Clients - Personnel - History and Registrations
- Clackamas County Water Environment Services (Clackamas, OR)
- Clark County Public Works, Water Resources (Vancouver, WA)
- Clark Public Utilities (Vancouver, WA)
- Cowlitz County Public Works (Kelso, WA)
Steve Gustafson rebuilding the historic gaging station at
Crater Lake National Park in 2005. Client: USGS - Hoh Tribe (Forks, WA)
- Montgomery Water Group, Inc. (Kirkland, WA)
- Nooksack Tribe (Deming, WA)
- Olympia, City of, Public Works (Olympia, WA)
- Pacific Groundwater Group (Seattle, WA)
- PacifiCorp (Portland, OR)
- Portland General Electric (Portland, OR)
- R. W. Beck, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
- Sutron Corporation (Sterling, VA)
- Tetra Tech/KCM, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
- Underwood Conservation District (White Salmon, WA)
- URS Corporation (Portland, OR and Seattle, WA)
- US Army Corps of Engineers (Portland, OR)
- US Forest Service, Mt. Adams Ranger District (Trout Lake, OR)
- US Geological Survey (Portland, OR)
- US Geological Survey, Columbia River Research Lab (Bingen, OR)
- WEST Consultants, Inc. (Salem, OR and Bellevue, WA)
- Woodland, City of (Woodland, WA)
Personnel of River Measurement, Ltd. (RM)
Steve
Gustafson, President and Principal Hydrologist
29 years of hydrology experience
Nineteen
years with US Geological Survey, Water Resources Division
• Supervised and provided ongoing training for seven full-time
hydrologic staff. Worked on all aspects of surface water data collection
and analysis at over 150 sites in western Washington.
• Performed final quality control review of surface water and sediment
records.
• Determined flood plan assignments and led field crews measuring
high flow events in Midwest and Northwest.
• Installed and operated Mt. St. Helens flood-warning network as
part of two-member team. Did emergency troubleshooting and repair of
remote field sites.
• Upgraded instrumentation to obtain real-time data in southern
Oregon.
• Trained USGS personnel from across the country in sediment field
techniques courses.
• Selected as original Mt. St. Helens hydrologic surveillance team
member.
• Received awards from USGS in 1983, 1985, 1990 and 1994.
RM experience
• Owner and Principal Hydrologist since formation of company in
1995.
Todd M. Bradley, PLS,
Surveyor
Over three decades of surveying experience
Thirty-two years,
including Surveyor 1 (Survey Party Chief) for City of Portland, Oregon
• Supervised up to 10 people as survey
party chief.
RM experience
• Surveyor for RM projects beginning in 1999.
• Lead surveyor for FEMA flood insurance studies.
Education
and Licenses
• Registered
Professional Land Surveyor, State of Washington,
Certificate # 41967.
• Registered Professional
Land Surveyor, State of Oregon, Certificate # 43097LS.
• Registered Water
Rights Examiner,
State of Oregon, Certificate # 43097WRE.
• Portland
State University, BS in Business Administration, 1972.
A.G. Flynn, Hydrologic
Technician/IT Specialist
Water Resources experience
• Monitored and recorded streamflow measurements
and performed chemical analysis of surface water resources in Vermont,
New Hampshire and southern Maine for USGS in Concord, New Hampshire.
• Collected primary data for efficacy study
on Scientific Irrigation Scheduling for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance.
• Co-authored
the first website on the precedent-setting Fanno Creek land-use decision in Tigard,
Oregon.
Education
• Portland State University, Masters,
Urban Regional Planning, Environmental emphasis 1999.
• New Mexico
State University, BS, Geography & Regional Science, Waste Management
Engineering Certificate, 1994
• US Army Corps of
Engineers, Basic Wetlands Delineation Certificate, 1998
Administrative Personnel
Maureen Gustafson, Business
Director
20 years management experience
RM experience
• Formed the company with Steve Gustafson
in 1995.
• Responsible
for the marketing, financial management, personnel administration and
other business aspects of RM since its formation.
Executive Director
of two organizations (previous name was Maureen Koopman)
• Led multi-service agency with dozens of employees for
Youthworks, Inc. (Medford,
Oregon).
• Managed Camp Fire organization through merger of two counties,
Shasta and Tehama, in California.
Five years national
campaigns and events management for international agency
• Organized campaigns and supported special events nationally and
locally for Oxfam America (Boston, Massachusetts) to help fund development
projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Education
• University of California, Santa Cruz, BA in Community Studies,
1978. Graduated with College Honors, Major Honors and Thesis Honors.
Quyen Nguyen , Business
Assistant
Clark College
• Office Assistant
at Clark College.
• Clark
College, A.A. in Business Administration, with Honors, 2004
Washington State University
• Enrolled in Washington State University, Vancouver, Business Administration program.
• President's Honor Roll, 2005
Steve and Maureen Gustafson formed the company in Washington state in 1995 to provide data collection of surface water. The company's name changed to River Measurement, LLC in 2003. It changed from a limited liability company to a corporation in 2004 and is now River Measurement, Ltd. It is also known as RM. The corporation is registered in the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Steve Gustafson is the President and Principal Hydrologist specializing in surface water data collection and Maureen Gustafson is the Business Director and is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Board. Additional staff have been hired beginning in 1998.
General contractor registration is required in many states for the development of stream-gaging stations. RM is registered as a General Contractor for Washington (#RIVERML966J2) and is licensed as a General Contractor for Oregon (CCB license #159661) and is bonded in both states.
