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Dr. Reed Maxwell is an Associate Professor in the Geology and Geological Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. His research interests are focused on hydrology, particularly scientific questions relating to understanding connections within the hydrologic cycle and how they relate to water quantity and quality. He teaches classes on integrated hydrology, fluid mechanics and modeling terrestrial water flow. He leads a research group of one postdoc and ten graduate students in the Integrated Groundwater Modeling Center. Before joining the faculty at Mines, Dr. Maxwell was staff in the Hydrologic Sciences group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and he holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Water Resources from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sophia Seo is a Research Associate in the Geology and Geological Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. She has been with the International Ground Water Modeling Center since 1998 managing the center in its mission to stimulate the appropriate use of simulation models and related computer-based support technology in the management and protection of groundwater resources. She did extensive work in ground water modeling, involved in various software evaluations, and produced an instructional DVD, The Interactive Roles of Surface Water & Ground Water, to educate the public regarding the interaction of surface water and groundwater in conjunctive use situations. Her research interests focus on surface water-groundwater interactions, groundwater flow and transport modeling, inverse modeling, parameter estimation, and aquatic chemistry.
Chunmiao Zheng, is a Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Alabama and developer of the world’s most widely used solute transport model MT3D/MT3DMS. He received a B.S. in geology in 1983 and did postgraduate work in geology and applied mathematics in 1983-1984 at Chengdu Institute of Geology in China (now Chengdu University of Technology). He received his Ph.D. in hydrogeology with a minor in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. His research involves contaminant transport modeling, groundwater resources and groundwater quality management, and coupling of physical transport processes with biological and geochemical reactions. He is President-Elect of the International Commission on GroundWater (IAHS), software editor and associate editor for the journal Ground Water, and a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Hydrology. He was treasurer of CUAHSI from 2005-2007. His text on "Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling" is on its second edition.
Mary Hill, PhD, is Project Chief for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a recipient of the USGS Meritorious Service Award, the ASCE Walter Huber Research Prize, and the NGWA M. King Hubbert Award. Dr. Hill was the NGWA Darcy lecurer in 2001 and Past-President of the International Commission for Ground Water. She is Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines. She authored MODFLOWP, the popular PCG2 solver for MODFLOW, and articles on solvers, nonlinear regression, confidence intervals, and calibration methodology. She co-authored the UCODE, MODFLOW-2000, and UCODE_2005 inverse modeling codes, the OPR-PPR code for evaluation the importance of data to predictions, the MMA code for evaluating structural model uncertainty, and the Hill and Tiedeman (2007) text book published by Wiley. She has experience modelling saltwater intrusion, groundwater supply, stream interaction, and regional groundwater flow and transport in southern Nevada, USA. She has taught semester and short workshops for 29 years.