Biographical Sketch: JOHN VAN BRAHANA, Ph.D., AIPG 2752

Academic History:

Ph.D., Geology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 1973

M.A., Geology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 1968

A.B., Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1965

Selected Aspects of Professional History:

1999: Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, U. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.

1999: Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey, Fayetteville, AR.

1990: Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Geology, U. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.

1990: Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Fayetteville, AR.

1988: Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Nashville, TN

1976-1988: Adjunct Professor, Geology, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN.

1975 Adjunct Professor, Univ. of Southern Mississippi (Univ. Center), Jackson, MS

1971: Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Nashville, TN, Jackson, MS, and Denver, CO.

1964-1965: J.W. Mack and Assoc. Geophysical Consultants, Madison, WI.

1962-1966: Lab. Tech., Illinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, IL.

Present Research Focus: Processes and controls affecting ground-water flow and transport in carbonate aquifers; effects of agroforestry activities on water quality; structural controls on subsurface flow boundaries.

Relevant Grants in Support of Research:

2002: Characterization of the Hydrogeology of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, Emphasizing Ground-Water/Surface-Water Interaction, Fl;ow, and Water Quality. Lundy and Davis, L.L.B., $81,375 (awarded). April 2002 through June 2003. J.V. Brahana, P.I.

2001: Ground-Water Vulnerability Delineation Using Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy Methods. U.S. Department of Agriculture (National Resources Initiative). $305,000 (awarded). September 2001 through September 2004. Barnali Dixon, H.D. Scott, J.C. Dixon, A. Mauromoustakos, and J.V. Brahana, PIs

2001: Assessment of Using Flooded Coal Mines as a Safe, Viable Supplement to Existing Drinking-Water Supplies in the Area of Greenwood, Arkansas. City of Greenwood, Arkansas. $40,382 (awarded). September 2001 through June 2002. J.V. Brahana, PI

2000: Investigating Environmental Quality and Trophic Dynamics in Sensitive Subterranean Habitats of the Ozark Plateaus. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $21,422 (awarded). August 2000 through October 2001, Art Brown and J.V. Brahana, PIs.

1997: Preliminary Quantification of Hydrologic and Nutrient-Flux Budgets at the Savoy Experimental Watershed, Illinois River Basin, Northwest Arkansas. Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. $25,000 June 1997 to September 1998. Approved June 1997. PI--J.V. Brahana.

1996: Enhanced Assessment of Vulnerability of Ground and Surface Waters to Pesticide Contamination in Eastern Arkansas. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service. $222,040. November 1996 to October 1999. Approved August 1996. Co-PIs H.S. Lin, H.D. Scott, M.J. Cochran, J.V. Brahana.

1995: Ground Water in Northwest Arkansas: Sampling for Improved/Maintained Water Quality and Demonstration Project for BMP Effectiveness--Spring Basin Delineation and Hydrogeologic Conceptualization. Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission. $40,000. January 1995 to September 1997. Approved January 1995. PI-- J.V. Brahana.

Relevant Refereed Publications:

Brahana, J.V., 2002, Karst aquifers: in Stewart, B.A., and Howell, Terry, eds., The Encylopedia of Water Science: Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York [in press].

Dixon, Barnali, Scott, H.D., Brahana, J.V. and Dixon, J.C., 2002, A GIS-based approach to predict ground-water vulnerability using neuro-fuzzy techniques: Ground Water, 38 p., [in press]

Peterson, E.W., Davis, R.K., Brahana, J.V., and Orndorff, H.O., 2002, Movement of nitrate through regolith covered karst terrane, northwest Arkansas: Journal of Hydrology, v. 256, p. 35-47.

Sauer, T.J., Alexander, R.B., Brahana, J.V., and Smith, R.A., 2001, The importance and role of watersheds in the transport of nitrogen: in Follett, R.F., and Hatfield, J.L., eds., Nitrogen in the Environment: Sources, Problems, and Management: ch. 7, p. 147-181.

Brahana, J.V. and Broshears, R.E., 2001, Hydrogeology and ground-water flow in the Memphis and Fort Pillow aquifers in the Memphis area, Tennessee: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 89-4131, 56 p.

Peterson, E.W., Davis, R.K., and Brahana, J.V., 2000, The use of regression analysis to predict nitrate-nitrogen in springs in northwest Arkansas: in Sasowsky, I.D. and Wicks, C.M., eds.,Groundwater flow and contaminant transport in carbonate aquifers: A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 43-63.

Brahana, J.V., Hays, P.D., Kresse, T.M., Sauer, T.J., and Stanton, G.P., 1999, The Savoy Experimental Watershed—Early lessons for hydrogeologic modeling from a well-characterized karst research site: in Palmer, A.N., Palmer, M.V., and Sasowsky, I.D., editors, Karst Modeling: Special Publication 5, Karst Waters Institute, Charles Town, WV, p. 247-254.

Brahana, J. V., Eckstein, Y., Ongley, Lois K., Schneider, Robert, and Moore, John E., editors, 1998, Gambling with groundwater—physical, chemical, and biological aspects of aquifer-stream relations: American Institute of Hydrology, St. Paul, Minnesota, 802 p.

Funkhouser, J.E., Little, P.R., Brahana, J.V., Kresse, T.M., Anderson, M., Formica, S., and Huetter, T., 1999, Methodology to study the effects of animal production in mantled karst aquifers of the southern Ozarks: in Palmer, A.N., Palmer, M.V., and Sasowsky, I.D., editors, Karst Modeling: Special Publication 5, Karst Waters Institute, Charles Town, WV, p. 255-258.

Brahana, J.V., 1997, Rationale and methodology for approximating spring-basin boundaries in the mantled karst terrane of the Springfield Plateau, northwestern Arkansas: in Beck, B.F. and Stephenson, J. Brad, eds., Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology of Karst Terranes, Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 77-82.

Brahana, J.V., 1995, Controlling influences on ground-water flow and transport in the shallow karst aquifer of northeastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas: Proceedings Volume, Hydrologic Problems Along the Arkansas-Oklahoma Border, Arkansas Water-Resources Publication No. MSC-168, p. 25-30.

Brahana, J. V., Thrailkill, John, Freeman, Tom, and Ward, W. C., 1988, Comparative hydrogeology of carbonate rocks, in Back, W., Seaber, P. R., and Rosenshein, J. S., Ground Water Hydrogeology: Volume of Decade of North American Geology (DNAG) Series, v. 0-2, ch. 38, p. 333-352.