specializes with groundwater modelling software training and consulting services . the company was started by nilson guiguer and thomas franz who were developing software for their research at the university of waterloo in 1988 . the company was later founded in 1989 as waterloo hydrogeologic software whs . 1 the company first released flowpath which at the time was the first fully integrated graphical groundwater modelling software . in the fall of 1993 waterloo hydrogeologic became incorporated changing their name to waterloo hydrogeologic inc or whi and started with the development of visual modflow . the company diversified into groundwater software training and consulting services as it expanded . on january 10 2005 waterloo hydrogeologic was acquired by schlumberger s water services technology group . 2 on march 13 2015 waterloo hydrogeologic was acquired by nova metrix llc 3 and was renamed to waterloo hydrogeologic . references edit whitton bob 1994 08 31 . software developed for water studies . uw news . release no. 125 . archived from the original on 2012 05 30 . retrieved 2015 06 03 . http web.archive.org web 20070929132042 http www.flowpath.com whi slb press release.htm http www.nova metrix.com press room.html external links edit official website this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title waterloo hydrogeologic & oldid 738631556 categories companies established in 1989engineering software companiescanadian company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 04 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view