Brian Waldron, Ph.D. PE

Research Assistant Professor

The University of Memphis

Ground Water Institute

301 Engineering Admin. Bldg.

Memphis, TN 38152-3170

 

901-678-3913

 

bwaldron@memphis.edu

 

Education

Colorado State University (CSU)

Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering

 

Dissertation:  MULTRAN: A Finite Difference, Multi-species,

Three-dimensional Contaminant Transport Model

The University of Memphis (UofM)

Masters and Bachelors in Civil Engineering

 

Thesis:  A Protocol and Practical Application for Determining the 

Fate of Leachate in the Memphis Sand Aquifer

Responsibilities

Publications

            Yates, R., Waldron, B. and Van Arsdale, R., 2003.  Urban effects on flood plain natural hazards:

                    Wolf River, Tennessee, USA, Engineering Geology, 70, pp. 1-15.

            

            Van Arsdale, R., Waldron, B. Ramsey, N., Parrish, S., et al., 2003.  Impact of river channelization 

                    on seismic risk: Shelby County, Tennessee, Natural Hazards Review, 4(1), pp. 2-11.

           

            Gomberg, J., Waldron, B., Schweig, E., Hwang, H., et al., 2003.  Lithology and shear-wave velocity

                    in Memphis, Tennessee, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 93(3), pp. 986-997.

                                         

 

Proceedings 

         

            Waldron, B., 2001.  Designing of a Centralized Database for Simplifying Ground Water 

                    Model Development,  TN American Water Resources Association Conference Proceedings  

    

             Larsen, D., Gentry, R., Waldron, B., et al., 2001.  Variations in Water Quality and Tritium in the 

                    Sheahan and Morton Well Fields, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, TN American Water 

                    Resources Association Conference Proceedings.

                      

Other

 

            Brian Waldron. MULTRAN: A Finite Difference, Multi-species, Three-dimensional Contaminant

                    Transport Model, Colorado State University, Dissertation, pp. 150, 1999.

 

            Brian Waldron. A Protocol and Practical Application for Determining the Fate of Leachate in

                    the Memphis Sands Aquifer, Masters Thesis, pp. 150, 1994.

 

            Brian Waldron and Jerry Anderson, 1995.  Development of a Ground Water Flow Model with

                    Predictive Solutions for Grand Prairie Project Implementation, US Army Corps of

                    Engineers: Memphis District, pp. 42.

 

Accomplishments/Mempbership

            President-elect for TN AWRA 2004

            Board Member of the Wolf River Conservancy (2004- )

            Steering Committee Member of the Children's Health Data Consortium (CHDC) (2003- )

            Member AWRA

            Member ASCE

 

Working Projects

 

Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) 

The Ground Water Institute is in cooperation with CERI and the USGS to develop and populate an Oracle database with geologic, hydrologic and geotechnical information to be used in the hazard map development process for Shelby County, Tennessee.  This also includes lithological interpretation of geophysical logs and geotechnical borings, geographic information system (GIS) representation of various spatial information, and 3D fence diagrams.

Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC)

The Ground Water Institute is working with TDEC to generate GIS files of surface features (GDT data: rivers, roads, railroads, etc.), Zone 1 and 2 capture zones for water supply systems, National Elevation Data (NED) raster maps by watershed, Superfund site location, and GIS training.

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

The Ground Water Institute is collaborating with the USGS in an effort to model the Upper Mississippi Embayment incorporating new data and technologies in a project titled MATRAS (Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee Regional Aquifer Study)

 

Software Specialization

 

NUMERICAL MODELS
  • MODFLOW
  • MT3D
  • GMS
  • MULTRAN

GRAPHICAL IMAGING/PRESENTATION
  • Photoshop
  • Freehand
  • PowerPoint
  • Alchemy

 

VISUALIZATION
  • AVS Express
  • 3D Analyst
  • Earthvision (limited)
  • PV Wave (limited)

 

ESRI - GIS
  • ArcGIS including ArcInfo
  • ArcView 3.x
  • ESRI support person (The University of Memphis, Colorado State University [past])

Others...

  • Oracle (Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL)
  • HELP2 (Hydrologic Performance of Landfill Performance, v. 2)
  • Microsoft Office products
  • Fortran 77/90-95

Platform Experience

 

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