1992 Henry Darcy Lecture Series - John Wilson (part 1)
Channel: National Ground Water Association
Date: 2011-06-20

"Visualization of Ground Water Flow and Transport Through a Microscope" was the topic of Darcy Lecture given by John Wilson, Ph.D. Wilson is the professor of Hydrology and director of the Hydrology Program at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. He is a B.C.E. graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds M.S., C.E., and Ph.D. degrees from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He taught groundwater at MIT for eight years and then spent a year with Intera Inc., before joining the Hydrology Program in Socorro in 1984. Wilson's present-day research interests include the fundamental fluid mechanics of permeable media flow and transport, primarily using flow visualization tools and mathematical modeling. Through this work, he has been examining the movement of nonaqueous phase liquids and colloids in porous and fractured media. He has other research efforts directed toward well head protection, flow through heterogeneous media, and the geological characterization of aquifers. Wilson has written for many publications and is a member of a variety of professional committees and panels.

Wilson delivered his lecture at 37 universities and delivered the Darcy lecture as the keynote address at the AGWSE General Membership Meeting at the National Convention in Las Vegas.