Reed Maxwell is a faculty member in the Geology and Geologic Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines. His research focuses on hydrology, including connections within the hydrologic cycle and their influence on water quantity and quality. He teaches classes on integrated hydrology, fluid mechanics, and modeling terrestrial flows. He leads a research group of two postdocs and three graduate students in the International Groundwater Modeling Center. Maxwell holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Colorado School of Mines, he worked in the Hydrologic Sciences group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.