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The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) is one of the nation’s leading institutes in earth and environmental sciences research. Its diverse and world-renowned faculty members are engaged in interdisciplinary, innovative and collaborative research on some of the most compelling problems and issues of our time. EESI is part of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment.

Fall 2009 EarthTalks Seminar Series

Frontiers in Earth Systems Ecology Inaugural Seminar

EESI Associate Kamini Singha Explains How Water Moves in the Earth

  
Kamini Singha, assistant professor of geosciences, develops numerical models to better understand the hydrogeological processes that govern the migration of fluids and contaminants in the earth.

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A field team from Penn State, Michigan State, University of Alabama, and the Kansas Geological Survey installs wells at the Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi in the fall of 2009.  These wells were used for sampling groundwater and were also instrumented for geophysics.

Quantifying these processes—such as water flow in aquifers and groundwater-surface-water interactions—is critical to protecting the supply of clean water but is difficult because of limited subsurface data. Singha’s novel integration of geophysical techniques with hydrogeological tools generates the data needed to improve predictive numerical models. With improved models, scientists can better assess risks associated with pollution and determine efficient methods of remediating aquifers.


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Spring 2009 Marcellus Shale EarthTalks Seminar Series

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