Research

Students coming to Nebraska to study hydrogeology will find high-level expertise in water resources research in our department and collaborating units. Such opportunity is uncommon even nationally, because Nebraska is the top groundwater user, ahead of California and Texas. A broad set of courses in inter-departmental programs, instruments for subsurface investigation, drilling and direct push equipment, analytical laboratories, instrumented sites, and airborne remote sensing tools for characterization of water resources are available to our students. Hydrogeology specialization addresses any specific student interests, as reflected by diverse sources of funding below

	2009-2015 Resilience of stressed watersheds (funded by National Science Foundation)
	2006 - 2011 Mechanisms Producing Variation in Lake Salinity in Dune Environments: Nebraska Sand Hills (funded by National Science Foundation)
	2003-2007 Sand Hills Biocomplexity: Integrating Biogeophysical Processes across Space and Time (funded by National Science Foundation)
	2004 - 2007 Remediation of explosives and solvents at the Nebraska Ordnance Plant Superfund site at Mead, Nebraska (funded by Environmental Protection Agency)
	2007- 2008 Using Electrical Resistivity Imaging to Evaluate Permanganate Performance during an In Situ Treatment of a RDX-Contaminated Aquifer (funded by ESTCP joint program of Department of Defense and Environmental Protection Agency).