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Groundwater Faculty Research Interests
Colin Booth
- Analysis and modeling of groundwater flow systems and their application to
groundwater resource evaluation and protection and environmental siting
problems. Currently developing research on delineation of recharge and
vulnerability areas of shallow flow systems in areas of expanding suburban
development.
- Mine hydrology, groundwater impacts of coal mining and mine subsidence, and
hydrogeological controls of groundwater flow and occurence in coalfield settings.
- Other research conducted with students has covered a broad range of aquifer
studies and environmental hydrogeological problems.
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Dr. Booth
Philip Carpenter
- Developing methods for geophysical (noninvasive) assessment of landfills
and hazardous waste sites and detection of pollution in adjacent aquifers.
- Using geophysical techniques to map subsurface fracturing and karst features
(cavities, sinkholes) and assess their impact on groundwater flow in southern
Illinois and eastern Tennessee.
- Monitoring and analyzing microearthquakes in the mid-continent, specifically
in northern Illinois and the New Madrid region (A). Assessment of reservoir-induced
seismicity in the southern Rocky Mountains (B).
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Dr. Carpenter
Melissa Lenczewski
- Research on sorption of MTBE and BTEX on fractured glacial tills of northern
Illinois.
- Investigation in the spatial distribution of microbial communities relative to
lithology, mineralogy, and fracture distribution within a fractured soil and rocks.
- Microbial community analysis of microorganisms associated with
prairie grass soils.
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Dr. Lenczewski
Eugene Perry
- Isotopic geochemistry.
- Rock-water interaction.
- Precambrian surface environments.
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Dr. Perry
