Kisiel Lecturers 1982-Present

The lecturers in this series represent the best and the brightest luminaries in hydrological science and engineering. 
 
Their selection for this lecture series honors not only Chester Kisiel's service to the profession but also their own contributions to the field of hydrology and water resources.
 
Click on the individual's name for biographical information.  Click on the title for an abstract, notes, or a complete copy of the lecture.

 

1982

N. C. Matalas

U.S. Geological Survey
Reflections on Hydrology

1983

Myron B. Fiering

Harvard University
The Real Benefits from Synthetic Flows

1984

J. D. Bredehoeft

U.S. Geological Survey
Water Management in the United States- A Democratic Process (Who are the Managers?)

1985

Peter S. Eagleson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Emergence of Global-Scale Hydrology

1986

James C. I. Dooge

University College, Dublin
Scale Problems in Hydrology

1987

R. Allan Freeze

University of British Columbia
Groundwater Contamination: Technical Analysis and Social Decision Making

1988

Charles W. Howe

University of Colorado
Efficiency Gains from Building Equity into Water Development

1989

Donald R. Nielson

University of California, Davis
A Challenging Frontier in Hydrology - The Vadose Zone

1990

John A. Cherry

University of Waterloo (Emeritus)
 
University of Guelph (current)
Groundwater Contamination: A Field Perspective

1991

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

University of Iowa and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (former)
 
Princeton University (current)
 
Reflections on the 3-Dimensional Structure of River Basins:  Its Linkage with Runoff Production and Minimum Energy Dissipation

1992

Werner Stumm

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Surface Chemical Theory and Predicting the Distribution of Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment

1993

Vit Klemeš

National Hydrology Research Institute of the Environment (Environment Canada)
 
Water Resources Consultant, British Columbia
Water Storage: Source of Inspiration and Desperation

1994

M. Gordon Wolman

Title unknown

1995

David R. Dawdy

Consulting Hydrologist
Hurst, Scaling and the Meaning of Hydrologist

1996

Helen Ingram

University of Arizona (former)
University of California-Irvine (present)
The Role of Science in Water Policy

1997

 

 
 

1998

Ghislain de Marsily

University of Paris
Water in the Next Millennium: Where From, How much, How Safe?

1999

András Szöllösi-Nagy

UNESCO, Director of the Division of Water Sciences, Secretary of the International Hydrological Programme, and Coordinator of UNESCO’s environmental programmes (MAB, IOC, IGCP and MOST)
Title unavailable

2000

Stanley N. Davis

University of Arizona

2001

 

 
 

2002

Rafael Bras

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Environment, Water and Climate Change

2003

George Pinder

University of Vermont
Beneath the Surface of A Civil Action: The Woburn Trial Revisited

2004 

William Yeh

University of California, Los Angeles
Reservoir Management and Operation

2005

Lynn Gelhar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field-Scale Reactive Transport in Heterogeneous Aquifers

2006

 

 
 

2007

Edward Sudicky

University of Waterloo
Insights from Coupled Surface/Subsurface Hydrological Simulations: From the Scale of a Rainfall-runoff Experiment to the Continental Scale Over an Ice Age

2008

Steven Gorelick

Stanford University
Water Resources Sustainability in Developing Nations: Two Cases of Supply Dynamics and Allocation

2009

Christopher Duffy

Penn State University
The Shale Hills Hydro-Sensorium for Embedded Sensors, Simulation, & Visualization:  A Prototype for Land-Vegetation-Atmosphere Interactions

2010

Grant Garven

Tufts University
The Geohydrology of Faults in Southern California

2011

 

 
No lecture

2012

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

University of Minnesota-Minneapolis

 

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