Mary Pikul Anderson is ahydrologist,geologist, andprofessor emerita ofhydrogeology. She is a fellow of theGeological Society of America, theAmerican Geophysical Union,^[1] and theNational Academy of Engineering.^[2]

Anderson was born September 30, 1948, in Buffalo, New York.^[3] She received aB.A. degree at theState University of New York at Buffalo in 1970.^[1] She earned an M.S. in 1971^[1][4] and a PhD^[5] in 1973 fromStanford University. After a brief time atSouthampton College of Long Island University, she joined the faculty of theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975 where she was promoted to professor in 1985.^[1]

Anderson was elected as a member into theNational Academy of Engineering in 2006 for leadership in the development of groundwater-flow models.^[2] Anderson also served as president of the Hydrology Section of theAmerican Geophysical Union from 1996 until 1998, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the journalGroundwater from 2002 until 2005.^[1]

Anderson's research involves groundwater–lake interaction and application of computer models.

She is co-author of two textbooks includingIntroduction to Groundwater Modeling^[6] andApplied Groundwater Modeling, now in a 2nd edition (2015).^[7] She has been cited as turning groundwater modeling into a "fundamental tool of practicing hydrologists."^[8]

• Anderson, Mary P.; Cherry, John A. (1979-11-01)."Using models to simulate the movement of contaminants through groundwater flow systems".C R C Critical Reviews in Environmental Control.9 (2):97–156.Bibcode:1979CREC....9...97A.doi:10.1080/10643387909381669.ISSN 0007-8999.
• Anderson, Mary P.; Cherry, John A. (1979-11-01)."Using models to simulate the movement of contaminants through groundwater flow systems".C R C Critical Reviews in Environmental Control.9 (2):97–156.Bibcode:1979CREC....9...97A.doi:10.1080/10643387909381669.ISSN 0007-8999.
• ANDERSON, MARY P. (1989-04-01)."Hydrogeologic facies models to delineate large-scale spatial trends in glacial and glaciofluvial sediments".GSA Bulletin.101 (4):501–511.Bibcode:1989GSAB..101..501A.doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1989)101<0501:HFMTDL>2.3.CO;2.ISSN 0016-7606.

• M. King Hubbert Award of the Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers and theNational Ground Water Association (1992)^[9]
• O.E. Meinzer Award, Geological Society of America (1998)^[10]
• Fellow, Geological Society of America^[when?][11]
• Fellow, American Geophysical Union (1999)^[12]
• C.V. Theis Award, American Institute of Hydrology (2000)^[13]
• Elected member, National Academy of Engineering (2006)^[2]
• Walter Langbein lecture, American Geophysical Union (2007)^[14]

• Mary P. Anderson publications indexed byGoogle Scholar

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