Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program at Colorado
School of Mines
Departments & Faculty
The Hydrologic
Science and Engineering (HSE) Program at the Colorado School of
Mines is an interdisciplinary graduate program designed to provide
students with a solid background in quantitative environmental
(physical and chemical) hydrology and allow them to explore specialties
within related fields, particularly with emphasis on areas of expertise
of the participating faculty. Links to faculty web pages and email
addresses are provided below.
Feel free to contact us about the HSE program and our research
programs!
Limnology; wetlands treatment of mine
wastes; treatment systems for produced waters from petroleum
operations; environmental site characterization and risk assessment
Water and wastewater treatment engineering;
potable and non-potable water reuse; characterization of natural and
effluent organic matter; contaminant transfer among environmental
media; fate of compounds and pharmaceuticals in natural and engineered
systems
Surface chemistry; environmental
radiochemistry; metal-organic interactions; the physical/chemical
processes controlling the fate of chemical species in natural and
engineered systems
Chemistry of natural organic matter;
abiotic oxidation/reduction reactions; hydrolysis reaction rates and
mechanisms; environmental partitioning from aqueous to soil/sediment
and other systems; particle effects in aqueous chemistry; geochemical
processes in systems contaminated with acid mine drainage; chemistry in
wetlands
Biological degradation of organic
compounds; microbial communities in groundwater and water treatment
systems; application of molecular biology techniques to environmental
systems
Ground water flow and transport modeling,
inverse modeling, characterization of subsurface heterogeneity,
uncertainty evaluation, data fusion, geostatistical simulation
Geochemical influences on metal transport
and bioavailability; environmental colloids and suspended particles;
natural organic matter; field-flow fractionation methods; ICP-AES/MS
methods; chemistry of acid-mine drainage
Environmental microbiology and biogeochemistry, Biotechnological applications towards groundwater remediation and water reuse, Bacterial cytochrome-mediated degradation of emerging organic contaminants with a focus on micropollutants such as nitrosamines, Bioattenuation of metals and radionuclides
Environmental characterization and risk
assessment; subsurface treatment of contaminated land, water, and waste
water treatment, and reuse in natural and alternative systems
Water-rock interactions, aqueous
geochemistry, solute transport, evolution of groundwater chemistry,
landfill geochemistry and impact on water quality, petroleum geology
and geochemistry of tight gas sands, spatial-statistical analysis of
hydrochemical data
Fate and effects of toxic metals and
organic contaminants in aquatic environments, oxidation of organic
contaminants in natural and engineered systems, photochemistry of
natural organic matter, reactions of oxygen species in aquatic
environments, interactions between metals and natural organic matter
Reservoir engineering and groundwater hydrogeology in general
, Quantitative analysis and mathematical modeling approaches to flow and transport processes in porous and fractured reservoirs, Phenomena and coupled processes of multi-phase fluids, multi-component chemicals, and heat in variably saturated subsurface systems, Transient pressure and tracer tests in characterizing aquifers and oil/gas reservoirs
