Item talk:Q47707

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T16:44:19.494316'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/christopher-magirl
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - The University of Arizona, PhD, Hydrology (minor in geology) 2006
   - Purdue University, MS, Mechanical Engineering, 1992
   - The University of Arizona, BS, Aerospace Engineering, 1990
   email: magirl@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - floods
   - sediment transport
   - streamflow
   - surface water (non-marine)
   - lahars
   - landslides
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Chris Magirl is a Bureau Approving Official (BAO) in the USGS Office of Science
     Quality and Integrity, reviewing interpretive science products (that is, written
     reports, journal articles, book chapters, and other pieces for public release)
     on behalf of the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure quality and consistency with
     USGS Fundamental Science Practices.
   name: Christopher Magirl
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-9922-6549
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/office-of-science-quality-and-integrity
   organization_name: Office of Science Quality and Integrity
   personal_statement: "From 2015\u20132020, Chris was the Associate Director for\
     \ Investigations at the USGS Arizona Water Science Center, disseminating high-quality\
     \ hydrologic data and scientific reports on water resources in Arizona and the\
     \ Southwest. Chris worked closely with cooperating state, local, and federal\
     \ agencies, tribes, and academic researchers. From 2000\u20132015, Chris was\
     \ a hydrologist, research hydrologist, and project chief at the USGS, working\
     \ on multiple projects involving fluvial geomorphology throughout the western\
     \ United States. Chris researched rapids on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon\
     \ and Cataract Canyon, the Elwha River dam-removal project, sediment production\
     \ from Mount Rainier and other glaciated stratovolcanoes, and the interactions\
     \ between geomorphology and aquatic ecology pertaining to salmon. Chris was\
     \ closely involved with the USGS response to the March 22, 2014, Oso Landslide\
     \ of Washington State.Before joining the USGS, Chris was an engineer and R&D\
     \ project manager with the Hewlett-Packard Company building color inkjet printers.\
     \ As a youth, Chris was fascinated with fluid mechanics and thermodynamics,\
     \ thunderstorms, flash floods, airplanes, rockets, and rivers. For over 25 years,\
     \ Chris has been fortunate to enjoy fluid mechanics and thermodynamics in his\
     \ professional research and engineering career. Chris is the inventor of 5 patents\
     \ and has authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers and reports on\
     \ topics ranging from directional solidification, microscopic droplet ejection,\
     \ landslides, debris flows, extreme rainfall events, extreme floods, to the\
     \ hydraulics of rapids\u2014it\u2019s all fluid mechanics, just different scales\
     \ and viscosities."
   professional_experience:
   - "US Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, Studies Chief, 2015\u2013present"
   - "US Geological Survey, Tacoma, WA, Research Hydrologist, 2008\u20132015"
   - "US Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, Hydrologist, 2000\u20132008"
   - Tetra Tech, Inc, Tucson, AZ, Hydrologist, 2000
   - "Hewlett-Packard Company, San Diego, CA, Project Manager and Engineer, 1992\u2013\
     1999"
   title: Bureau Approving Official, Hydrologist