Matthew Johnson, PE, CFM | Water Resources Project Manager 9/13/21 Matthew Johnson, PE, CFM | Water Resources Project Manager 9/13/21

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Little Black Boxes

What is a black box and why should you care?

The concept is simple, we input data into a “black box “and we receive an output. We then take these outputs and apply them to planning, analyses, or designs. These black boxes are often represented as models. They can be as simple as an excel spreadsheet, or as complicated as a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model. The question is, do you know what that little black box is doing?

When Projects End: WaterVation Blog February 2021

I was scrolling through pictures on my phone and was confronted by endless river construction photographs on the quest to find the one decent picture of me and my daughters, which was smashed between images of toe-wood and boulder habitat clusters. Looking through all the photographs stopped me, I had spent so much time on this project and now it was over. It’s difficult to describe the feeling of a project ending and suddenly vanishing from your life. The only comparison I can conjure is a good (or bad) friend moving away and abruptly severing all contact.