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Department of
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Phone: (716)
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August, 1996 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Dissertation: Microsphere Tracer Tests in a Fractured Granite and Their First Passage Time Mathematical Models
August, 1990 M.S. Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Thesis: Modeling the Performance of a Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility
August 1985 B.S. Geology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
1986 - 1988 University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado.
Course-work in Civil Engineering to prepare for Master’s program
2004 - 2005 National Research Council Senior Research Associate, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt Maryland (on sabbatical leave).
2004-present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Civil Structural, and Environmental Engineering, , State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
2004-present Associate Professor, Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
1998- 2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
May 2002 Visiting Scientist, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands.
1996- 1998 National Research Council Post-Doctoral Associate, Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.
1995 - 1996 Graduate Research Assistant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-4, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
1993 - 1994 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
1992 Temporary Instructor, Ground Water Hydraulics, Department of Civil Engineering, Tufts University, Medford Massachusetts
1990 - 1993 Adjunct Research Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, Tufts University, Medford Massachusetts
1990 - 1993 Research Engineer, National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), Medford, Massachusetts.
1988 - 1990 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
1985 - 1988 Engineering Assistant, Chevron USA, Reservoir Engineering, Denver, Colorado.
2002 University at Buffalo Young Investigator Award
2001 NASA New Investigator Award
1997 National Research Council Graduate Research Associate
1996 National Research Council Graduate Research Associate
Registered Engineer in Training (EIT) in Civil Engineering since 1993.
Eligible for Professional Engineer’s Exam in New York State in 2004.
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Geological Society of America (GSA)
National Ground Water Association (NGWA)
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
L-Level Department of Energy Security Clearance (expired)
Summary (1998-present):
Total Support as PI: $1,898,278
Extramural as PI: $1,839,351
Extramural as PD: $862,244
Extramural Support:
Becker, M.W. (PD), D. Flewelling, Information Technology Research: Fields as Objects in Geographic Information Systems, Applications to Ground Water, National Science Foundation, 9/1/2005-8/31/2007, $373,584.
Mark, D. (PD), M.W. Becker as Participant (multiple other co-PIs and Participants), Integrative Geographic Information Science Traineeship Project (IGERT) Sensing, National Science Foundation, $3,778,676.
Becker, M.W. (PD), G.S. Baker, Integrating Hydraulic, Tracer, and Geophysical Methods to Image Flow Channeling in Fractured Bedrock, National Science Foundation, 8/02-07/04, $118,443.
Becker, M.W. (PD), Remote Sensing of Ground Water: Calibration of Environmental Ground-Water Flow Models to Satellite Data, National Aeronautic and Space Administration New Investigator Program (NASA Career Award), 03/01-02/04, $290,697.
Rabideau, A.J. (PD), M.W. Becker, D. Flewelling, A High Performance Analytic Element Model: GIS Interface, Calibration Tools, and Application to the Niagara Falls Region, Environmental Protection Agency, 03/00-02/04, $977,107.
Becker, M.W. (PD), M.I. Bursik, A Web-Based Interactive Teaching Database for Hydrology: The Mirror Lake Watershed, National Science Foundation, 09/99-08/03, $79,520.
Rabideau, A.J. (PD), M.W. Becker (Co-PI), Impact
of agricultural waste disposal on groundwater quality, UB Environment and
Society Institute, 03/03-02/04, $14,310.
Becker, M.W. (PD), G.S. Baker, Outfitting the Duttweiler Property for Remote Real-Time Hydrologic Observation, UB Faculty Educ. Tech. Development Grant, 06/02-06/03, $8988.
Rabideau, A.J. (PD), M.W. Becker (Co-PI), Letchworth
Park Water Quality Study, UB Environment and Society Institute,
03/03-02/04, $15,668.
Becker, M.W. (PD), A.J. Rabideau, Ground Water Protection and
Usage in the Olean Creek Drainage Basin, Cattaraugus County, NY: Development of
a GIS Database and Ground Water Model, UB Environment and Society
Institute, 06/99-05/00, $17,034.
Becker, M.W. (PD), R. Mazurchuk, Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging for Quantitative Measurement of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Fractured Rocks, UB Environment and Society Institute, 06/99-05/01, $19,789.
Becker, M.W. (PD), Four other small internal grants totaling
$2927.
Articles In Review or In Press
Becker, M.W., Potential for satellite remote sensing of ground water, to appear in Ground Water.
Rabideau, A.J., S. Mattot, I. Jankovic, J. Craig, M.W. Becker, Influence of numerical precision on the calibration of AEM-based groundwater flow models, to appear in Environmental Geology.
Becker, M.W., A. Daw*, Influence of Lake Morphology and Clarity on Water Skin Temperature as Measured by EOS ASTER, submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment.
Articles Published
Talley, J.*, G.S. Baker, M.W. Becker, and N. Beyrle, Four dimensional mapping of tracer channelization in subhorizontal bedrock fractures using surface ground penetrating radar, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 (doi:10.1029/2004GL021974), 2005.
Fredrick, K.*, M.W.Becker, D. Flewelling, W, Silavisesrith, Enhancement of Aquifer Vulnerability Indexing using the Analytic Element Method, Environmental Geology, 45(8), 1054-1061, 2004.
Becker, M.W., T. Georgian, H. Ambrose*, J. Harder*, K. Fredrick*, Estimating ground-water discharge using stream temperature and velocity, J. Hydrology, 96 (1-4), 221-233, 2004.
Becker, M.W., S.A. Collins*, D.W. Metge, R.W. Harvey, and A.M. Shapiro, Effect of cell physicochemical characteristics and motility on bacterial transport in groundwater, J. of Contaminant Hydrology, 69 (3-4), 195-213, 2004.
Becker, M.W, J.W. Schuetz*, An introduction to ground-water modeling using Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), J. Geoscience Educ, 2003, 51(5), p. 506-511.
Becker, M.W., D. Metge, S. Collins*, A. Shapiro, R. Harvey, Bacterial Transport Experiments in Fractured Crystalline Bedrock, Ground Water, 41(5), 682-689, 2003.
Becker, M., Pelc, M., Mazurchuk, R., and Spernyak, J., Magnetic
resonance imaging of dense and light non-aqueous phase liquid in a rock
fracture, Geophys. Res. Lett.,
30(12), 1646, doi:10.1029/2003GL017375, , 2003.
Becker, M.W., The effect of tracer buoyancy on tracer experiments conducted in fractured crystalline bedrock, Geophys. Res. Lett, 30(3), 1116, doi:10.1029/2002GL016480,2003.
Becker, M.W, A. M. Shapiro, Interpreting tracer breakthrough tailing from different forced-gradient tracer experiment configurations in fractured bedrock, Water Resour. Res., 39(1), 1024, doi:10.1029/2001Wr001190,2003.
Becker, M.W., and T. B. Coplen, Deuterated water as a conservative artificial ground-water tracer, Hydrogeology Journal, 9(5), 512-516, 2001.
Becker, M.W., and A. M. Shapiro, Tracer transport in fractured crystalline rock: Evidence of non-diffusive breakthrough tailing, Water Resour. Res., 36(7), 1677-1686, 2000.
Becker, M.W. and R. J. Charbeneau, First passage time mathematical models for groundwater tracer tests conducted in uniform and radially convergent flow, J. Contaminant. Hydrol., 40 (4), 299-310, 2000.
Becker, M.W, P.W. Reimus, and P. Vilks, Transport and attenuation of carboxylate-modified-latex microspheres in fractured rock laboratory and field tracer tests, Ground Water, 37(3), 387-395, 1999.
Becker, M.W., First passage time modeling of transport in fractured rock, in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XX, Vol. 465, ed. Walter J. Gray, Ines R. Triay, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996.
Becker, M.W., Book Review of Applied Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks, B.B.S Singhal and R.P. Gupta, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1999, 400 pp, Hydrogeol. J. 10, 600-600, 2002.
Tonkin, M. and M.W. Becker, Environmental Insite: a software package for groundwater data visualization, Software Spotlight, Ground Water, July-August, 2005.
National or Regional Technical
Meetings:
Becker, M.W., Using Tracers to Understand Advection, Dispersion, Diffusion in Fractured Rock (plenary address), 2004 National Ground Water Association Fractured Rock Conference, Sept 13-15, Burlington, Vermont.
Becker, M.W., M. Pelc*, R. Mazurchuk, J. Spernyak, Magnetic resonance imaging of dense and light non-aqueous phase liquid in a rock fracture, Paper No. 150-8, Geological Society of America National Meeting, Seattle, November 2-5, 2003.
Becker, M.W., Practice and pitfalls of in-situ measurement of matrix diffusion in fractured rock, 2002 National Ground Water Association Northeast Regional FOCUS Conference, Oct. 3-4, Burlington, Vermont.
Other Invited Presentations:
Becker, M.W. A Hydrogeologist in Wonderland: Sensing and Predicting Ground Water from Space, Hydrologic Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, May 12, 2005.
Becker, M.W., Ground-Water Models and GIS: Fields as Objects, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 27, 2005.
Becker, M.W., Advection, Dispersion, Diffusion in Fractured Rock, Alumni/Geology Club Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, February 19, 2004.
Becker, M.W., G. Baker, Establishing A Remote Data-Collection Station To Transmit Hydrologic And Geophysical Data", Presentation at the University at Buffalo Education Technology Faculty Showcase, April 23, 2003.
Becker, M.W., Remote sensing of ground water, Univ. at Buffalo NCGIA Colloquium, January 24, 2003.
Becker, M.W., Ground-water tracer experiments at the Mirror Lake Fractured Rock Research Site: Flogging a dead horse?, SUNY at Binghamton, Dept. of Geology, Nov. 8, 2001.
Becker, M.W. D. Metge, S. Collins*, A. Shapiro, R. Harvey, Effect of Cell Morphology on Bacteria Transport by Ground Water: Field-Scale Tracer Experiments in Fractured Crystalline Bedrock, University at Buffalo Research Festival, University at Buffalo, May 2001.
Becker, M.W., Computational Tools for Aquifer protection and Ground-Water Resource Evaluation, 2000 New York State Water Authorities Conference, August 23, 2000.
Becker, M.W. Advection-Dominated Tailing of Tracer Breakthrough in Fractured Bedrock, Western New York Science and Technology Forum, University at Buffalo, January 20, 1999.
Becker, M.W. Advection-Dominated Tailing of Tracer Breakthrough in Fractured Bedrock, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston Virginia, October, 1998.
Becker, M.W., An introduction to the use of tracers in fracture rock, Session Chair Address, 3rd Tracer Workshop, Univ. of Texas at Austin, May 21-22, 1997.
2005
Becker, M.W., J. Talley, G.S. Baker, N. Beyrle, Flow-Channeling in Fractured Bedrock: Combining GPR, Tracer, and Hydraulic Data, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H13G-07, 2005.
Baker, G.S., J. Talley, M.W. Becker, N. Beyrle, Flow-Channeling in Fractured Bedrock: Ground Penetrating Radar Investigations and Interpretation, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H13G-06, 2005.
Fredrick, K., S. Mattot, M.W. Becker, Calibration of the Geometry of Hydraulic Conductivity Zones in Groundwater Flow Models, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H11C-0318, 2005.
2004
Becker, M.W. Potential for the remote sensing of ground water, Earth Systems Science Network Meeting, Sept 27-29, Adelphia, Maryland, 2004.
Talley, J. M.W. Becker, G.S. Baker, N. Beyrle, Imaging channelized flow in bedrock fractures using ground penetrating radar, 2004 National Ground Water Association Fractured Rock Conference, Sept 13-15, Burlington, Vermont, 2004.
Romanowicz, E.A., F. Paillet, A. Reeve, M.W. Becker, G.S. Baker, D. Franzi, Characterizing the Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Bedrock: A Fractured Sandstone Example 2004 National Ground Water Association Fractured Rock Conference, Sept 13-15, Burlington, Vermont, 2004.
2003
Becker, M.W., R. Mazurchuck, J. Spernyak, Magnetic resonance imaging of dense and light non-aqueous phase liquid in a rock fracture: Scaling implications, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H42B-1079, 2003
Ambrose, H., M.W. Becker, J. Sinicalchi, T. Georgian, The use of thermal information to estimate stream baseflow, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H12F-07, 2003
Becker, M.W., Diffusion, dispersion, and advection in fractured rock, Paper No. 168-1, Geological Society of America National Meeting, Seattle, November 2-5, 2003.
Becker, M.W., An interactive teaching database: Hypothesis
testing using theoretical models, Paper No. 46-26, Geological Society of
America National Meeting, Seattle, November 2-5, 2003.
2002
Becker, M.W. and A.M. Shapiro, Interpreting tracer breakthrough tailing from different forced-gradient tracer experiment configurations in fractured bedrock, EOS Trans AGU 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract #H21E-03, 2002.
David W. Metge, Ronald W. Harvey, and Matthew W. Becker, Use of microbial surrogates for injection and recovery tests in fractured-rock and granular aquifers, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 34, No. 6, September 2002.
Becker, M.W. and A. M. Shapiro, Interpreting breakthrough tailing and matrix diffusion from different forced-gradient tracer test configurations in fractured bedrock, North Eastern Regional Geological Soc. of Amer. Meeting, Springfield Massachusetts, March 25–27, 2002.
Ambrose, H.M.*, M.W Becker, T. Georgian, Characterizing baseflow in Ischua Creek using temperature information, North Eastern Regional Geological Society of America Meeting, Springfield Massachusetts, March 25–27, 2002.
2001
Becker, M.W., D. Metge, A. M. Shapiro, and S. Collins*, R.
Harvey, Effect of cell morphology on transport by ground water: Field-scale tracer experiments in fractured
crystalline bedrock, Extended Abstract in Conference Proceedings for Fractured
Rock 2001, Toronto, Canada, March 2001.
Becker, M.W. and A. M. Shapiro, Interpreting breakthrough tailing and matrix diffusion from different forced-gradient tracer test configurations in fractured crystalline bedrock, Extended Abstract in Conference Proceedings for Fractured Rock 2001 Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 2001.
Shapiro, A. M, and M.W. Becker, Matrix diffusion in fractured rock from cores to kilometers, Extended Abstract in Conference Proceedings for Fractured Rock 2001, Toronto, Canada, March 2001.
Scheutz, J.W.*, and M.W. Becker, An internet-based virtual reality tutorial demonstrating the simulation of seasonal changes in surface and ground-water flow for Mirror Lake, New Hampshire, 36th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Section, Geol. Soc. of Amer., Burlington, Vermont, March 12-14, 2001.
Collins, S. A.*, M.W. Becker, Effect of iron(III) oxyhydroxide fracture coatings and cell morphology on the transport of bacteria through saturated fractured crystalline rock, 36th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Section, Geological Society of America, Burlington, Vermont, March 12-14, 2001.
2000
Becker, M.W. and A. M. Shapiro, Tracer Transport in Crystalline Fractured Rock: Evidence of Non-Diffusive Breakthrough Tailing, EOS Trans. AGU, Spring Meet. Suppl., May 9, 2000.
Shapiro, A.M. and M.W. Becker, M. W, The Effect of Fluid Density and Pumping Rate on Tracer Tests Conducted in Fractured Crystalline Rock, EOS Trans. AGU, Spring Meet. Suppl., May 9, 2000.
Hart, E.*, and M.W. Becker, Characterization of the potential for ground-water contamination in the Olean Creek Watershed, Cattaraugus County, New York, North Eastern Regional Geological Society of America Meeting, May, 2000.
1999
Becker, M.W. and M.I. Bursik, A web-based interactive teaching database for advanced hydrology: The Mirror Lake Watershed, EOS Trans. AGU, 1999 Fall Meet. Suppl., December, 1999.
Becker, M.W., Transport and Attenuation of Carboxylate-Modified-Latex Microspheres in Fractured Rock Laboratory and Field Tracer Tests, International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology, sponsored by the American Society of Microbiology, Vail, Colorado, August 22-27, 1999.
Reimus, P. W. and Becker, M.W. "Transport and attenuation of carboxylate-modified-latex microspheres in fractured rock field tracer tests, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 217:059-ENVR, Part 1, March 21, 1999.
1998 and prior
Becker, M.W. and A. M. Shapiro, Advection-dominated tailing of tracer breakthrough in fractured rock, Geological Society of America, 1998 annual meeting, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 30 (7), p. 323, 1998
Becker, M.W. and A. M. Shapiro, Diffusion-limited transport in fractured crystalline rock: Investigations using multiple tracers at multiple pumping rates, “Mass Transport in Fractured Aquifers and Aquitards”, Geoscience Center Copenhagen, Denmark, May 14-16, 1998.
Becker, M.W. and A. M. Shapiro, Investigation of Advective/Dispersive/Diffusive Transport in a Fractured Rock Using Multiple Tracers, EOS Trans. AGU, 78(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., 1997.
Reimus, P.W., M.W. Becker and P. Vilks, Microsphere transport and attenuation in laboratory and field experiments, EOS Trans. AGU, 78(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., F231, 1997.
Editorial:
Peer Review, Journals:
· Water Resources Research
· Ground Water
· Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
· Advances in Water Resources
· Journal of Hydrology
· Hydrogeology Journal
· US Geological Survey Internal Review
Peer Review, Grant Proposals:
· National Science Foundation
· U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation
· Environmental Protection Agency
· State University of New York at Albany (Internal Funding)
Conference Sessions Chaired:
Session Chair Co-Chair: Hydrogeology III: Mass Transport and Hydrogeochemistry, 2003 Geological Society of America National Meeting, Seattle Washington, Nov.2-5, 2003.
Session Chair: The Use of Tracers in Fractured Bedrock, 3rd Tracer Workshop, Univ. of Texas at Austin, May 21-22, 1997.
National Committees:
2002 Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science: Mid Atlantic Workshop
1999 Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship Review Panel Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship Review Panel
2000 Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship Review Panel Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship Review Panel
2004 Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship Review Panel Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship Review Panel
Committee Chair or Director:
2002-present Director of Graduate Studies
2002-present Chair, Space Committee
1999-present Co-Chair, Computer Committee
Committee Member, Geology:
1998-2002 Member, Graduate Studies Committee
Committee Member, University:
2003 Educational Technology Grant Review Panel
1998-2000 Alternate Faculty Senate
1998-1999 Environment and Society Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee
1999,2003 University Commencement Marshall
Faculty Search Committee Membership:
2003 Geology Faculty Search Committee (Geomorphologist)
2003 Geology Faculty Search Committee (Geochemist)
2002 Geology Faculty Search Committee (Remote Sensing)
2002 Geography Faculty Search Committee (Physical Geographer)