Dr. Mike Fienen is a Research Hydrologist specializing in groundwater modeling, parameter estimation, statistical and probabilistic modeling, and uncertainty analysis 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, earning an M.S. degree in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2006.  Mike was a National Research Council postdoctoral research associate from 2006-2008 at the USGS in Wisconsin, converting to a Hydrologist position in 2008 and his current Research Hydrologist position in 2011.  Mike is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. When not working on modeling projects, Mike can usually be found bicycling, playing music, traveling, cooking, or some combination of those pursuits.

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