Mary P. Anderson
Mary Pikul Anderson (born September 30, 1948, Buffalo, New York) is a hydrologist, geologist, and professor emerita of hydrogeology. She received a B.A. degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a M.S. and PhD at Stanford University. She taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research involves groundwater–lake interaction and application of computer models.
She is co-author of two textbooks including Applied Groundwater Modeling, now in a 2nd edition (2015). She has been cited as turning groundwater modeling into a "fundamental tool of practicing hydrologists."[1]
Her many awards include:
- Hubbert Award of the Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers and the National Ground Water Association (1992)
- O.E. Meinzer Award (1998)
She is a Fellow of AGU and GSA and was
- President of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union (1996-1998)
- Editor-in-Chief of the professional journal Groundwater (2002-2011)
- also current member National Academy of Engineering (2006)
References
- ^ Zheng, Chunmiao (March 1999). "O.E. Meinzer Award Presented to Mary P. Anderson" (PDF). Geological Society of America. GSA Today. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
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Categories:
- American hydrologists
- Hydrogeologists
- 1953 births
- Living people
- American women geologists
- State University of New York alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
- 20th-century American geologists
- 21st-century American geologists
- 21st-century American scientists
- 20th-century women scientists
- 21st-century women scientists