Kirk Hatfield received his BS and MS degrees from University of Iowa and his PhD degree from University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He joined the University of Florida, Department of Civil Engineering in 1987. He currently serves as the Director of the new Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment and Director of the Florida Water Resources Research Center and member of the Board of Directors of the National Institutes of Water Resources. Hatfield’s ongoing research activities are in the areas of aqueous environmental monitoring, contaminant fate and transport modeling in the subsurface, environmental remediation, and water resources systems analysis.