Lee Slater is an Associate Professor of Near Surface Geophysics at Rutgers University. He specializes in the application of electrical methods for investigating hydrogeological and microbial processes. Slater has co-authored 44 peer reviewed journal articles on near- surface geophysics, has served as Principal Investigator on more than 10 grant awards from federal agencies, is an Associate Editor of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Water Resources Research, and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the AGU Near Surface Geophysics Focus Group.