Jordan Furnans, PhD, PE, PG
Senior Engineer/Hydrographer

512-425-2074
jfurnans@intera.com

PhD, Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005
MSE, Environmental & Water Resources Engineering,
          The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
BSE, Civil Engineering, Princeton University, 1999
US Fulbright Scholar to Australia – 2002-2003

Licensed Professional Engineer: TX, NM, FL, WA, CO
Licensed Professional Geologist: TX
Certified Hydrographer (#268) – American Congress on Surveying and Mapping

Jordan Furnans has 11 years of professional experience that encompasses both field hydrologic data collection and the analysis of data through the development and application of numerical models. He specializes in the areas of water availability modeling, watershed hydrology planning and management, hydrographic and sedimentation survey methods, coupled field and model hydrodynamic investigations of estuaries, lakes, and rivers, linking water quality and hydrodynamics in natural systems, and freshwater inflow and instream flow requirements for ecosystem health. His experience includes conducting engineering studies of the flow requirements in rivers and estuaries across Texas, contributing to the development of regional and state water plans, designing and conducting hydrographic surveys, and GIS planning and applications. Some of Dr. Furnans' recent experience includes performing model reviews, developing expert testimony for water rights litigation efforts, developing an automated bathymetric data processing system for volumetric and sediment surveying, calculating drinking water supply quantities for the City of Santa Fe (NM), modeling hydrodynamic flows affecting salmon migration in Richland (WA), aiding in the development of instream flow recommendations for rivers in Oklahoma and Texas, modeling desalination brine discharges in shallow estuarine ecosystems, and modeling surface circulation in lakes.