Andrew Parker

Company: Tetra Tech
Position: Vice President, Water Resource Group
Presentation: Water Resources Management Using Coupled Models in Alberta and the U.S.

Mr. Parker is a Vice President with Tetra Tech’s Water Resources Group. He supervises a team of engineers and scientists focusing on watershed planning and management, environmental model development and application, and environmental monitoring and assessment. In his 16 years with Tetra Tech, he has managed more than 50 water resources management and Modelling projects in Alberta, over 25 of the United States, Korea, and the Caribbean. He has extensive experience implementing a range of models for planning and regulatory purposes including TMDLs, implementation plans, climate change studies, Environmental Impact Statements, NPDES permitting, mixing zone analyses, and criteria development. Recent projects include: Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) development; national scale climate change modeling; and basin-wide Modelling studies for the North Saskatchewan River (Canada), Klamath River (USA), Nakdong River (Korea), and Lake Champlain (USA/Canada).