Providing custom project outcomes including public presentations, peer-reviewed journal articles, and consulting reports, with examples illustrated below.
Aquifer testing analysis
Evaluation of hydraulic properties and incorporation of results into numerical groundwater flow models – Assessing specific-capacity data and short-term aquifer testing to estimate hydraulic properties in alluvial aquifers of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA
Identification of outflow from a mine pit lake
Recognition of outflow from a contaminated pit lake into downgradient groundwater and streams – Contaminant generation and transport from mine pit lake to perennial stream system: Multidisciplinary investigations at the Big Ledge Mine, Nevada, USA
Tracing interactions between contaminated groundwater and surface water
Identified spatially-dynamic exchanges between groundwater and surface water that controls contaminant fluxes in urban areas – Natural and Anthropogenic Geochemical Tracers to Investigate Residence Times and Groundwater–Surface-Water Interactions in an Urban Alluvial Aquifer
Tracing regional-scale groundwater flow paths
Mapped the prevalence of regional-scale groundwater flow and solute transport in a complex mountain Superfund site – Tracing metal sources and groundwater flow paths in the Upper Animas River watershed using rare earth elements and stable isotopes
Identifying controls on geothermal systems
Mapped the distribution of geothermal springs and identified features that are potentially susceptible to surface changes – Prioritizing resource protection and understanding potential susceptibility of springs to surficial changes in a low-temperature geothermal system
Statistical analysis of water-level trends
Used non-parametric statistics to identify groundwater connectivity between multiple distinctive crystalline bedrock aquifers – Hydrologic compartmentalization and analytic-element groundwater-flow simulations for a draining mine tunnel
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