Bobby J. Creel, PhD, New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute Bobby has been with the WRRI since 1986. He has served as Assistant Director, Acting Director and Associate Director at the institute since that time. He came to NMSU as a student in 1964 and received his bachelor's degree in agriculture in 1968 and a master's degree in agricultural economics in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Resource Economics from UNM in 1986. He has over 150 journal articles, research reports, special reports, book chapters and conference proceedings publications and abstracts, mainly in the areas of natural resource economics, water resource planning, allocation and use of the water resources in the various basins of the state and southwest U.S. Most of these incorporate various quantitative assessment methods such as geographic information systems, input-output analysis, benefit-cost analysis, linear programming, and cost and returns analysis. Assessments for water quality protection programs using geographic information systems, feasibility of developing saline water resources, geothermal water resources, large-scale irrigation projects, and energy development impacts on agriculture. In 2002 he received the Fort Bliss Federal Credit Union Research Award for his many years of research in the areas of water and natural resources.

Alfredo Granados-Olivas, PhD, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez Alfredo Granados has more than 20 years of experience at the Paso del Norte region on GW research. He is a professor since 1986 at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Technology of the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez. Leader for the Academic Group on Geosciences at UACJ and recently appointed to the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores by the Mexican Government. Alfredo earned his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 2000; and has a M.S. in Groundwater Hydrology from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, and a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the School of Agriculture “Hermanos Escobar”. Alfredo is member of the Mexican Society of Hydrology; the National Ground Water Association; the International Association for Environmental Hydrology; and the Association of Photogrametry and Remote Sensing.

John Hawley, Ph.D., C.P.G, Hawley Geomatters Dr. John Hawley operates HAWLEY GEOMATTERS, a consulting service in environmental and groundwater geology of the New Mexico region. The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute has also employed John on a part-time basis since 1997 when he retired from the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources. John's work with the Institute involves development of GIS digital-hydrogeologic framework models that support state-of the-art water-resource management. John received his B.A., cum laude, in Geology from Hanover College, Indiana in 1954 and his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1962. He is a Certified Professional Geologist #2309 by the American Institute of Professional Geologists. John has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications on the environmental geology, hydrogeology, and geomorphology of arid and semi-arid parts of western North America. Areas covered include: The Humboldt River basin of Nevada; the Basin and Range province in the American SW and Mexico, including the Chihuahua Desert and the Rio Grande rift; and the Southern High Plains-Pecos Valley region of New Mexico and Texas. Honors for published research and scientific-community service include awards from the Geological Society of America (Kirk Bryan Award for desert soil-geomorphic research), American Association for the Advancement of Science (Certificate of Merit for Arid Zone Research), State Commission on Higher Education (1989 New Mexico Eminent Scholar), and the US Geological Survey (1998). In 2001, John received an Alumni Achievement Award from Hanover College for outstanding career contributions to the science of geology.