Michael S Kohn, P.E.
Mike is a licensed professional civil engineer in Colorado with the U.S. Geological Survey Colorado Water Science Center.
In 2023, Mike became the surface water specialist for the Colorado Water Science Center. Mike has nearly 15 years of experience in water resources engineering with an emphasis in surface water, applied research, and project management. His technical interests include hydrologic, hydraulic, and sediment transport analysis and modeling, flood-frequency analysis, low-streamflow analysis, bathymetric and terrestrial surveys, and post-flood indirect measurement of streamflow discharge and stage. Mike has successfully completed field-scale research and modeling for flood and sediment transport studies as well as flood inundation mapping and statistical hydrology studies. Mike has managed and/or been the technical lead for the USGS on a variety of surface water and geomorphology studies involving numerous Federal, State, and local partners.
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Bathymetry of Groundhog and Totten Reservoirs
Flood Database for Colorado
Prediction of suspended-sediment transport and identification of sediment source areas in the Fountain Creek watershed
Estimation of baseflow characteristics for selected reaches of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers, northeastern Colorado
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Bathymetry of Groundhog and Totten Reservoirs
In order to better characterize the water supply capacity of Groundhog Reservoir, Dolores County, Colorado, and Totten Reservoir, Montezuma County, Colorado, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Dolores Water Conservancy District, conducted a bathymetric survey of Groundhog and Totten Reservoir. The study was performed in June 2011 using a man-operated boat-mounted multibeam echo...Flood Database for Colorado
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Transportation, created a Web-based geodatabase for information on floods from 1867 through water year 2015 and information on paleofloods occurring in the past 5,000 to 10,000 years. The geodatabase was created using Environmental Systems Research Institute ArcGIS JavaScript Application Programing Interface. Engineers...Prediction of suspended-sediment transport and identification of sediment source areas in the Fountain Creek watershed
A thorough evaluation of sediment transport through this stream network is essential to comprehensively evaluate the present dynamic geomorphic conditions in the Fountain Creek watershed and its future consequences. Such an evaluation requires examining both of the fundamental modes of sediment transport: bedload transport and suspended sediment load.Estimation of baseflow characteristics for selected reaches of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers, northeastern Colorado
Baseflow will be determined for selected reaches in the South Platte River by using a mass-balance approach and possibly by modifying conventional baseflow analysis techniques. - Data
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