Timeline:
retired at the south end of the Butte-Silver Bow (Summit) Valley, Montana, Fall 2019
Dept. of Geology/Geography. West Virginia University, 1992-2019
Ph.D. Geosciences, Penn State, 1992
Professional practice, 1977-1988 (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology; Thurber Consultants, Vazncouver BC)
M.Sc. Geological Sciences, McGill, 1977
B.S. Geography/Geology minor, Penn State 1974
milked cows 1971-72
undergrad study, Middlebury Collage, 1969-71
email [email protected]
Hi! I am a hydrogeologist and former academic with interests in groundwater movement at a variety of scales, dating back to seeing a flowing well in western NY at the age of 13 ( I was hooked). I learned what Geology was from Brewster Baldwin, Dave Folger, and Roger Laurent at Middlebury College in the early 70's, and after a brief stint milking cows in Vermont's Champlain Valley, returned to undergrad study at Penn State in 1973, where I met Dick Parizek (hooked again).
I took an oblique path into academia. I worked for 11 years in research and consulting in Montana (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology) and Western Canada (Thurber Consultants, Vancouver), then returned for PhD work at Penn State, where I worked on a problem of my own selection from eastern Montana: groundwater discharge into lakes from glacial outwash aquifers in a dry climate. My committee at Penn State included Dick Parizek, Chris Duffy, Sue Brantley, Art Rose, and Mike Machesky. I learned a lot of the things I missed first time around.
I came to WVU in 1992, where we are "blessed" with a lot of mine-water problems. I have worked with Paul Ziemziewicz and his group at the WV Water Research Institute, as well as retaining my interests in groundwater-lake-climate interaction. We have studied groundwater movement in surface-mine spoil, flooding of below drainage underground mines, and acidic AMD from above-drainage mines, as well as remediation, recharge and geochemical phenomena in these anthropogenic aquifers.
In 2002, I started the WVU Hydrogeology Research Center on the Evansdale Campus as a lab for students/faculty from WVU Geology to work on applied research problems. It arose from lack of space in the G/G building, but it has worked out well. One of the first hires at HRC was Dorothy Vesper as research faculty. She converted to tenure track in 2004 and has since been a valued colleague in the hydrogeology/geochemistry program.
I retired to Butte MT in 2019 where my wife and I live in the Headwaters of Basin Creek, with a delightful view of Red Mountain, the highest peak in the Highland Mtns (see photo on right). I am finishing up old research, but also hiking, biking, and skiing in the Rocky Mtn region, and hanging with old friends (we were in Montana from 1977-88) including Mike and Debbie Stickney, John Lafave, Ginette Abdo, and more recently Dick Gibson, Chris and Colleen Gammons, and Debbie and Bill Nokes.
The bird in the photo is Beta, our 24 year old military macaw from Cleveland; he enjoys Tostito pizza rolls and pasta. His hobbies include shredding wood, loud squawking, yoga, and mimicry.
I took an oblique path into academia. I worked for 11 years in research and consulting in Montana (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology) and Western Canada (Thurber Consultants, Vancouver), then returned for PhD work at Penn State, where I worked on a problem of my own selection from eastern Montana: groundwater discharge into lakes from glacial outwash aquifers in a dry climate. My committee at Penn State included Dick Parizek, Chris Duffy, Sue Brantley, Art Rose, and Mike Machesky. I learned a lot of the things I missed first time around.
I came to WVU in 1992, where we are "blessed" with a lot of mine-water problems. I have worked with Paul Ziemziewicz and his group at the WV Water Research Institute, as well as retaining my interests in groundwater-lake-climate interaction. We have studied groundwater movement in surface-mine spoil, flooding of below drainage underground mines, and acidic AMD from above-drainage mines, as well as remediation, recharge and geochemical phenomena in these anthropogenic aquifers.
In 2002, I started the WVU Hydrogeology Research Center on the Evansdale Campus as a lab for students/faculty from WVU Geology to work on applied research problems. It arose from lack of space in the G/G building, but it has worked out well. One of the first hires at HRC was Dorothy Vesper as research faculty. She converted to tenure track in 2004 and has since been a valued colleague in the hydrogeology/geochemistry program.
I retired to Butte MT in 2019 where my wife and I live in the Headwaters of Basin Creek, with a delightful view of Red Mountain, the highest peak in the Highland Mtns (see photo on right). I am finishing up old research, but also hiking, biking, and skiing in the Rocky Mtn region, and hanging with old friends (we were in Montana from 1977-88) including Mike and Debbie Stickney, John Lafave, Ginette Abdo, and more recently Dick Gibson, Chris and Colleen Gammons, and Debbie and Bill Nokes.
The bird in the photo is Beta, our 24 year old military macaw from Cleveland; he enjoys Tostito pizza rolls and pasta. His hobbies include shredding wood, loud squawking, yoga, and mimicry.