Keith S. Porter, Director: New York State Water Resources Institute (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), LL.M, DeMontford Law School, (De Montford University, Leicester UK, 1999), and B.A. (Mathematics, University of California, 1964). Appointed at Cornell University as Visiting Assistant Professor in 1974, he subsequently directed groundwater research that influenced land use policy to protect groundwater, and on pesticide regulation at state and federal levels. Keith has had a leading role in the nonpoint source program of New York State. He was appointed the Director of the New York State Water Resources Institute at Cornell in 1986. Under federal and state law, the Institute supports research, education, and outreach concerning water and associated environmental problems to create, disseminate, and apply knowledge to assist government, communities, businesses and other constituencies, in meeting their water resource and associated environmental needs. Since 1990, Keith Porter has been a principal in the nationally important New York City Watershed Program, engaging Cornell faculty in research across multiple disciplines. In 1997, Keith Porter was awarded the Community and Rural Development Institute Innovator Award on behalf of the Cornell interKeith S. Porter, Director: New York State Water Resources Institute (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), LL.M, DeMontford Law School, (De Montford University, Leicester UK, 1999), and B.A. (Mathematics, University of California, 1964). Appointed at Cornell University as Visiting Assistant Professor in 1974, he subsequently directed groundwater research that influenced land use policy to protect groundwater, and on pesticide regulation at state and federal levels. Keith has had a leading role in the nonpoint source program of New York State. He was appointed the Director of the New York State Water Resources Institute at Cornell in 1986. Under federal and state law, the Institute supports research, education, and outreach concerning water and associated environmental problems to create, disseminate, and apply knowledge to assist government, communities, businesses and other constituencies, in meeting their water resource and associated environmental needs. Since 1990, Keith Porter has been a principal in the nationally important New York City Watershed Program, engaging Cornell faculty in research across multiple disciplines. In 1997, Keith Porter was awarded the Community and Rural Development Institute Innovator Award on behalf of the Cornell interdisciplinary team. In 1998, he was awarded the Addleshaw Booth & Company Postgraduate Environmental Law Prize by De Montford Law School. In 2003, he received the Water Resources Achievement Award, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Keith Porter is also the US Editor for the Journal of Water Law. He will teach the Water Law in Theory and Practice Clinic in the fall and spring semesters.