User:Caferato/John L. Wilson (Hydrologist)

John L. Wilson II is a word wide known groundwater hydrologist and professor of Hydrology at New Mexico Tech. His Research focus in the study fluid flow and transport in permeable media, using field & laboratory experiments and mathematical models.

Academia
John Wilson started his postsecondary studies at Georgia Institute of Technology from where he obtained a BS. After which he obtained a MS, CE and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1984 he became part of the New Mexico Tech Hydrology Program Faculty. He has been (~2001) the chairman of the Earth & Environmental Department. He was also the Head of the Hydrology Program under the same department.

Professional

 * 2006 - 2010 President-Elect (2006-2008) and President (2008-2010),Hydrology Section, American Geophysical Union. Has been an AGU member since 1974.
 * 2005 - 2007 Member, External Advisory Committee, The Earth and Sun Systems Lab (ESSL), National Center for Atmospheric Research
 * 2005 - 2007 Member, External Advisory Committee, The Institute for Multidisciplinary Earth Studies (TIMES), National Center for Atmospheric Research
 * 2005 - 2006	Chair, Science Advisory Team, Consortium of Universities for Hydrologic Science Inc.,
 * 2005	Chair, Earth Sciences Division Peer Review Panel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 * 2005	Member, Provost's External Review Team, Interdisciplinary Program in Hydrologic Science, University of Nevada - Reno
 * 2004-2006 Member, Union Honors and Recognitions Committee, American Geophysical Union
 * 2004	Member, SECURE Earth Initiative Panel, Board of Earth Resources/Board of Radioactive Waste Management, National Research Council - National Academy of Science.
 * 2003 - 2005 	Member and AC/GEO Liaison, Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (AC/ERE), National Science Foundation.
 * 2003 - 2005 	Member, Advisory Committee for Geosciences (AC/GEO), National Science Foundation.
 * 2002	Member, Committee on Review of a Plan for a New Science Initiative on the Global Water Balance, National Research Council - National Academy of Science.
 * 2001 - 2005 	Chair (2001-2004), Vice-Chair (2001), Member; Board of Directors, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI)
 * 2000 - 2004	Associate Editor of the journal Advances in Water Resources.
 * 2000 - 2004	Member, Committee on Hydrologic Sciences, National Research Council - National Academy of Science.
 * 2000 - 2004	Member, Union Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union.
 * 2000 - 2003	Member, Executive Committee, and Chair, Modeling Technical Committee, National Vadose Zone Roadmap, Department of Energy.
 * 1998 - 1999	Member, Earth Science Council on Terrestrial Sequestration of CO2, Department of Energy.
 * 1998 - 2001	Member, Earth Sciences Review Panel, National Science Foundation.
 * 1991 - 2005 	Member, External Advisory Committee, NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program, University of North Carolina

Honors & Awards
Recipient of several prestigious international awards and honors, including the Darcy, Freeman, and Moore distinguished lectureships, the Geological Society of America’s (GSA) O.E. Meinzer Award, a Fellow of both the GSA and AGU professional organizations, and the New Mexico Tech Distinguished Research Award.

Personal Life
Wilson served in the US Armed Forces.