Matt Becker is the Conrey Chair in Hydrogeology and Professor in the Geological Sciences Department at CSU Long Beach. He holds a B.S. in Geology from Michigan State University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Enginering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has held positions with Chevron USA, and Los Alamos National Labs, and U.S Geological Survey National Research Program. He was a National Academy of Science Senior Research Associate at NASA Goddard Space Center and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University Trento, Italy. Prior to arriving at the CSULB he was an Assistant then Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Buffalo. He has been studying fluid flow in fractured rock for 20 years.