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V.P., Research and Technology
Vic Kelson is a certified groundwater professional
and one of the leading developers of
hydrological modeling tools and codes in the
United States. He has written groundwater modeling
code for the USEPA, tools for pre and postprocessing
South Florida Water Management
District's regional simulation model (RSM) and he
has developed other tools that are now embedded
in the commercial Groundwater Management
System 
(GMS). Dr. Kelson is a co-inventor
of a new technique for modeling the effects of
collector wells on groundwater flow (patent pending).
A native of Colorado, Dr. Vic Kelson earned his B.S. in Chemical and Petroleum-Refining Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and went to work as a process engineer at a fertilizer manufacturing plant in the Midwest. Later he worked as a process control systems engineer, designing and building new computerized control systems for a plastics manufacturer. Vic's first experience with groundwater came when he helped to study the attenuation of a nitrate plume in response to corrective actions at the fertilizer plant.
Subsequent to his time in manufacturing Vic became a research scientist and graduate student the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. While at IU, Vic applied his skill as software developer to the problems of groundwater hydrology. After completing the Master's program, he continued study under Dr. Henk Haitjema, and completed his Ph.D. in 1998. By this time, Vic had completed the development of the U.S. EPA's wellhead protection code WhAEM for Windows.
Before becoming a Vice President and partner at WHPA, Vic worked for two years as a Senior Engineer in the Hydrologic Systems Modeling Division at the South Florida Water Management District. While in Florida, Vic was primarily responsible for generic groundwater model code development including methods for integrating the results of surface water and groundwater flow models. At WHPA, Vic is responsible for managing the development of modeling and data management tools for application to water resources planning.
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