Teaching and research on the fate, transport, and remediation of contaminants in groundwater
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Field Methods Course: students learning how to read a water level meter to the nearest 1,000th of a meter at the flush-mount wells behind Lapham Hall at UW Milwaukee.
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Road Salt Project showing annual mass discharge of chloride at two locations along the Root River in Racine, Wisconsin
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Uranium Mobility Project: Graduate students Kendal Hoss (back) and Rakiba Sultana (front) preparing a 200-gallon solution of injection fluid for a single-well push-pull test at a uranium-contaminated field site in Riverton, Wyoming in the summer 2021
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Field Methods Course showing students stream gauging on the Milwaukee River at Hubbard Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Uranium Mobility Project showing laboratory experimental setup of flow-though column device containing uranium-contaminated sediments and groundwater in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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Road Salt Project showing Anna Sniadach (geosciences undergrad) presents her research project, “Assessing Methods for Analyzing Total Dissolved Solids: Looking into Water Samples from the Root River in Racine County, WI”
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Uranium Mobility Project showing pre-test isoconcentration profile map of uranium (mg/kg) on aquifer sediments (5% nitric acid leached) above and below baseflow water table (≈ 4.5 ft bgs, ≈ 1.4 m bgs) along A to A’ transect (Fig. 4), bgs = below ground surface, distance from A to A’ is 20 ft (6.1 m), depth is 13 ft (4.0 m).