Michael George

Senior Geological Engineer

Golden

Mike George, Ph.D., P.E. (CO), specializes in water resources, dam, spillway, and river engineering with focus on erodibility, scour remediation, rock mechanics, hydraulics, high-resolution remote sensing monitoring, and risk/reliability methods. He has worked as a consulting engineer and researcher in the United States and abroad and has developed methodologies for evaluation of rock mass erodibility, delivered training to FERC, USACE, USSD and ASDSO on scour, and authored over 25 papers on the subject including sections of the newly updated FERC Engineering Guidelines for Arch Dams (2018). Mike also serves as co-chair to the newly formed European Working Group on Overflowing & Overtopping Erosion for ICOLD.