“My experience has focused on restoring fish passage to natal streams, rebuilding the ecologic framework that supports stream productivity, and applying my assessment skills to ensure resilient engineered solutions. At Kleinschmidt I find leveraging my passions to practical solutions very rewarding.”
Miranda Smith has 14 years of heavy civil and river engineering experience. She is experienced in preparing plans, specifications, cost estimates, providing construction oversight and field-fit, and performing watershed investigations including, hydrologic and hydraulic analysis and sediment transport studies. Miranda’s design philosophy is informed by her understanding of sediment transport and the connections between fluvial processes and ecosystem resiliency. She has been the engineer of record for multiple reach scale river restoration projects with the objective of addressing limiting factors for salmonid species. Miranda is an expert in stability analysis for pile-supported engineered log jams and complex timber revetment designs. She has designed and observed the construction of hundreds of structures to enhance salmonid habitat, protect private property, and critical infrastructure on big rivers using ecologically sensitive methods. Miranda holds her B.S. in Environmental Resources Engineering from Humboldt State University and is a licensed Engineer in Washington.