Tim is retired from a 30-plus year career as a professor of chemical hydrogeology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a Research 1 university. His doctorate was earned at the Colorado School of Mines. Prior to his academic career he worked as a geophysicist for a major oil company and as a hydrogeologist in the consulting business.
Tim grew up in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico and as a result has an innate attachment to the beautiful yet fragile landscape that surrounds us here in southwest Colorado. His wife, Barbara, although a flatlander by birth, has an equivalently deep attachment to southwest Colorado.
Tim wants to lend his knowledge gained over a long career in water supply and quality to help protect the local watershed, and hopes to accomplish this through UWP board membership. He is adamant that protection of the natural environment is of paramount importance. Throughout his career Tim has supplied the scientific underpinnings for numerous high profile water supply/water quality issues including the passage of the Great Lakes Compact (protecting the Great Lakes from cross-basin water transfers), Crandon mine (a large proposed mine, 60 million tons of copper zinc ore, in the middle of protected wetlands), and Mont Terri (the Swiss national nuclear waste depository test site).
Tim and Barbara live in Ridgway and spend much of their free time bicycling, hiking, backpacking, and the occasional rock climbing or canyoneering adventure. He also enjoys doing woodwork, sailboat racing, and serving as an executive editor for the academic journal entitled “Groundwater.”
The couple has been married for 43 years and have two grown children: Katie (Minneapolis) and Nick (Oakland). Both children are in computer programming careers, and take every possible opportunity to visit this fascinating part of the world.
