Distinguished Professor and Henry Rutgers Professor in Geophysics at Rutgers University-Newark Lee Slater, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in hydrogeophysics. He has published extensively, including 145 papers in peer-reviewed international journals of hydrogeology and geophysics. Slater has served as principal investigator on multiple research and technology demonstration projects funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. National Parks Service, and National Science Foundation. He has also served in prominent leadership roles in the academic geophysical community, including as chair of the Near Surface Geophysics Focus Group of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), chair of the AGU Hydrogeophysics Technical Committee, and president of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society. Slater currently serves as associate editor of Water Resources Research and he recently edited a new volume on near surface geophysics published in the second edition of the Treatise on Geophysics, part of the Elsevier Major International Reference series. Slater has served on multiple advisory boards for large interdisciplinary hydrogeological research projects in Europe. His numerous Ph.D. graduates have mostly gone onto academic positions and are now making their own contributions to advancing research in hydrogeophysics.​