Brad Wolaver is a Research Associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on sustainable groundwater management for people and the environment, particularly in semiarid and arid regions, and is grouped into three research themes: (1) Water, Energy, and Minerals: Effective groundwater management for energy and mining, with focuses on groundwater monitoring for CO2 geologic sequestration and groundwater evaluation for unconventional energy projects; (2) Sustainable Aquifer Management: Groundwater flow, transport, and recharge processes; and (3) Ecohydrology: Springs, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, instream flows, and surface water–groundwater interactions.