Dr. Halihan’s professional interests center in subsurface characterization and sustainable water supply. He has been an associate editor for Ground Water and has served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists. He served as the Chair of the Hydrogeology Division and the South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America. He currently serves on the Oklahoma governor’s Coordinating Council on Seismic Activity.
Dr. Halihan’s has worked on over 200 different research and commercial sites in over 30 U.S. states and overseas. His international research work has occurred in Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Iraq, Mexico, and South Africa along with a number of other countries on a commercial basis. He has also spent a significant amount of time in his home state of Oklahoma evaluating the Arbuckle Group of carbonates and associated springs.
Dr. Halihan is the recipient of the Karin and Robert J. Sternberg Award for Excellence, the Partners in Conservation Award from the U.S. Department of Interior, and the Sterling L. Burks Award for environmental research. He is also a professional driller in the state of Oklahoma and a PADI divemaster. He has provided input to stories on CBS, Fox News, NPR, CNBC, Popular Science, the New Yorker and the New York Times.
TOPICS: A Voice for the Aquifer: What Carbonate Aquifers Have to Say
Lecture 1: 2018 NGWA McEllhiney Lecture: Future of Water: Data or Instincts?
Lecture 2: Scale Effects in Carbonate Aquifers
Lecture 3: The Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer of Oklahoma
Lecture 4: Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma
Lecture 5: The Role of the Scientific Referee
Lecture 6: 2018 NGWA McEllhiney Lecture II: Electrical Hydrogeology: A Picture is Worth 1000 Wells
