Dr. Mike Fienen is a hydrologist specializing in groundwater modeling and parameter estimation at the USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center in Middleton, Wisconsin USA.  A native of Minnesota, Mike earned a B.A. in Geology with a Russian Language minor from Macalester College in 1993.  He then embarked on a consulting career where he conducted field investigations throughout the US and the Pacific Ocean and performed groundwater and air dispersion modeling studies.  In 2000, Mike enrolled in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology program in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University under the guidance of his adviser Dr. Peter Kitanidis, earning an M.S. degree in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2006.  Mike was a National Research Council postdoc from 2006-2008 at the USGS in Wisconsin, converting to his current Hydrologist position in 2008.  When not working on modeling projects, Mike can usually be found bicycling, playing music, traveling, cooking, or some combination of those pursuits.

Michael N. Fienen, Ph. D.