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Junfeng Zhu

Title: Hydrogeologist, Water Resources Section

Address: Kentucky Geological Survey 316 Mining and Mineral Resources Bldg. 504 Rose Street University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0107 Phone: 859-323-0530 Fax: 859.257.1147 E-mail: junfeng.zhu@uky.edu

Joined KGS in 2009.

Education:

• 1995, B.S., Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Nanjing University
• 1998, M.S., Hydrogeology, Nanjing University
• 2005, Ph.D., Hydrology, University of Arizona

Responsibilities:

Research and project development with respect to water-resources in Kentucky; ground water resources; groundwater and agricultural water quality; karst.

Professional Organizations:

• American Geophysical Union

Publications:

• Zhu, J., J. C. Currens, J. S. Dinger, (2011), Challenges of using electrical resistivity method to locate karst conduits-A field case in the Inner Bluegrass Region, Kentucky, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 75(3), 523-530, doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.08.009.
• Zhu J., T.-C. J. Yeh, and D. Mao (2011), Hydraulic tomography to characterize heterogeneity of unconfined Aquifers, Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences), Vol. 47, No. 3, p252-264.
• llman, W. A., J. Zhu, A. J. Craig, and D. Yin (2010), Comparison of aquifer characterization approaches through steady state groundwater model validation: A controlled laboratory sandbox study, Water Resour. Res., 46, W04502, doi:10.1029/2009WR007745.
• Zhu, J. (2009), Transient hydraulic tomography and tracer tomography: methods to characterization of subsurface heterogeneity and contaminants, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 108p.
• Yeh, T. –C. J., X. Cai, H. P. Langtangen, J. Zhu, and C. F. Ni, (2009) , Parallel computing engines for subsurface imaging technologies, In M. Parashar and X. Li, Advanced computational infrastructures for parallel and distributed applications, Volume 66 of Wiley series on parallel and distributed computing (pp. 29-43), Wiley-Interscience.
• Zhu J., X. Cai, T.-C. J.Yeh (2009), Analysis of tracer tomography using temporal moments of tracer breakthrough curves, Advances in Water Resources, Volume 32, Issue 3, March 2009, Pages 391-400, ISSN 0309-1708, DOI: 10.1016/ j.advwatres.2008.12.001.
• Straface, S., T.-C. J. Yeh, J. Zhu, S. Troisi, and C. H. Lee (2007), Sequential aquifer tests at a well field, Montalto Uffugo Scalo, Italy, Water Resour. Res., 43, W07432, doi:10.1029/2006WR005287.
• Yeh, T.-C. J., and J. Zhu (2007), Hydraulic/partitioning tracer tomography for characterization of dense nonaqueous phase liquid source zones, Water Resour. Res., 43, W06435, doi:10.1029/2006WR004877.
• Liu, X., W. A. Illman, A. J. Craig, J. Zhu, and T.-C. J. Yeh (2007), Laboratory sandbox validation of transient hydraulic tomography, Water Resour. Res., 43, W05404, doi:10.1029/2006WR005144.
• T. –C J. Yeh, J. Zhu, A. Englert, A. Guzman, and S. Flaherty, A successive linear estimator for electrical resistivity tomography (2006), edited by H. Vereecken et al. (eds.), Applied Hydrogeophysics, Springer. Printed in the Netherlands, p 45-74
• Zhu, J., and T. –C J. Yeh (2006), Analysis of hydraulic tomography using temporal moments of drawdown recovery data, Water Resour. Res., 42, W02403, doi:10.1029/ 2005WR004309.
• Wu, C.-M., T.-C. J. Yeh, J. Zhu, T. H. Lee, N.-S. Hsu, C.-H. Chen, and A. F. Sancho, Traditional analysis of aquifer tests: Comparing apples to oranges? (2005), Water Resour. Res., 41, W09402, doi:10.1029/2004WR003717.
• Zhu, J. and T. –C J. Yeh, Characterization of aquifer heterogeneity using transient hydraulic tomography (2005), Water Resour. Res., 41, W07028, doi:10.1029/2004WR -003790.
• Mao C., X. Duan, J. Zhu, Y., Feng, Calculation method for settlement and cracks of clay blanket (2004), Rock and Soil Mechanics, Vol. 25, No. 1, (in Chinese).
• Zhu, J., H. Huang, Y. Xue, J. Wu, Numerical simulation for toxic metals contamination of groundwater in leaky aquifer system (1999). Chinese Journal of Environmental Science, Vol 20, No. 1, (in Chinese).
• Wu, J, Y. Xue, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Zhu, Numerical simulation of groundwater contamination in Taiyuan Basin (1997), Journal of Nanjing University, Vol 33, No. 3 (in Chinese).