Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has announced that Greg Karlovits, PE, CFM, has joined the firm as a hydrology discipline lead for its resilience solutions group. Based out of the firm’s Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters, Karlovits will oversee development of new tools, processes, and workflows supporting the delivery of hydrologic analyses and solutions. He will also support growth of comprehensive hydrology and hydrometeorology services for new and existing clients.
Prior to joining Dewberry, Karlovits served as Hydrology and Statistics Division chief for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center. In this role, Karlovits advanced science and tools for flood hydrology, hydrologic statistics, and hydrometeorology, while managing a team of technical staff. His expertise spans climate change analysis, engineering risk and reliability, extreme value theory, floodplain management, hydrologic modeling and statistics, hydrometeorology, stormwater management, and water resources engineering.
“Greg’s unique background as a hydrologic extremes national subject matter expert significantly enhances our team’s ability to meaningfully contribute to the flood risk management state of practice,” says Dewberry Vice President Mathew Mampara, PE. “His experience in engineering risk and resilience adds critical depth and capacity to our interdisciplinary approach to resilience for federal, state, and local clients.”
Dewberry Associate Vice President and Program Manager Seth Lawler, PhD., adds, “I’m excited for the opportunity Greg brings to advance resilience for FEMA Region 8, the Future of Flood Risk Data initiative, and our communities through hydrometeorology.”
Karlovits earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Michigan Technological University (2009) and a master’s in civil engineering from Washington State University (2010). He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Hydrology (AIH), Association of State Floodplain Managers, and Illinois Association for Floodplain and Stormwater Management, and received a certification in professional hydrology from AIH (2015).
