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Dr. George F. Pinder was
born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He received
his Bachelor of Science degree in geology at the University
of Western Ontario (London) and his Ph.D. in geology, civil
engineering and statistics at the University of Illinois at
Urbana. After four years as a research hydrologist with the
U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, he joined the Civil
Engineering Department at Princeton University as an
Associate Professor. He was promoted to full Professor five
years later. He served as Chairman of the Department of
Civil Engineering and Operations Research from 1980 to
1989. He served as Dean of the College of Engineering and
Mathematics at the University of Vermont. from 1989-1996 and
is currently head of the Research Center for Groundwater
Remediation Design at the University of Vermont.
Dr. Pinder has published
more than two hundred papers and reports in the area of
quantitative groundwater models. He has also published
eight books. The latest `Subsurface Hydrologys’ was
published in 2006 by John Wiley and Sons. In addition to his
responsibilities as Founding Editor of the journals
"Advances in Water Resources" and "Numerical Methods for
Partial Differential Equations," he is also beem on the
Editorial Boards of "Applied Numerical Mathematics" and
"Numerical Methods in Fluids."
Dr. Pinder served as
Dean of the Division of Engineering, Mathematics and
Business Administration at the University of Vermont from
1992-1996; he was named a 1993-1994 University Scholar in
recognition of his contributions to research and
scholarship. The American Geophysical Union presented their
Horton Award to Dr. Pinder in 1969 and in 1993 invited him
to become an AGU fellow. In 1975, The Geological Society of
America presented him with the O.E. Meinzer Award for an
outstanding contribution to the field of hydrology. He
received the Hinds medal of the American Society of Civil
Engineers in 2002 and was named a Fellow of the Wessex
Institute of Great Britain in 2004. In 2005 he was
selected as a University of Vermont College Distinguished
Professor and in 2007 was elected as a member of Vermont
Academy of Science and Engineering (2007). In addition he
has served as president, Hydrology Section of American
Geophysical Union, president, International Society for
Computational Methods in Engineering, chairman,
Groundwater Management Committee, American Society of Civil
Engineers and chairman, Groundwater Council,
Environmental and Water Resources Institute, American
Society of Civil Engineers. |
