Gary Curtis
Engineer
Environmental science
The U.S. Geological Survey
United States Virgin Islands
Biography
Gary Curtis is a hydrogeochemist who develops and applies reactive transport models to simulate groundwater contamination problems involving hexavalent uranium (U(VI)) and chloroethenes. His research interests include: Developing and applying conceptual models for simulating reactive transport processes in groundwater;Conducting nonreactive and reactive tracer tests to characterize subsurface physical heterogeneity and effective reactive processes; Quantifying prediction uncertainty inherent in all reactive transport models;and, Developing upscaled reactive transport models that can be applied to real-world plume scale simulations that honor detailed understanding developed from small scale laboratory and field tracer tests.
Research Interest
groundwater groundwater quality contamination and pollution toxic radionuclide contamination toxic trace element contamination
Publications
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Dan Lu, Ming Ye, Mary C. Hill, Eileen P. Poeter, Gary P. Curtis,2014, A computer program for uncertainty analysis integrating regression and Bayesian methods, Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol60,45-56
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Shi, X., M. Ye, G. P. Curtis, G. L. Miller, P. D. Meyer, M. Kohler, S. Yabusaki, and J. Wu (2014), Assessment of parametric uncertainty for groundwater reactive transport modeling, Water Resour. Res., 50, 4416–4439, doi:10.1002/2013WR013755.
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Lu, D., Ye, M. and Curtis, G.P. 2015. Maximum likelihood Bayesian model averaging and its predictive analysis for groundwater reactive transport models. Journal of Hydrology, 529, 1859-1873
