Professor Daniel D. Snow is a Research Professor, and Director of the Water Sciences Laboratory, a part of the Nebraska Water Center and Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute. Dr Snow’s research has focused on the studying of the environmental fate of emerging contaminants and agrichemicals in ground and surface water, and ways to use this knowledge to maintain productivity while also conserving the water and natural resources upon which agriculture depends. Snow has been an integral part of the UNL Water Sciences Laboratory (WSL) since 1990. At present, he oversees all aspects of the WSL operations and uses analytical chemistry to help understand how water becomes contaminated and what we can do to prevent it. A good part of his work at the WSL involves creating analytical methods for new or “emerging” environmental contaminants including compounds such as steroids, pharmaceuticals, algal toxins, explosives, and pesticides. Snow is also directly involved in the development of new methods to measure and use stable isotopes as tracers to study environmental problems and processes. Snow also advises and mentors a growing number of undergraduate and graduate students at the WSL.