Biography

Barton Faulkner, Hydrologist

Education:
Ph.D., 2007. Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
M.S., 1996, Hydrology/Hydrogeology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
B.S., 1993, Geology, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado

Previous Professional Experience:
US Geological Survey, Jacobs Engineering Group (Sacramento), and US Forest Service.

Projects:

Effectiveness of Riverbank Filtration in Achieving Reduced Risk of Drinking Water Contamination.
Compartmental Analysis of Nutrient Processing in Watersheds.
Assessing the Vulnerability of Aquifers using Regularized Point Data.
Vulnerability of Drinking Water Wells to Pathogens.
Peer-reviewed Publications:
- Olivas Y, BR Faulkner. (in Press). Fecal source tracking by antibiotic resistance analysis on a watershed exhibiting low resistance. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment DOI 10.1007/s10661-07-9805-0.
- Faulkner BR, ME Campana. 2007. Compartmental model of nitrate retention in streams, Water Resources Research, 43, W02406, doi:10.1029/2006WR004920.
- Azadpour-Keeley A, BR Faulkner, J-S Chen. 2003. Movement and Longevity of Viruses in the Subsurface. EPA Issue Paper EPA/540/S03/500. 25 pp.
- Faulkner BR, Lyon, WG, Khan, FA, Chattopadhyay S. 2003. Modeling leaching of viruses by the Monte Carlo method. Water Research 37:4719-29.
- Faulkner BR. 2003. Confronting the modifiable areal unit problem for inference on nitrate in regional shallow ground water. (In) S. Mishra, Ed. Groundwater Quality Modeling and Management Under Uncertainty, June 22-25, 2003, Philadelphia, PA. American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA. pp. 248-259.
- Faulkner BR, WG Lyon, FA Khan, S Chattopadhyay. 2002. Predicting Attenuation of Viruses During Percolation in Soils: 1. Probabilistic Model. EPA Report EPA/600/R-02/051a.
- Lyon WG, BR Faulkner, FA Khan, S. Chattopadhyay, JB Cruz. 2002. Predicting Attenuation of Viruses During Percolation in Soils: 2. User's Guide to the Virulo 1.0 Computer Model. EPA Report EPA/600/R-02/051b.
- Faulkner BR. 2002. Java classes for nonprocedural variogram modeling. Computers & Geosciences 28(3):387-97.
- Faulkner BR, Guitjens JC. 2001. Water quality effects of irrigation with drain water. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 17(3):293-301.
- Faulkner BR, Guitjens JC. 2000. Field-scale observations of arsenic and boron in soil irrigated with drainwater. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering -- ASCE 126(3):186-89.

E-mail: faulkner.bart@epa.gov

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