Rate My Professor Thomas Missimer

Missimer's extensive professional experience encompasses over 45 years in hydrogeology, including founding and leading consulting firms such as Missimer Hydrological Services, Inc. since 2011, Schlumberger Water Services in various capacities from 2007 to 2010, and earlier companies like Missimer International, Inc. His research focuses on groundwater development, water resources management, aquifer storage and recovery, managed aquifer recharge, seawater desalination, contamination remediation, sedimentary geology, and coastal geology, with projects in southern Florida, Saudi Arabia, and Uruguay. He is the author or co-author of 11 books, including "Arid Lands Water Evaluation and Management" (2012), "Aquifer Storage and Recovery and Managed Aquifer Recharge: Planning, Hydrogeology, Design, and Operation" (2010), "Water Supply Development, Aquifer Storage, and Concentrate Disposal for Membrane Water Treatment Facilities" (2009, second edition), and "Intakes and Outfalls for Seawater Reverse-Osmosis Desalination Facilities: Innovations and Environmental Impacts" (2015). Missimer has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 400 technical papers, and served as Executive Editor of the journal Groundwater. His contributions include multiple awards from the Society for Technical Communication for book publications, the 2014 Editor’s Choice Award from Hydrogeology Journal, and in 2024, a $2.5 million donation with his wife to FGCU's Department of Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Engineering—the largest ever from a faculty member—to fund research, scholarships, and a professorship.