Past Darcy Lecturers

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2024 – Matthew Becker, Ph.D.

Matthew W. Becker "Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing as a Window on Subsurface Flow"

"How Groundwater Impacts the People and Ecosystems of the South Pacific Islands"

2023 — Alicia Wilson, Ph.D

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"Subseafloor Hydrogeology: Moving Beyond Watersheds"

"Please Check Your Assumptions at the Coastline: 15 Years of Wading Through Salt Marshes"

2021-2022 — Chen Zhu, Ph.D.

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“How Are Geochemical Reactions in Aquifers Connected to Climate Change Mitigation?”

“Hydrogeochemistry: Recent Advances and Opportunities and Challenges Ahead”

“Watershed-Scale Hydrological Models as a Community CyberPlatform for Research, Teaching, and Service to Society”

2020 — Reed Maxwell, Ph.D.

maxwell-reed-2020 “Hydrology from the Bottom Up: How Groundwater Shapes the Water Cycle”

“Hydrology in the Supercomputing Age: How Computational Advances Have Revolutionized Our Field, And What Big Data and Massively Parallel Simulations Mean for the Future of Hydrologic Discovery”

“Killer Beetles, Naked Trees, and Dirty Water: Understanding Hydrology and Water Quality Impacts from the Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation in the Rocky Mountain West”

2019 — John Doherty, Ph.D.

doherty-john-2019 “Dancing with Models — The Importance of Model Partner Software”

“Starting from the Problem and Working Backwards”

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2018 — Masaki Hayashki, Ph.D.

hayashi-masaki-2018 “Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World”

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2017 — Kamini Singha, Ph.D.

singha "A Tale of Two Porosities: Exploring Why Contaminant Transport Doesn’t Always Behave the Way It Should"

"The Critical Role of Trees in Critical Zone Science: An Exploration of Water Fluxes in the Earth’s Permeable Skin"

2016 — Ty Ferré, Ph. D.

ferre “Seeing Things Differently: Rethinking the Relationship Between Data, Models, and Decision-Making”

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2015 — Rainer H. Helmig, Ph.D.

helmig-2 “Evaluating the Competitive Use of the Subsurface: The Influence of Energy Storage and Production in Groundwater”

“Modeling and Analysis of Soil-Moisture Processes in the Subsurface: The Influence of Evaporation and Salt Precipitation in Groundwater”

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2014 — Dorthe Wildenschild, Ph.D.

d_wildenschild_color “Optimizing Capillary Trapping as a Carbon Dioxide Mitigation Strategy: Pore-Scale Findings in Support of Larger-Scale Implementation”

“What Happens in the Pore, No Longer Stays in the Pore: Opportunities and Limitations for Porous Media Characterization and Process Quantification Using X-ray Tomography”

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2013 — David L. Rudolph, Ph.D.

rudolph-david-l-web "Managing Groundwater Beneath the Agricultural Landscape"

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2012 — S. Majid Hassanizadeh, Ph.D.

hassanizadeh_s_majid-sm "Capillarity in Porous Media, on Micro- and Macroscale, Revisited"

"Transport of Viruses in Partially Saturated Soil and Groundwater"

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2011 — Stephen E. Silliman, Ph.D.

silliman_stephen "Characterization of a Complex, Sole-Source Aquifer System in Benin, West Africa"

"Development of Reliable Hydrologic Data Sets in Difficult Environments: Case Studies from Benin, West Africa"

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2010 — Timothy Scheibe, Ph.D.

scheibe_timothy "Beyond the Black Box: Integrating Advanced Characterization of Microbial Processes with Subsurface Reactive Transport Models"

"Quantifying Flow and Reactive Transport in the Heterogeneous Subsurface Environment: From Pores to Porous Media and Facies to Aquifers"

2009 — Peter Cook, Ph.D.

cook_peter "Environmental Tracers in Modern Hydrogeology: Reducing Uncertainty in Groundwater Flow Estimation"

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2008 — Michael Celia, Ph.D.

celia "Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option"

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2007 — James J. Butler Jr., Ph.D.

butler-web "Getting the Information Ground Water Modelers Need: A Report from the Field"

"What the Heck Is a Phreatophyte? A Field Investigation of Ecohydrologic Processes in Stream-Aquifer Systems"

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2006 — Eileen Poeter, Ph.D.

poeter06 "All Models Are Wrong: How Do We Know Which Are Useful?"

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2005 — Kip Solomon, Ph.D.

KipSolomon "Inert Gas Tracers in Ground Water"

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2004 — Allen M. Shapiro, Ph.D.

shapiro "Recent Advances in Characterizing Ground Water Flow and Chemical Transport in Fractured Rock: From Cores to Kilometers"

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2003 — Richelle Allen-King, Ph.D.

allen "A Hydrogeochemist's Perspective on Organic Contaminant Transport in Ground Water"

"Ground and Surface Water Contributions to Chemical Mass Discharge: Considering the Problem at Field and Basin Scales"

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2002 — David Hyndman, Ph.D.

02darcy "Efficient Large-Scale Bioremediation in a Heterogeneous Aquifer: The Schoolcraft Bioaugmentation Experiment"

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2001 — Mary C. Hill, Ph.D.

hill "Guidelines for Effective Model Calibration (Any Model!)"

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2000 — M. James Hendry, Ph.D.

hendry "Transport and Geochemical Controls on Solutes in Clay Aquitards"

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1999 — Scott Tyler, Ph.D.

tyler "Ground Water Recharge in Arid Regions: Questions About Today and the Past"

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1998 — Barbara Sherwood-Lollar, Ph.D.

slollar "Stable Carbon Isotopes: Tools for Direction of the Origin and Fate of the Environmental Contaminants"

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1997 — Philip C. Bennett, Ph.D.

bennett "Water, Microbes, and Rocks: The Geochemical Ecology of Contaminated Ground Water"

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1996 — Linda Abriola, Ph.D.

abriola "Organic Liquid Contaminant Entrapment and Persistence in the Subsurface: Interphase Mass Transfer Limitations and Implications for Remediation"

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1995 — Paul Hsieh, Ph.D.

hsieh "A Multidisciplinary, Multiscale Investigation of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Fractured Crystalline Rocks: Finds from the Mirror Lake Site, New Hampshire"