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Leo R. Beard Visiting Scholar Program For many years, on an ad hoc basis, HEC has invited prominent professionals to take up residence at HEC in Davis to foster scholarly exchange. We have had faculty from a number of universities spend some of their sabbatical with us, and we have on occasion had prominent engineers from other agencies join in the same capacity. The experience and the exchange of ideas that these scholars bring to HEC has proven to be intellectually invigorating for both our staff and the visitors themselves. We have now more formally established the activity, referring to such scholars in residence as "Leo R. Beard Visiting Scholars." Mr. Beard was the founding Director of HEC with strong ties to scholars in our technical field. It seems fitting to associate his name with this program. We hope to have visiting scholars on a reasonably regular basis, one per year for perhaps six or so months at a time. We will from time-to-time, report on our Web site, the status of our scholars and their activities. 2004 Visiting Scholar: Tony Thomas HEC is
conducting research in the area of sediment transport
analyses in order to improve the Corps' ability to
perform sediment studies. Given the complexity of this
field, we felt that it would be advantageous to have a
visiting scholar that is an expert in the field of
sediment transport come to HEC and assist us in this
effort. The objective would be for the visiting scholar
to help guide us in the development of sediment
transport capabilities that will be added into our
HEC-RAS software. The Leo R. Beard Visiting Scholar for 2004 is Mr. Tony Thomas. Tony is the author of the Corps' HEC-6 computer program, which is currently used in the Corps for performing 1-dimensional sediment transport analyses. Tony has over 40 years of experience in the field of sediment transport. Since retiring from the Corps, Mr. Thomas has continued to develop and improve capabilities for one-dimensional sediment transport analyses. Mr. Thomas is currently president of Mobile Boundary Hydraulics in Clinton Mississippi. Mr. Thomas will be working at HEC for 5 months, assisting us in the development of sediment transport algorithms within HEC-RAS.
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