B.E., University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Agricultural Engineering, 1972
M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil Engineering, 1974
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil Engineering, 1976

Dr. Maidment's teaching focuses on surface water hydrology and on computer and statistical methods in water resources.  His research deals with solving hydrology and water resources problems using geographic information systems and statistical methods.   He received the l988 Boggess Award from the American Water Resources Association for the best paper published in l987 in the Water Resources Bulletin, the 1990 Resources Division Best paper Award from the American Water Works Association, and the 1996 Arch Campbell Award from the New Zealand Water and Wastes Association for "Service to International Hydrology".  He is editor in chief of the Handbook of Hydrology published by McGraw-Hill.  For more information, see Dr. Maidment's home page.

Representative Publications

Whiteaker, T., D.R. Maidment, J. L. Goodall, and M. Takamatsu, “Integrating Arc Hydro features with a schematic network”, Transactions in GIS, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 219 – 238, 2006.

Whiteaker, T., O. Robayo, D.R. Maidment, and D. Obenour, “From a Nexrad rainfall map to a flood inundation map”, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Volume 11, No. 1, pp. 37-45, January 2006

Zheng, C.-M., J. Lin and D.R. Maidment. “Internet data sources for groundwater modeling”, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 136-138, March 2006.

Maidment, D.R., New tools for applying GIS in water resources, Australian Journal of Water Resources, Vol. 8, No.1, 2004.

Tate, E.C., F. Olivera, and D.R. Maidment, Creating a terrain model for floodplain mapping, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 100-108, 2002.

Hellweger, F. and D.R. Maidment, "Geographic identification of hydrologic elements," Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 10-18, 1999

Graham, S.T., J.S. Famiglietti, and D.R. Maidment, "Five minute, 1/2º, and 1º data sets of continental watersheds and river networks for use in regional and global hydrologic and climate system modeling studies," Water Resources Research, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 583-587, 1999

Maidment, D.R. (Ed.), Handbook of Hydrology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993

Chow, V.T., Maidment, D.R., and Mays, L.W. Applied Hydrology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988.