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Members of the Southwest Hydrology Advisory Board represent a cross section of our readership and five southwestern states. All members are volunteers who serve one- or two-year terms, providing guidance and support for the publisher.
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David
Bolin
Orange County Water District
David
Bolin has 25 years of experience in hydrogeology, environmental
sciences, and petroleum exploration. Areas of expertise
include water supply, regulatory negotiation and compliance,
litigation support, soil and groundwater assessment
and remediation, and landfill siting. Additional areas
of expertise include petroleum- and chlorinated-compound
impact issues.
After
19 years in consulting in California, Bolin joined Orange
County Water District to address increasing water quality
impacts to water supplies in the lower Santa Ana River
Watershed. Bolin completed his Bachelor's Degree in
Geology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst,
Master's work in Geology at the University of Georgia,
and a Law degree at Irvine College of Law. He holds
professional registrations in several states, including
Arizona and California.
contact: dbolin@ocwd.com
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Chuck
Graf
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Chuck Graf
is an Associate Director of the Arizona Water Institute,
where he coordinates Institute activities with the Arizona
Department of Environmental Quality. Previously, Mr.
Graf was the Deputy Director of the Water Quality Division
at ADEQ. Mr. Graf received a B.S.E. degree in Engineering
Science from Arizona State University in 1972 and is
a Registered Geologist in Arizona . He has worked in
engineering, hydrological, and water resources positions
with the U.S. Forest Service, Arizona Department of
Water Resources, Tetra Tech International, and Arizona
Department of Environmental Quality. During his employment
at ADEQ between 1984 and 2006, Mr. Graf directed groundwater,
surface water, and drinking water quality assessment,
protection, cleanup, and regulatory activities.
contact: Graf.Chuck@azdeq.gov
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Howard
L. Grahn, R.G.
Errol L. Montgomery & Associates, Inc., Advisory
Board Chair
Howard Grahn is a hydrogeologist
with Errol L. Montgomery & Associates, Inc. in Tucson,
Arizona, and co-founder and current technical editor
of Southwest Hydrology. Grahn has more than 20 years
experience as a field geologist and hydrologist, and
he has been active for more than a decade in the Arizona
Hydrological Society and other professional organizations.
He is a Registered Geologist in Arizona.
contact:
hgrahn@elmontgomery.com
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Jim
Holway, Ph.D.
Sonoran Institute
Jim is director of the joint venture between
the Sonoran Institute and the Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy. Based at the Sonoran Institute, he works to
fully leverage the research and public policy strengths
of the Lincoln Institute with the on-the-ground and
stakeholder engagement strengths of the Sonoran Institute.
Prior to joining
the Sonoran Institute in 2009, Jim directed the Sustainability
Partnership at Arizona State University and was the
ASU coordinator for the Arizona Water Institute. He
has also served as assistant director of the Arizona
Department of Water Resources, where he oversaw the
state's Active Management Area, conservation, assured
water supply, recharge, well permitting, and groundwater
and surface water rights programs. Jim serves on a number
of committees and advisory boards including the Governor's
Growing Smarter Oversight Council, the Arizona Town
Hall and the Trust for Public Land's Arizona Advisory
Council.
contact: jholway@sonoraninstitute.org
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Jeff
Johnson
Southern Nevada Water Authority
Jeff Johnson, is a Division Manager, in the
Surface Water Resources Department of the Southern Nevada
Water Authority (SNWA), where he specializes in water
resource investigations for groundwater development,
surface water diversions, and Colorado River resources.
He is a hydrogeologist with over 17 years of experience
including optimization of production/ artificial-recharge
wells in the Las Vegas Valley, water resource acquisitions,
Colorado River modeling, and regional groundwater develop
studies for water conveyance to Clark County, Nevada.
His current activities include water resource
planning and water development strategies for Colorado
River resources, the Muddy and Virgin Rivers, and Coyote
Spring Valley.
contact: jeff.johnson@snwa.com
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David
Jordan, P.E.
INTERA, Inc. David Jordan
is a Senior Hydrogeologist with INTERA Inc. in Albuquerque,
New Mexico and oversees New Mexico water resources work
for INTERA. He is a registered Professional Engineer
in New Mexico and Oklahoma with over 15 years of experience
in project management, water resources, quantitative
hydrogeology, numerical modeling, GIS and database development.
Jordan has also provided environmental litigation support
on a variety of cases, many of which involved allocating
responsibility among numerous potentially responsible
parties (PRPs) who contributed to large and complex
ground water contamination problems. Jordan has broad
experience with a wide variety of water resources simulation
models, as well as the integration of GIS with these
models for planning and decision-making purposes.
contact:
djordan@intera.com
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Karl
Kohlhoff, P.E., B.C.E.E.
HDR Engineering (retired)
Karl Kohlhoff
was the National Technical Coordinator with HDR Engineering
in Phoenix, Arizona. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees
in civil engineering from the University of Arizona
and the University of Southern California, respectively,
and has more than 50 years of experience in water and
wastewater system engineering.
contact: KarlfKohlhoff06@qwest.net
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Stanley
Leake
U.S. Geological Survey
Stan
Leake, of Tucson , Arizona , is a research hydrologist
with the U.S. Geological Survey, where he has worked
for more than 30 years. His main areas of work include
water availability, interaction of ground water and
surface water, land subsidence, and development of new
capabilities for simulating processes related to ground-water
flow. For the popular ground-water model program, MODFLOW,
Leake has developed capabilities to simulate land subsidence,
reservoirs, time-varying boundary conditions, and detailed
local models within larger regional models. His current
activities include regional perspectives on ground-water/surface-water
interaction, effects of ground-water withdrawals on
surface water features, geohydrology and water management
in an agricultural area, and further development of
ground-water simulation capabilities applicable in the
arid and semi-arid Southwest.
contact:
saleake@usgs.gov
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Ari
M. Michelsen, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Univ.
Dr. Ari Michelsen
is Resident Director of the Texas A&M University
Agricultural Research and Extension Center at El Paso,
and Professor of Agricultural Economics specializing
in water resources management, valuation, conservation,
and policy analysis. His research includes the effectiveness
of water conservation programs (agricultural and residential),water
right markets, valuation and prices, impacts of endangered
species water acquisition programs, air and water quality
regulatory assessment and decision support systems for
river basin resource management and water policy analysis
in the U.S. and China. Michelsen is active in the Texas
Economists Association, the Universities Council on
Water Resources, the Allocating Water: Economics and
the Environment 2004 conference, the New Mexico-Texas
Water Commission, the Far West Texas Water Planning
Group, the Paso del Norte Water Task Force, and the
Paso del Norte Watershed Council.
contact: a-michelsen@tamu.edu
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Mark
T. Murphy, Ph.D.
Canadian River Basin Program Manager, Office of
the State Engineer, Interstate Stream Commission
Mark Murphy
works for the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer,
Interstate Stream Commission and manages state programs
in the Canadian River Basin. This includes responsibility
for the planning and operation of two reservoirs and
an interstate compact between New Mexico, Texas, and
Oklahoma. In his 30-year career, he has been employed
in the Albuquerque and Phoenix offices of URS Corporation
and was a research hydrologist with Battelle/Pacific
Northwest, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratories. He taught hydrology and geology classes
at Heritage College on the Yakama Indian Nation and
Arizona State University in Tempe and is a Registered
Geologist in Arizona. His research interests focus on
the way that hydrology, hydrogeology, and geomorphology
combine to support aquatic and terrestrial habitat in
the arid Southwest.
contact:
mark.murphy@state.nm.us
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Peggy
Roefer
Southern Nevada Water Authority
Peggy
Roefer is the Regional Water Quality Program Manager
for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, where she specializes
in watershed water quality . She has worked for SNWA
for 22 years, first as a Supervisor in Microbiology,
then as a Regional Water Quality Supervisor, and currently
holds the position of Regional Water Quality Program
Manager. Her current activities include interagency
coordination of water quality data collection and storage,
invasive species, and watershed management.
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Martin
G. Steinpress, R.G., C.HG.
Brown and Caldwell
Martin Steinpress is a Chief Hydrogeologist and National
Groundwater Resources Service Leader based in Brown
and Caldwell’s Walnut Creek, California office.
Steinpress is a Registered Geologist in California,
Arizona, Texas and Washington and a California Certified
Hydrogeologist with 25 years experience in geology and
hydrogeology. He is a technical expert in hydrogeology
with extensive experience in developing and applying
conceptual models to complex groundwater problems. His
water resources planning background includes creating
cooperative partnerships between water agencies to facilitate
the development of regional conjunctive use projects.
Steinpress also has extensive experience in applying
database, GIS, and web-based tools to water resources
and other environmental challenges. He is past vice
president of the Groundwater Resources Association of
California and currently chair of the Communications
Committee and editor of GRA’s quarterly newsletter
HydroVisions.
contact: msteinpress@brwncald.com
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Gary Woodard
Director, Knowledge Transfer, SAHRA, University
of Arizona
Gary is Associate Director of the NSF Science and Technology
Center for Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and
Riparian Areas at the University of Arizona. Woodard's
responsibilities include knowledge transfer and selected
education programs and international activities. He
also pursues a research agenda focusing on forecasting
municipal water demand and evaluating water rate structures,
conservation programs and devices. Current research
includes developing low-cost sensor and logger technology
to disaggregate and forecast domestic water demand
At SAHRA, Woodard's KT team develops new ways to increase
hydrologic literacy and serve water professionals. Besides
Southwest Hydrology, efforts include: Water
News Watch, a Web-based service that summarizes and
catalogues thousands of articles from hundreds of news
sources written in eight languages; science displays
and interactive kiosks for museums and discovery centers;
symposia and short courses; and Web-based tools and
resources for a global network of UNESCO-sponsored research
centers. Woodard also co-directs a Masters program in
water resources management for mid-career water professionals.
Contact:
gwoodard@sahra.arizona.edu
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