Mark Bakker, Ph.D.
Associate

Mark learned the importance of water early on in his native Holland, where water management is a necessity for survival. He received a civil engineering degree from Delft in Holland, before moving to the United States to obtain a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota under Professor Otto Strack.

Mark has developed a number of new techniques and computer programs for the modeling of groundwater flow. He developed the algorithms for the delineation of capture zones for the original U.S. EPA code WhAEM. He developed an entirely new formulation for modeling seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers; which was written for the popular USGS code MODFLOW. As an Associate of WHPA, Mark developed a computer program for the simulation of groundwater flow under sinusoidal stresses for the South Florida Water Management District.

His most notable accomplishment to date has been the development of the analytic element method for multi-aquifer flow. The computer program TimML, written by Dr. Bakker, forms the basis of the patented three-dimensional technique for collector well studies that WHPA developed over the past years. Mark is developing new modeling techniques for flow through heterogeneous vadose zones, and the integration of time-series analysis in groundwater systems.

Dr. Bakker, whose primary job is currently at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, has been an active participant in technology development and application at WHPA over the past 10 years.

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