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Current Graduate Students in the UT/Austin Physical Hydrogeology Program

Masters:
Allen, Erica (Dave Eaton, co-advisor)
Miller, Lelan (Chip Groat, co-advisor)
Neill, Peggy
Stevens, Joel
Wiles, Tom

Doctoral:
Budge, Trevor
Davidson, Sarah
Garcia-Fresca, Beatriz (Jerry Lucia and Charlie Kerans, co-advisors)
Garner, Terence
Gary, Marcus
Hauwert, Nico
Nance, Seay
Pierce, Suzanne (Dave Eaton, co-advisor)
Slottke, Don
Wolaver, Brad
 
 

Recent Graduate Students

Masters:

Bene, James, 2000 (Spring), Non-Darcy Flow Through Porous Media [Harden and Associates, Austin, TX]

Fenstemaker, Thomas F., 2000 (Summer) Density-Driven Free Convection Across Low Permeability Strata, South Texas Example [Ph. D. student, University of Nevada, Reno, NV]

Khorzad, Kaveh, 2000 (Spring), Land Subsidence Along the Texas Gulf Coast Due to Oil and Gas Withdrawal [Wetrock Groundwater Services, Austin, TX]

Landrum, Michael T., 2000 (Spring), Hydrogeologic Properties of Fracture Skins and their Effects on Radionuclide Transport [National Park Service]

Lindsay (Tsoflias), Sarah Robena 2000 (Summer), Controlled Fracture Study of Geologic Materials [Ph.D. student, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS]

Ressler, Ted, 2001 (Spring), Preliminary Characterization of the Valley-Fill Aquifer in Fortymile Wash, Southwestern Nevada [Groundwater Solutions, Inc., Portland, OR]

Van Broekhoven, Norman G., 2002 (Summer), recharge in a Semi-Arid Basin Aquifer: Ryan and Lobo Flat, Trans-Pecos, Texas, 257p. [Caran & Associates, Austin, TX]

Krothe, Jason, 2002 (Fall), M.S., Role of Utility Trenches in Redirecting Groundwater Flow [Krothe and Associates, Bloomington, IN]

Naing, Thet, 2002 (Fall), M.S., Mapping Hydraulic Conductivity of the Ogallala Aquifer in Texas, 105p. (A. Dutton, co-supervisor) [Geomatrix, Costa Mesa, CA]

Phyu, Thandar, 2002 (Fall), M.S., Transient Modeling of Contaminant Transport in Dual porosity Media with Fracture Skins [Geomatrix, Costa Mesa, CA]

Hobbs, Amy L., 2003 (Summer), M.S., Estimating the Sediment Budget for the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer [Parish Geomorphic, Toronto, ON, Canada]

Garcia-Fresca, Beatriz, 2004 (Summer), M.S., Urban Effects on Groundwater Recharge in Austin, Texas, 173p. [Ph.D. graduate studies at U.T.]

Hemphill, Lloyd, 2005 (Spring), M.S., Hydrogeology of Heterogeneous Alluvium in the Leona Aquifer, Caldwell County, Texas.

White, Kristin Miller, 2005 (Spring), M.S., Hillslope Seepage Erosion, Spring Sapping, and Knickpoint Migration: Evidence Trinity Aquifer, Honey Creek Basin, Comal County, Texas, 149p. [Escarpment Environmental, Austin, TX]

Lindley, Adrian, 2005 (Fall), M.S., The Hydrologic Function of Small Sinkholes in the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone.

Thompson, Clark, 2005 (Fall), M.S., Investigation of Surface Roughness of Natural Rock Fractures Using High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography and Laboratory Flow Test Measurement.

Doctoral:


Darling, Bruce K., 1997, Delineation of the Ground-Water Flow Systems of the Eagle Flat and Red Light Basins of Trans-Pecos, Texas [C. H Fenstermaker and Associates, Lafayette, LA]

McKenna, Thomas E., 1997 (Summer), Geologic and Hydrologic Constraints on Fluid and Heat Flow in Overpressured Rocks of the Rio Grande Embayment, Gulf of Mexico [Delaware Geological Survey, Newark, DE]

Mace, Robert E., 1998 (Spring), Ground-Water Flow and Solute Transport in a Fractured Chalk Outcrop, North-Central Texas [Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX]

Tsoflias, George P., 1999 (Fall), Hydrogeologic Characterization of Fractured Carbonate Aquifers Employing Ground-Penetrating Radar [Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS]

Halihan, Todd, 2000 (Spring), Permeability Structure in Fractured Aquifers [Department of Geology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK] (Todd at UT)

Uliana, Matthew M., 2000 (Fall), Delineation of Regional Groundwater Flow Paths and Their Relation to Regional Structural features in the Salt and Toyah Basins, Trans-Pecos Texas [Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX] (Matt at New Paltz)

Asquith, William, 2003 (Spring), Modeling Runoff-Producing rainfall Hyetographs in Texas Using L Moment Statistics [U. S. Geological Survey, Austin, TX]

Mingjuan Shi, 2005 (Spring), Characterizing Heterogeneity in Low-Permeability Strata and Its Control on Fluid Flow and Solute Transport by Thermohaline Free Convection. [Amerada Hess, Houston, TX]


 


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