Groundwater Engineering
Current Areas of Research:
- Electrolytic treatment of emerging contaminants
- Optimization of groundwater production systems
- Advective-diffusive transport of contaminants
- Decision guide for releases of chlorinate solvents
- Geologic Carbon Sequestration
- Management of contaminants in low permeability zones
- Processes governing petroleum sheens
- Processes governing stability of petroleum liquids
- Novel methods for treating petroleum liquids in soil
- Novel methods for treating dissolved phase hydrocarbons
- Sustainable development of groundwater in the Denver Basin Aquifer
- Optimization of groundwater remediation systems
- Subsurface water storage
- Computation chemistry for emerging contaminants
- Remediation via soil mixing with reactive media and stabilizing agents
- Management of persistent organic compounds in sediment
- Land Subsidence Modeling
Sponsors:
Faculty, staff, and students in Civil and Environmental Engineering conduct approximately $1 millions in groundwater research annually. Current sponsors include:
- US Department Defense
- Chevron
- Town of Castle Rock, CO
- DuPont
- GE
- ExxonMobil
- Suncor Energy
- American Petroleum Institute
- US Department of Energy
- State of Colorado Agricultural Research Station
