Larry Hinzman received the B.S. degrees in soil science and chemistry from South Dakota State University, Brookings, in 1979, the M.S. degree in agronomy from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree in soil physics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Fairbanks, in 1990. He is currently a Research Professor at the Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, UAF. His primary research interests are permafrost hydrology and spatially distributed hydrological modeling.