Kevin Knuuti is an independent consulting engineer whose work focuses on risk assessment and communication; climate change (sea-level change); datums; and physical processes in coastal, estuarine and fluvial environments.  Prior to working as a consulting engineer, Kevin had a career in Army Corps of Engineers with positions that included Technical Director, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (Hanover, NH); Chief Engineer, southwestern United States (Sacramento, CA); Research Engineer; Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (Vicksburg, MS); and Chief of Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, northern California (San Francisco, CA).  During his career in the Army Corps of Engineers, Kevin’s work included planning, analysis, design and construction associated with coastal and riverine flood risk reduction; ecosystem restoration; environmental remediation; and infrastructure for Army and Air Force installations.  Kevin also led the water level analysis assessment of the post-Hurricane Katrina investigation of Louisiana and Mississippi; was the lead author for the Army Corps of Engineers sea-level rise policy; and has contributed to sea-level rise work for several states and Federal agencies, for the National Climate Assessment, and for the IPCC. Kevin has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, master’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and will complete his PhD in civil engineering from Colorado State University this year.  He is also an Army combat veteran who retired from the Army as a Colonel.