EXPERIENCE

Professional Experience

Group Leader (1989-1993), Reservoir Engineering and Hydrogeology Group, Earth Sciences Division (ESD), LBNL.

Staff Scientist III and Principal Investigator (1980-1989), ESD, LBNL.

Technical Unit Manager (1989-1994), Environmental Restoration Program, LBNL.

Visiting Associate Professor and Associate Research Engineer (1973-1974) and (1978-1979), University of California, Berkeley.

Chairman, Dept. of Civil Engineering (1969-1973), Pahlavi University, Shiraz.

Associate Professor (1970-1980), Pahlavi University, Shiraz.

Assistant Professor (1969-1970), Pahlavi University, Shiraz.

Assistant Research Engineer (1968-1969), University of California, Berkeley.

Research Experience

Heat transfer aspects of nuclear waste isolation in crystalline rocks.

Investigation of water resources of Livermore Valley, California.

Study of hydrologic issues in site characterization for nuclear waste isolation in salt domes.

In situ determination of properties and parameters controlling vertical groundwater movement in geological materials.

Chemical transport in groundwater.

Deep well injection.

Study of key issues in aquifer restoration and contaminant cleanup.

Contaminant transport in fractured porous rocks.

Multiphase transport of petroleum hydrocarbons in subsurface environment.

Capture-zone type curves for aquifer cleanup.

Hydrologic detection of abandoned wells.

Development of hydrologic techniques for detection and characterization of leaky faults and other potentially conductive structural features.

Density driven flow of gas in the unsaturated zone due to the evaporation of volatile organic compounds.

Dissolution and transport of nonaqueous phase liquids in groundwater.

Soil vapor extraction.

Thermally-enhanced vapor extraction

Teaching Experience

Taught Fluid mechanics, Introduction to fluid flow in rocks, Fluid flow in porous media (both analytical and numerical) in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Taught short courses on Groundwater Modeling Methodology and Application for the EPA and other regulatory staff in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco and for the Arizona Department of Water Resources in Phoenix.

Taught Groundwater, Open Channel Hydraulics, Geological Engineering, Water Supply Engineering, Hydrology and Advanced Groundwater, (1969-1978), at Pahlavi University, Shiraz.