Luke Russell, GIT

Luke brings a unique skillset in geomorphology, GIS, and computer science to customize technical analyses which he applies to landscape resiliency and infrastructure development projects. Working in a GIS and hydraulic model framework, Luke’s tools effectively identify clear relationships within spatial data to help our team evaluate and prioritize restoration opportunities. Specifically, his development of the Resilience to Impacts in Stream Corridors (RISC) tool has been applied to sanitary sewer and stormwater infrastructure planning and design projects. It helps to quickly calculate and allocate costs of resilient stream corridors across a watershed when planning pipe alignments and identifying how to reduce risk of erosion to critical infrastructure.

Luke is skilled in the use of a variety of technical modeling and software programs, including ESRI products, Python, SQL, R, PHREEQ-C, MODFLOW, River-FLO2D, and HEC-RAS 2D, HEC-RAS SIAM.