Mary Pikul Anderson is a hydrologist, geologist, and professor emerita of hydrogeology.
She is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union,[1] and the National Academy of Engineering.
[1] Anderson was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for leadership in the development of groundwater-flow models.
[2] Anderson also served as president of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union from 1996 until 1998, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Groundwater from 2002 until 2005.
[7] She has been cited as turning groundwater modeling into a "fundamental tool of practicing hydrologists.