Stanford Gibson

Dr. Stanford Gibson is the sediment specialist at the Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) where he has worked for twenty years. He is responsible for implementing the sediment transport capabilities in the Corps of Engineers’ 1D open channel hydraulics model, HEC-RAS. Dr. Gibson also regularly applies these capabilities in support of ecosystem restoration, flood risk management, reservoir, and navigation projects. Dr. Gibson has a Phd in Hydraulic Engineering from UC Davis, and graduate degrees in Geotechnical Engineering, Restoration Ecology, and Theology. Stanford was the 2020 USACE, Flood and Coastal Researcher of the Year, the employee of the year at HEC and Institute of Water Resources Employee in 2018, a 2018 Fulbright Specialist, and was the 2017 USACE practitioner of the year in the hydrology, hydraulics and coastal Community of Practice.

Dr. Gibson won the ASCE Hans Albert Einstein Award in 2024 and hosts a River Mechanics podcast.

Stanford Gibson’s YouTube channel

River Mechanics Podcast

Involved in:

• Tailings dam failure essentials – Part 1 (August 2024)
• Earth’s biggest floods (October 2024)
• Advances in scour assessment (April 2024)
• What’s mud got to do with it? (June 2023)
• Riprap sizing in HEC-RAS version 6.1 (October 2021)
• It’s here! HEC-RAS 6.0, Part two (February 2021)
• Webinar: Sediment transport modelling. Too hard for Einstein? (August 2019)