Environmental Geosciences, V. 12, No. 1 (March 2005), P. 17-28.

Copyright 2005. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists/Division of Environmental Geosciences. All rights reserved.

DOI:10.1306/eg.04120404020

A containment and disposition strategy for tritium-contaminated groundwater at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, United States

Daniel R. Hitchcock,¹ Christopher D. Barton,² Karin T. Rebel,³ Julian Singer,⁴ John C. Seaman,⁵ J. Dan Strawbridge,⁶ Susan J. Riha,⁷ John I. Blake⁸

¹U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Center for Forested Wetlands Research, U.S.A.; [email protected]
²Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky, U.S.A.
³Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, U.S.A.
⁴Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, U.S.A.
⁵Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, U.S.A.
⁶U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Savannah River, U.S.A.
⁷Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, U.S.A.
⁸U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Savannah River, U.S.A.

AUTHORS

Dan Hitchcock is currently the coastal environmental quality specialist for the South Carolina Sea Grant Extension Program in Charleston, South Carolina. His previous postdoctoral experience with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service focused on tritium phytoremediation. Dan has a Ph.D. in biological and agricultural engineering, an M.S. degree in environmental health (both from the University of Georgia), and a B.S. degree in zoology from the University of Tennessee.

Christopher D. Barton is an assistant professor of forest hydrology and watershed management in the Department of Forestry at the University of Kentucky. As a research hydrologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (1999–2003), his research focused on hydrochemical processes associated with the restoration and remediation of disturbed and/or contaminated areas at the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Site, South Carolina.

Karin Rebel is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, and she is an active participant in the Biogeochemistry Program at Cornell University. She is interested in using spatial dynamic modeling for ecohydrological and biogeochemical research.

Julian Singer is a Ph.D. candidate in agronomy at the University of Georgia. He has a multidisciplinary background, with a B.S. degree in natural resources and an M.S. degree in botany. His research focuses on developing laboratory and field techniques for estimating water and solute transport and the effects of laboratory-scale and field-scale transport parameter estimates on vadose zone modeling.

John C. Seaman is an associate research professor with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, located on the Savannah River Site and operated for the Department of Energy by the University of Georgia. Seaman received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Texas AM University in agronomy and soil science, respectively, and his Ph.D. in environmental soil science from the University of Georgia.

J. Dan Strawbridge is currently the assistant manager for engineering and environmental services with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service at the Savannah River Site. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Mississippi State University and is a registered professional engineer in both Mississippi and South Carolina.

Susan Riha is a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, and is the Charles L. Pack Research Professor of Forest Soils. She is interested in the interaction of plants with their physical environment and in dynamic simulation modeling. She works on both environmental and plant production problems on the state, national, and international levels.

John I. Blake is the assistant manager for research with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service at the Savannah River Site. Blake received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and his M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Michigan. He previously worked with various forest industry companies and Auburn University.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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