The National Ground Water Association (NGWA) has chosen Paul Barlow of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Northborough, Mass., and Stanley Leake of the USGS Tucson, Ariz., to receive the John Hem Award for Excellence in Science & Engineering.
The two have collectively spent more than 60 years investigating groundwater and surface water exchange and numerical simulation. The John Hem Award honors their scientific and engineering contributions to the understanding of groundwater.