I am currently looking for Masters-Level Graduate Students interested in a variety of karst-related projects.

I am open to adapting your project to what most interests you, I have current projects conducting quantitative dye traces in portions of the Springfield Plateau and Ozark aquifers and evaluating regional structural influences on the Springfield Plateau groundwater flow system.

Other pending projects cover a broad range of topics, including:

• environmental public health projects using remote sensing to relate persistent diseases in the American southwest to soil moisture, soil minerals, or other factors.
• metals geochemistry in surface- and ground- waters of the Ozarks
• carbon sequestration of CO2 from coal-fired power plants using deep-well injection methods
• structural geology of the Ozarks in relationship to karst development and flow systems
• groundwater flow-system delineation using quantitative tracer methods and geochemical signatures
• engineering geology processes related to the Nixa 2006 Sinkhole and sinkhole development

Most of these projects are either pending funding or can be funded with a little advance planning if you want to come join our team here in Springfield. E-mail me to discuss the opportunities if you want to be sure funding is available, or, submit an application to our general graduate studies program to compete for a teaching assistantship and come see me when you arrive on campus!