Keynote Speaker

Dr. George Veni in Parks Ranch Cave

Dr. Robert Mace, Phd

Robert Mace is the Executive Director of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University. Robert has over 30 years of experience in water resources and policy. Robert has a B.S. in Geophysics and an M.S. in Hydrology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a Ph.D. in Hydrogeology from the University of Texas at Austin. He published a book on groundwater sustainability in 2022 and is currently working on a book about water resources and climate change.

Our Past Keynote Speakers

2025
Dr. Scott W. Tinker
Geological Society of America Fellow

2024
Cynthia Delaney Palomares, P.G.,P.E.
Engineering Geologist and Environmental Engineer

2023
Larry White P.G.,P.E.
National Society of Professional Engineers

2022
Dr. George Veni
Karst hydrogeologist

2019
Dr. Ralph O. Ewers
Eastern Kentucky University

2018
Dr. Todd Halihan
Oklahoma State University

2017
Dr. Thomas Adams
Whitte Museum

 

 

2016
Dr. Maureen Muldoon
University of Wisconsin

2015
Dr. Neven Kresic
Amec Foster Wheeler

2014
Dr. Robert Brinkmann
Hofstra University