Beth L. Parker, PhD, LEL

Research Interests

• Groundwater contaminant transport and fate
• In situ remediation of groundwater systems
• Field instrumentation in aquifer and aquitard regimes
• Director of Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute
• Director of The University Consortium

Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute Thrusts

• Bedrock groundwater resource characterization and monitoring
• Source water protection, water resource management, and risk analysis
• Groundwater contaminant plume transport and fate in heterogeneous sand and gravel aquifers, fractured rock and clayey aquitards, process evaluation, and contaminant plume co-mingling and internal architecture
• DNAPL source zone evolution and effects on plume behavior in fractured sedimentary rock
• Aquitard integrity for source water protection and waste isolation
• Innovative high resolution discrete fracture network field methodology for site characterization, monitoring and process-based predictive modeling
• Organic and inorganic contaminants, pathogens, bacteria, and viruses
• High resolution data acquisition, storage and analysis methods for numerical models.

Graduate Courses

• ENGG 6720 Contaminant Transport in Fractured Rock
• ENGG 6760 Groundwater Flow Systems