He has also been instrumental in the study of wetlands and quantification of wetland hydroperiods. His modeling research has been part of more than 10 journal and national conference publications. Dr. Shah has considerable programming experience and is well-versed in the use of statistical programs. He has been part of continual research for and development of the Integrated Hydrologic Model (IHM that is being developed by The University of South Florida (USF) and Tampa Bay Water to model the hydrology of the Tampa Bay region. He has significant expertise in drainage and flood study computer modeling programs, including MODFLOW, HYDRUS-1D, HEC-RAS, HSPF, MIKESHE, MIKE11, and HYDQUAL. Dr. Shah received his doctoral PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida and a bachelor of science in Technology – Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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