Sentences with phrase «university hydrogeologist»
«The company did a great job bringing in experts from all over the world to evaluate what they were doing,» Stanford University hydrogeologist Sally Benson says.
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No matter where the young water comes from, the new technique for identifying the percentage of fossil groundwater in a well could be an important tool for communities, says Audrey Sawyer, a hydrogeologist at Ohio State University in Columbus.
«This freshwater is right underfoot, flowing around leaky gas and septic tanks,» says Audrey Sawyer, a hydrogeologist at The Ohio State University, Columbus, who led the study.
A team led by hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher of the University of California, Santa Cruz, explored the sediment - covered flanks of the Juan de Fuca Ridge about 200 kilometers west of Washington state.
«Erosion gets [excess] material out, but doesn't make the shape,» says Jiri Bruthans, a hydrogeologist at Charles University in Prague, who led the research.
Even though there is no natural cement binding the sand grains into rock, mining it requires blasting at the sandstone's face to break the sand loose, says Alan Mayo, a hydrogeologist at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and a co-author of the study.
The research by hydrogeologists at The University of Texas at Austin, which appears in the May 11 edition of the journal Nature Geoscience, shows for the first time that virtually every drop of water coursing through 311,000 miles (500,000 kilometers) of waterways in the Mississippi River network goes through a natural filtering process as it flows to the Gulf of Mexico.
«I can't think of any unemployed hydrogeologists,» says Roy Haggerty, an associate professor of hydrogeology at Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Of the 15 hydrogeologists in the Denver office where Zeiler works, only three have Ph.D. s. That's typical of the field as a whole: AGI estimates that university programs graduate five times as many M.S. students as Ph.D. s. Its figures show that about 18,000 hydrologists and hydrogeologists now work in the environmental industry, a few thousand in the mining and petroleum industries, and about 850 in academia, the only sector for which a doctorate is required.
«I would argue that [more than] 10,000 data points really tell a better story,» says hydrogeologist Donald Siegel of Syracuse University in New York, whose team published the new study online this month in Environmental Science & Technology.
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