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.
Despite high demand, salaries for
hydrogeologists in government and in the private sector remain about 15 % to 20 % below those of other geoscientists.
Environmental consulting companies, which employ about 80 % of
hydrogeologists in the United States, currently report four jobs for every qualified graduate, according to the American Geological Institute (AGI).
She worked as
a hydrogeologist in New Mexico and West Texas until moving to Alpine, Texas in 2006.
Not exact matches
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.
So, as part of an initiative by the Geological Survey of Israel to study the Dead Sea region, Imri Oz, a
hydrogeologist currently at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
in Haifa, and his colleagues built their own version of the Dead Sea.
«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.
For expertise on the seismic conditions
in Oklahoma, they worked with Walter and a
hydrogeologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey, Kyle Murray.
«More and more,
hydrogeologists are no longer working alone,» says John Wilson, a hydrology professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
in Socorro.
In the realm of research, academic
hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.
«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.
«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.
«There is no certainty at all
in any of this, and whoever tells you the opposite is not telling you the truth,» said Stefan Finsterle, a leading
hydrogeologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who specializes
in understanding the properties of rock layers and modeling how fluid flows through them.
«Rivers carry trash over long distances and connect nearly all land surfaces with the oceans,» making them a major battleground
in the fight against sea pollution, explains Christian Schmidt, a
hydrogeologist at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research
in Leipzig, Germany.
In a 2000 case that wasn't caused by injection but brought important lessons about how fluids could move underground, hydrogeologists concluded that bacteria - polluted water migrated horizontally underground for several thousand feet in just 26 hours, contaminating a drinking water well in Walkerton, Ontario, and sickening thousands of resident
In a 2000 case that wasn't caused by injection but brought important lessons about how fluids could move underground,
hydrogeologists concluded that bacteria - polluted water migrated horizontally underground for several thousand feet
in just 26 hours, contaminating a drinking water well in Walkerton, Ontario, and sickening thousands of resident
in just 26 hours, contaminating a drinking water well
in Walkerton, Ontario, and sickening thousands of resident
in Walkerton, Ontario, and sickening thousands of residents.
The target readers for this publication are hydrologists,
hydrogeologists and isotope experts dealing with catchment hydrology and management of water resources, as well as technical cooperation project counterparts
in Member States.
As a kayaker and
hydrogeologist, I always felt that the concept of standing waves, eddies and whirlpools
in a river system was a good example of spatio - temporal chaos and if you hadn't used the example, I would have pointed it out here.
Hydrogeologist David Yoxtheimer of Penn State's Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research gives the withdrawals more context: Of the 9.5 billion gallons of water used daily
in Pennsylvania, natural gas development consumes 1.9 million gallons a day (mgd); livestock use 62 mgd; mining, 96 mgd; and industry, 770 mgd.
One of our favourite quotes
in 2017 came from a
hydrogeologist who pointed out, referring to the problems with water wells
in Chatham - Kent, if you have a model that says you're not going to have problems, then you experience problems, then it's the model that is wrong.
I started lecturing at Keele
in 2004 following a period of time working as a Geologist /
Hydrogeologist with an environmental consultancy, working primarily
in the area of landfill site management, contaminated land remediation and human health risk assessment.
Another problem is that the study does not take into account the increasing difficulty of pumping water from depleted aquifers, said Leonard Konikow, a
hydrogeologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's office
in Reston, Virginia.
Many of the folks working
in the early days of environmental consulting (early 1980s) were former petroleum geologists turned
hydrogeologists.
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