Robert Brumbaugh is a policy analyst with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources (IWR) Policy and Special Studies Division, in Alexandria, Virginia. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Geography from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles where his studies focused on fluvial geomorphology, plant ecology, and paleoenvironmental analysis. He has been with the Corps for thirteen years, seven years in the Los Angeles District as a water resources planning study manager and the last six years at IWR where his focus has included water resources management during drought, Middle East water resources, and watershed planning. He is the manager of the National Wetland Mitigation Banking Study.