Drillers get a hyperlocal view of groundwater. Each well makes a data point. Over a career, water well drillers may install thousands of wells, getting a good picture of their service area. However, when you want to put all of that data together on a grand scale, you talk to someone like Reed Maxwell.
Reed Maxwell delivered the Darcy Lecture at the National Ground Water Association’s Groundwater Week 2020 event, a talk focused on groundwater and the water cycle. Maxwell directs the Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center (IGWMC) at Princeton, where he is also a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. As an expert on modeling and all things groundwater, he was a natural pick for the lecture series, which the NGWA established in 1986 to encourage interest in groundwater science and technology.