Grant G. Davids, P.E. Principal Engineer, Project Manager

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Education
B.S., Agricultural Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Professional Registrations
Registered Agricultural Engineer, California (No. AG00431)
Registered Civil Engineer, California (No. C47199)

Experience Summary
Mr. Davids has nearly 30 years of irrigation engineering experience in the U.S. and overseas, encompassing a wide range of water supply, water quality, drainage, water conservation, operations and maintenance and facilities modernization projects. For the past 15 years, his work has concentrated on helping irrigators and irrigation districts develop and implement strategic water management programs aimed at enhancing the sustainability of irrigated agriculture. A major component of this work has concentrated on planning and verification of water transfers from agriculture to urban and environmental uses. Through experience on a wide range of water resources projects, he is familiar with the environmental and institutional issues confronting irrigation operations and management at both the district and farm levels. He has served as sole consultant and headed large multi-disciplinary teams to provide services to private farming operations, irrigation districts, cities, and government agencies. Mr. Davids founded Davids Engineering in 1993, and serves as principal engineer, project manager and senior consultant.

 

Bryan P. Thoreson, Ph.D., P.E. Principal Engineer, Project Manager

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Education
Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
M.S., Agricultural Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD.
B.S., Agricultural Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD.

Professional Registrations
Registered Civil Engineer, California (No. C56194)
Registered Civil Engineer, Washington (No. 36249)

Experience Summary
Dr. Thoreson has more than 15 years of professional experience in water resources and irrigation engineering. He specializes in irrigation water conservation, having skills and experience in the areas of irrigation scheduling, assessing and improving on-farm application efficiency, flow measurement, data management, and irrigation and drainage system operations and maintenance (O&M). Dr. Thoreson has extensive experience in software development and application related to irrigation engineering, including development, deployment and maintenance of customized Oracle SQL databases. Throughout his work, he has consistently demonstrated a unique command of both theoretical principle and practical application. He has authored numerous papers on improved irrigation practice and operations and maintenance procedures. Dr. Thoreson is fluent in spoken Nepali and can read and translate written Nepali. He has worked exclusively in Spanish for short consultations in Ecuador. Dr. Thoreson joined Davids Engineering in 1997 and serves as principal engineer, project manager and project engineer.

 

Lindsay J. Hall, E.I.T. Project Engineer

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Education
B.S., Agricultural Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson

Professional Registrations
Engineer in Training, California, 2003

Experience Summary
Ms. Hall has worked on a variety of irrigation projects since joining Davids Engineering in 2002. Her experience includes hydraulic analysis of pipeline distribution systems, assessment and design of water measurement structures, computation of historical crop water demands, operation of the RootZone and SWAP Models to differentiate between crop use of applied water and precipitation, development of historical water balance analyses, and application of operations models to evaluate alternative water management and marketing strategies. Ms. Hall has designed and implemented a number of relational databases to support systems analysis and management of flow and other types of water resources data.

 

Byron Clark, P.E. Project Engineer, Project Manager

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Education
B.S., Biological Systems Engineering, Universtiy of California, Davis, CA

Professional Registrations
Registered Civil Engineer, California (No. C71349)

Experience Summary
Mr. Clark has specialized in assisting irrigation districts with water conservation efforts emphasizing improved on-farm water management. Specifically, Mr. Clark has conducted diverse projects related to irrigation scheduling and irrigator training, soil salinity and drainage investigations, quantification of groundwater production at well and basin scales, feasibility investigations, improvements to pump station efficiency, water quality monitoring, and water balance analysis. He has also prepared successful grant applications seeking funding for implementation and quantification of water conservation measures. He has taken several projects from initial concept to implementation has authored papers on improved irrigation practices and energy conservation. Mr. Clark joined Davids Engineering in 2006 and works as a project engineer and manager.