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A NOTE FROM THE INTEGRATED GROUNDWATER MODELING
CENTER (IGWMC)
CONT’D

Dr. Hoang Tran, who has been a Post-Doc with the IGWMC since 2019, published his first paper with this group in
March 2020. Hoang is a great resource to several graduate students in the Maxwell group, but works predominantly
with Jackson Swilley on evaluating various subsurface configurations for the ParFlow-CLM model with a test bed in
the Upper Colorado River Basin. Their goal is to select the best subsurface configuration for the CONUS hydrological
simulation, used in the Maxwell Group for a number of research projects.

As we mentioned in the 2019 newsletter, IGWMC Director Reed Maxwell was appointed the Henry Darcy Distin-
guished Lecturer for 2020. As you can imagine, it’s been a unique year to be on a lecture tour, but Dr. Maxwell han-
dled it all in stride. Reed managed to give 11 in-person lectures prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, exciting audiences in
Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, New Mexico and Arizona. The brief in-person tour was continued with 24
lectures given virtually, to audiences at Indiana University, Texas A&M University, Argonne National Lab, the Univer-
sity of California Davis, Newcastle University (UK), the University of Ottawa, Syracuse University, and Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab, just to name a few. The final pre-recorded Darcy was presented during the National Ground-
water Association’s Groundwater Week. Congratulations to Dr. Maxwell for delivering an entertaining and inspiring
lecture series, despite the challenges of 2020.

Dr. Reed Maxwell giving his “Hydrology from the bottom up” Darcy Lecture
during Groundwater Week (pre-recorded).

Our last piece of information is both a bit sad and a bit exciting. The IGWMC will be moving from Colorado School of
Mines to Princeton University in 2021, with several researchers and staff members coming along. The IGWMC has
been based at CSM since 1991, and has hosted many iterations of the MODFLOW and More Conference series, as well
as numerous short courses, workshops, and outreach events. We appreciate and will miss our colleagues in the Geolo-
gy and Geological Engineering Department, as well as our Mines colleagues across campus. It’s been a fun ride and we
hope you all will continue to follow our work!