Water-Earth Systems
As described in more detail at the Hydrology web site, faculty and students are currently investigating a wide spectrum of topics in groundwater hydrology, isotope hydrology, bioremediation of groundwater, surface water dynamics, and environmental engineering.
A major current initiative is WEST (Water, the Environment, Science and Teaching), an educational collaboration between the University of Utah, the Utah Museum of Natural History, and the Salt Lake City school district. WEST provides graduate fellowships to promote improved earth science teaching.
Recent projects include:
- monitoring, modeling, and dating groundwater in block-faulted valleys in the Basin and Range province;
- crustal fluid flow and fluid-rock interaction;
- colloidal transport in groundwater and bacterial remediation; fracture-controlled groundwater flow;
- wind and current patterns in Pleistocene Lake Bonneville;
- impact of groundwater supplies on population growth and development patterns in Salt Lake Valley, Utah.
Faculty: Jewell, W. Johnson.
Water- and ice-controlled erosion in the Wasatch Mountains.
Cover article of AAPG Bulletin, by Profs. M. Chan, W. Parry, and J. Bowman, on fault-related fluid flow in sandstones of SE Utah. |
