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Appendix B
Biographical Information:
Committee on Challenges and
Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences
George M. Hornberger, Chair, NAE, is Distinguished University Profes-
sor at Vanderbilt University, where he is the Director of the Vanderbilt
Institute for Energy and the Environment. He has a shared appointment
as the Craig E. Philip Professor of Engineering and as professor of earth
and environmental sciences. He previously was a professor at the Univer-
sity of Virginia for many years, where he held the Ernest H. Ern Chair of
Environmental Sciences. His research is aimed at understanding complex
water-energy-climate interrelationships and at how hydrologic processes
affect the transport of dissolved and suspended constituents through catch-
ments and aquifers. Dr. Hornberger is a fellow of the American Geophysical
Union (AGU), of the Geological Society of America, and the Association
for Women in Science. He has served on numerous boards and commit-
tees of the National Academies, including as chair of the Commission on
Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (1996-2000) and the Board on
Earth Sciences and Resources (2003-2009). He currently is a member of
the Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB). Dr. Hornberger received
his B.S. and M.S. from Drexel University and his Ph.D. in hydrology from
Stanford University.
Emily S. Bernhardt is an associate professor at Duke University in the
Department of Biology and the Nicholas School of the Environment. Dr.
Bernhardt holds a B.S. in biology from the University of North Carolina
(UNC), Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from
Cornell University. A biogeochemist, her research program is fundamentally
concerned with understanding how nutrient cycles are changing as a result
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of human-accelerated environmental change, and also how (and whether)
effective ecosystem management or restoration can reverse these trends.
Most of her research is focused on stream and wetland ecosystems within
urban and agricultural landscapes. Dr. Bernhardt was the coordinator of
the National River Restoration Science Synthesis and served as a member
of the Ecological Society of America's Visions committee. She currently
serves on the External Advisory Board for the Southeastern Division of
Environmental Defense, the Science Advisory Board of the Center for the
Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, and as a consultant to the
Sierra Club, Earth Justice, and the Southern Environmental Law Center on
issues related to water quality degradation and river and wetland restora-
tion and mitigation.
William E. Dietrich, NAS, is a professor in the Department of Earth and
Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also has an
appointment in the Department of Geography and the Earth Sciences Divi-
sion of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and is affiliated with
the Archeological Research Facility. He is co-founder of the National Cen-
ter for Airborne Laser Mapping and a member of the National Center for
Earth-surface Dynamics. His Berkeley-based research group is focusing on
mechanistic, quantitative understanding of the form and evolution of land-
scapes and the linkages between ecological and geomorphic processes. He
has numerous publications and honors, including being named a member of
the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, both in 2003. Dr. Dietrich received his B.A. from Occi-
dental College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Dara Entekhabi is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environ-
mental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Plan-
etary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research
interests are in the basic understanding of coupled surface, subsurface,
and atmospheric hydrologic systems that may form the bases for enhanced
hydrologic predictability. More specifically, his current research is in land-
atmosphere interactions, remote sensing, physical hydrology, operational
hydrology, hydrometeorology, groundwatersurface water interaction, and
hillslope hydrology. He was founding chair of the WSTB's Committee on
Hydrologic Science, and has served on the WSTB and the Committee to
Assess the National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Ser-
vice Initiative program. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Clark
University and his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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Graham E. Fogg is professor of hydrogeology in the Department of Land,
Air and Water Resources at the University of California, Davis. His research
interests include groundwater contaminant transport; groundwater basin
characterization and management; geologic and geostatistical characteriza-
tion of subsurface heterogeneity for improved pollutant transport modeling;
numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport; the
role of molecular diffusion in contaminant transport and remediation; long-
term sustainability of regional groundwater quality; and vulnerability of
aquifers to non-point-source groundwater contaminants. He was the 2002
Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer awarded by the Geological Society
of America Hydrogeology Division. Dr. Fogg co-developed the graduate
program in hydrologic sciences at the University of California, Davis, using
the 1991 National Research Council (NRC) report Opportunities in the
Field of Hydrologic Sciences as a reference. He currently serves as the chair
of the program. Dr. Fogg received his B.S. in hydrology from the University
of New Hampshire, his M.S. in hydrology from the University of Arizona,
and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou is the University of Minnesota's McKnight Distin-
guished Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and the Joseph
T. and Rose S. Ling Chair in Environmental Engineering. She is Director
of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center
"National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics" and has served as director
of St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. Her area
of research is hydrology and geomorphology, with special interest in scaling
theories, multiscale dynamics, and space-time modeling of precipitation and
landforms. She has served as associate editor of Water Resources Research,
the Journal of Geophysical Research, Advances in Water Resources, and
Hydrologic and Earth System Sciences, and as editor of the Journal of
Hydrometeorology. She has also served as chair-elect of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic
Science, Inc. and as member of national and international advisory boards,
including the WSTB, NSF, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and European Union
advisory panels, and in several NRC studies. Dr. Foufoula-Georgiou is a
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorologi-
cal Society and an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences.
She received a diploma in civil engineering from the National Technical
University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental
engineering from the University of Florida.
William J. Gutowski, Jr., is professor of meteorology in the Department
of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences at Iowa State University. His re-
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search is focused on the role of atmospheric dynamics in climate, with
emphasis on the dynamics of the hydrologic cycle and regional climate. Dr.
Gutowski's research program entails a variety of modeling and data analy-
sis approaches to capture the necessary spatial and temporal scales of these
dynamics and involves working through the Regional Climate Modeling
Laboratory at Iowa State University. His work also includes regional model-
ing of Arctic, African, and East Asian climates and involves collaboration
with scientists in these regions. He served on the NRC's Committee on Cli-
mate Change and U.S. Transportation. Dr. Gutowski is a Lead Author for
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change FifthAssessment Report
and was a Contributing Author on the Third and Fourth Assessment Re-
ports. He was also a member of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
panels (2005-2008). Dr. Gutowski received a Ph.D. in meteorology from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in astronomy and
physics from Yale University.
W. Berry Lyons is a professor and the Director of the School of Earth Sci-
ences at The Ohio State University. Previously he was a faculty member at
the University of New Hampshire, the University of Nevada, Reno, and the
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He served as The Ohio State University
Director of the Byrd Polar Research Center from 1999 to 2009. Dr. Lyons'
research interests include environmental geochemistry of trace metals, such
as mercury; the causes and rates of chemical weathering and landscape
change; the dynamics of carbon in the terrestrial environment; the role of
agriculture and urbanization on water resources; and the impact of climate
change on polar ecosystems. Dr. Lyons is a fellow of the Geological Society
of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
the AGU. He is a past member of the NRC's Polar Research Board, and past
chair of the NRC Committee on Designing an Arctic Observing Network.
Dr. Lyons received a B.A. from Brown University, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D.
from the University of Connecticut.
Kenneth W. Potter is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at
the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Potter's teaching and research
interests include hydrology and water resources, including hydrologic mod-
eling, estimation of hydrologic risk, estimation of hydrologic budgets,
watershed monitoring and assessment, and hydrologic restoration. He is a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and
the AGU, and a Woodrow Wilson fellow. Dr. Potter is a past member of
the WSTB and has served on many of its committees, including the stand-
ing Committee on Hydrologic Science. He received his B.S. in geology from
Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. in geography and environmental
engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
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Scott W. Tyler is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and
Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Tyler's areas of focus
span the wide range of arid region hydrology, with particular interest
in bridging the gap between hydrogeology and soil physics in the newly
emerging area of vadose zone hydrology. His work has long been focused
on studies of moisture flux and groundwater recharge in arid environments.
Recently, his group has been developing fiber-optic temperature sensing
(DTS) to a wide range of environmental and hydrologic questions, in col-
laboration with researchers from Oregon State University, the U.S. Geologi-
cal Survey, and the University of Delft. Dr. Tyler has focused on educating
U.S. students on the problems and issues faced by citizens of developing
countries with respect to safe drinking water. He leads volunteer graduate
and undergraduate trips to Chile, Haiti, and, soon, to West Africa to train
local villagers in well drilling and well repair. Dr. Tyler received his B.S.
in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut, his M.S. in
hydrology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and
his Ph.D. in hydrology/hydrogeology from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Henry J. Vaux, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Resource Economics at the
University of California in both Berkley and Riverside. He is also Associ-
ate Vice President Emeritus of the University of California system. He also
previously served as director of California's Center for Water Resources.
His principal research interests are the economics of water use, water qual-
ity, and water marketing. Prior to joining the University of California, he
worked at the Office of Management and Budget and served on the staff of
the National Water Commission. Dr. Vaux has served on the NRC commit-
tees on Assessment of Water Resources Research, Western Water Manage-
ment, Ground Water Recharge, and Sustainable Underground Storage of
Recoverable Water. He was chair of the WSTB from 1994 to 2001. He is a
National Associate of the National Academies. Dr. Vaux received an A.B.
from the University of California, Davis, in biological sciences, an M.A. in
natural resource administration, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from
the University of Michigan.
Claire Welty is the director of the Center for Urban Environmental Research
and Education and Professor of Environmental Engineering at University
of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Dr. Welty's work has primarily
focused on transport processes in aquifers; her current research interest
is in watershed-scale urban hydrology, particularly in urban groundwa-
ter. Prior to her appointment at UMBC in 2003, Dr. Welty was a faculty
member at Drexel University for 15 years, where she taught hydrology and
also served as Associate Director of the School of Environmental Science,
Engineering, and Policy. Dr. Welty is past chair of the WSTB and has previ-
ously served on several NRC study committees, including serving as chair
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of the Committee on Reducing Stormwater Discharge Contributions to
Water Pollution. Dr. Welty received a B.A. in environmental sciences from
the University of Virginia, an M.S. in environmental engineering from the
George Washington University, and a Ph.D. degree in civil and environmen-
tal engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Connie A. Woodhouse is an associate professor in the School of Geography
and Development at the University of Arizona, with joint appointments
in the Department of Geosciences and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.
Previously, she was a physical scientist at NOAA's National Climatic Data
Center, Paleoclimatology Branch. Her primary research focuses on climatic
and hydrologic conditions of the past 2000 years in western North America
and uses tree rings to develop reconstructions of past hydrology. Another
key research interest is the application of scientific information and data
to resource management. Dr. Woodhouse has served on several boards
and panels, including the U.S. National Committee of the International
Quaternary Association, an NSF review panel, and an NRC study of the
management of the Colorado River, and is an associate editor for the jour-
nal Dendrochronologia. Dr. Woodhouse received a B.A. in environmental
education from Prescott (Arizona) College, an M.S. in geography from
the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in geosciences from the University of
Arizona.
Chunmiao Zheng is currently the George Lindahl III Endowed Professor
of Hydrogeology in the Department of Geological Sciences at the Univer-
sity of Alabama. He is also Chair Professor and Director of the Center
for Water Research at Peking University in Beijing, China. The primary
areas of his research are contaminant transport, groundwater management,
and hydrologic modeling. He is developer of the widely used MT3DMS
contaminant transport model and co-author of the textbook Applied Con-
taminant Transport Modeling published by Wiley in 1995 and 2002 and
translated into Chinese in 2009. He was recipient of the John Hem Excel-
lence in Science and Engineering Award from the National Ground Water
Association in 1998 and a fellow of the Geological Society of America since
1999. He received the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer award from
the Geological Society of America in 2009 that took him to 70 universities
and research institutions worldwide. He has served as associate editor for
leading hydrology journals, including Water Resources Research, Ground
Water, the Journal of Hydrology, and Hydrogeology Journal. Currently, he
is a member of the Standing Committee on Hydrologic Science of the Na-
tional Research Council, and president of the International Commission on
Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrologic Sciences. He
received a Ph.D. in hydrogeology with a minor in civil and environmental
engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1988.
