Rand Eads, president of RiverMetrics™ , worked with the USDA Forest Service's Redwood Sciences Laboratory for 30 years developing novel research techniques and instrumentation to monitor sediment transport from timber harvesting, road building, and landslides, and to evaluate the effects of sediment deposition on spawning gravels. Since 1982, Rand has developed and implemented most of the instrumentation deployed at the Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed. He holds a US patent for inventing instrumentation to automatically sample suspended sediment, and he has authored more than 17 publications. In collaboration with Jack Lewis at Redwood Sciences Laboratory, they developed Turbidity Threshold Sampling as a cutting-edge technology to efficiently estimate suspended sediment loads. Rand has successfully transferred complicated technologies to other government agencies, municipalities, tribes, industrial timber companies, and non-profit organizations. He has traveled internationally disseminating new information on sampling strategies, discussing methods to improve monitoring protocols, providing in-depth training, and has installed Turbidity Threshold Sampling stations in Asia. Rand has applied turbidity-based sampling techniques to determine sediment loads as a surrogate for mercury and hydrocarbon transport in the San Francisco South Bay in collaboration with the San Francisco Estuary Institute and the USGS.