Poster #5 - Mark Tompkins

FlowWest, LLC, United States

Biography

Dr. Tompkins is an engineer, scientist, and planner with extensive experience developing and implementing water resources management and aquatic ecosystem restoration projects. He has over twenty years of experience focused on flood management, river restoration, applied fluvial geomorphology, and aquatic ecology. Dr. Tompkins serves on interdisciplinary technical advisory committees for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program and the Cache Creek Improvement Program, where he advises on largescale water supply, flood, and ecosystem management issues. Over the past decade Dr. Tompkins has planned, designed, and implemented dozens of flood management and ecosystem restoration projects on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and many of their tributaries, the Bay Delta, the Klamath River, and many other river systems across the country. Dr. Tompkins is also a leader in the application of open data standards and open source analytics and cloud computing to the adaptive management of water resources to accelerate the pace of analysis and improve the quality of decisions in water resources management.