Expertise

Current research topics span many different areas of hydrogeology:

  1. Groundwater geochemistry and microbiology: Water-sediment-bacteria interaction in coastal plain aquifers
  2. Arsenic Groundwater Contamination: Linked geologic and microbial processes
  3. Hydroseimicity: Earthquake butterfly, Overpressure in New Madrid Seismic Zone
  4. Basin hydrology modeling: Groundwater flow, heat transfer, sediment diagenesis, hydrocarbon generation and migration in sedimentary basins
  5. Flow in fractured media: Transport and flow in fractured media
  6. Bioremediation: In situ (field) bioremediation of metals-contaminated groundwater
  7. Groundwater resources in Alabama: Reactive transport and biomineralization of heavy metals

Research Areas: Hydrogeology and environmental geology. Active research involves: (1) groundwater geochemistry and microbiology; (2) in situ bioremediation of metals-contaminated groundwater; (3) basin hydrology modeling; and (4) earthquake hydrology.

Subject Areas

  • Environmental Geosciences
  • Natural Resources
  • Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity
Communities
Geology, Geology, Geography, Geography
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geology, 1993
MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geology, 1990
BS, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Geology, 1984
Keywords
hydrogeology
Languages
Chinese, Mandarin