Professional Staff

“Year after year I am surprised at the diversity of projects that I get to work on and the fun our team has as we help our clients solve their problems. Whether it is a nature-like fish passage, dam removal, stream restoration, civil site design, or permitting, I am excited to come to work at Kleinschmidt to collaborate with our excellent staff and clients.”

Tyler Kreider is an Ecological Senior Engineer who has been with Kleinschmidt for over 9 years. He has worked across North America to help clients achieve a balance between their needs and the ecological environment where they are working. Tyler has completed the Rosgen Natural Channel Design (Level IV) training and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. Although Tyler is based in the Mid-Atlantic region, he has consulted on projects from Nova Scotia to California.

Tyler’s passions include dam removal, nature-like fish passage, and habitat restoration, although he also performs civil site design, project management, construction site observation, prepares bid packages, and completes federal/state permitting at Kleinschmidt. He also uses his expertise in natural channel design and fluvial geomorphology to provide engineering support for fish habitat restoration and green stormwater management projects including conducting hydrologic and hydraulic analysis. Some of Tyler’s recent assignments here at Kleinschmidt include FERC dam decommissioning plan preparation for J.C. Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2. and iron gate dams; fish passage feasibility analysis and preliminary design for 10 dams; constructing a nature-like fishway design for Shikellamy State Park; dam safety compliance; FERC environmental compliance study; sediment transport study for Bishop Creek relicensing; wetland and stream restoration feasibility analysis; wetland and stream mitigation credit feasibility analysis and Holtwood Ash Basing #2 Emergency Action Plan table-top exercise and annual monitoring.

Tyler holds an M.S. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and a B.S. in Environmental Resource Engineering from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).