Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
and Department of Geosciences
Phone: 414-382-1744 (Freshwater Sciences); 414-229-4765 (Geosciences)
PhD, Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, 1988
MS, Geology, Northern Illinois University, 1980
BS, Geology, University of Delaware, 1975
- The overall geochemistry of the deep sandstone aquifer of the upper Midwest. The last of the Pleistocene ice advances injected a large pulse of fresh water into this aquifer, and through the use of noble gas and stable isotope data, we are unraveling the dynamics of this one-time event.
- The effects on shallow aquifers if treated effluent is used to recharge the aquifer either directly or indirectly by the use of riverbank filtration.
- The development of a suite of in-situ probes for the rapid, screening-level detection of contamination in submerged sediments. These probes induce contaminant fluorescence using laser or x-ray excitation.
Recent and selected publications
Alessi D and Grundl T. 2008. Reduction of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and hexahydro-1,3,5- trinitro1,3,5-triazine (RDX) by hydroxyl-complexed Fe(II). Journal of Environmental Engineering 134(12): 937-943.
Klump S, Grundl T, Purtschert R, and Kipfer R. 2008. Groundwater and climate dynamics derived from noble gas, 14C and stable isotope data. Geology 36(5): 395-398.
Grundl T and Cape M. 2006. Geochemical factors controlling radium activity in a sandstone aquifer. Ground Water 44(4): 518-527.
Schultz C and Grundl T. 2004. pH Dependence of ferrous sorption onto two smectite clays. Chemosphere 57(10): 1301-1306.
Grundl T, Aldstadt J, Harb J, St. Germain R, and Schweitzer B. 2003. Demonstration of a method for the direct determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in submerged sediments. Environmental Science & Technology 37(6): 1189-1197.