MSU Hydrogeology Lab

Characterizing Soil Moisture Variations in the Unsaturated Zone

hyndman — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:24:48 +0000

We are using electrical resistivity tomography to image the dynamic nature of soil moisture, and coupling this with high resolution models to better understand transpiration dynamics and unsaturated flow. We are using time-lapse hydrogeophysical tools to characterize soil moisture variability beneath a range of vegetation types. Those tools include 2D and 3D electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), and ground-penetrating radar (GPR).

We will then combine our measurements with detailed site characterization, point measurements of soil temperature and moisture, and numerical models of hydrological and plant processes to quantify root-zone moisture dynamics with an unprecedented level of detail. (more…)

Traverse City ERT Site

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Jordan River Watershed

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Sycamore Creek Watershed

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Grand Traverse Bay Watershed

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Muskegon River Watershed

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Cedar Creek Meander Bend

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Sandhill

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Located on the southern MSU campus,

Modeling and Monitoring Hydrologic Processes in Large Watersheds

kendal30 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:16:02 +0000

We have developed a novel hydrologic process model called the Integrated Landscape Hydrology Model (ILHM), which is a framework of existing and novel codes to simulate the entire hydrologic cycle at large watershed scales. ILHM is capable of modeling all the major surface and near-surface hydrologic processes including evapotranspiration, groundwater recharge, and stream discharge. In the first published application of the model, the ILHM-modeled stream flows compared favorably with measured data with a minimum of parameter calibration. It was tested for a small watershed (~130 square kilometers) in Michigan, and is currently being applied to much larger domains. (more…)

Hydrostratigraphic Characterization

kendal30 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:28:47 +0000

Related Publications:

Bennett, GL, GS Weissmann, GS Baker, and DW Hyndman, (2006), Regional-scale assessment of a sequence bounding paleosol on fluvial fans using ground penetrating radar, eastern San Joaquin Valley, California, GSA Bulletin, 118, pp 724–732

Microcosm Studies

kendal30 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:28:38 +0000

Solute transport through heterogeneous environments is often poorly understood because of inadequate definition of aquifer stresses and boundary conditions. One approach to address these concerns is to transport a large, minimally disturbed, highly heterogeneous aquifer mesocosm to a controlled laboratory setting. This approach will bridge the gap between small-scale laboratory studies and large-scale field studies.

Modeling Watershed Scale Groundwater Flow and Geochemistry

kendal30 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:27:42 +0000

Ground water chemistry is reflective of time-weighted averages of anthropogenic inputs originating from spatial and temporal patterns of land use. We developed an approach to examine potential relationships between land use-derived solutes and baseflow surface water quality using regional ground water and solute transport models linked to GIS. Our first test of this approach estimated chloride concentrations in surface water due to road salt transport through ground water in Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay watershed.

Further development of watershed-scale groundwater flow and transport models has been undertaken to examine the impacts of various land uses on nitrate concentrations. In Michigan, streams are predominantly groundwater-fed for much of the year. Therefore, understanding groundwater nitrate concentrations and fluxes is vital to understanding stream water quality. The figure on the left shows a preliminary simulation of total N concentrations in Cedar Creek, a small subwatershed of the Muskegon River in central lower Michigan. (more…)

Field Scale Bioremediation Design and Reactive Transport

kendal30 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:25:38 +0000

Ground-water contamination with volatile organic compounds is a significant national and international problem. Waters containing these contaminants are typically pumped from contaminated aquifers and treated by air stripping or sorption onto activated carbon. These methods are costly, do not destroy the contaminants, may require pumping and disposal of large water volumes, and do not effectively remove contaminants sorbed to the aquifer material.Accordingly, there has been a great deal of interest in alternative treatment strategies, such as enhanced in-situ remediation. Our research group in collaboration with the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Center for Microbial Ecology designed and installed a cost-effective biocurtain that is currently being used to remove carbon tetrachloride from an aquifer in Schoolcraft, Michigan. Novel aspects of the design are the use of closely-spaced wells to recirculate solutes through a biocurtain, well screens spanning the vertical extent of contamination, and a semi-passive mode of operation, with only six hours of low-level pumping per week.

MSU Hydrogeology Lab

Characterizing Soil Moisture Variations in the Unsaturated Zone

Traverse City ERT Site

Jordan River Watershed

Sycamore Creek Watershed

Grand Traverse Bay Watershed

Muskegon River Watershed

Cedar Creek Meander Bend

Sandhill

Modeling and Monitoring Hydrologic Processes in Large Watersheds

Hydrostratigraphic Characterization

Microcosm Studies

Modeling Watershed Scale Groundwater Flow and Geochemistry

Field Scale Bioremediation Design and Reactive Transport

Interactions Between Hydrologic, Microbial, and Geochemical Processes

Estimating Aquifer Properties from Geophysical and Tracer Data

Matt Spansky

Lon Cooper

Chris May

Anthony Kendall

Dushmantha Jayawickreme

Hyndman, Donald, and David Hyndman, (2008) (printed scheduled for Feb 2008), Natural Hazards and Disasters, Second Edition, Cengage/ Brooks Cole Publishing, Belmont, CA, ~550 pp

Hyndman, DW, FD Day-Lewis, and K Singha, eds, (2007), Subsurface Hydrology: Data Integration for Properties and Processes, American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series Volume 171, 253 pp

Hyndman, DW, AD Kendall, and NRH Welty, (2007), Evaluating Temporal and Spatial Variations in Recharge and Streamflow Using the Integrated Landscape Hydrology Model (ILHM), AGU Monograph, Data Integration in Subsurface Hydrology

Kendall, AD, and DW Hyndman, (2007), Simulating Fluxes Through Large Watersheds Using Remotely Sensed and Ground Based Datasets With the Integrated Landscape Hydrology Model ILHM, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Jayawickreme, DH, MA Malkowski, RL Van Dam, and DW Hyndman, (2007), Characterizing Long-Term Near-Surface Soil Moisture Variability in Natural Environments using Electrical Resistivity Imaging and Hydrological Modeling, Eos Trans AGU, 88 (52), Fall Meet Suppl, Abstract H11G-02

Singha, K, DW Hyndman, and FD Day-Lewis, (2007), Introduction, Subsurface Hydrology: Data Integration for Properties and Processes, American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series Volume 171, pp 1-5

Pijanowski, B, DK Ray, AD Kendall, JM Duckles, and DW Hyndman, (2007), Using backcast land-use change and groundwater travel-time models to generate land-use legacy maps for watershed management, Ecology and Society 12(2): 25

Kendall, A, JA Bernstein, and DW Hyndman, (2007), Improving Regional Groundwater Recharge Models With A Network Of High-Resolution Temperature Recording Buttons, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Van Dam RL, DH Jayawickreme, and DW Hyndman, (2007), Vadose Zone Resistivity Variations Across a Michigan Ecotone, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Kendall, AD, and DW Hyndman, (2007), Examining Watershed Processes Using Spectral Analysis of Hydrologic Time Series, AGU Monograph, Data Integration in Subsurface Hydrology

Jayawickreme, DH, and DW Hyndman, (2007), Evaluating the Influence of Land Cover on Seasonal Water Budgets Using Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Rainfall and Streamflow Data, Water Resources Research, 43, W02408

Hyndman, DW, (2007), Geophysical and Tracer Characterization Methods: Chapter 15, Groundwater Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, 15-1 – 15-30

Glacial Hydrology

Zheng, C, JJ Butler, DW Hyndman, and GR Tick, (2006), Characterizing Small-Scale Heterogeneities at The Made Site Using Sedimentological, Hydraulic, and Tracer Data, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Bennett, GL, GS Weissmann, GS Baker, and DW Hyndman, (2006), Regional-scale assessment of a sequence bounding paleosol on fluvial fans using ground penetrating radar, eastern San Joaquin Valley, California, GSA Bulletin, 118, pp 724–732

Hyndman, DW, AD Kendall, (2006), The Integrated Landscape Hydrology Model (ILHM), a Fully-Distributed Approach to Simulate Regional Watershed Hydrologic Processes, H11A-1234, Eos Trans AGU

Illangasekare, T, SW Tyler, TP Clement, KG Villholth, AP GRL Perera, J Obeysekera, AGunatilaka, CR Panabokke, DW Hyndman, KJ Cunningham, JJ Kaluarachchi, W W-G Yeh, MT van Genuchten, K Jensen, (2006), Impacts of the 2004 tsunami on groundwater resources in Sri Lanka, Water Resources Res, 42, W05201

Jayawickreme, DH, RL Van Dam, DW Hyndman, (2006), Transient Soil Moisture Characteristics Below Different Land Cover Types: Implications for Quantifying Groundwater Recharge, H13B-1387, Eos Trans AGU

Van Dam, RL, DW Hyndman, DH Jayawickreme, AD Kendall, S Roy, JE Storms, (2006), The St Clair Delta: examining depositional history using geophysics and well cores, NS24A-05, Eos Trans AGU

Kendall, AD, DW Hyndman, (2006), Predicting Streamflow, Groundwater Recharge, and Evapotranspiration at the Regional Scale with the Integrated Landscape Hydrology Model (ILHM), H31H-06, Eos Trans AGU

Malama, B, W Barrash, DW Hyndman, G Nelson, (2006), Solute Transport in a Medium with Spatially Variable Porosity, H41G-05, Eos Trans AGU

Ray, DK, BC Pijanowski, AD Kendall, DW Hyndman, (2006), Coupling simulations of land use change and groundwater travel time to develop land use legacy maps for the Muskegon River watershed in Michigan, H13B-1403, Eos Trans AGU

Hyndman, Donald, and David Hyndman, (2006), Natural Hazards and Disasters: Hurricane Katrina Update, Thomson/ Brooks Cole Publishing, Belmont, CA, 509 pp

Stevenson, RJ, MJ Wiley, DW Hyndman, P Seelbach, and B Pijanowski, (2005), Developing Relations Among Human Activities, Stressors, and Stream Ecosystem Responses and Linkage in Integrated Regional, Multi-Stressor Models, EPA STAR meeting

Pijanowski, B, DW Hyndman, and D Ray, (2005), The legacy of land use change on hydrologic dynamics, Eos Trans AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet Suppl, Abstract H41D-0448

Zhao, X, RB Wallace, DW Hyndman, M Dybas, and TC Voice, (2005), Heterogeneity of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Sorption Properties in a Sandy Aquifer, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 78(4):327-42

Welty, NR, DW Hyndman, (2005), Exploring Linkages Between Land Use and Hydroecology Using Multivariate Analysis and Process-Based Models, Eos Trans AGU, 86(18)

Phanikumar, MS, DW Hyndman, X Zhao, and M Dybas, (2005), A Three-Dimensional Model of Microbial Transport and Biodegradation at the Schoolcraft, Michigan Site, Water Resources Research, 41, W05011

Kendall, AD, MC Spansky, and DW Hyndman, (2005), Using Dual-Region Calibration to Improve Recharge and Hydraulic Conductivity Estimates for Hydrologic Modeling, Eos Trans AGU, 86(18)

McGuire, JT, DT Long, and DW Hyndman, (2005), Analysis of recharge-induced geochemical change in a contaminated aquifer, Ground Water, 43(4), 518-530

Hyndman, Donald, and David Hyndman, (2005), Natural Hazards and Disasters, First Edition, Thomson/ Brooks Cole Publishing, Belmont, CA, 490 pp Selected as the Top First Edition Book of the year for Thomson Books

Welty, NR, DW Hyndman, and LA Panayotoff , (2004), Eco-hydrologic modeling of nutrients, oxygen, and temperature across a range of Michigan streams, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, EOS, H51D-1175

Weissmann, Gary S, R Trahan, MS Phanikumar, and DW Hyndman, (2004), What Do Pumping Tests Mean? Evaluation of a Heterogeneous Alluvial Aquifer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Biteman, SE, DW Hyndman, MS Phanikumar, and GS Weissmann, (2004), Integration of Sedimentologic and Hydrogeologic Properties for Improved Transport Simulations, In Aquifer Characterization, JS Bridge and DW Hyndman eds, SEPM Special Publication 80

Kendall, AD, DW Hyndman, MS Phanikumar, and BC Pijanowski, (2004), Using Spectral Analysis to Relate Climate and Land-Use Changes to Processes Influencing Stream Flow, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, EOS, H21F-1095

Bridge, JS and DW Hyndman, (2004), Preface: Aquifer Characterization, SEPM Special

Jayawickreme, DH, DW Hyndman, BC Pijanowski, and JA Andresen, (2004), Influence of Land Cover on Regional Scale Groundwater Recharge: Analysis With NEXRAD Precipitation Data, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, EOS, H21F-1083

Hyndman, DW, and J Tronicke, (2004), Hydrogeophysical Case Studies at the Local Scale: the Saturated Zone: Chapter 13, Hydrogeophysics, Kluwer Press

Haack, SK, LR Fogarty, TG West, EW Alm, JT McGuire, DT Long, DW Hyndman, and LJ Forney, (2004), Spatial and Temporal Changes In Microbial Community Structure Associated With Recharge-Influenced Chemical Gradients In A Contaminated Aquifer, Environmental Microbiology, 6(5), 438-448

Spansky, M, and DW Hyndman, (2004), Evaluating Nitrate Contributions from Different Land Use Types across a Regional Watershed Using Flow and Transport Models, AGU Spring Annual Meeting, EOS

Stevenson, RJ, MJ Wiley, DW Hyndman, P Seelbach, and B Pijanowski, (2004), Developing relations among human activities, stressors, and stream ecosystem responses and linkage in integrated regional, multi-stressor models, EPA STAR meeting

Martell, SB, GS Weissmann, MS Phanikumar, DW Hyndman, and MV Khire, (2004), Geologically-Based Modeling of Unsaturated Flow Through Heterogeneous Alluvial Sediments, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, AGU Spring Annual Meeting, EOS

Bridge, JS and DW Hyndman eds, (2004), Aquifer Characterization, SEPM Special Publication 80, 176 pp

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Lindeman, M, Wayland, KG, Long, DT, Pijanowski, BC, Hyndman, DW, Stevenson, RJ, and

McGuire, JT, MS Phanikumar, DT Long, and DW Hyndman, (2003), Quantifying the Biogeochemical Evolution of Redox Zones and Contaminant Transport in a Shallow Sandy Aquifer Using a Novel Reactive Transport Code BKTK3D 20, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol 36, No 1

Phanikumar, MS, and DW Hyndman, (2003), Interactions Between Sorption and Biodegradation: Exploring bioavailability and pulsed nutrient injection, Water Resources Research, 39 (5), 1122

C Jackson-Elmoore, D Hyndman, and C Tremonte, (2003), Using the Lilly Teaching Fellowship to Change Organizational Culture and Teaching Expectations at Michigan State University National Lilly Conference, Oxford OH

Wayland, KG, DT Long, S Woodhams, BC Pijanowski, DW Hyndman, SK Haack, (2003), Identifying Relationships Between Baseflow Geochemistry and Land Use with Synoptic Sampling and R-Mode Factor Analysis, Journal of Environmental Quality, (32), 180-190

McGuire, JT, MS Phanikumar, DT Long, and DW Hyndman, (2003), Integrating Hydrogeological, Microbiological, and Geochemical Data Using a Multi-Component Reactive Transport Model: Quantifying the Biogeochemical Evolution of Redox Zones in a Contaminated Aquifer, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, EOS

Phanikumar, MS, Long, DT, Hyndman, DW, and Dybas, M, (2003), Multi-Component Reactive Transport Modeling of Field-Scale Bioremediation: The Schoolcraft Site, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, EOS

Trahan, RS, MS Phanikumar, DW Hyndman, and GS Weissmann, (2002), Evaluating Pumping Tests with Geologically-Constrained Models in a Heterogeneous Alluvial Aquifer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, EOS

Bennett, GL, GS Weissmann, and DW Hyndman, (2002), Evaluating Paleosol Continuity Using Ground Penetrating Radar for More Accurate Regional-Scale Groundwater Modeling on the Kings River Alluvial Fan Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Dybas, MJ, DW Hyndman, R Heine, J Tiedje, K Linning, D Wiggert, T Voice, X Zhao, L Dybas, and CS Criddle, (2002), Development, Operation, and Long-Term Performance of a Full-Scale Biocurtain Utilizing Bioaugmentation, Environmental Science and Technology, (36), 3635-3644

Leven, C, W Barrash, DW Hyndman, and TC Johnson, (2002), Modeling of a Combined Tracer and Time-Lapse Radar Imaging Test in a Heterogeneous Fluvial Aquifer at the Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site, Fall Annual Meeting, EOS

Lindeman, MA, Saladin, NP, KG Wayland DT Long, VL Lougheed, JR Stevenson, M Wiley, DW Hyndman, and BC Pijanowski, (2002), Influences Of Land Use On The Biogeochemistry Of Streams, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Phanikumar, MS, DW Hyndman, and CS Criddle, (2002), Biocurtain Design Using Reactive Transport Models, Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation, 22, no 3, 113-123

McGuire, JT, MS Phanikumar, DT Long, and DW Hyndman, (2002), Evolution of Redox Zonation in a Contaminated Aquifer: Development of a 3-D Coupled Partial Equilibrium Model, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs

Phanikumar, MS, DW Hyndman, D Wiggert, MJ Dybas, ME Witt, and CS Criddle, (2002), Simulation of Microbial Transport and Carbon Tetrachloride Biodegradation in Intermittently-fed Aquifer Columns, Water Resources Research, 38 (4), 4-1 to 4-13