Curtis Loeb, PE

Curtis helps our client partners re‐envision degraded rivers and floodplains. He has led dozens of restoration projects from design to construction in a variety of Pacific Northwest landscapes, pioneering design methodologies in floodplain restoration and infrastructure protection, as well as multi-dimensional hydraulic modeling approaches. From constrained urban creeks, to coastal tidal wetlands, to regional transportation and fish passage, Curtis partners with his clients to re-envision and then realize true co-benefits of aquatic habitat enhancement and human infrastructure resiliency. He has taught courses on process-based design approaches, worked with state agencies to improve fish passage guidelines in tidal systems, led one of the largest single-phase floodplain restoration projects on West Coast, and worked with resource agencies on how to permit novel design approaches that target valley-wide floodplain connectivity.

“Often neglected and degraded, urban creeks are special to me. Seeing creek restoration benefit fish and wildlife as well as local residents—restoring dignity to these systems—is especially rewarding.”