Research Civil Engineer
USDA - ARS
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Bryan, who joined Barr in 2025, has more than 15 years of experience in research-based roles at industry-leading hydraulics laboratories. He develops solutions to project-specific issues by using science, research, and creativity, drawing on his work for over 100 dams and other hydraulic structures. He provides:
• Hydraulic analysis and design for projects involving dams, spill-ways, and other hydraulic structures, including preparation of technical reports, plans, and specifications
• Hydrologic evaluations for flood control, overtopping protection, and extreme hydrologic events, including stormwater planning
• Sediment-transport analysis of urban and rural systems, encompassing sedimentation, scour, and debris management
Bryan’s background features physical and numerical modeling on hundreds of projects across the western U.S., often involving spillway design and analysis, hydraulic equipment testing, fish passage and protection, open- and closed-conduit flow measure-ment, and canal automation. Projects Bryan has participated in or managed from concept to final design have centered on, among other things:
• New dam and spillway designs
• Dam safety modifications and modernization of aging infrastructure
• Multi-species fish passage and protection facilities
• Flow measurement in any application including well proofs, water rights, pipes and open channels, and instrumentation and control
• Sediment management and erosion control
• Canal operation, automation, and instrumentation
PLT11 - Effect of lime-treatment on earthen embankment failure processes
Monday, September 22, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM ET
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET