They protect the environment and raise the quality of life for all of us.

'Hydrogeology' has become an umbrella term for anything involving water and earth.

Calling oneself a hydrogeologist has many different meanings from completing simple well logging, to analyzing the extent of a chemical spill, to developing a complex groundwater model that reaches thousands of feet below the ocean floor.

While the training for hydrology and hydrogeology are completely different, in practice every hydrologist will do some level of hydrogeology and vice versa.

Hydrogeologists use groundwater models to solve real world problems