About the Author

Dr. William W. Woessner is a Montana University System Emeritus Regents’ Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Montana. He taught introductory and graduate courses in the hydrogeological sciences; is the Past Acting Director of the Center for Riverine Science and Stream Re-naturalization, and President of Woessner Hydrologic. With over 40 years of experience he has mentored over 60 graduate students, many of whom have founded or work for environmental consulting firms; consulted for local, state and federal agencies, corporations, and non-profits applying field and modeling approaches to solve groundwater development and management issues including production well design and installation, and water use. He has proposed resolutions to groundwater contamination events, and identified how groundwater‑surface water interactions affect ecological systems. Dr. Woessner is the coauthor of two editions of “Applied Groundwater Modeling: Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport”, a 2011 Fulbright Scholar-NAWI Austria, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer in 2005, and the 2020 recipient of the O. E. Meinzer Award. In addition, he is a Fellow and Life Member of the National Groundwater Association and was awarded the John Hem Excellence in Science and Engineering Award in 2008.