Groundwater and Environmental Research
Groundwater research
- Risk assessment of groundwater contamination. Real-time data integration in groundwater flow and transport modeling using the ensemble Kalman filter. Optimal monitoring network design for groundwater management.
- Groundwater protection and aquifer vulnerability. Groundwater quality. Acid rock drainage from mines.
- Groundwater and surface water interaction along the White River on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
- Land subsidence modeling. Aquifer system response to pumping through ground-surface elevation monitoring with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR).
- Understanding flow and transport processes in the Madison aquifer. Caves modeling using multiple point geostatistics.
Environmental research
- Environmental effects of mine drainage and tailings disposal. Subsurface contamination and environmental remediation. Water monitoring and water quality assessment on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation through the NSF Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative (PEEC) Program.
Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
- Arden Davis
Groundwater modeling, Contaminant transport, Arsenic and heavy metals
- Perry Rahn
Engineering geology, Hydrogeology
URLs
http://www.westdakotawater.com/projects.html
http://uranium.sdsmt.edu/
http://aquifers.sdsmt.edu/