Drew Ackerman is an analytical, data-driven water resource manager with more than 25 years of consulting and research experience who has successfully navigated complex environmental and water quality compliance issues in consultative, research and project management engagements. He has specialized, multi-state experience characterizing and quantifying runoff impact and discharges on freshwater, brackish, and saline environments and demonstrated a record of developing innovating hydraulic, hydrologic, hydrodynamic and water quality models to enhance clarity of water management issues. He is a senior water quality engineer who customizes tools to understand pollutants, nutrients, sediments, and bacteria fate and transport.