Nevada Water Resources Association

Kimball Goddard graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Geochemistry/Petrology in 1972. After a field season of geologic mapping in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, he begin his career with the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in the fall of 1972 at Pueblo, Colorado. Initially in the streamgaging program, he later worked on ground-water contamination issues along the Colorado Front Range, urban runoff, and developed a waste-load assimilation model of the Arkansas River near Pueblo. In 1977, Kimball transferred to the Grand Junction Colorado office where he worked on water-quality issues related to oil-shale development and Colorado River salinity. In 1980, he transferred to Rapid City, South Dakota to head an urban runoff study, and was later involved in several research efforts focused on arsenic contamination resulting from gold mining in the northern Black Hills.

Kimball assumed the duties of Subdistrict Chief of the Rapid City Subdistrict office in 1982. Since that time, he has held various senior management positions with the water resources portion of USGS in several western States, including South Dakota, Arizona, Idaho, and Utah. He was named District Chief of the Utah District in January 1996, where he spent seven years before assuming the position of Nevada District Chief in November 2002. In 2004, in concurrence with naming conventions used throughout the USGS, Kimball became Director, USGS Nevada Water Science Center (same position, different title).