Miranda Smith, P.E.
Senior Engineer
“My experience has focused on restoring fish passage to natal streams, rebuilding the ecologic framework that supports stream productivity, and applying my assessment skills to ensure resilient engineered solutions. At Kleinschmidt I find leveraging my passions to practical solutions very rewarding.”
Miranda has 12 years of experience working on water resources and heavy civil projects. Her work has included reach scale restoration design, hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, fish passage barrier correction, engineered logjam design, rehabilitation and optimization of run-of-river hydroelectric facilities, and infrastructure protection on large rivers.
At Kleinschmidt Miranda works in the Fisheries Engineering division to provide support for dam decommissioning, fish passage, nature-like fishways, and hydropower feasibility studies. Miranda holds her B.S. in Environmental Resources Engineering from Humboldt State University and is a licensed Engineer in Washington.