DavidMaidment

Bio
David R. Maidment is the Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair Emeritus in Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he served on the faculty from 1981 to 2019.  He received his Bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering with First Class Honors from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Maidment is a specialist in surface water hydrology, and in particular in the application of geographic information systems to hydrology. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering “For development of geographic information systems applied to hydrologic processes”. He was a member of ten National Academies Committees and Chair of five of these Committees. The American Water Resources Association has also established a David R. Maidment Award for Exemplary Contributions to Water Resources Data and Information Systems.

Maidment taught classes in surface water hydrology and GIS in Water Resources. From 1992 to 1995, he was editor of the Journal of Hydrology. Maidment is also co-author of the text Applied Hydrology (McGraw-Hill, 1988), editor in chief of the Handbook of Hydrology (McGraw-Hill, 1993), co-editor of the monograph Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling Support with GIS (ESRI Press, 2000), co-author and editor of Arc Hydro: GIS for Water Resources, (ESRI Press, 2002), and co-author of Arc Hydro Groundwater (ESRI Press, 2011).

Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, 1976
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, 1974
B.S., Agricultural Engineering, University of Canterbury, 1971

Select Awards & Honors

• National Academy of Engineering member (2016) 
• Ray K. Linsley Award – American Institute of Hydrology (2012) 
• Ven Te Chow Award – ASCE (2011) 
• Ray K. Linsley Award – American Institute of Hydrology
• Lifetime Achievement Award – ESRI (2003) 
• Hydrologic Benchmark Award – U.S. Geological Survey (2002)

Related Websites
Center for Water and the Environment
American Water Resources Association Maidment Award

Select Publications