Stephen Bourne, PE

Stephen Bourne, PE

Atlanta Metropolitan Area
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Hi! I'm a Project Director at Atkins North America and a long-time professional…

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Education

  • Georgia Institute of Technology Graphic
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    Activities and Societies: Blueprint, ASCE, Chi Epsilon, Graduate Senate

    Graduated top of class with highest honors.

Licenses & Certifications

  • Professional Engineer

    Georgia board of professional engineers

Publications

  • Multi-objective planning for ice road routes on Alaska’s North Slope: Algorithms and technology development.

    Proc. of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010, ASCE/EWRI.

    Ice roads and ice pads provide a cost-effective means of oil and gas exploration with minimal impact to the sensitive underlying tundra. Consequently, these ice structures have become integral to oil and gas exploration activities on the North Slope. Their widespread use represents a challenge to water resource managers, however, due to the large volume of water required to construct and maintain them. Crucial questions on water balance and ecosystem impact must be considered in the state…

    Ice roads and ice pads provide a cost-effective means of oil and gas exploration with minimal impact to the sensitive underlying tundra. Consequently, these ice structures have become integral to oil and gas exploration activities on the North Slope. Their widespread use represents a challenge to water resource managers, however, due to the large volume of water required to construct and maintain them. Crucial questions on water balance and ecosystem impact must be considered in the state regulatory process that permits construction of these ice structures. NSDSS includes multi-objective planning routines for ice road routes. Pareto-optimal route alternatives are determined for cost, travel time, completion date, and other objectives. Spatial search domains are built using geographic information system (GIS) layers for a range of variables including water availability, vegetation and wildlife sensitivity, and topography, among others. Ant Colony System (ACS) optimization is utilized with novel algorithms for graph pre- and post-processing to improve solution efficiency. Output from the planning routines allows decision makers to understand tradeoff relationships among objectives. The current form of the ice road planning (IRP) algorithm will be extended to include water balance analysis to understand likely long-term impacts on regional water resources and possible adaptation measures.

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  • Return on Investment from New GIS Technologies for Water Resources Engineering

    American Water Resources Association (AWRA) IMPACT

    The authors present a case study to explore the underlying principles and benefits that will predict "Return on Investment" for new geospatial technologies applied to water resources in a context of rapidly-changing data, applications, and platforms.

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Honors & Awards

  • AtkinsRealis Fellow

    ATkinsrealis

    The Atkins Fellowship brings together inspirational colleagues whose deep technical expertise, innovative ideas and future-focused insight allow them to find better ways to realize our clients’ vision of success. They inspire the next generation of technical leaders and, together with the networks they operate in, drive transformation in industry and society at large.

  • UK Environment Agency International Excellence Award

    UK Environment Agency

    Finalist for City Simulator assessment of mitigation and adaptation projects in North Carolina in wake of Hurricane Matthew.

Organizations

  • AWRA

    Technology Committee

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