Chief Engineer
South Florida Water Management District
Luis G. Cadavid has been with the SFWMD since October 1992. He has a degree in Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Hydrology and Water Resources from Colorado State University, and is a registered Professional Engineer for the state of Florida. At the SFWMD, he has participated in a large variety of water resources projects such as quality assurance of hydrologic data, regional hydrologic and operational modeling, real time operations, drought management, use of climate data in operations, statistical analysis of hydrologic data, risk analysis, evaluation of flood control level of service and many more.