Daniel P. Sheer is the founder and President of HydroLogics. Dr. Sheer has devoted his professional career to improving water management. After receiving his Ph.D with honors from the Johns Hopkins University in 1974, he became the Planning Engineer, and then the Technical Director of the Interstate Commission on the otomac River Basin. In these capacities, he designed the technical work plan for the Washington Metropolitan Area 208 Plan (water quality management), and led the technical elopment effort that provided a long term water supply solution for the same region. He was the first Director of CO-OP, the new institution designated to implement that plan.
In 1985 Dr. Sheer founded Water Resources Management, Inc., now renamed HydroLogics. He has been directly involved in the majority of HydroLogics' projects, and was instrumental in the creation of the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Kansas River Water Assurance District. For the past decade, Dr. Sheer has been closely involved in planning and operations for the Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades Agricultural Area and the Lower East Coast through contracts with the South Florida Water Management District. He has directed the modeling of the Delaware, Susquehanna, and NYC water supply systems, and is currently engaged in modeling the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint and Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa Basins for the Atlanta Regional Commission and the South Saskatchewan River Basin in Alberta.
Dr. Sheer has done pioneering work in the development of water resources modeling technology and the use of Computer Aided Negotiation and Operations Exercises. His work on HydroLogics' OASIS modeling system led to a U.S. Patent. He has received Best Journal Paper citations from both AWWA and ASCE, was a founding member of the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board, and serves on the NRC's Committee to review the Florida Keys Carrying Capacity Study.