Roger E. Smith

Hydraulic Engineer, Affiliate Professor in Civil Engineering at CSU

Fort Collins, CO

email: Roger.Smith@ars.usda.gov

Education	BS   1963    Texas Tech University, Civil Engineering MS   1964    Standford University, Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering emphasis) PhD  1970    Colorado State University, Civil Engineering (Hydraulic Engineering and Hydrology)
Employment	2000-present    Consultant in hydrology and civil engineering 1976-1999         Research Hydraulic Engineer, ARS, Fort Collins.  Development of integrated interactive simulation models for hydrology of small catchments, and for simulation of the soil-plant-water system of agricultural catchments.  Faculty Affiliate, Civil and Agricultrual Engineering Depts., CSU 1970-1975         Research Hydraulic Engineer, Southwest Watershed Research Center, ARS, Tucson, AZ.  Basic research into the physical and stochastic elements of soil infiltration and surface water hydrology 1965-1967         Volunteer, US Peace Corps.  Rural civil engineering in northern Pakistan 1964-1965         Design Engineer, Metcalf & Eddy Engineers, Palo Alto, CA.  Preliminary planning and final design for sewerage systems
Specialization	Primary: Physics and mathematics of surface and soil water flow, especially infiltration of water, and watershed runoff. Other: Physics of erosion and sediment transport processes, measurement of surface water flow, precipitation statistics, soil water flow and transport processes in randomly heterogeneous soil, mathematical modeling of interactive hydrological processes. Research Interests: The physics of infiltration and redistribution of water from soil wetting events, the simulation of spatial distribution of water from various irrigation methods, the study of interrelations between rainfall/irrigation distribution, soil property distribution, and movement of agricultural chemicals.
Awards	Engineering School Valedictorian, 1963 Scholarship, Stanford University, 1964 Member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi Member of ASCE, AGU Registered Professional Engineer, Arizona and Colorado Postdoctoral Fellowship, IBM Thos. J. Watson Research Center A.W. Mosey visiting scholar, Univ. of Western Australia, 1979 Robert E. Horton award, 1986, American Geophysical Union Elected to Fello, American Geophysical Union, 1997 ARS Team Technology Transfer Awards; 1981, 1997 Federal Laboratory Consortium Award of Excellence in Technology Transfer
Publications	60+ publications in refereed journals 7 technical reports 12 proceeding reports 6 book chapters 1 book