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Data Driven Policy Making:National to Local

April 6-7, 2017

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College of Continuing StudiesEnvironmental InstituteWater Policy and Law InstituteNational Water Center

COASTAL RESILIENCY

The University of Alabama

Water Policy SummitApril 6-7, 2017

National Water Center | The University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL

COASTAL RESILIENCY

Thursday, April 6, 2017 BRYANT CONFERENCE CENTER

10:00 am Pick-up Materials Registration Desk10:00 am Poster Presentations Sellers Lobby

11:00 am Buffet Luncheon Sellers Auditorium

11:15 – 11:30 am OPENING Sellers Auditorium Bennett Bearden, J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., Director, Water Policy and Law Institute, The University of Alabama John Higginbotham, Associate Vice President for Research, Research & Economic Development, The University of Alabama Jonathan Graffeo, State Director, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby

11:30 am – 12:30 pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER - COASTAL IMPORTANCE/IMPACT Sellers Auditorium Tracie Sempier, Regional Program Manager, Gulf of Mexico Alliance

12:30 – 1:00 pm LOAD BUSES TO NATIONAL WATER CENTER Crimson Ride

NATIONAL WATER CENTER1:00 – 1:15 pm WELCOME Auditorium Ed Clark, Deputy Director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Water Center

1:15 – 2:30 pm COASTAL WATER POLICY NATIONAL WATER CENTER Moderator: Bennett Bearden, J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., Director, Water Policy and Law Institute, The University of Alabama Bill Andreen, Edgar L. Clarkson Professor at Law, School of Law, The University of Alabama Thomas Casey, Esq., Partner, Balch & Bingham LLP Heather Elliott, Professor of Law, School of Law, The University of Alabama

The quality of life and vitality of the services coastal areas provide to humankind have led nearly half of the world’s population to move within 90 miles of coastlines. Nearly 40% of all U.S. citizens now live within 100 miles of our nation’s coastlines. Worldwide, human encroachment into coastal environments, and their reliance on the food, water, and services they provide, have triggered dramatic changes in the structure and productivity of many estuarine ecosystems. This dramatic demographic shift underlines the fact that water policy is closely coupled with human socioeconomic systems. It seems axiomatic that healthy economies require healthy environments to grow and coastal areas are no exception-an important point residents of the Gulf Coast learned in the days following the BP Deepwater Horizon accident of 2010. As such, resilient coastal communities will need to initiate new efforts in water policy to develop data-driven conservation plans that provide for the wise stewardship of our coastal resources for future generations.

Significant emerging water policy issues in coastal areas include sea level change, interstate water conflict, flows into coastal systems and bays, and stressors affecting water quality and biological integrity. Informing all stakeholders and community groups of the importance of maintaining strong linkages, in terms of integrated science and water policy, between the mainland and the coast is essential. For example, the Mobile delta, Mobile Bay estuary, and coastal Alabama are major state assets, as they include many environmentally important and biologically productive areas, as well as natural resources such as timber, fisheries, and oil and gas. Application of water policy to the coastal area’s natural resources and future management of this socio-ecologic complex will require in-depth knowledge of the region’s hydrology, geology, biology, geomorphology, topography, and ongoing natural processes.

Issues such as drought and interstate water conflicts have highlighted the emerging challenges associated with water policy and decision support systems in coastal areas. The recent case of Florida v. Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court involves ensuring that stream flows are adequate and variable enough to support the aquatic ecosystems in the Apalachicola River and Apalachicola Bay as well. Together, the River and the Bay form one of the most productive and biodiverse aquatic systems in the country. However the Court ultimately resolves this lawsuit, interstate water disputes in the Southeast are likely to continue, with potential impacts to coastal resources. Recognizing the importance of the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows upon both freshwater and estuarine ecosystems is critical to coastal decision support systems. Could the Florida v. Georgia lawsuit be an analog or prescient outlook for the Mobile delta and Mobile Bay if flows were reduced in the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa Basin?

In 2016, most of Alabama suffered a drought, the likes of which had not been seen since the turn of the last century. Even though the 2016 drought was most severe in the northern half of the state, coastal Alabama suffered both direct and indirect drought

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effects. Not only was the southern part of the state under moderate to severe drought for portions of 2016, but the exceptional drought upstream reduced freshwater flows into the Mobile delta and Mobile Bay, threatening the Bay’s oyster harvest and more generally harming coastal ecosystems.

Drought and continuing “water wars” provide an appreciation for the complexity and importance of sound coastal water policy. Two key factors in successful data-driven policy making are recognizing the need to view coastal estuaries and other coastal waters as connected parts of larger systems including the rivers and stream that flow into those coastal water bodies, and a legal regime that integrates emergency response with a larger management system for water resources.

2:45 – 4:00 pm COASTAL SCIENCE Auditorium Moderator: Sam Contorno, Physical Scientist National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

National Water Center John Valentine, Ph.D., Executive Director and Professor, Dauphin Island Sea Lab Trey Flowers, Director, Analysis and Prediction Division, National Water Center Patti Powell, Director of State Land, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Critical water policy decisions must be underpinned and guided by sound science. With continued population growth along the Nation’s coastline, the importance of sustainable policy decisions in those regions heightens, and water-science advances and monitoring focused on the coastal zone become more critical. In presentations made at the Water Policy Summit, some critical coastal water science research and monitoring thrusts were spotlighted. These included the importance of maintaining natural levels of freshwater inflow into Alabama’s coastal waters; the proposed effort by the NOAA National Water Center and its partners to implement a national scale coupling of terrestrial freshwater and coastal estuary modeling; and the incorporation science and research in decisions related to coastal restoration goals and project planning in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill of 2010. This synopsis provides a summary of these efforts.

During most years, the coastal waters of Alabama receive significant, seasonally mediated, pulses of freshwater from the Mobile Bay watershed that encompasses over two-thirds of the state of Alabama and portions of Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. This input is hypothesized to support a diverse assemblage of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine flora and fauna in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, Mobile Bay and associated waters in much greater numbers than would be possible were it not for large watershed inputs. Recently, discussions have begun on the need to withdraw freshwater from upstream rivers to support both urban and agricultural growth throughout Alabama. Much of what we know about the consequences of such widespread withdrawals comes from estuaries else-where where their watersheds are very different than either the Mobile Bay watershed or the 31 smaller watersheds found in coastal Alabama. Withdrawals of such freshwater withdrawals in Texas, Florida, Georgia and California have documented dramatic negative impacts on the biological diversity and health of downstream coastal ecosystems. Based on lesson learned from these states, it is of great importance that the State of Alabama funded sustained monitoring that can be used to develop minimum threshold levels that meet both the needs of the state’s growing economy while maintaining the ecological resiliency of our coastal ecosystems under future ocean conditions.

The NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Water Prediction, in conjunction with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the NWS National Centers for Environmental Prediction, recently implemented the National Water Model (NWM) into operations. The NWM represents NOAA’s first foray into high performance computing for water prediction and expands NOAA’s current water forecasts at approximately 4000 U.S. Geological Survey stream gage sites across the country to forecasts of flow at 2.7 million stream reaches nationwide. Despite these advances, approximately 100 million people who live in coastal areas are not provided a flood forecast because current models cannot skillfully and appropriately represent complex riverine, estuarine, and coastal hydraulic processes. The NWM serves as a critical component of NOAA’s Water Initiative (www.noaa.gov/water), providing comprehensive water intelligence that spans the freshwater estuary coastal boundaries. As part of this initiative, NOAA and its part-ners seek to couple terrestrial freshwater and coastal estuary models for total water predictions in the coastal zone. It is anticipated that this coupling will provide essential guidance to decision makers during coastal flood events similar to those seen in Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane and Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill of 2010 had an adverse impact on both the economic and ecological health of the Gulf Coast. Following the spill, the Gulf States along with several federal agencies worked together to assess injuries and establish claims against responsible parties in an effort to secure restoration funding. The Gulf States also engaged their Congressional delegations to help seek funding for recovery from both ecological injuries and economic damages. These substantial efforts led to settlements resulting in significant funding for coastal-based restoration and research. This fostered a renewed emphasis on the importance of science - actually “best available science” - in relation to restoration goals and project implementation. This recognition of the importance of “science” was incorporated into the structure of court consent decrees and statutory requirements. The resulting intersection of legal procedures and scientific considerations can now be seen influencing coastal restoration planning. For exam-ple, the State of Alabama is utilizing a watershed management planning strategy to guide coastal restoration project evaluation and selection. Accordingly, the critical need to immediately enhance the understanding of upstream activities and stressors impacting downstream coastal ecosystems are now being highlighted.

4:15 – 5:30 pm GROUND WATER Auditorium Moderator: Yong Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Alabama Chunmiao Zheng, Ph.D., Professor, George Lindahl III Endowed, Professor in Hydrogeology

and Water Resources, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Alabama Natasha Dimova, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Alabama Patrick O’Neil, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Geological Survey of Alabama


The three speakers in this session will discuss the details of the quantity and quality of groundwater resources in Alabama and beyond. Groundwater provides drinking water for two billion people around the world. According to the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA), groundwater supplies approximately 553 trillion gallons of freshwater stored in 14 major aquifers across the state. More than 88 percent of Alabama’s groundwater is contained in the Coastal Plain, the largest hydrogeologic province in the state. According to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), residents of the Coastal Plain, which include only 44 percent of the state’s population, account for approximately 63 percent of the total ground water usage. This session focuses on the challenges and management of groundwater resources (Dr. Zheng), the usage of isotopes to evaluate groundwater-surface water interaction (Dr. Dimova), and a statewide assessment of groundwater resources in Alabama (Dr. O’Neil).

First, Dr. Chunmiao Zheng will discuss the global challenges and policy implications involved in managing the quantity and quality of groundwater resources. Second, Dr. Natasha Dimova will introduce the usage of naturally occurring isotopes from the U/Th decay series and shallow geophysics (i.e. electrical resistivity tomography, ERT) to study coastal processes of groundwater-surface water interaction and sediment transport with implications for surface water quality. Finally, Dr. Patrick O’Neil will introduce the statewide groundwater assessment for Alabama, recently completed by the Geological Survey of Alabama and developed with the use of the state-wide groundwater well information database, potentiometric surface maps, geologic cross section maps, and net potential productive interval maps.

5:30 – 5:45 pm LOAD BUSES RETURN TO BRYANT CONFERENCE CENTER Crimson Ride

6:30 – 7:00 pm RECEPTION The Levee, Outdoor Patio7:00 pm DINNER The Levee, Pearl Room

Friday, April 7, 2017

NATIONAL WATER CENTER

7:00 – 8:00 am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Rotunda

8:00 – 9:15 am Climate Change: Science Auditorium Moderator: Glenn Tootle, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Engineering, The University of Alabama Puneet Srivastava, Ph.D., Director, Water Resources Center, Auburn University Sivaprasad Gogineni, Ph.D., Cudworth Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama Jim Bonner, Ph.D., P.E., Chief Research Officer, Beacon Institute for Rivers and

Estuaries, Clarkson University

The ability to utilize climate signals such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in forecasting hydrologic response can provide water managers, planners and stakeholders important predictive information about future wet and dry (drought) seasonal precipitation and streamflow. The National Weather Service (NWS) / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provide outstanding tools and resources in predicting future ENSO cycles and events. Research has long established a strong ENSO signal in coastal SE US water resources in which El Niño is generally associated with increased moisture while La Niña is generally associated with decreased moisture. Thus, given NOAA’s ability to skillfully forecast ENSO and the established ENSO signal in the SE US, skillful long lead-time (three to six months) forecasts of precipitation and streamflow are viable. However, we are challenged with a changing climate that could impact (either enhance or dampen) the effects of ENSO on SE US water resources. This could potentially expose the SE US to extreme events (wet periods and/or dry/drought periods) not observed in historic records. These extreme high and low flow events may result in detrimental impacts on water quality and discharges to our sensitive coastal estuaries and ecosystems, impacting biota and fisheries. Also, tropical cyclones may increase in both occurrence and intensity.

Dr. Jim Bonner of Clarkson University will discuss how the Rivers and Estuaries Observatory Network were used to characterize river and estuary processes in response to a representative extreme event and seasonal climate variability. Dr. Puneet Srivastava of Auburn University will discuss how seasonal-to-inter-annual climate forecasts can be used to mitigate the effects of drought in the Southeast and how recent climate change is highlighting the importance of upgrading best management practices for erosion and sediment control. Dr. Sivaprasad Gogineni of the University of Alabama will discuss the use of remote sensed data and products are utilized in water resources.

9:30 – 10:45 am Climate Change: Hydrologic Extremes Auditorium Moderator: Sagy Cohen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Alabama Kevin Trenberth, Climate Analysis, National Center for Atmospheric Research Rajagopalan Balaji, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil, Environmental,

and Architectural Engineering and Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder

Scott Douglass, Ph.D., P.E., DCE, President, South Coast Engineers LLC


Among the many adverse effects of current and future-predicted climate change on the environment and society, alterations to the hydrologic cycle are among the most alarming. The impacts of a changing atmospheric dynamics on hydrological fluxes are already adamant in many parts of the world. Predicting the impact of climate change on hydrology is challenging, particularly for extreme hydrologic events. Feedbacks between extreme climatic and weather trends involved processes at a range of spatial and temporal scales and are often dominated by socioeconomic drives related to changes in water availability (e.g. water use, land use/land cover changes). At a global perspective, variations in the magnitude and frequency of extreme hydrological conditions, particularly drought, is predicted to considerably alter agricultural practices, food security, and water availability, most severely impacting poor countries and communities that lack the resources to adapt to these changing conditions. It was estimated that this would lead to conflicts and mass migration of vulnerable populations. It was further estimated that such regional instabilities would pose considerable security and economic risks to first-world countries. Some suggest that we are already experiencing some of these phenomena today (primarily in Africa).

In recent years, we have seen unprecedented frequency of hydrologic extremes in many regions of the United States. These include extreme drought conditions in the west and southeast and a large number of high magnitude flood events across the country. Coastal communities and ecosystems across the United States are particularly susceptible to climate-driven changes in the frequency and magnitude of hydrologic extremes. While the scientific debate over the effects of warming oceans on extreme weather events is ongoing, it is quite clear that the frequency and magnitude of coastal storms will be considerably altered in many regions. Rapid rise in sea-level, already experienced worldwide and is especially high is some coastal areas of the United States, will amplify the risks associated with extreme weather events. The southeastern United States is particularly susceptible to these risks due to the impact of tropical cyclones. Tropical storms and hurricanes can be devastating to coastal communities due to the (often combine) impact of storm surges and inland flooding (caused by high amount of precipitation and high water levels at the coast). On the other hand, tropical storms are an important contributor to coastal water supply in some regions of the United States. Tropical storms and hurricanes can even alleviate drought conditions.

This panel will explore different aspects of climate change and its impact on hydrologic extremes in coastal communities in the United States. Kevin Trenberth (UCAR) will provide an overview of the state of climate change science; Rajagopalan Balaji (Uni. Of Colorado) will discuss teleconnections between large-scale climate and hydroclimate extremes; and Scott Douglass (South Coast Engineers LLC) will examine the effects of storm surge and sea-level rise on coastal communities.

11:00 am – 12:15 pm Climate Change: Adaptation & Resiliency Auditorium Moderator: Casi Callaway, Executive Director and Baykeeper, Mobile Baykeeper Tiffany Troxler, Ph.D., Director, Sea Level Solutions Center, Florida International University Roberta Swann, Director, Mobile Bay National Estuary Program Robert Kafalenos, Office of Natural Environment, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

Climate Change is most likely to affect coastal areas first due to sea-level rise, subsidence and changes in weather patterns. Coastal Areas are also where we all want to live, work and especially play. The Gulf of Mexico sustains an incredible commercial and recreational fishery, is a major source of America’s oil and natural gas, home to some of the largest ports and supports a multi-billion-dollar tourism industry. Yet, according to Roberta Swann, Director of the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (NEP), sea level is rising more rapidly in Alabama than most coastal areas because the land is sinking. If the oceans and atmosphere continue to warm, sea level along the Alabama coast is likely to rise eighteen inches to four feet in the next century. Rising sea level submerges wetlands and dry land, erodes beaches, and exacerbates coastal flooding.

Alabama has an opportunity to ensure protection against and build resilience to a changing climate and rising sea levels.

Solutions are being developed and promoted nationally as well as at the very local level. The Sea Level Solutions Center applies information to build knowledge, design and evaluate mitigation and adaptation strategies, and create resilient, prosperous coastal urban communities. Integrating a long history of Everglades and wetlands research, and working across disciplines, they are developing collaborative relationships with cities and counties and with national networks to address coastal shocks and stressors, emphasizing new knowledge and strategies for sea-level rise adaptation. Tiffany Troxler, Director of Florida International University’s Sea Level Solutions Center will present on creating partnerships and strategies for building coastal urban resilience in southeast Florida; Florida Everglades: now and the future; and an interdisciplinary research for understanding and adapting to sea-level rise.

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is taking roadways and other critical infrastructure into account as they plan building and maintenance for projects that need to last one hundred years or more. This work includes: 1) integration of resilience concerns into FHWA programs and activities; 2) support for transportation partners at the State and local level to assess vulnerabilities and implement projects to improve resilience; 3) development of methods and tools to better identify vulnerabilities, adaptation options, etc. The FHWA has undertaken a significant Gulf Coast Study that Robert Kafalenos, Environmental Protection Specialist with FHWA will present to showcase challenges and opportunities for communities moving forward.

The Mobile Bay NEP has been addressing climate change impacts by using watersheds as a unit for natural resource management in order to provide an effective adaptation approach. A watershed approach allows for the analysis of entire natural systems in the context of social conditions, and makes it easier for communities to understand the impact of their personal activities. Since 2010, Mobile Bay NEP has lead a program of comprehensive watershed planning as a methodology for engaging local communities in learning how the ecosystem around them functions, what factors are causing the most environmental stress, and working with communities to identify management measures to improve resource management for greater community resilience. Roberta Swann’s presentation will provide an overview of watershed planning activities along the coast, with successes, lessons learned, and challenges ahead.


SAMUEL ADDY, PH.D.DIRECTOR, Center for Business & Economic ResearchThe University of AlabamaBox 870221Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

BILL ANDREEN, J.D.EDGAR L. CLARKSON PROFESSOR OF LAWThe University of Alabama School of LawBox 870382Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

C. FRED T. ANDRUSASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND CHAIRDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama2003 Bevill BuildingTuscaloosa, AL 35487

BENNETT BEARDEN, J.D., LL.L., J.S.D. (CO-CHAIR)DIRECTOR, UA Water Policy and Law InstituteThe University of AlabamaP.O. Box 20276Tuscaloosa, AL 35402

CASI (KC) CALLAWAYEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & BAYKEEPERMobile Baykeeper450-C Government StreetMobile, Alabama 36602

THOMAS L. CASEY IIIATTORNEY AT LAWBalch & Bingham LLP1901 Sixth Avenue North Suite 1500Birmingham, AL 35203

JULIA CHERRY, PH. D.ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Biological SciencesThe University of AlabamaBox 870229Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

EDWARD CLARKDEPUTY DIRECTORNational Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration National Water Center205 Hackberry LaneTuscaloosa, AL 35401

SAGY COHEN, PHD.ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Geography University of Alabama202 Farrah Hall, Box 870322Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

SAM CONTORNOPHYSICAL SCIENTISTNational Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration National Water Center205 Hackberry LaneTuscaloosa, AL 35401

MATT DURDINDIRECTOR, State Legislative Programs - SenateAlfa FarmersPO Box 11000Montgomery, AL 36191

HEATHER ELLIOTT, J.D.PROFESSOR OF LAWThe University of Alabama School of LawBox 870382Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

ANDREW ERNEST, PH.D. (CO-CHAIR)ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CHAIRUniversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley1201 W. University Dr.Edinburg, TX 78539

COMMANDER NATHAN HANCOCKEXECUTIVE OFFICEROffice of Water PredicationNational Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration National Water Center205 Hackberry LaneTuscaloosa, AL 35401

JOE HOWLEMANAGER, Environmental ServicesSouthern and Gulf Coast Division1200 Urban Center DriveBirmingham, AL 35242

ALEXANDER D. HURYN, PH.DDIRECTOR, Center for Freshwater StudiesDepartment of Biological SciencesUniversity of AlabamaTuscaloosa, AL 35487

RICHARD INGRAMASSOCIATE DIRECTORMississippi Water Resources Research Institute,DirectorCenter of Excellence for Watershed Management,Box 9547 Mississippi State, MS 39762

LAURA MYERS, PH.D.CAPS, Engineering, UA2030 Shelby HallTuscaloosa, AL 35487

KENNETH R. ODOM, PH.D.HYDRO ENGINEERSouthern Company1200 6th Avenue N.Birmingham, AL 35203

PAT O’NEIL, P.E., PH.D.DEPUTY DIRECTORGeological Survey of AlabamaP.O. Box 869999Tuscaloosa, AL 35486

MITCH REIDPROGRAM DIRECTORAlabama Rivers Alliance2014 6th Ave. NBirmingham, AL 35203

LYNN SISK, P.E.SENIOR CLIENT MANAGERTTL, Inc.2743 Gunter Park Dr. W., #EMontgomery, AL

ELLEN SPEARS, PH.D.ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, New College, UA208 Lloyd HallTuscaloosa, AL 35487

PUNEET SRIVASTAVA, PH.D.DIRECTORWater Resources CenterAuburn University206 Tom E. Corley BuildingAuburn, AL 36832

SARAH STOKES, J.D.STAFF ATTORNEYSouthern Environmental Law Center2829 2nd Ave S, Suite 282Birmingham, AL 35233

BERRY H. “NICK” TEW, JR., PH.D.State Geologist and DirectorGeological Survey of AlabamaSupervisor, State Oil & Gas BoardP.O. Box 869999Tuscaloosa, AL 35486

DR. YONG ZHANGASSOCIATE PROFESSORDepartment of Geological SciencesThe University of AlabamaBox 870338Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

WATER POLICY SUMMIT PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

12:15 – 12:30 pm CLOSING Auditorium Andrew Ernest, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, D.WRE, Professor, Department Chair, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

12:30 pm PICK UP BOX LUNCH Rotunda


Bill Andreen, J.D., is the Edgar L. Clarkson Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law and a Honorary Professor of Law at the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster and Columbia University School of Law. Before joining the Alabama law faculty, Professor

Andreen served as the Assistant Regional Counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, in Atlanta. He has visited at a number of law schools including Washington & Lee, Lewis & Clark, Mekelle University (Ethiopia), Addis Ababa University, and the ANU. Professor Andreen teaches Environmental Law, Administrative Law, and International Environmental Law and has written on a wide range of environmental and regulatory topics for over thirty years. He is a Scholar Member of the Center for Progressive Reform, a member of the Commission on Environmental Law of the World Conservation Union, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Black Warrior River Keeper.

Rajagopalan Balaji , Ph.D. re-ceived his B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kuruk-shetra, India in 1989, an M.Tech. degree in Optimization and Re-liability engineering from Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, In-dia, in 1991 and, a Ph.D. from Utah State University, Logan, UT, in 1995, with a specializa-

tion in stochastic hydrology and hydroclimatology. Following this he worked as a Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Uni-versity, NY, before joining the faculty of Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineer-ing (CEAE) at University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, as Assistant Professor in fall 2011. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and to full Professor In 2010. He is the Chair of CEAE since Fall 2014.

Bennett Bearden, J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. is the founding Director of the Water Policy and Law Institute in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at The University of Alabama and is one of the foremost authorities in the State on water policy. He served as Chair of the Governor’s water

policy task force, the Alabama Water Agencies Working Group (AWAWG) from 2012-2014 and currently serves as Special Counsel to the Governor on Water Law and Policy (2013-present) and as policy advisor to the AWAWG Chair. In his current roles, he provides forward-thinking institutions, organizations, and governments with constructive resolution of emerging environmental challenges at the intersection of water law and policy emphasizing strategic counseling, crisis management, creative dispute resolution, mediation, water diplomacy, public policy development, and enhanced relations with stakeholders and community groups. He is the co-author and co-editor of a leading national casebook on water law and policy, Cases and Materials on Water Law, 9th edition, published by West Legal Publishing, and is Associate Editor of Water Policy, the official publication of the World Water Council and leading journal in the field of water policy. Dr. Bearden holds a J.S.D. (legal education’s counterpart to the Ph.D.) in water law and policy from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, in Sacramento, California, where he was recipient of the 2008 Slater Water Law Award.


Jim Bonner a nationally recognized expert in real-time water monitoring technologies, leads the development and implementation of the River and Estuary Observatory Network (REON) as Beacon Institute Chief Research Officer. Bonner is also a member of the Institutes Science and Technology Advisory Board.

REON allows for continuous monitoring of physical, chemical and biological data from points in New York’s Hudson, Mohawk and St. Lawrence Rivers via an integrated network of sensors, robotics, mobile monitoring and computational technology deployed in the rivers. Bonner holds an M.S. in civil engineering and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Clarkson University, as well as a B.A. in biology from SUNY Plattsburgh. In the early 1990s, he spearheaded an effort with colleagues from Texas A&M University to pursue a long-term research project to improve understanding of modern oil spill remediation and countermeasure technologies. He is the recipient of a 2012 Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act (OSPRA) award of the Texas General Land Office for providing innovative technological solutions in oil spill preparedness and prevention. Bonner serves as the Regional Director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station and the Coastal Oil Spill Simulation System (COSS) in Corpus Christi, TX where he established the Shoreline Environmental Research Facility and developed and implemented technologies that use high-frequency radar to map surface water along the Texas coastline. He has developed new technologies that provide real-time continuous monitoring with in-situ sensing (“sensing in place”) to measure important water parameters. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he has undertaken a national effort to create a cyber-collaboratory framework, enabling collection and circulation of real-time data and data analysis in the study of oxygen depletion in water.

Casi Callaway, is from Mobile, Alabama, graduated high school from the last all girls’ class of Julius T. Wright and received a degree in Philosophy and Ecology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She began working in the environmental field as the Southeastern Regional College Campus Coordinator for Earth

Day 1990. Casi then began working for Clean Water Action in Washington, D.C. She worked on local, state, and federal campaigns in many areas, including public education, research of political issues, lobbying at every level of government, and fundraising. Before leaving D.C., Casi attained the positions of the D.C. Field Canvas Director and the D.C. Office’s Florida Program Director. As Executive Director & Baykeeper of Mobile Baykeeper (formerly Mobile Bay Watch, Inc.), Casi is responsible for coordinating public education; community organizing; research and fundraising. She holds four gubernatorial appointments and serves on the boards of several local, state and regional environmental organizations.

Thomas Casey is a partner at Balch & Bingham LLP in Birmingham, Alabama. His practice focuses on environmental regulation and litigation, including water quality and water quantity matters. He routinely represents utilities and other members of the regulated community in administrative matters, enforcement actions, and citizen suits.

Edward Clark is Director of the Geo-intelligence Division of the National Water Center. For the past five years Ed has served in National Weather Service Headquarters as the National Flash Flood Service Leader in the Office of Analyze Forecast Support. Ed co-chairs the Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information, Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data, which is

charged with leading the Open Water Data Initiative by the Federal Geographic Data Committee. Prior to his tenure at NWS headquarters, Ed had over seven years of experience as an operational hydrologic forecaster, working as a Senior Hydrologist at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center in Salt Lake City.


Sagy Cohen, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Alabama (UA). He received his PhD in 2010 from the University of Newcastle, Australia working on soil-landscape evolution modeling. During his post-doc appointment at the University of Colorado he began working on global-scale riverine modeling. His current research

efforts focus on modeling and analysis of water, sediment and nutrient fluxes in global river, and remote sensing applications in hydrology (in collaboration with the Dartmouth Flood Observatory and the National Water Center).

Samuel Contorno has been a member of the National Weather Service’s (NWS’s) Office of Water Prediction (OWP)/National Water Center (NWC) since Jan. 2011, where he served as a focal point on NWC facility design and requirements issues and is currently the University and Collaborative Research Liaison. Prior to moving to OWP/

NWC, Sam was with the NWS/Office of Science and Technology since it was established in 2001. He was the manager of the Collaborative, Science, Technology, and Applied Research Program, served as NWS Grants and Collaborative Research focal point, and assisted with science and technology infusion planning in the NWS and NOAA budget process. Sam held a similar position from 1995-2001 with the NWS/Office of Meteorology where his duties also included assisting in the development of NWS-wide training budgets and activities. Prior to joining the NWS, Sam worked on the NOAA/Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Program Development and Coordination staff (1992-1995). He served as a liaison for several of the Environmental Research Laboratories and participated in activities such as the initial stages of the NOAA/DoD/NASA Polar Satellite Convergence negotiations and strategic planning initiatives. Sam completed his Bachelor degree in meteorology at the University of Michigan in 1988 and received a Master of Science degree in the same subject from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1992. Sam’s advisor at OU was Dr. Fred Carr, and he concentrated his efforts on developing algorithms to determine precipitation type in winter storms. Sam was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama.

Natasha Dimova, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of Alabama graduated from the University of Sofia with master’s degree in Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry with specialty in Radiochemistry. Completed Ph.D. in Chemical and Physical Oceanography from Florida State University, followed by two-year post-doc at the University of

California Santa Cruz and USGS Santa Cruz. I have been assistant professor in coastal hydrogeology at the Department of Geological sciences at the University of Alabama since 2012. I am marine geochemist with a research focus on coastal hydrogeology and hydrology. I use naturally occurring isotopes from the U/Th decay series and shallow geophysics (i.e. electrical resistivity tomography, ERT) to study coastal processes of groundwater-surface water interactions and sediment transport with implications for surface water quality.

Scott Douglass is the president of South Coast Engineers, a coastal engineering and science consulting firm in Fairhope, Alabama. He taught water resources and coastal engineering at the University of South Alabama for 26 years and is now an Emeritus Professor. His practice and research focuses on coastal engineering and policy - including

principles of resilient design of infrastructure exposed to coastal storms. Douglass is the lead author of the Federal Highway Administration’s primary guidance for the planning and design of coastal highways and bridges including extreme events and climate change. He works with coastal state transportation departments throughout the nation. Douglass is a big fan of healthy, wide beaches and wrote the book “Saving America’s Beaches: The Causes of and Solutions to Beach Erosion.” His research led to the first beach nourishment project in Alabama’s history - the “big beach” in Gulf Shores - which is now the linchpin of the tourism industry in Baldwin County. He recently designed Dauphin Island’s first engineered beach nourishment project - which was built in 2016 on the east end of the island. Douglass is also a big fan of bay shorelines that emulate natural shorelines better than bulkheads and is a nationally-recognized proponent of the inclusion of coastal engineering principles in the design of “living shorelines.” He designed the beach at the Marriott Grand Hotel Resort at Point Clear and a large, award-winning coastal marsh restoration near Bayou LaBatre.


Heather Elliott joined the faculty of the UA School of Law in 2008 from the faculty of the Catholic University of America. She is a former clerk to Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Professor Elliott earned her J.D. from the University of

California, Berkeley School of Law, her M. Phil. from Yale University, and her B.A. from Duke University. She studies environmental law, federal jurisdiction, and water policy and law.

Andrew Ernest, Ph.D. has accumulated over 20 years of professional experience in Environmental and Water Resource Engineering, and has been awarded over $20 million in grants and contracts throughout his career. Ernest has more than 100 publications in his name, including more than 40 masters’ theses he has supervised. His research

focuses at the nexus of environmental informatics and water resource capacity development. Ernest bases his research efforts around his interest in investigating the role of innovation, entrepreneurship and engineering service in stimulating effort-based economies as a mechanism for promoting capacity development and sustainability.

Trey Flowers is an environmental engineer who specializes in the mechanistic modeling of contaminant fate and transport processes in natural and engineered systems. He has an extensive background in surface and groundwater hydrology, open channel and pressurized flow hydraulics, environmental fluid dynamics,

and in the environmental chemistry of both aqueous and soil systems. Prior to joining the public sector, He conducted forensic investigations of environmental phenomena, including hurricanes, floods, embankment failures, debris flows, and instances of environmental contamination. He also served as a technical lead for the restoration of the wetlands at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq and became his company’s authority on sustainable water use in

arid environments, specifically with respect to how increased salinity and nutrients affect water quality and water availability for human, industrial, ecological, and agricultural uses. Prior to joining NOAA, Dr. Flowers served as the US Agency for International Development’s lead for water quality and as the technical expert for water security in the Middle East and North Africa. He also worked with the Superfund program of the US EPA in Washington, D.C., where he served as the remedy decisions coordinator for Regions VIII and IX, and with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where he served as the Chief of the Tribal Water Resources Branch.

Sivaprasad Gogineni, Ph.D. is an international-recognized expert in the field of remote sensing. He is on faculty of The University of Alabama College of Engineer in a joint appointment in the departments of electrical and computer engineering along with aerospace engineering and mechanics. Gogineni comes from the University of Kansas,

where he has been on the faculty for more than 30 years. In Kansas, he formed and has led the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, or CReSIS, and is the Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science. His research at UA will also involve using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, that carry remote sensing technologies to collect data on surface water and snow depth in the continental United States. Gogineni is recognized as an IEEE Fellow, and he is a member of URSI, the American Geophysical Union, the International Glaciological Society and the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the editor of the newsletter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. As a Fulbright Senior Scholar, he conducted research at the University of Tasmania in 2002. He has authored or co-authored 125 archival journal publications and more than 200 technical reports and conference presentations. From 1997 to 1999, Gogineni was on leave from Kansas to serve as manager of the NASA Polar Program, based in Washington D.C., and he has participated in more than a dozen radar experiments in the Artic. He received his doctorate degree from Kansas in 1984 and began working there as visiting professor and research engineer before joining the faculty full time in 1986. He received his bachelor’s degree from Mysore University, India, in 1973, and his master’s degree from Kerala University, India, in 1976.


Robert Kafalenos has been an Environmental Protection Specialist in the Office Natural Environment at the Federal Highway Administration since 2001. He works primarily on policy development and research focused on adaptation and resilience to climate change and extreme weather events, including links to asset management planning and

project-level engineering. He is currently working on the Transportation and Engineering Approaches to Climate Resiliency project to develop adaptation options for 10 highway assets across the country and a compendium of best practices in addressing resilience concerns in project development. He also assisted in developing the recent Hydraulic Engineering Circular-17, which provides technical guidance to engineers seeking to address future precipitation and runoff concerns. Rob also co-managed Phase 2 of the Gulf Coast Study, which assessed transportation’s vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather events in Mobile, Alabama and developed transferable climate change risk management tools and methods. He holds a Master’s in Environmental Management from Duke University.

Patrick O’Neil, Ph.D. is currently the Deputy Director he represents the State Geologist and GSA as requested in meetings, on committees, and other capacities as directed; oversee GSA publications development including technical reports, publications, maps, and other materials; continue conducting hydrological and biological

research to evaluate the state’s natural resources; and assist GSA managers with program development, funding, training, and employee evaluation and performance. From January 2003 to November 2009 he served as Director of the Water Investigations Program supervising professional staff. The four program areas were Biological Resources, Hydrogeology, Geochemical Laboratory, and Water Information conducting a wide variety of water resources-related research in Alabama. The Water Investigations Program was split in November 2009 to the Ecosystems Investigation Program and the Groundwater Assessment Program. The Ecosystems Investigation Program has a staff of biologists, engineers, scientific aides, and student aides working in three program areas (aquatic biological surveys, water quality monitoring and assessment, and interdisciplinary watershed research). His responsibilities during both of

these Directorships was to oversee personnel, program and budget development, and coordination of programs with other State and Federal agencies to ensure that agency goals are accomplished. He reviewed the performance of principal investigators and group directors to ensure compliance with goals and mission of the program; reviewed contract reports and other technical and administrative documents to ensure completeness and technical accuracy; worked with the State Geologist in formulating, implementing, and administering departmental programs, research, and policies; and served as principal investigator for agency projects to include the collection of field samples, data analysis, preparation of reports and publications, and communication of project results.

Patti Powell is Director of the State Lands Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR). The State Lands Division administers Alabama’s Forever Wild Land Trust program with over 250,000 acres statewide and manages other jurisdictional trust lands, including submerged lands. As

State Lands Director, Patti’s coastal duties include implementing Alabama’s Coastal Zone Management program and managing both the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center. Patti also oversees activities supporting ADCNR Commissioner N. Gunter Guy, Jr., who Governor Bentley selected as his Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council designee and appointed to serve as the Lead Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustee for the State. In addition, Patti coordinates restoration efforts on behalf of ADCNR with the Governor’s office in relation to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Gulf Environmental Benefit (GEBF) and ADCNR’s responsibilities as Administrator for the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council (Alabama’s RESTORE Act Council). Prior to becoming the State Lands Director in January of 2009, Ms. Powell served as Vice President-Legal for Column Financial, a Credit Suisse Company and was a partner in the Birmingham office of Burr & Forman LLP law firm. Ms. Powell is a graduate of the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and School of Law.


awarded more than $1.75 million in funded research throughout his career, including an award from the National Science Foundation’s Paleo Perspectives for Climate Change program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s sponsored Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. He regularly publishes articles pertaining to his research (Web of Science H Index of 12) and has chaired three Ph.D. and 20 thesis/project master’s students. He served as an associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering from 2008-2014, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida and Nevada. He teaches courses in water resources including an abroad course in Innsbruck, Austria. He retired as a captain from the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps (Navy Seabees) after 25 years, which included two post 9/11 mobilizations and service as commanding officer for Naval Mobile Construction Battalion TWO-FIVE.

Kevin E. Trenberth, Ph.D. is a distinguished senior scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. From New Zealand, he obtained his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been prominent in most of the Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change (IPCC) scientific assessments of Climate Change and has also extensively served the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) in numerous ways, most recently as chair of the WCRP Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) project. He has also served on many U.S. national committees. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published over 544 articles or books and is one of the most cited scientists in his field. He has given many invited scientific talks as well as appearing in a number of television, radio programs and newspaper articles.

Tiffany Troxler, Ph.D. is a research scientist with appointments in the Southeast Environmental Research Center and Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University. Her research focus is wetland ecosystems ecology. Her research employs approaches that include landscape- to local-scale hydrological monitoring of

surface and groundwater water quality and ecosystem responses to environmental change. Her research informs

Puneet Srivastava, Ph.D. is the Director of the Water Resources Center at Auburn University. He is also the Butler-Cunningham Eminent Scholar in Agriculture and the Environment in the College of Agriculture and a Professor in the Biosystems Engineering Department. Dr. Srivastava received his Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania

State University with a major in agricultural and biological engineering and a minor in computer science and engineering. At Auburn, he has been recognized for his research with four awards, a Junior Faculty Research Award and three Grantsmanship Awards. In addition, he has received Distinguished Engineer Award from the Alabama Section of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). He has served (and continue to serve) in numerous leadership roles in the ASABE. Examples include Chair of the Biological Engineering Executive Council and Steering Committee, Chair of the Ecological Engineering Committee, and Associate Editor of the Transaction of the ASABE and Applied Engineering in Agriculture. He is one of the leaders of the Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC), serves on its Executive Council, and leads its Water Research Group. His research interests include quantifying effect of climate variability and change on hydrology and water quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant transport and transformation processes; fate and transport of nutrients and antimicrobials; application of geographic information, global positioning, and neural network systems for water resources management; and animal waste management. He is a principal or a co-principal investigator of more than $16 million in research funding in the last 10 years. He maintains an active research program that is currently supported by 3 post-doc, 3 M.S. students, and several undergraduate students. Srivastava regularly serves on competitive grant panels.

Glenn Tootle, Ph.D. focuses his research efforts on climate and climate change impacts on water resources, including studies of long lead-time forecasting of streamflow, drought frequency, weather modification impacts on streamflow, paleo (using tree rings) reconstructions of hydrologic variables and glacier impacts on

streamflow. As lead principal investigator, he has been


management and restoration of coastal and freshwater wetland ecosystems. She currently leads a collaborative effort that will examine the effects of salinity inundation associated with sea-level rise on soil carbon balance in Everglades coastal wetlands. She is also contributing to a collaborative project led by the USGS to scale coastal carbon stocks and fluxes using remote sensing products. She earned a BA in Anthropology from Tulane University and a BS in Environmental Science from Florida International University. She earned her PhD from Florida International University in 2005.

Tracie Sempier is the Coastal Storms Outreach Coordinator for the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. In this capacity she works with local communities, state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, port authorities, emergency and floodplain managers, residents, and other

audiences to try and decrease the negative impacts of coastal storms on families, communities, the environment, natural resources, and property. Tracie is also the Regional Program Manager for the Gulf of Mexico Alliance. In this capacity she works to connect partners and projects on a regional level through the implementation of the Governor’s Action Plan and GOMA’s six priority issue teams. Tracie has over nineteen years of professional experience in education and outreach with various audiences in formal and informal learning environments. She completed her Ph.D. at Mississippi State University in Curriculum and Instruction, has a M.S. in Science and Mathematics Education from Oregon State University, and holds a B.S. in Marine Science and Biology from the University of Alabama. She is a recipient of the prestigious Gulf Guardian Award and the Spirit of Community Award for her work on resilience issues in the Gulf of Mexico.

Roberta Swann, Director, Mobile Bay National Estuary Program - Roberta was appointed Director of the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (MBNEP) in August 2009, after serving as deputy to former Director Captain David Yeager. Prior to joining the MBNEP she was a consultant for Strategic Resource Solutions on Dauphin Island, AL, for two years,

where her accomplishments included creation of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation and oversight of a successful acquisition campaign for Dauphin Island

Bird Sanctuaries. Before moving to Alabama, Ms. Swann served as Assistant Director of the Community Redevelopment Department for the City of Lafayette (IN), where she oversaw community development efforts including revitalization strategy development, neighborhood park improvements, special events coordination, liaison service between social and development agencies and the City, and production of planning, grant, budget, and report documents for CDBG, HOME, and other Federal programs totaling over $2 million annually. She was awarded HUD Best Practice Distinction for Lincoln Center Homeless Services Project.

John Valentine, Ph.D, serves as the Executive Director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL). Prior to being named Executive Director, he served as Chair of the Sea Lab’s University Programs. Since arriving at DISL, he has written or co-authored over 95 grant proposals for research. Support for his research has come from both federal and

state agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (MBNEP) and The Nature Conservancy. In 2015, a research team led by Dr. Valentine was awarded $6.5M to conduct studies on the role of biodiversity in determining the resiliency of the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon accident. More than 75 students, technicians and post-doctoral students were supported by these efforts. He has been lead or second author on over 70 scientific articles in addition to serving as an academic editor for the scientific journals Marine Ecology Progress Series and PLoSOne. He has also served as a panelist for U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey, and NOAA’s National Undersea Research Program.


Award from the Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Ph.D. degree in hydrogeology with a minor in environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Yong Zhang, Ph.D. received his PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources from Nanjing University, China, in 1998, and then he worked as a post-doc in UC Davis, UNR, and CSM for eight years, focusing on field, laboratory, and theoretical studies of hydrogeological and hydrologic processes. He joined the Desert Research Institute at Las Vegas

in 2007 as an assistant research professor, and was promoted to associate research professor in 2013. In 2014, Zhang joined the Department of Geological Sciences, the University of Alabama as an associate professor in hydrogeology. He is an associate editor of Ground Water, and he is interested in computational hydrogeology, stochastic hydrology, soil physics, and watershed hydrology.

Chunmiago Zheng, Ph.D. currently holds the position of Chair Professor and Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. He has also been Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Water Sciences at Peking University,

and the George Lindahl III Endowed Professor at the University of Alabama. The primary areas of his academic research are contaminant transport in the subsurface, groundwater management, and ecohydrological processes in large watersheds. He is developer of the USEPA- and USDoD-sponsored MT3D and MT3DMS series of contaminant transport models used in over 100 countries, and author or co-author of over 200 papers and a popular textbook Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling (Wiley). He has been associate editors for leading hydrology journals including Water Resources Research, Groundwater, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrogeology Journal and Vadose Zone Journal. He has served as a member of the Standing Committee on Hydrologic Science of the National Research Council, and as president of the International Commission on Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrologic Science. Among the numerous honors and awards he has received, he is recipient of the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lectureship and O.E. Meinzer Award from the Geological Society of America, the John Hem Award and M. King Hubbert Award from the National Groundwater Association, and the Distinguished Alumni

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