• Scientific Manuscripts
• Media Outreach
• Scientific Conference Presentations
  

• Professor Poeter was recently awarded a research grant from Mitretek
  Systems, to estimate source terms for groundwater contamination.
  
  
• Professors Poeter, Gooseff and McCray were recently awarded a grant from
  the National Ground Water Association to develop an educational video to
  help communities understand the nature of ground/surface water interaction.
  
  
• Professor Benson and several collaborators were recently awarded a research grant from DOE Basic Energy Sciences to investigate anomolous dispersion in aquifers.
  
  
• Professor Gooseff and several collaborators were recently awarded a grant to develop a Modular Online Curriculum for Hydrology Advancement (MOCHA). Funding was awarded from the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program within NSF.
  
  
• Professor McCray is a Co-PI on a multi-institution $1.1 M research grant from the U.S. Dept. of Defense SERDP program. The goal of the project is to understand DNAPL behavior during ground-water flow and biochemical-enhanced remediation in fractured rock. The project is a collaboration between CSM, Auburn University, and Shaw EnvironmentalGroup, Inc.
  
  
• Professor Thyne is a co-PI on a multi-institution $2.8 M DOE research project that is funded out of DOE-Fossil Energy.
  
  
• Prof. McCray recently served on an expert Panel to review research for the U.S. DOE Environmental Science and Remediation Program in Washington DC.

Recent Scientific Manuscripts:
*indicates student lead author

Sub-stream Active Layer Dynamics	*Brosten, T, JH Bradford, JP McNamara, JP Zarnetske, MN Gooseff, WB Bowden. 2006. Profiles of temporal thaw depths beneath two arctic stream types using ground-penetrating radar. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 17(4):341-355.
Surface Water Hydrodynamics	*Arp, CD, MN Gooseff, MA Baker, and W Wurtsbaugh. 2006. Surface-water hydrodynamics and regimes of a small mountain stream-lake ecosystem. Journal of Hydrology, 329(1-4): 500-513.
NAPL transport	*Johnson, R., and E. Poeter. 2006. Insights into the use of time-lapse GPR data as observations for inverse multiphase flow simulations of DNAPL migration. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 89: 136-155.
Groundwater flow	Edington, D., and E. Poeter, 2006, Stratigraphic control of flow and transport characteristics, Ground Water, 44(6): 826-831.
Solute Transport	Zhang, Y., D.A. Benson, M.M. Meerschaert, E.M. LaBolle, and H.-P. Scheffler. 2006. Random walk approximation of fractional-order multiscaling anomalous diffusion. Physical Review E, 74, 026706.
Solute Transport	Zhang, Y., D.A. Benson, M.M. Meerschaert, and H.-P. Scheffler. 2006. On using random walks to solve the space-rractional advection-dispersion equations. Journal of Statistical Physics, Pages 1-22, DOI 10.1007/s10955-006-9042-x.
Solute Transport	Benson, D. A., M. M. Meerschaert, B. Baeumer, and H. Scheffler 2006. Aquifer operator scaling and the effect on solute mixing and dispersion, Water Resources Research, 42, W01415, doi:10.1029/2004WR003755.
Fracture Flow in Groundwater	*Wellman, T. P., and E. P. Poeter, 2006, Evaluating the uncertainty in predicting spatially variable representative elementary scales in fractured aquifers, Water Resources Research, 42, W08410, doi:10.1029/2005WR004431.
Soil Mechanics	*Likos, W.J., and Lu, N. 2006. Pore-scale analysis of bulk volume change from crystaline interlayer swelling in Na+ - and Ca2+ smectite. Clays and Clay Minerals, 54(4), 516-529.
Soil Mechanics	*Lechman, J., Lu, N., and Wu, D. 2006. Hysteresis of capillary stress and soil suction in mono-disperse disk-shaped particles. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 132(5), 565-576.
Soil Mechanics	Lu, N., Wayllace, A., Carrera, J., and Likos, W.J. 2006. Constant flow method for concurrently measuring soil-water characteristic curve and hydraulic conductivity function. Journal of Geotechnical Testing, 29(3), 256-266.
Soil Mechanics	Lu, N., and Likos, W.J. 2006. Suction stress characteristic curve for unsaturated soil. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 132(2), 131-142.
Parameter Optimization	Banta, E.R., Poeter, E.P., Doherty, J.E., and Hill, M.C., 2006, JUPITER: Joint Universal Parameter IdenTification and Evaluation of Reliability--An application programming interface (API) for model analysis: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 06-E1, 268 p.
Wastewater Fate and Transport	*Dano, K., E.P. Poeter, and G.D. Thyne, 2006, Fate of Individual Sewage Disposal System Wastewater in Mountainous Terrain, CO. Colorado Water Ground Water Association Newsletter, March 2006.
MODFLOW Conference 2006	Poeter E.P, C. Zheng, and M.C. Hill, 2006, editors for Proceedings of MODFLOW and MORE 2006: Managing Ground-Water Systems Conference of the International Ground-Water Modeling Center, Golden, CO, 810p.
Applied Hydrologic Tracing	*Statom, R.A., McCray, J.E, Thyne, G.D. 2006. Conceptual model for landfill hydrologic transport developed using chloride tracer data and dual-domain modeling. Environmental and Engineering Geosciences, 12(1), 67-78.
Statistical Analysis in Geochemistry	*Güler, C. and G. D. Thyne. 2006. Statistical clustering of major solutes: Use as a tracer for evaluating interbasin groundwater flow into Indian Wells Valley, California. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, 12(1), 53-65.
Wastewater Treatment	*Rauch-Williams, T. & JE Drewes. 2006. Using soil biomass as an indicator for the biological removal of effluent-derived organic carbon during soil infiltration. Water Research 40, 961-968.
Water Treatment Technology	*Xu, P., Drewes, J. E., Kim, T. Bellona, C. & Amy, G. 2006. Effect of membrane fouling on transport of emerging organic contaminants in NF/RO membrane applications. Journal of Membrane Science 279, 165-175.
Antarctic Hydrology	Gooseff, MN, WB Lyons, DM McKnight, BH Vaughn, AG Fountain, and C Dowling. 2006. A stable isotopic investigation of a polar desert hydrologic system, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 38(1): 60-71.
Watershed Biogeochemistry	Hood, E, MN Gooseff, and SL Johnson. 2006. Changes in the character of stream water dissolved organic carbon during flushing in three small watersheds, Oregon. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, G01007, doi:10.1029/2005JG000082.
Controls on Hyporheic Exchange	Gooseff, MN, JK Anderson, SM Wondzell, J LaNier, and R Haggerty. 2006. A modeling study of hyporheic exchange pattern and the sequence, size, and spacing of stream bedforms in mountain stream networks, Oregon, USA. Hydrological Processes, 20(11): 2443-2457.

Media Coverage:

Science

Science journal reports on climate change-related research at Toolik field station in Alaska, including Dr. Michael Gooseff's field project on groundwater-surface water interactions in the area. [article] [project website]

Recent Scientific Conference Presentations:
* indicates student presentation

MODFLOW and More 2006: Managing Ground-Water Systems	Zhang, Y., D.A. Benson, M.M. Meerschaert, E.M. LaBolle, and H.-P. Scheffler (2006), Lagrangian characterization of contaminant transport through multidimensional heterogeneous media with limited heterogeneity information, Proceedings, MODFLOW and More 2006: Managing Ground-Water Systems, May 21-24, 2006, Golden, CO, E. Poeter, M. Hill, and C. Zhang, eds., IGWMC/, pp. 639-643.
MODFLOW and More 2006: Managing Ground-Water Systems	Monnig, N. and D.A. Benson (2006), Ensemble solute transport in 2D operator-stable random fields, Proceedings, MODFLOW and More 2006: Managing Ground-Water Systems, May 21-24, 2006, Golden, CO, E. Poeter, M. Hill, and C. Zhang, eds., IGWMC, pp. 684-688.
5th International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds	Kaback, D., Warner, S., Looney, B., Mercer, J., Poeter, E., McCray. J., Steeples, D., and Tyler, D., 2006, An Approach to Refining a DNAPL Conceptual Model, 5th International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Sponsored by Battelle, May 22-25, 2006.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005	*Reeves, DM, DA Benson, and MM Meerschaert. 2005. On the predictability of solute transport in fractured media, AGU Annual Meeting, 4-9 December 2005, San Francisco, CA.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005	*Zhang, Y, DA Benson, MM Meerschaert, and H-P Scheffler. 2005 Random-walk solutions of fractional advection-dispersion equations, AGU Annual Meeting, 4-9 December, San Francisco, CA.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005	Benson, DA, Y Zhang, MM Meerschaert, and H-P Scheffler. 2005. Lagrangian framework of super-Fickian dispersion. AGU Annual Meeting, 4-9 December, San Francisco, CA.
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2005	*Reeves, DM, DA Benson, and MM Meerschaert. 2005. Predictions of solute transport in fractured media using operator-stable densities and fracture network statistics, GSA Annual Meeting, 16-19 October, Salt Lake City, UT.
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2005	*Zhang, Y, and DA Benson. 2005. On the prediction of the breakthrough curve tails of tracers through regional-scale alluvial aquifer systems:, GSA Annual Meeting, 16-19 October, Salt Lake City, UT.
ModelCare 2005	Poeter, E., and D. Anderson, 2005. AIC as a measure of information for multi-model ranking and inference in ground-water modeling. ModelCare2005, The Hague, Netherlands.
National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association Meeting	*Doyle, S., McCray, J.E., Lowe, K.S., Thyne, G.D., 2005. Modeling phosphorus reaction and transport at an experimental onsite wastewater site, In: Proceedings of the NOWRA Annual Mtg, Cleveland, OH., National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA), Laurel, MD.
American Society of Civil Engineers Watershed Management Conf. 2005	McCray, J.E., Doyle, S., Thyne, G., Lowe, K.S., Siegrist, R.E., 2005. Assessing contaminant transport in a small Rocky Mountain watershed using monitoring data and mathematical modeling, Proceedings of the 2005 Watershed Management Conference, July 19-22, 2005, Williamsburg, VA; (Sponsored by Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers)