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Dr. Michael MacWilliams has been providing environmental consulting services in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2001. He was the President and Founder of Delta Modeling Associates, Inc., which was acquired by Anchor QEA in 2015. Dr. MacWilliams joined FlowWest as a Partner and Principal Engineer in February 2024.Dr. MacWilliams has more than 23 years of experience leading technical and engineering studies in the fields of hydrology, hydraulics, sediment transport, river channel and floodplain restoration, levees and shoreline protection, estuarine physics, and fisheries. His doctoral research focused on the application of detailed 3D hydrodynamic models to flow in river channels and on floodplains. He has also applied 3D hydrodynamic, wave, salinity, temperature, sediment transport, and morphologic models in large estuarine systems including San Francisco Bay and the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. MacWilliams is the primary developer of the UnTRIM San Francisco Bay-Delta model. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in California, Oregon, Maryland, and North Carolina. Dr. MacWilliams served as a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering between 2004 and 2013. He has authored or co-authored more than 26 publications related to hydrology, hydraulics, sediment transport, river channel and floodplain restoration, geomorphology, estuarine physics, fisheries, and aquatic habitat. He is a recipient of the Lorenz G. Straub Award (2004) and the Hugo B. Fischer Award (2023).

Listed skills include Environmental Science, Water Quality, Environmental Consulting, Environmental Impact Assessment, and 21 others.