NGWA Honors Ohio State Professor for Groundwater Contributions
Keith E. Anderson Award Goes to E. Scott Bair
E. Scott Bair of Kitty Hawk, N.C., has received the Keith E. Anderson Award for outstanding contributions to the National Ground Water Association (NGWA) and the groundwater industry. The award will be presented at the 2015 Groundwater Expo, Dec. 15-17 in Las Vegas.
Bair received his Ph.D. degree in hydrogeology from Pennsylvania State University in 1980. He worked six years in the geotechnical division of Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. before joining the faculty at Ohio State University (OSU) in 1985. He is now a professor emeritus in the School of Earth Sciences at OSU, from which he retired in 2014. While at OSU, Bair received multiple awards for his teaching, including the OSU Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1991.