CURRENT PROJECTS
Fluid Pressures, Solute Transport, and Fluid Budgets at Subduction Zones
Fluids, Heat Transport and the Strength of the San Andreas Fault
Hydrogeophysical Data "Fusion"
Hydrologic Impacts of Waters Co-Produced with Coal-Bed Methane
Imaging Flow and Transport in Shallow Fractured-Rock Aquifers
Instability & Collapse of Lava Domes and Volcano Flanks
Mechanical and Transport Properties of Fractures
Permeability Profiling with Cone Penetrometers
RESEARCH FACILITIES
Center for Quantitative Imaging
"On-The-Fly" Permeability Profiling with Cone Penetrometers
We are developing techniques to recover in situ profiles of permeability in sand aquifers using direct push methods. These methods use profiles of penetration-induced pore pressures recovered from cone penetrometer soundings (uCPT), and co-located permeameter and vision-cone measurements, at sites in Delaware, Michigan, and Kansas.
Contact: Derek Elsworth