Geosciences Department - The University of Montana

William W. Woessner
Professor
Hydrogeology
Acting Director Center for Riverine Science and Stream Renaturalization
Office: CHCB 329
Phone: (406) 243-5698
Contact: william.woessner@mso.umt.edu

EDUCATION

l978 Ph.D. in Geology (Hydrogeology), minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
l974 M.S. in Water Resources Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison
l973 M.S. in Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville
l97l B.A. Major in Geology, College of Wooster, Ohio

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

l985 to Present: American Institute of Hydrology
PROFESSIONAL HYDROGEOLOGIST, Certificate No. 528

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching and Research
9/8l to Present, Position: Professor, (Associate Professor, 9/81 to 8/89),Department of Geology, University of Montana, Missoula, 598l2. Responsibilities include teaching and research in basic and applied hydrogeology. Teaching includes courses in Hydrogeology, Advanced Hydrogeology, Groundwater Modeling, Environmental Geology and Hydrogeology Field Camp.

Groundwater research concentrates on quantifying flow systems in intermountain valleys, resource analysis, ground water - surface water interactions, characterization of hazardous wastes and contaminant transport including virus transport, and the use of groundwater flow models to evaluate conceptual models and make predictions.

Selected Professional Publications

Johnson, Adam N., Brian R.. Boer, William W. Woessner, Jack A. Stanford, Geoffrey C. Poole, Steven A. Thomas, and Scott J. O'Daniel. 2005. Evaluation of an inexpensive small diameter temperature logger for documenting ground water –river interactions. Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, in press

Godfrey, Emily and William W. Woessner. 2004. Screening level study of pharmaceuticals in septic tank effluent and a wastewater treatment plant waste stream. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Water, held October 13-15, 2004, in Minneapolis, Minnesota (copyright 2004 by the National Ground Water Association, ISBN 1-56034-114-9): 296-308.

Poole GC, Stanford JA, Running SW, Frissell CA, Woessner WW, Ellis BK. 2004. A patch hierarchy approach to modeling surface and sub-surface hydrology in complex flood-plain environments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29: 1259-1274.

Reeves, D.M. and W.W. Woessner, Hydrologic controls on the survival of Water Howellia (Howellia aquatilis) and implications of land management, Journal of Hydrology, 287 (1-4): 1-18.

Loustaunau, P. K., W. W. Woessner and J. A. Kuhn, 2003. MTBE Fate near a Ground Water-Stream Interface. Proceedings 2003 Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water, 20th Annual Conference, National Ground Water Association., Costa Mesa, CA. August 19-22., in press

Baxter, C., Hauer, F. R. and Woessner, W. W., 2003. Measuring groundwater-stream exchange: New techniques for installing min-piezometers and estimating hydraulic conductivity. Transactions of American Fisheries In press.

Moore, J.N., and Woessner, W.W., 2003, Arsenic contamination in the water supply of Milltown, Montana, in Welch, A.H., and Stollenwerk, K.G., eds., Arsenic in Ground Water: Geochemistry and Occurrence: Norwell, Massachusetts, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 329-350.

Woessner, W. W. and Anderson, M. P., 2002. The Hydro-Maloprop and the ground water table. Groundwater Vol. 40, no 5, p 465.

Woessner, W. W., Ball, P. N., DeBorde, D. C and Troy, T. L., 2001. Viral transport in a sand and gravel aquifer under field pumping conditions. Ground Water 39 (6), p. 886-894.

Moore, J.N. and Woessner, W. W., 2000. Solute and solid phase relationships in the surface hyporheic zone of a metal contaminated stream, Silver Bow Creek, MT. Proceedings of the Ground-Water/Surface Water Interactions Workshop. USEPA/542/R-00/007, p. 151-155.

Woessner, W. W., 2000, Stream and fluvial plain ground-water interactions: re-scaling hydrogeologic thought. Ground Water, 38 (3), p. 423-429.

Gammons, C.H., Woessner, W. W. and Griffin, J.H., 2000. Examination of impacts to the surface-water and groundwater systems of the upper Clark Fork River from 100 years of mining and smelting. in Roberts, S., and Winston, D. Eds., Geologic field trips, western Montana and adjacent areas: Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America, University of Montana , p. 65-84.

Anderson, M.P. and Woessner, W. W., 2000, Applied Groundwater Modeling-Simulation of Flow and Advective transport. Chinese Translation. Harcourt Asia Pte Ltd.

Woessner, W. W., 1999, Conceptualization and complexities of modelling groundwater-stream interaction at the near-channel scale. Proceedings of ModelCARE’99. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Vol II, 781-786.

DeBorde, D.C., Woessner, W. W., Kiley, Q. T., and Ball, P., 1999, Rapid transport of viruses in a floodplain aquifer. Water Research, 33(10): 2229-2238..

Huggenberger, P., E. Hoehn, R. Beschta, and W. Woessner. 1998. Abiotic aspects of channels and floodplains in riparian ecology. Freshwater Biology 40: 407-425.

Woessner, W. W. and Anderson, M. P., 1998, Advantages and disadvantages of teaching MODFLOW using pre- and post- processors. Ed. E. Poeter, C. Zheng and M. Hill. Proceedings of MODFLOW’98 International Conference, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO., Vol. 1, p.473-480.

Woessner, W. W., 1998, Changing views of stream-ground-water interaction. Proceedings of American Institute of Hydrology/International Association of Hydrologists XXVIII Congress: Gambling with Groundwater, Physical, Chemical and Biological Aspects of Aquifer-Stream Relationships., Sept. 1998, Las Vegas, NV, American Institute of Hydrology, St. Paul, MN, p.1-6.

DeBorde D.C., Woessner, W.W., Lauerman, B. and Ball, P., 1998, Virus occurrence and transport in a school septic systems and unconfined aquifer. Ground Water. 36 (5), p. 825-834.

DeBorde, D.C., Woessner, W. W., Lauerman, B., and Ball, P., 1998, Coliphage prevalence in high school septic effluent and associated groundwater. Water Research, Accepted for Publication, 32(12), p. 3781-3785.

Woessner, W.W., Troy, T., Ball, P. and DeBorde, D.C., 1998, Virus transport in the capture zone of a well penetrating a high hydraulic conductivity aquifer containing a preferential flow zone: Challenges to Natural Disinfection, Proceedings of Source Water Protection International 98, Dallas Texas, April 28-30, National Water Research Institute, p. 167-174.

Woessner, W.W. and DeBorde, D.C., 1998, Virus transport in the floodplain groundwater of a headwater stream, western Montana, USA, Headwaters: Water Resources and Soil Conservation (ed. M..J. Haigh, J. Krecek, G.S. Rajwar and M.P.Kilmartin, IAHC, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 197-207.

Woessner, W.W., 1996, Good model-bad model, understanding the flow modeling process. Ed. J. Richey and J. Rumbaugh III, ASTM D-18 Soil and Rock, D18.21 Ground Water and Vadose Zone Investigations, Phil., PA, p. 14-23.

Selected Recent Presentations

Poole, G. C., O’Daniel, S., Woessner, W. W., Mertes, L., Thomas, S. A. , Arrigoni, A. and Qin, X. 2003, Hyporheic flow response to historical changes in channel morphology and flow regulation. Association of Liminologists and Oceanographers, Salt Lake City, February.

Woessner, W. W., 2002. (KEYNOTE) Exchange of Ground Water and Stream Systems: Conceptualization and Implications for Renaturalization. National Ground Water Association, Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, National Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, December

Loustaunau, P. K., Woessner W. W. and Kuhn, J., 2002, MTBE-behavior at a stream-ground water interface. National Ground Water Association, Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, National Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, December

Johnson, A., Woessner, W. W. and Stanford, J. A., 2002. Preferential flow in the hyporheic zone of a large alluvial river. National Ground Water Association, Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, National Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, December

Boer, B., Woessner, W. W. and O’Daniel, S. 2002. Analysis of subsurface features in an Oregonian floodplain using ground penetrating radar. National Ground Water Association, Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, National Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, December

Vitale, M., Hinman, N. and Woessner, W. W., 2002. Effects of groundwater-surface water exchange on creek channel mineral deposits in a hydrothermal environment. National Ground Water Association, Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, National Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, December

Arrigoni, A., Mertes, L, O’Daniel, S., Poole, G., Woessner W., Thomas, S., and Mason, J.. 2002. Characterizing diversity of thermal and hydrodynamic properties in waters of the Umatilla River, Oregon, and its floodplain.
AGU. December.

Vitale, M., Hinman, H. and Woessner, W., 2002. Hydrological, geochemical and biological factors on silica deposition in a hot spring fed creek in Yellowstone National Park. MT AWRA, Livingston, MT

Woessner, W. W., 2002, (INVITED) Exchange of groundwater at the stream-floodplain interface. 11th Annual Conference Ground Water Resources Association of California. Newport Beach, CA, Sept.

Woessner, W. W., 2002, (INVITED) Occurrence, transport, and fate of pathogens in groundwater: Current conditions and policy implications. Council of Canadian Ministers of the Environment Workshop. Linking Water Science to Policy: Groundwater Quality. Toronto, March 21 and 22, 2002.

Woessner, W. W., 2001, (INVITED) Conceptualizing physical and chemical exchange at the floodplain and channel scale. Socitey of Environmental Toxicologists and Chemists, Baltimore, MD Nov.

Woessner, W. W. and Moore, J. N., 2001. Balancing act, conceptualizing arsenic fate at Milltown, Western Montana. Montana Am. Water Resources Association, October 4-5, Missoula, MT.

Reeves, D. M. and Woessner, W. W., 2001. Deciphering the Water Budget for wetlands supporting threatened Water Howellia, Swan Valley, Montana. Montana Am. Water Resources Association, October 4-5, Missoula, MT.

Boer, B. and Woessner, W. W., 2001. Preliminary impact assessment of septic system effluent discharge on the groundwater and surface water in Lolo, MT. Montana Am. Water Resources Association, October 4-5, Missoula, MT.

Johnson, M. M and Woessner, W. W., 2001. The fate of sewage effluent nutrients applied to coarse-grained soils by sprinkler irrigation: preliminary results. Montana Am. Water Resources Association, October 4-5, Missoula, MT.

Woessner, W. W. and Ball, P. N.,2001 (INVITED) The affect of aquifer heterogeneities v transport in coarse-grained floodplain sediments. NGWA Focus Conference, Portland, Feb.

Woessner, W. W., 2000, (INVITED, FARVOLDEN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE), Characterizing, maintaining and remediating hydrogeologically supported physical and ecological functions of streams: Conceptualizing Groundwater exchange at the floodplain and channel scale. Dept. of Earth Science, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Dec1.

Woessner, W. W., 2000, (INVITED), Factors controlling viral transport in a floodplain aquifer influenced by pumping. Dept. of Earth Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Nov. 31.

Woessner, W. W., 2000, (INVITED), Simulation of channel-groundwater exchange to enhance system conceptualization and interpretation of field data. Geol. Soc. of America National Meeting, Reno, NV. Nov

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