Staff
Jean Marie Boyer, PhD, PE
Founder and Principal
Jean Marie has over 20 years of experience managing and conducting work related to water quality and watershed management as a means of protecting lakes, reservoirs, streams, and rivers. Much of her work focuses on watershed and surface water-quality modeling. Dr. Boyer is a Professional Engineer in Colorado, Oklahoma, and New Mexico and has provided expert witness testimony (deposition and trial) in a number of cases involving surface water quality and groundwater contamination.
John Carron, PhD
Founder and Principal
John has over 17 years of experience in water resources, include modeling and management of river basins, reservoirs, and water supply systems, reliability and risk analysis, climate change studies, and water rights engineering. His recent work includes planning studies for the nine Nile River Basin nations, policy and planning tools for the State of New Mexico in the Rio Grande basin, and development of operational decision support tools for the Bureau of Reclamation in the lower Colorado River. He is an expert in the development of RiverWare models and their applications to complex water management problems.
Steve Setzer, MS, PE
Water Resources Engineer
Steve has 11 years of experience in RiverWare modeling, water resources planning and management, and surface water hydrology. Steve served as the primary RiverWare training course instructor while employed at Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) at University of Colorado, Boulder, and continues to conduct training courses for CADSWES on an as-needed basis. Steve is currently developing a suite of daily operations models for the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) in Austin, TX, a long term planning model for LCRA, and a daily operations model of the Colorado River below Parker Dam for the Yuma Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation.
Christine Hawley, MS
Environmental Engineer
Christine is an Environmental Engineer and Hydrologist with 15 years of experience, specializing in management of large, multi-component projects that include field investigations, data analysis, and system conceptualization. She has a passion for understanding natural system behavior through data analysis. She has worked with international and local teams of experts on high-profile projects evaluating contaminant transport in groundwater, surface water, transition zone water, and sediment. Ms. Hawley is currently working on watershed investigations, water-quality modeling, expert witness analyses, and serving as a technical advisor.
Jennifer Thomasson
Office Manager
Jennifer joined Hydros Consulting as Office Manager in September 2012. She graduated from the Ohio State University with a B.A. in Communication and has over 20 years of experience in small office administration and human resource management. Jennifer handles accounting and human resource functions and provides administrative support to the Hydros engineering staff.
Taylor Adams, MS
Water Resources Engineer
Taylor joined us in May, 2011, on internship while pursuing a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering with a focus in Water Resources from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He graduated in May 2012, and has since begun full time work providing technical assistance for modeling of both water quality and water allocation. His technical skills are focused in the areas of data visualization, optimization, and improvements of computational efficiency in data processing. He has expertise in a variety of modeling software packages and programming languages.
Nicholas Mander, MS
Water Resources Engineer
Nick joined Hydros Consulting Inc. in July, 2011, after receiving his Master of Science in Civil Engineering with a focus on Water Resources, and a Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Certificate from University of Colorado, Boulder. He is experienced in a variety of relevant software programs, including RiverWare, R, MATLAB, SWMM, Excel, VBA, and MODFLOW.
Aleah Sommers, BS
Water Resources Engineer
Aleah became part of Hydros in April 2012 after spending two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé of Panama, where she lived and worked with an indigenous community. Her primary water and sanitation work involved design, rehabilitation, and maintenance of gravity powered aqueducts, among many other things (such as building latrines, harvesting coffee, planting rice, eating boiled green bananas, washing laundry in a stream, and teaching yoga, to mention a few). She holds a BS in civil engineering from Rice University.