David Shaw is President and CEO of Balance Hydrologics and manages the firm’s Truckee office. Over the course of his nearly 30-year career, David has led site investigations, watershed assessments, design, and implementation of fluvial, floodplain and wetland restoration and mitigation projects throughout California at a range of scales for both coastal streams and montane meadow restoration projects. Watershed assessment efforts have led to successful restoration projects and improvement of ecological habitat in the Sierra Nevada and coastal California. David utilizes GIS and field methodologies to assess runoff, channel formation, and trails and develop appropriate wetland management approaches, and he has led a number of long-term suspended sediment transport studies of sensitive watersheds in the Truckee River Watershed. These efforts required application of technical findings for practical land-use decision making and effective communication with multiple stakeholders. David has also directed surface–groundwater interaction projects involving restoration of Sierra meadows and quantification of the associated changes in groundwater storage and recharge. David co-developed Balance’s online real-time streamflow and rain gaging program, which allows clients, staff, and, in some cases, the public 24/7 access to hydrologic data.
- Certified Hydrogeologist, California #1122
- Professional Geologist, California #8210
- M.L.A., Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
- B.S., Geology (Concentration in Water Resources), University of Vermont, 1997
Groundwater Management and Planning, Meadow Restoration, Monitoring, Realtime, Restoration Design, Sediment Transport, Sierra Meadows, Stream Restoration, Surface Water / Groundwater Interaction, Watershed Assessments, Wetland Restoration