Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments are provided in chronological order:
Thanks to my mentor and University of Texas at Austin (UT) graduate advisor, Dr. Jack Sharp, for letting me serve as lab instructor in his Groundwater Hydrology course, for letting me teach sections of his lecture, and for helping me develop the initial ideas about teaching hydrogeology that led to the development of this book. Additional thanks to all my fellow graduate students in Jack’s research group for providing such a stimulating intellectual environment during my time as a student at UT.
Thanks to all my hydrogeology students for giving me the incentive to develop this work and for serving as a sounding board, focus group, and testing department as I revised the manuscript and refined my ideas.
Thanks to Suzanne Pierce for being the first (besides me) to use the early drafts of this book in a course and for convincing me that it was worth developing. I also thank the following for using early drafts of the book in their courses and for helping me realize there is a need for this type of textbook:
- Kristen Menking (Vassar College)
- Anna Martini (Amherst College)
- Ahmed Hosni (Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology)
- Henry J. Ollegasagrem (Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science & Technology)
- Jason Tuchelt (Lakeland College)
- Tom Timmermans (SES Environmental)
- Tej Gautam (Marietta College)
- Mohsin Tariq
- Celia Silverman
- Trent Garrison (Kentucky Community & Technical College System)
- Tom Ring (formally with the Yakama Nation)
Thanks to John Cherry and Eileen Poeter at The Groundwater Project for their enthusiastic response to my inquiry about publication and all their contributions since submission of the first draft. A separate thanks to them, the volunteer technical reviewers, and everyone at The Groundwater Project for putting so much energy and effort into developing a fantastic resource for our community and for letting me be a small part of that effort. Additionally, thanks go out to the wonderful editors and graphic support staff at The Groundwater Project for turning my notes and figures into a professional document.
Finally, I thank all of you who support The Groundwater Project and make use of the tremendous resource they have provided. I hope you can gain something by using my book, and I look forward to hearing from you with suggestions and other comments.
Matthew M. Uliana, PhD, PG
Citations are provided to acknowledge the sources of material presented in figures and tables. Where no citation appears, the figure or table material is original to this book.