Thomas Suro
A hydrologist with the USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, with over 20 years experience working on a variety of projects in the areas of SW hydrology and hydraulics. He is the Surface-Water Specialist for the New Jersey Water Science Center and is the Project Chief for the Hurricane Sandy scientific investigation report which will analyze and document the coastal flooding impact on New Jer
Previously, Tom worked as the Assistant Chief of Hydraulic Surveillance and Investigations for the USGS NY: Troy; and Project Chief for Flood Investigations in New York.
Areas of interest:
- Surface-water hydraulics engineering and watershed modeling
- Flood frequency analysis and surface-water statistics
- Flood hydrology
- Inundation mapping
- Low-flow hydrology
- Estimating and modeling daily streamflow at ungaged sites to assist in water management and the development of streamflow standards.
Science and Products
The New Jersey Streamgaging Network
StreamStats in New Jersey
Floods: Recurrence intervals and 100-year floods
How do we know or measure if a flood that could happen tomorrow is worse than one that happened 2, 10 or 50 years ago? If heavy rain is being forecasted does that mean that rivers are going to rise and spill over their banks and flood your neighborhood? These are some of the questions that we think about when flooding or heavy rain is forecast by public media or the National Weather Service (NWS).
Hurricanes and Storm-Tide Monitoring
Hurricane Sandy Science
Science and Products
- Publications
- Science
The New Jersey Streamgaging Network
The USGS New Jersey Water Science Center streamgage program is part of the nationwide program that provides streamflow information for a variety of purposes—including the protection of life and property, infrastructure design, recreational usage, and long-term trend assessment. This information is critical to resource managers, farmers, fishermen, kayakers, land-use planners, engineers...StreamStats in New Jersey
StreamStats is a web application (Web Tool) for water-resources planning and engineering purposes. The map-based user interface can be used to delineate drainage areas for user-selected sites on streams, generate basin characteristics and estimate flow statistics for the selected sites. Users also can select the locations of USGS data-collection stations, shown as triangles on the StreamStats map...Floods: Recurrence intervals and 100-year floods
How do we know or measure if a flood that could happen tomorrow is worse than one that happened 2, 10 or 50 years ago? If heavy rain is being forecasted does that mean that rivers are going to rise and spill over their banks and flood your neighborhood? These are some of the questions that we think about when flooding or heavy rain is forecast by public media or the National Weather Service (NWS).
Hurricanes and Storm-Tide Monitoring
The USGS works in partnership with other federal and state agencies to provide scientific data about coastal flood hazards. The New Jersey Water Science Center (NJWSC) maintains a network of continuously operating tide gages along the back bays of New Jersey which provide publicly available water-level and meteorological data to monitor coastal flood conditions. The USGS NJWSC coordinates with our...Hurricane Sandy Science
Hurricane Sandy made a variety of impacts along the highly populated northeastern Atlantic seaboard in October 2012. Improved understanding of these impacts will better prepare us for the next one. As a result the USGS science provides a strong foundation for decision makers, planners and resource managers. - News
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