January 27, 2016

West Consultants

Cary

Warms

Rinehimer

Mork

Cunha

Viducich

Salem, Oregon-based West Consultants hired Luciana Cunha, Ph.D., as a senior engineer, Eric Mork as a staff engineer, J. Paul Rinehimer, Ph.D., as a senior hydraulic engineering staff member, Lyman Petersen as a hydrologist/scientist, Mikell Warms as a hydraulic and hydrologic engineering staff member, and Ben Cary and Jon Viducich as hydraulic engineering staff members. Cunha and Mork work in Folsom, Rinehimer in Bellevue, Petersen in Vancouver, Warms in Portland, Cary in Salem and Viducich in San Diego. Cunha was with The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey focused on green infrastructure to minimize urban floods and combined sewage overflows. Mork is a water resources professional who holds a master's in civil and environmental engineering from University of California, Davis. Rinehimer has 10 years of experience in research and modeling of hydrodynamics, hydrology, groundwater and sediment transport. At West, he has worked on an FLO-2D zero-rise analysis in Snoqualmie River's floodway for a high school remodel. Petersen has a background in stream gaging, water quality monitoring, collecting hydrological and meteorological data, and delineating and surveying landslides, channel migration zones and floodplains. Warms holds a master's in civil and environmental engineering from Colorado State University. He specializes in hydrologic and hydraulic processes, collecting and analyzing hydrologic data, and Geographic Information Systems. Cary has a bachelor's in civil engineering from Gonzaga University in Spokane. Viducich has a master's in water resources engineering from Oregon State University. West Consultants is a water resources engineering firm with offices in Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona.