John D. Bredehoeft
John Dallas Bredehoeft (born February 28, 1933 in Saint Louis , Missouri ) is an American hydrogeologist.
Bredehoeft studied at Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in engineering geology in 1955, at the University of Illinois with a master's degree in 1957 and a doctorate in geology in 1962 (The hydrogeology of the lower Humboldt river basin, Nevada). Before that he was a geologist at Standard Oil from 1957 to 1959 and in 1962 he was a geologist at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada. From 1962 he was with the US Geological Survey (USGS) and from 1974 to 1994 with the Water Resource Division of the USGS in Menlo Park , most recently as Senior Research Geologist. In the 1970s he directed the USGS 'National Water Research Program for five years and in the 1980s he was the senior hydrogeologist for the western United States. Then he was a consultant to the Hydrodynamics Group in Sausalito.
He was visiting professor at the University of Illinois and a consulting professor at Stanford University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco State University. From 1991 to 1995 he edited the journal Ground Water.
He deals with groundwater flow and the transport of chemical substances in groundwater. In particular, he also dealt with the geophysics of groundwater and participated in experiments in Rangely (Colorado) to generate small earthquakes by high-pressure injection of water. He recommended the strain measurements in water wells for monitoring earthquakes. In 1967 he investigated the influence of geothermal tides on groundwater and published the first widely used numerical model for groundwater flow with his doctoral student George Pinder in 1967/68 (for which they received the Horton Award) and both also published the first widely used numerical model for pollutant transport in groundwater ( for which they received the Meinzer Award from the Geological Society of America). His contributions range from novel field measurement methods (e.g. pulse test to measure the permeability of low-permeability rocks) and groundwater pollution to numerical simulation of groundwater flow. He has served on various advisory boards for the suitability of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear repository. He spent two years at Resources for the Future (RFF) dealing with economic aspects of groundwater management.
In 1997 he received the Penrose Medal and the Robert E. Horton Medal from the American Geophysical Union . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering . He is a lifetime member of the National Ground Water Association.
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- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Horton Medal to Bredehoeft, AGU
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bredehoeft, John D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bredehoeft, John Dallas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American hydrogeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Louis , Missouri |