DAVID R. MAIDMENT
Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
RESUME:August 2017
Business Address:Home Address:
Center for Research in Water Resources
Pickle Research Campus3728 Josh Lane
University of TexasAustin, TX78730
Austin, TX78712 Tel: (512) 345-7586
Tel: (512) 471-0065Fax: (512) 345-4102
Fax: (512) 471-0072
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POSITION
Dr Maidment holds the Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering at University of Texas at Austin, where he has been on the Civil Engineering faculty since 1981. He teaches water resources engineering, and conducts research on the application of geographic information systems in water resources.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering with First-Class Honors (1971), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Master of Science (1974), and Doctor of Philosophy (1976), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
BOOKS
Strassberg, G., N.L. Jones, D. R. Maidment, Arc Hydro Groundwater: GIS for HydroGeology, ESRI Press, Redlands CA 2011.
Maidment, D.R., (2002), Arc Hydro: GIS for Water Resources, ESRI Press, Redlands CA, 2002, 220 pages.
Maidment, D.R., and D. Djokic (2000), Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling Support with GIS, ESRI Press, Redlands CA, 232 pages.
Maidment, D.R., (Editor in Chief), (1993), Handbook of Hydrology, McGraw-Hill, 1424 pages. (Translated into Chinese in 2002, and distributed there by
Chow, V.T., D.R. Maidment and L.W. Mays, (1988), Applied Hydrology, McGraw-Hill, New
York, 570 pages. (Translated into Spanish in 1994 as Hidrologíaaplicada, and distributed by McGraw Hill Interamericana)
HONORS
2017 received the Water Drop Award from the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc (CUAHSI) “in recognition for your outstanding leadership and dedicated service to the National Water Center Innovators Program Summer Institute”.
2016 elected to the National Academy of Engineering “for development of geographic information systems applied to hydrologic processes”.
2015received the J. Mike Howard Lectureship of the Texas Floodplain Management Association.
2014 recognized asGeospatial Scientist of the Year, by Geospatial Media for “contribution to geospatial science as a specialist in surface water hydrology, and in particular in the application of geographic information systems to hydrology.”
2012, received the Ray K. Linsley Awardfrom the American Institute of Hydrology “In recognition of his contributions in the field of Surface Water Hydrology”.
2011, received theDistinguished Alumnus Award, Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "For significant and lasting impact on teaching, research and practice in the fields of hydrology and water resource engineering, including the pioneering of geographical information systems applications in hydrology and technologies that have been adopted by national and international institutions".
2011, received theVenTe Chow Award, Environmental Water Resources Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers. “For notable contributions in water resources engineering, hydrology and hydraulic engineering, outstanding service to the profession through application of GIS in surface water and groundwater hydrology, authoring books and research papers in water resources engineering, and mentoring of young engineers.”
2011, received theQuentin Martin Best Practice-Oriented Paper, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers. For the paper “Linking GIS, Hydraulic Modeling, and Tabu Search for Optimizing a Water Level-Monitoring Network in South Florida”, by Sergio I. Martínez, VenkateshMerwade, and David R. Maidment, J. Water Resour. Plann. Manage. Volume 136, pp.167-176, (2010).
2010 received the AWRA Award for Water Resources Data and Information Systems, and this award was permanently renamed the David R. Maidment Award for Water Resources Data and Information Systems, for his contributions to the advancement of the goals of the American Water Resources Association.
2010 Received the Community Service Award of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc, for his “outstanding contributions to the community in development of Hydrologic Information Systems”.
2005 Appointed to Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering by the University of Texas at Austin.
2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environmental Systems Research Institute for contributions to GIS in Water Resources.
2003 National Associate of the National Academies for services contributed to National Academy Committees.
2002 Hydrologic Benchmark Award of the US Geological Survey for contributions to national water-use information.
2002 ElectedaFellow of International Water Resources Association
1996 Arch Campbell Award from the New Zealand Water and Wastes Association for "Service to International Hydrology".
1990 Resources Division Best Paper Award from the American Water Works Association for the best paper on water resources published in the Journal of the American Water Works Association during 1988, entitled “Effects of conservation on daily water use” (with D.T. Shaw).
1988 Boggess Award from the American Water Resources Association for the best paper published in the Water Resources Bulletin during 1987, entitled “ Intervention analysis of water use restrictions, Austin, Texas” (with D.T. Shaw).
NATIONAL ACADEMY COMMITTEES
Chairman of six National Academy Committees, and Member of five National Academy Committees.
Chairman, Committee on Urban Flooding, National Research Council, January 2017 to present.
Chairman, Committee on Mapping Science, January 2011 to December 2016. The Mapping Science Committee organizes and oversees National Research Council studies that provide independent advice to society and to government on geospatial science, technology, and policy.
Member, Board on Earth Science and Resources, January 2011 to December 2016.The Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (BESR) coordinates the National Research Council's activities on solid-earth science issues and organizes and oversees studies of important national issues in the earth sciences.
Member, Committee on the Analysis of Costs and Benefits of Reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program.2014 to 2016. Reports: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums, Report 1, 152 p. 2015; Report 2, 134 p., 2016,National Academies Press, Washington, DC,
Member,Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress, 2010 to 2012. Report: Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: the Fourth Biennial Review, National Academies Press, 2012, Washington, DC, 228 p.
Chairman,Committee on FEMA Flood Maps, June 2007 to August 2009: Report:Mapping the Zone:Improving Flood Map Accuracy, National Academies Press, 2009, Washington DC, 136p.
Chairman,Committee on Floodplain Mapping Technologies, August 2006 to January 2007: Report:Elevation Data for Floodplain Mapping, National Academies Press, 2007, Washington DC, 166p.
Member, Committee on Mapping Science, 2004 – 2007
Member, Committee on Texas Instream Flows, May 2003 to February 2005. Report:The Science of Instream Flows: A Review of the Texas Instream Flow Program, National Academy Press, 2005, 162 pages.
Chairman, Committee on National Streamflow Information Program, December 2002 to March 2004. Report: Assessing the National Streamflow Information Program, National Academy Press, 2004, 176 pages.
Chairman, Committee on USGS Water Resources Research, January 2001 to December 2002
Report: Estimating Water Use in the United States: A New Paradigm for the National Water-Use Information Program, National Academy Press, 2002, 190 pages.
Member, Committee on Risk-Based Analyses for Flood Damage Reduction Studies, December 1998 to May 2000. Report: Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies, National Academy Press, 2000, 216 pages.
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
Testified to two Subcommittees of the US Senate on Flood Preparedness, chaired by Senators Landrieu and Pryor, on National Academies studies on data accuracy in floodplain mapping, July 28, 2010
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
National Weather Service, Young Innovators Program
DrMaidment has been the Technical Director of the Summer Institutes held at the National Water Center in 2015, 2016 and 2017 for more than 100 graduate students participating in this program, This is a collaboration of CUAHSI with the National Weather Service and federal water agency partners.
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc (CUAHSI) 2001 to 2011
DrMaidment was Chairman of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Systems Committee from January 2001 to April 2004, whose work laid the foundation for a large NSF-sponsored project to develop a CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System for which he served April 2004 to December 2011 as the project leader. This position involved interacting with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and researchers at about a dozen US universities who developed prototype components of this system.
Arc Hydro
Dr Maidment designed the widely used data model Arc Hydro, which is a customization of ArcGIS for application in water resources. He has presented an annual GIS Hydro seminar at the ESRI User Conference since 1994 which summarizes the state of the art in application of GIS to Water Resources. ESRI manufactures ArcGIS which is the world leader in Geographic Information Systems. He received ESRI’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 for his contributions to the application of GIS in Water Resources.
AWRA Conference Chairmanships
Dr Maidment was Chairman of the Technical Committee for the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth American Water Resources Association Specialty Conferences on GIS in Water Resources held in Nashville, TN, in 2004; in Houston, TX, in 2006; and in San Mateo, CA in 2008.
Editorships
Editor, Journal of Hydrology (January 1992 – December 1996), Elsevier Science Publications, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology (1997 to 2004).
Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996 to 1999.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2005 to present: Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.
September 2011 to present: Associate Director, Center for Integrated Earth System Sciences (CIESS). Sponsored by the Jackson School for Geosciences and the Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.
September 1997 to August 2011: Director, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin
December 2000 to December 2011: Leader, CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Systems, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.
September 2002 to August 2004: Engineering Foundation Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin
September 1996 to August 2002: Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professor of Engineering, and Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin
September 1981 to 1996: Assistant Professor(1981-1985), Associate Professor (1985-1992), and Professor (1992 - present) of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.
August 1980 to August 1981: Visiting Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering,TexasA&MUniversity, College Station, Texas.
December 1977 to August 1980: Scientist, Ministry of Works and Development, Christchurch, New Zealand.
June 1976 to December 1977: Guest Scholar,International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
August 1972 to June 1976: Research Assistant,Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
December 1971 to August 1972: Assistant Engineer, Water and Soil Division, Ministry of Works and Development, Wellington, New Zealand.
December 1970 to February 1971: Assistant Engineer,Queensland Irrigation and Water Supplies Commission, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia.
INVITED KEYNOTE SPEECHES
Maidment, D.R., Towards a National Water Model for New Zealand, Local Government, New Zealand Conference on Freshwater 2017, Wellington, New Zealand, 30 May 2017.
Maidment, D.R., National Water Model of the United States, Keynote Speech to 12th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, 7 Nov 2016
Maidment, D.R., “CyberGIS and the National Water Model, Keynote Speech at the Universities Consortium for Geographic Information Science Annual Symposium, Scottsdale, AZ, 24 May 2016
Maidment, D.R., “Research Perspectives on the National Water Model, WSTB/BESR Workshop on “Conversations on the National Water Model, National Academies, Washington, DC, 23 March 2016
Maidment, D.R., “CUAHSI and National Flood Interoperability Experiment”, Keynote Speech to OxEWEX Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 2 December, 2015
Maidment, D.R., Water Information Commons and Economic Development, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris France, 21 September 2015
Maidment, D.R., National Flood Interoperability Experiment, CyberGIS All Hands Meeting, Reston, VA, 15 September 2015
Maidment, D.R., VenTe Chow – some perspectives on his life and work, Distinguished Alumni Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 24 October 2014
Maidment, D.R. and E. Clark, National Flood Interoperability Experiment, Briefing for federal water officials convened by the Executive Office of the President, White House Conference Center, 3 October 2014
Maidment, D.R., “National Water Data Infrastructure”, National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 13 May 2014.
Maidment, D.R., “Towards a global water information system”, New Zealand Hydrological Society, 22 February 2013
Maidment, D.R., “GEOSS and Water Science”, GEOSS Architecture Implementation Workshop, Silver Spring, MD, 26 March 2013.
Maidment, D.R., “Future of water data management”, Invited Science Lecture to the 14th Congress of the Commission for Hydrology, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 Nov 2012.
Maidment, D.R. “Delivering on national water information needs”, WIRADA Science Symposium, Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, Aug 4, 2011.
Maidment, D.R., “VenTe Chow Award Lecture”, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Palm Springs, CA, May 24, 2011.
Maidment, D.R., “Mapping Flood Risk”, Colloqium in Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC,March 18, 2011.
Maidment, D.R., “Information Systems in Water Resources”, Dept of Civil Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT,Feb 17, 2011.
Maidment, D.R., “Water data sharing”, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, White House Conference Center, Washington, DC,Jan 18, 2011.
Maidment, D.R., “CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System and OpenMI”, European Commission and OpenMI Life Association, Brussels, Belgium –January 12, 2010
Maidment, D.R., “Hydrologic Data and Modeling – towards Hydrologic Information Science”, NSF EPsCOR meeting, University of Vermont, Burlington, 11 November 2008
Maidment, D.R., Water use in the United States, Invited Lecture at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Canberra, Australia, July 24, 2008
Maidment, D.R., A Services Oriented Architecture for Water Resources Data, Science and Technology Innovators Lecture Series, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 15, 2007,
Maidment, D.R., Bringing water data together in Texas, Invited Presentation at the Texas Water Summit, Texas Water Development Board, San Antonio, Tx, December 3, 2007
Maidment, D.R., “Hydrologic Information Systems”, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia June 26, 2007,
Maidment, D.R., “Advances in GIS in Water Resources”, Tennessee GIS Conference, Chatanooga, TN, April 16, 2007.
Maidment, D. R., “Harnessing the power of water information”, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, November 6, 2006,
Maidment, D.R., “Hydrologic Information System development”, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, July 22, 2006
Maidment, D.R., “Overview of GIS in Water Resources”, Keynote speech to 5th Specialty Conference on GIS in Water Resources, American Water Resources Association, Houston TX, May 2006.
Maidment, D.R., GIS in Water Resources, Williams Memorial Lecture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, April 2005
Maidment, D.R., GIS for water resources in Kansas, Vice Provost Invited Lecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, September 2005
Maidment, D.R., “GIS in Water Resources”, Keynote speech to 4thSpecialty Conference on GIS in Water Resources, American Water Resources Association, Nashville, TN, April 2004
Maidment, D.R., "Building Hydrologic Information Systems", Keynote Speech at the National Conference of USGS Surface Water Hydrologists, San Antonio, Texas, November 19, 2003
Maidment, D.R., “GIS in Water Resources”, Keynote Speech at the GIS for Atmospheric Sciences Conference, NationalCenter for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO, August 18, 2002
Maidment, D.R., “GIS in Water Resources”, Keynote Speech at the 27th Annual Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Institution of Engineers, Australia, Melbourne, May 21, 2002
Maidment, D.R., “GIS and Hydrologic Modeling”, Plenary Speech at the 4th International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, Banff, Canada, September 5, 2000.
Maidment, D.R., “GIS and Hydrologic Modeling – an Assessment of Progress”, Plenary Speech at the 3rd International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 23, 1996
Maidment, D.R., “GIS and Hydrologic Modeling”, Plenary Speech at the 2nd International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, Breckenridge, Colorado, September, 1993
Maidment, D.R., “Spatial Hydrologic Modeling”, Keynote Speech at HydroGIS ’93, International Association of Scientific Hydrology Conference on Application of GIS in Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Vienna, Austria, June 1993
Maidment, D.R., “GIS and Hydrologic Modeling”, Plenary Speech at the 1st International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, Boulder, Colorado, September, 1991
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Buahin, C.A., N. Sangwan, C. Fagan, D.R. Maidment, J.S. Horsburgh, E.J. Nelson, V. Merwade, C. Rae (2017) “Probabilistic flood inundation forecasting using rating curve libraries, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 300- 315, Paper JAWRA-16-0028-P, DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12500.
Maidment, D.R. (2016), Open Water Data in Space and Time, Paper No. JAWRA-15-0123-P of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association, DOI:10.1111/1752-1688.12436,
Tavakoly, A.A., A.D. Snow, C.H. David, M.L. Follum, D.R. Maidment, Z-L Yang, (2016) “Continental-Scale River Flow Modeling of the Mississippi River Basin using High –Resolution NHDPlus Dataset” Paper No. JAWRA-16-0030-P of theJournal of the American Water Resources Association, DOI:10.1111/1752-1688.12456.
Tavakoly, D. R. Maidment, J. W. McClelland, T. Whiteaker, Z.-L. Yang, C. Griffin, C.H. David, L. Meyer, (2015) “A GIS framework for regional modeling of riverine nitrogen transport: Case study, San Antonio and Guadalupe basins” Paper No. JAWRA-14-0256-P.R2 of theJournal of the American Water Resources Association, DOI:10.1111/1752-1688.12474.
Braden, J.B., D.G. Brown, D.R. Maidment, S.T. Marquart-Pyatt, Populating water world: exploring data aspirations of water experts, Society and Natural Resources, DOI:10.1080/08941920.2014.945060, 2014
Comair, G., D. McKinney, D.R. Maidment, G.Espinoza, H. Sangireddy, A. Fayad, F. Salas, “Hydrology of the Jordan River Basin: a GIS-based system to better guide water resources management and decision making, Manuscript WARM-D-1300650R1, Water Resources Management, Springer Verlag, 2013
Salas,F.R., Boldrini,E., Maidment,D.R., Nativi,S., and Domenico,B.: Crossing the digital divide: an interoperable solution for sharing time series and coverages in Earth sciences, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 3013-3029, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-3013-2012, 2012.
David, Cédric H., Florence Habets, David R. Maidment and Zong-Liang Yang (2011), RAPID applied to the SIM-France model, Hydrological Processes, 25(22), 3412-3425. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8070
David, Cédric H., David R. Maidment, Guo-Yue Niu, Zong-Liang Yang, Florence Habets and Victor Eijkhout (2011), River network routing on the NHDPlus dataset, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 12(5), 913-934. DOI: 10.1175/2011JHM1345.1
Johnson, S. L., E. S. Hersh, D. R. Maidment, and M. J. Kirisits. (2012) “Spatial and Temporal Variations in Bacterial Loading in the Copano Bay Watershed.” The Texas Journal of Science. (in press).