Jarrell Smith is a Research Civil Engineer with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he has worked since 1994. He holds B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Clemson University and a Ph.D. in Marine Science (Physical Oceanography) from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. Jarrell’s career focus is sediment transport and hydrodynamics. He is the developer of the Particle Imaging Camera System (PICS) to determine suspended sediment size and settling velocity in the water column and has conducted sediment transport research on topics such as: the coastal response of beaches to storms; the settling of fine-sediment aggregates in dredge plumes, estuaries, and reservoirs; the erosion of cohesive and mixed-sediment beds; and the interactions of sediment, vegetation, and turbulence.
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