Itasca is an international geotechnical consulting company and software developer for the geomechanics, hydrogeologic, and microseismics communities. Itasca has a background of practical engineering and field experience paired with unparalleled knowledge of state-of-the-art numerical modeling and analysis techniques, and the validation of these techniques using field monitoring. Itasca’s software products are among the most widely used, widely respected tools of their kind. Consulting and research activities focus on the analysis of the performance of groundwater, and rock and soil masses, and the engineered structures that are dependent on their behavior, in the mining, civil, and energy industries.