Dr. Martin Dangelmayr’s research on uranium sorption to four different types of rocks (organic-rich phosphorite, a bituminous marl, a chalk, and a sandstone) in the Negev Desert in Israel was recently published in Minerals (link to open source). These rocks… Read More
Rakiba Sultana (PhD student) and Leah Dechant (MS student) were awarded $2,700 and $2,378, respectively, in support of their graduate research projects for the summer of 2022 by the Geological Society of America. Rakiba’s research proposal is focused on the… Read More
Matao Casarez won best poster in the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at UWM with the project titled, “Lithium Metal Recovery from Permian Basin Produced Water“. This research showed that produced water was several times saltier than sea water and… Read More
UW-Milwaukee assistant professor Charlie Paradis is studying how that road salt impacts waterways in our area. “We suspect that there’s a subsurface component that is storing road salt over the summer months,” he explains. LINK TO FULL STORY
Students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) are helping the Office of Legacy Management (LM) evaluate sources of groundwater contamination at LM’s Riverton, Wyoming, Processing Site. See LINK.
New method just published to estimate groundwater velocity from a single-well injection-drift tracer test. The early-view publication can be found online in the journal, Groundwater.
UW-Milwaukee researchers examine road salt’s year-round impact on Wisconsin rivers
Amanda Dahms, Justin Peschman, and Samuel Sellars have been awarded SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWS (SURF) for the Spring 2022 semester. Their research projects are as follows: Amanda Dahms’ project: “Sorption and Desorption Kinetics of 2-NS Groundwater Tracer” Justin Peschman’s… Read More
Special thanks to the UWM SURF program for awarding 3 undergrads (Dylan Childs, Autumn Routson, and Matao Casarez) funding to conduct hydrogeological research in my lab this fall!!! Dylan will be presented at GSA in Portland on the Milwaukee Column… Read More
Dylan Childs presented his research, entitled, “The Milwaukee Column: A Simple, Affordable, and Effective Apparatus for Teaching and Research on One-dimensional Groundwater Flow and Transport” at the 2021 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium. Dylan’s 5-minute presentation can be viewed on YouTube… Read More