Rate My Professor Steven Gorelick

Gorelick’s research focuses on groundwater management, water security, water resources vulnerability in developing regions, optimal remediation design, hydrogeophysics, ecohydrology, groundwater solute transport processes, and global oil supply and demand. He has held numerous visiting appointments, including positions at ETH Zurich, the University of Cambridge, CSIRO in Australia, and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Gorelick is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the Geological Society of America. His honors include the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation (2022-23), the Alexander von Humboldt Award (2021-22), the Excellence in Teaching Award from Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences (2018), the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (1990), and the M. King Hubbert Science Award from the National Ground Water Association (2004). He has authored or co-authored extensively cited publications and books, including Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths (2011). Gorelick has served on numerous advisory committees, editorial boards, and as chair of university research committees at Stanford.