Hendrik Marten Haitjema (born 1947) is a Dutch and American engineer and hydrologist, and professor emeritus at

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a state university system, system of Public university, public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. The system has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration o ...

. He is a recipient of the 2017 Keith A. Anderson Award of the

National Ground Water Association The National Ground Water Association (NGWA), headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, is a membership-based nonprofit organization. Founded in 1948, the organization is composed of United States and international groundwater professionals in four me ...

. He is the author of the book Analytic Element Modeling of Groundwater Flow and the widely used computational groundwater flow modeling system GFLOW.

Education and career

Haitjema is originally from

Dedemsvaart Dedemsvaart ("Dedem's Canal") (Dutch Low Saxon: ''De Voart'') is a town in Overijssel, the Netherlands. Overview The town is located along an old canal, also called , which is the source of the village's name. The canal lost its commercial impo ...

, The Netherlands. He earned an M.S. (Ingeniers) in Civil Engineering in 1976 from the

Delft University of Technology The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...

. He came to America in 1978 and joined Professor Otto D.L. Strack at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

to work on the first computer model to implement the

analytic element method The analytic element method (AEM) is a numerical method used for the solution of partial differential equations. It was initially developed by O.D.L. Strack at the University of Minnesota. It is similar in nature to the boundary element method (BE ...

for groundwater flow mechanics. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 1982 from the University of Minnesota and became an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Minnesota. In 1984, he joined the faculty of

as an Associate Professor to teach groundwater flow modeling and applied mathematics and was promoted to Full Professor in 1997. His research has been supported by the US Geological Survey, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Forest Service, US Department of Energy, National Institute for Global and Environmental Change, and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. He retired from Indiana University in 2012. While at IU, he mentored 7 Ph.D. students, and numerous Masters students, several of whom produced a research thesis. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal ''Groundwater'' from 2014 to 2020.

Selected publications

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Recognition

* Keith E. Anderson Award of the National Ground Water Association (2017) * Bechert Award of the Indiana Water Resources Association (2013) * Braun/Braun Intertec Visiting Professorship, University of Minnesota (2005)

References

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