Brian M. Crookston received his Ph.D. in Water Engineering from Utah State University in 2010. He is now an Associate Professor at Utah State University where he conducts research at the Utah Water Research Laboratory. He is focused on water sustainability and resiliency including: hydraulic structures, fluvial hydraulics, and modeling and technology, including various instrumentation and methodologies to study aerated complex flows. He has served previously as Chair of the IAHR Committee on Hydraulic Structures and currently serves as Chair of the USSD subcommittee on Spillways and Secretary for the ASCE Task Committee for Scour at In-channel Structures.