Executive Staff
Andrew Ernest
Title
Chief Executive Officer
Biography
Andrew has over 30 years of professional experience in Environmental and Water Resource Engineering. He has over 25 years of experience as a hydrologic & water quality modeler, emphasizing first-principles-based model development and application, over 15 years’ experience in hydrologic & environmental informatics – focusing on translating scientific principles into language readily assimilable by elected officials and other decision makers, and over 10 years of specific emphasis on flood-related issues and other hydrologic extremes. Dr. Ernest spent 4 years as the Director of the Environmental Institute at the University of Alabama, working with the NOAA National Water Center during the roll-out of the National Water Model. He currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Research, Applied Technology, Education & Service, Inc., a nonprofit corporation focusing on developing and deploying small-community affordable real-time hydrologic sensors for water resource management and flood early warning, is a former Department Head and Full Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and the founder of Open Environment, PLLC, a water resource technology startup.