Steven Gorelick

Steven Gorelick is the Cyrus F. Tolman professor in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. He runs the Hydro Program in the Dept. of Earth System Science and directs the Global Freshwater Initiative. His primary areas of research are water resources in developing countries and ecohydrology. Professor Gorelick has trained 46 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows who lead hydrology programs around the world, and several who work in government or industry. He developed a water treatment process that was patented and commercialized, and he wrote a popular book on global oil depletion – predictions and myths. He is a US National Academy of Engineering member and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Recent and ongoing projects include Colorado River water allocation, leading two international interdisciplinary teams on water security in Jordan and India, respectively, and projects on the causal relations between floods and human health – one in California and the other covering all of India, both in collaboration with Stanford medical school professor Bendavid.