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 24 publications. He co-developed Turbidity Threshold Sampling as a cutting-edge technology to efficiently estimate suspended sediment loads.

Rand has successfully transferred complicated technologies to government agencies, 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 installing Turbidity Threshold Sampling stations. He has installed more than 75 gauging stations that cover a broad range of monitoring challenges including forests, jungles, agricultural lands, and urban channels and storm drains. Rand has applied turbidity-based sampling techniques to determine sediment loads as a surrogate for pollutants in the San Francisco Bay. In addition, he is designing monitoring equipment and methods to measure the effectiveness of Low Impact Designs (LID) than include rain gardens, retention swales, and green roofs.