Kenneth Bradbury (Ph.D., Hydrogeology, UW-Madison, 1982) is Wisconsin’s State Geologist and Director of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, University of Wisconsin-Extension. Ken became the Survey’s Director in September, 2015. Prior to this Ken has been a Research Hydrogeologist with the Survey since 1982. His research interests include virus transport in groundwater, groundwater flow in fractured media, aquitard hydrogeology, groundwater recharge processes, wellhead protection, regional groundwater simulation, and the hydrogeology of glacial deposits. Ken is the author of numerous scientific papers and reports, is a Fellow in the Geological Society of America, has chaired the National Research Council Committee on Water Resources Research for the U.S. Geological Survey, and is a former member of the National Research Council’s Water Science and Technology Board.