Brian Lazar (Stratus Consulting), Associate

Mr. Lazar specializes in the characterization and mechanics of integrated hydrologic systems, using analytical techniques from engineering, physics, and hydrology. Brian currently performs snowpack and hydrologic modeling and analysis, climate change impact assessments, and data research and analysis; and provides scientific litigation support. His work is concentrated in the areas of surface and groundwater hydrology, snowpack modeling, glaciology, and contaminant fate and transport.

As a graduate student and research assistant at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research/University of Colorado he characterized an integrated ice-snow-water hydrologic system at the Bench Glacier in Alaska’s Chugach Range which had important implications with respect to climate change and glacial runoff.

Brian continues to work as an avalanche instructor/forecaster and industry consultant. He is currently the Executive Director for the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education.

As an engineer and project fundraiser for Engineers without Borders, Mr. Lazar has organized funding and carried out engineering needs for various small-scale international engineering projects in developing countries, specifically Peru and Nicaragua. His duties included travel to project sites for technical assessment, gathering of water samples and environmental data, facilitation between engineers and the local community, project design, and ultimately implementation.

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