Dr. Miguel A. Medina Jr. has been a Professional Hydrologist since 1983 and is a Professor Emeritus in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida. In 1984, he was selected as a Fulbright Scholar at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a past Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, a member of the ASCE Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate, an External Evaluator of the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (2002-2004), and the Lead Evaluator (2007) of the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme. He has conducted research on hydrologic and transport modeling for the U.S. EPA, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Water Research and Technology, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, the Naval Oceanographic Office, DuPont Engineering, the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, and the State of North Carolina. His research results are reported in Advances in Water Resources, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Ground Water, Desalination, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Engineering, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, and Journal of Environmental Engineering.