2020 LCCMR Project Manager Qualifications and Organization Description

Kimberly Hill (manager), Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering & St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota WilliamHerb (co-manager), St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

Key Qualifications 
Kimberly Hill has conducted research on stabilityof lakeshore habitats using dredged material as part of the project “HealthyPort Futures: Landscape Strategies for Passive Sediment Management” focused on the great lakes and funded bythe “Great Lakes Protection Fund.” She has worked on response of particle-fluid systems to disturbances for the past 25 years with a focus on natural particle-fluid systems such assediments in streams and on embankments for the last 14 years.  As a co-PI on the HealthyPort Futures project, to date, Hill has focused on performing experiments investigating the feasibility of using dredged materials from the Ashtabula Harbor (Lake Eerie) in various plans for the establishment of an emergent wildlife habitat in the outer harbor of Ashtabula. WilliamHerb has conducted research on lake and streamwater quality and hydrologyfor the past seventeen years. His work has includeda number of projects on stream temperature, including work on Miller Creek in Duluth, the Vermillion River, and on the Northshore trout streams.  He is currently PI on the LCCMR project “Enhancing Spawning Habitat Restoration in Minnesota Lakes”, was recently a PI on a MnDOT-funded project to studythe transport of road salt through watersheds in Minnesota, and led a BWSR-funded project studying studying stream shading enhancements for Brown’s Creek, in Stillwater, MN.

Education-Hill
PhD, Physics, Universityof Minnesota 1997 M.S., Physics, Universityof Minnesota 1996 B.S., Physics, Universityof Michigan, 1992 

Education-Herb
M.S., Water Resources Science, University of Minnesota 2003 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota 1996 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Universityof Minnesota 1991 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Universityof Wisconsin 1985 
The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) is an interdisciplinary fluid mechanics research and educational facility of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota.  The mission of SAFL is 1) to advance fundamental knowledge in engineering, environmental, geophysical, and biological fluid mechanics, 2) to benefit societyby implementing this knowledge to develop engineering solutions to major environmental, water, ecosystem, health, and energy-related problems, and 
3) to disseminate new knowledge to University of Minnesota students, the engineering and scientific community, and the public. This project makes use of (1) two existing basins at SAFL for experiments on sediment stability developed forthe Healthy Port Futures project, (2) an in-channel wave generator for testing stability of sediments in the context of destabilizing effects of waves, and (3) an large outdoor basin to test combined effects of waves, shoreline shape, and plants that will be built with expertise of SAFL staff on old spillways of the St.Anthony Falls damcurrently managed and used by SAFL community.