Prof. John E. McCray is a Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, and the Founding Director of the Hydrologic Science and Engineering Graduate Program at Colorado School of Mines, specializing in hydrology, water resources, and water quality. He earned his Ph.D. in hydrology and water resources from the University of Arizona, and a BS in engineering from West Virginia University. He is a member of the US EPA Science Advisory Board, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute. He is currently the principal investigator at CSM for the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center and the Mines PI of the NSF Engineering Research Center for urban water, ReNUWIt, the first ERC for water. He earned the 2013 Rudolph Hering Medal from ASCE for the top paper in environmental engineering for work on groundwater remediation.