David R. Maidment
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering
Phone: (512) 471-0065
Fax: (512) 471-0072
e-mail: maidment@mail.utexas.edu
Dr.
Maidment's Web site
Dr. David Maidment earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976. He joined the faculty of The University
of Texas at Austin in 1981. He directs the
Center for Research in
Water Resources.
Dr. Maidment researches surface water hydrology, particular in the application
of geographic information systems to hydrology. He has been collaborating with
ESRI, the leading manufacturer of geographic information systems (GIS), or
computer programs for geographic data. He has also worked with the Hydrologic
Engineering Center of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to prepare GIS
interfaces for the center’s models. He is the principal designer of the Arc
Hydro data model, which is a customization of the ArcGIS computer program for
water resource data. He and his research team also have current projects
applying GIS for floodplain mapping, water quality modeling, water resources
assessment, hydrologic simulation, global hydrology and the interaction between
surface water and groundwater.
Research interests:
- Environmental assessment
- Hydrologic modeling
- Use of geographic information systems in hydrology