"Critical Water Issues for South Texas"

Dr. Robert E. Mace
Luncheon on May 19, 2010
11:30am at the Solomon Ortiz Convention Center

Robert E. Mace is a deputy executive administrator at the Texas Water Development Board and manages the Water Science and Conservation program area for the agency. He has a B.S. in geophysics and an M.S. in hydrology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a Ph.D. in hydrogeology from The University of Texas at Austin. He worked eight years as a staff hydrogeologist at the Bureau of Economic Geology before joining the Texas Water Development Board in the summer of 1999.

Robert Mace was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in the northwestern part of the state among cornfields, the Mississippi, and a nuclear power plant. A love of rocks and mathematics pulled him west where he received degrees in geophysics and hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Love also pulled him to Austin where he pursued a Ph.D. in hydrogeology and a woman in engineering at the University of Texas, and captured them both! Robert has worked on a variety of water-related issues in Texas, including leaking gasoline stations, the Edwards Aquifer, and aquifer management. He currently manages a group of 85 folks in the Water Science and Conservation group at the Texas Water Development Board that studies the rivers and aquifers of the state, promotes the conservation of the state’s water, and pursues innovative technologies such as desalination, rainwater collection, and water reuse.

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