Thomas Suro

Professional Experience

• Part of team currently working on completing and publishing a report on the analysis of changes in selected streamflow statistics between a defined current and historic period (still in review).

• Part of team completing study and report on determining low-flow conditions at select streams in the Barnegat Bay Watershed as a first step to determining ecological flow targets (still in review). 

• Part of team that recently published report on Streamflow Characteristics and trends for New Jersey (SIR 2024-5099).

• Part of team that developed and published a HEC-RAS hydraulic, temperature, and nutrient model and report for the Mohawk River across update New York (SIR 2024-5005)

• Part of team that recently published report and developed online tools for evaluating impact from moderate coastal flooding scenarios using synthetic storms to develop flood-inundation maps for coastal communities in 10 New Jersey Counties (SIR 2023-5005)

• Part of team that evaluated bridge scour countermeasures across the nation and published a scientific investigations report that documented the Assessment of Bridge Scour Countermeasures in the United States, 2014-18 (SIR 2019-5080)

• Part of a team that evaluated the hydraulic and biological passability of the streamgaging weir along the Millstone River at the Blackwells Mills Streamgage in New Jersey (SIR 2017-5103).

• Led study to analyze and document impacts from Hurricane Sandy along the coast of New Jersey during October 29-30, 2012 (SIR 2016-5085). 

• Managed the flood hardening of New Jersey tide gage network after major impacts from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. 

• Published Professional Paper that Summarized the major flooding along the East Coast of the United States during 2011 (Professional Paper 1821).

• Prepared a report, in cooperation with NYS-DOT, to document the maximum known stage and discharge of streams in New York (SIR 2014-5084).

• Derived regression equations to estimate daily streamflow at ungaged sites in New York to assist in developing standards to protect aquatic habitats and natural ecosystems.

• Pilot study to update low-flow statistics for several USGS gages and investigate changes in low-flow frequency statistics from 1976 to 2006 at selected streams in New York (SIR 2011-5112).

• Managed the flood hardening of USGS gages in the Delaware River basin.

• Project chief for projects in cooperation with FEMA and NYS-DOT to document floods along the Neversink River and Esopus Creek, and the Mohawk, Delaware, and Susquehanna River basins in New York during 2005 and 2006 (OFR 2006-1319, OFR 2007-1036, and OFR 2009-1063).

• Published reports documenting the effects of, and worked as one of the crew chiefs on, projects to document the 2004 flood in the Upper Delaware River Basin of NY, and 1999 flood in southeastern New York.

• Completed flood surveys to compute peak flood discharge by indirect methods

• Worked on the Hudson River Salt-Front project (to model the location of the saltwater/freshwater junction), a hydraulic model to compute flow thru several large tainter gates and over a main spillway

• Pioneered acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) use in eastern New York.

• Managed the installation and calibration of an acoustic doppler velocity meter on the Hudson River.

• Managed the documentation of flooding from the Great Nor’easter of 1992 along the New Jersey coast and published a report summarizing the results.

• Worked on a flood warning project to provide real-time rainfall and river-level data in northern New Jersey to federal, state, and local officials for forecasting and public safety.

• Worked on several projects including: water quality and groundwater data collection, groundwater aquifer tests, hydraulic modeling of lake outflows through automatic gates, and collecting low-flow surface-water data.