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Possible
thesis/dissertation topics:
Laboratory investigations of bacterial transport: assessing the relative
importance of physical, chemical and biological controlling factors.
Assessing the efficacy of riverbank filtration in attenuating contaminants emanating from the Great Miami River.
Exploring the water-use potential of buried paleo-channel aquifers of the Kuiseb River, Namibia
Exploring the flow characteristics and assessing the sustainability of a karst aquifer in Lusaka, Zambia.
Predicting transport of bacteria through groundwater systems at the field scale: scaling up experimental results from the laboratory.
Current/recent
graduate student research:
Samuel Mutiti (Ph.D. in progress) The efficacy of riverbank infiltration on the attenuation of virus contamination at a site of induced infiltration; Use of remote, sensing to find shallow groundwater resources in an arid region of southern Kenya; Use of temperature modeling to explore the temporal variability of riverbed hydraulic conductivity.
Matthew Birk (M.S. 2006) Temporal variability of riverbed hydraulic conductivity at an induced infiltration site, Southwest Ohio.
Beth
Miller (M.S. in progress) Investigating the factors controlling the transport
of invasive bacteria through glacial-outwash aquifer sediments.
Michael Benjamin Mignery (M.S. in progress) Assessing the river contribution to production wells at a site of induced infiltration, southwest Ohio.
Anthony
Rossman (M.S. 2002) Determine the significance of the autochthonous (indigenous)
microbial community on the fate and transport of allochthonous (invasive)
bacteria.
Nathaniel
Warner (M.S. 2002) Water quality in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley and Annapurna
Conservation Area: an assessment of controlling site characteristics.
Kerang
Sun (Ph.D. 2001) Bromide and bacterial transport through different porous
media: controlling sediment characteristics and mathematical modeling.
Amy Lustig Kreeger
(M.S. 2000) Comparison of hydraulic conductivity estimates using a variety
of techniques at a field site in southwestern Ohio.
Selected
publications:
Levy, J., Sun, K., Findlay, R.H., Farruggia, F.T., Porter, J., Mumy, K.L., Tomaras, J., and Tomaras, A. (in press) Transport of Escherichia coli bacteria through laboratory columns of glacial outwash sediments: estimating model parameter values based on sediment characteristics: J. Contam. Hydrol., in press.
Levy, J. and Ludy, E.E. (2000) Uncertainty quantification for wellhead
protection areas: the Gauss-Hermite quadrature approach: Ground Water,
38:63-75.
Levy, J. and Mayer, L. (1999) Systems modeling of nonequilibrium chemical
reactions using STELLA: J. Geoscience Education, 47:413-419.
Levy, J., Clayton, M.K. and Chesters, G. (1998) Using an approximation
of the three-point Gauss-Hermite quadrature formula for model prediciton
and quantification of uncertainty: Hydrogeology Journal, 6:457-468.
Levy, J., Chesters, G., Gustafson, D.P. and Read, H.W. (1998) Assessing
aquifer susceptibility to and severity of atrazine contamination at a
field site in south-central Wisconsin: Hydrogeology Journal 6:483-499.
Levy, J. (1997) SAGE remarks - Honey, I shrunk the class: thoughts on personalizing large lecture classes: GSA Today, 7:14-17.
Levy, J. and Chesters, G. (1995) Simulation of atrazine and metabolite
transport and fate in a sandy-till aquifer: J. Contam. Hydrol., 20:67-88.
Levy, J. (1995) Assessing aquifer susceptibility to contamination at an agricultural field site in Wisconsin. Adaptation of Levy (1993) to a case study in: Zheng, C. and G.D. Bennett (1995) Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling: Theory and Practice. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY.
Selected
grants:
City of Hamilton, OH, 2006
Investigating Riverbed Hydraulic Conductivity at Several Wellfields along the Great Miami River, Southwest Ohio.
City of Hamilton, OH, 2004
Temporal Variability of Riverbed Conductance at the Bolton Wellfield along the Great Miami River, Southwest Ohio.
Philip and Elaina Hampton Fund for Faculty International Initiatives,
Miami University 2000
Groundwater contamination in Nepal: a regional comparison and assessment
of controlling site characteristics.
Ohio Water Development Authority subcontracted through the City of Cincinnati
1999
Fate and transport of pathogens in areas of induced surface-water.
U.S. Geological Survey thorugh the Regional Water Resources Competitive
Grants Program, 1997
Degradation of Groundwater Quality from Pumping-Induced Surface Water
Infiltration: Bacterial Contamination.
City of Oxford, OH, 1996
Delineation of a Wellhead Protection Area for the City of Oxford.
Ohio Water Resources Center, 1995
Herbicide Contamination of Surface and Ground Water in the Four Mile Creek Drainage Basin.
Teaching
Interests:
GLG 121
- Environmental Geology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 207 - Water and Society - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 408/508 - Introduction to Hydrogeology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 428/528 - Groundwater Flow Modeling - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 482/582 - Contaminant Hydrogeology - click here
for a complete description.
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