Program Links
Home
Extension
Events
FAQ
Publications
Materials
Research
People
Contact
Groundwater at UCD
Teaching Programs
Research Programs
COntinuing Education
Information
Groundwater Info
Calendar
California Links
Other Links
 
The People behind the UCCE Groundwater Hydrology Program


 

Thomas Harter, Ph.D.; Robert M. Hagan Endowed Chair in Water Management and Policy. Hydrology Program - Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources; University of California, Davis; Research Interests: Flow and transport processes in ground water and in the vadose zone; stochastic analysis of such processes in heterogeneous porous systems; numerical modeling; assessment and remediation of ground water contamination; nonpoint source pollution of ground water; geostatistics. (see UCCE research). For a list of publications, check out Thomas' resume.

Short Bio: Thomas Harter, Ph.D., received a B.S. in hydrology from the Universities of Freiburg, Germany and a M.S. in hydrology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in hydrology (with emphasis on subsurface hydrology) at the University of Arizona, where he became the 1991 Harshbarger fellow for outstanding research in subsurface flow and transport modeling. In 1995, he joined the faculty at the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis. His research focuses on nonpoint-source pollution of groundwater, groundwater resources evaluation under uncertainty, groundwater modeling, and contaminant transport. Dr. Harter's research group has done extensive modeling, laboratory, and field work to evaluate the impacts of agriculture and human activity on groundwater flow and contaminant transport in complex aquifer and soil systems. In 2007, Dr. Harter was appointed Robert M. Hagan Endowed Chair in Water Management and Policy.





  Nels Ruud, Ph.D.; Postdoctoral Researcher, LAWR, UC Davis;
Research Interests: groundwater modeling, integration of GIS and groundwater models; conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater; risk analysis in groundwater contamination; geostatistics. (see Conjunctive Use Model, Southern Tulare County; and Risk Analysis of Deep Groundwater Salinization, Westside)
  Alison Eagle, M.S.; Staff Researcher, LAWR, UC Davis. Alison is project manager in charge of day-to-day operations for the dairy BIFS project. Interests include soil fertility, nutrient cycling and conservation, and waste management. She enjoys the opportunities the project gives her for contact with farmers and other agricultural personnel, as well as building connections between research and the university and the practical applications of that research.
     

 

  Eric Gandois, Universite de Bordeaux, France; Alex Fritz, Universitaet Freiburg, Germany; Eric and Alex are or have completed internships in our program. Both have worked extensively on the dairy waste management


  Michelle Denton: Graduate Student, LAWR, UC Davis; Michelle is the soil physicist and modeler in our project dealing with nitrate transport in deep unsaturated zones under orchards.


  Bellie Sivakumar; Postdoctoral Researcher, LAWR, UC Davis; Research Interests: Rainfall characterization, rainfall-runoff modeling, application of chaos, scaling and fractal theories, and artificial neural networks in hydrology, water resources systems, solute transport in porous medium.
  Diana Nix; Secretary and Webmaster; Kearney Agricultural Center; University of California. Maintains UC Davis Groundwater Web page and UCCE Groundwater Program Web page. Provides administrative and secretarial support to the program.