keywords groundwater, fluid injection and reservoir induced earthquakes, impact of climate change on groundwater, surface water and groundwater interaction, permafrost hydrogeology
selected publications chapter Groundwater and Surface Water 2015 Tectonically induced transient groundwater flow in sedimentary basins 1991 conference proceeding Groundwater Flow and Heat Transport Simulations to Evaluate the Potential Impact of Geothermal Energy Production on Hot Springs. 501-507. 2024 journal article Extreme Precipitation Variability and Soil Texture Controls on Water-Table Response. Water (Switzerland). 587-587. 2026 Deep geothermal energy extraction can potentially reduce temperature and discharge at hot springs. Scientific Reports. 2025 Effects of Pore Pressure Change on Coulomb Stress Change and Initiation of Induced Seismicity in the Raton Basin, Colorado–New Mexico. Seismological Research Letters. 2025 Alleviating post-injection seismic hazard in enhanced geothermal systems: Insights from a multi-scale study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 119579-119579. 2025 Effect of climate warming on subsurface temperature in basins with topography-driven groundwater flow. Journal of Hydrology. 2024 Surface Deformation and Seismicity Linked to Fluid Injection in the Raton Basin. Ground Water. 690-701. 2024 Fixing the Flawed Colorado River Compact, Cover article. Eos. 2023 Poroelastic stress relaxation, slip stress transfer and friction weakening controlled post-injection seismicity at the Basel Enhanced Geothermal System. Communications Earth & Environment. 2023 On the extinction depth of freezing-induced groundwater migration. Journal of Hydrology. 2023 Pore Pressure Diffusion and Onset of Induced Seismicity. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth. 2023 Water-table response to extreme precipitation events. Journal of Hydrology. 2023 Insights on post-injection seismicity through analysis of the Enhanced Geothermal System at Basel (Switzerland) 2022 A Simple Relation to Constrain Groundwater Models Using Surface Deformation. Ground Water. 410-417. 2022 Examining subsurface response to an extreme precipitation event using HYDRUS‐1D. Vadose Zone Journal. 2022 Review: Induced Seismicity During Geoenergy Development-A Hydromechanical Perspective. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth. 2022 Impoundment-Associated Hydro-Mechanical Changes and Regional Seismicity Near the Xiluodu Reservoir, Southwestern China. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth. 2021 Earthquakes and very deep groundwater perturbation mutually induced. Scientific Reports. 2021 Open Science: Open Data, Open Models, ...and Open Publications?. Water Resources Research. 2021 Impoundment-associated Hydro-mechanical Changes and Regional Seismicity near the Xiluodu Reservoir, Southwestern China 2020 Future-proofing hydrogeology by revising groundwater monitoring practice. Hydrogeology Journal. 2963-2969. 2020 Causal mechanism of injection-induced earthquakes through the Mw 5.5 Pohang earthquake case study. Nature Communications. 2020 Origin of the Crescent Moon Spring in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China, based on understanding groundwater recharge. Journal of Hydrology. 124344-124344. 2020 Carbon and mercury export from the Arctic rivers and response to permafrost degradation. Water Research. 54-60. 2019 Triggering of the Pohang, Korea, Earthquake (Mw 5.5) by Enhanced Geothermal System Stimulation. Seismological Research Letters. 2019 Organic Carbon Pools in the Subsea Permafrost Domain Since the Last Glacial Maximum (Retracted Article). Geophysical Research Letters. 8166-8173. 2019 Managing injection-induced seismic risks.. Science. 730-732. 2019 Geocryology: Characteristics and Use of Frozen Ground and Permafrost Landforms, by Stuart A. Harris, Anatoli Brouchkov, and Cheng Guodong. Leiden, The Netherlands: CRC Press, 2018. 765 pp. $192.00, ISBN: 978-1-138-05416-5 (hardcover); 978-1-315-16698-8 (eBook).. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 313-314. 2019 Distinguishing Fluid Flow Path from Pore Pressure Diffusion for Induced Seismicity. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 3684-3686. 2018 Solar district heating with underground thermal energy storage: Pathways to commercial viability in North America. Renewable Energy. 1-13. 2018 Role of Nonequilibrium Water Vapor Diffusion in Thermal Energy Storage Systems in the Vadose Zone. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 2018 Streamflow Changes in the Vicinity of Seismogenic Fault After the 1999 Chi–Chi Earthquake. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 2425-2434. 2018 Small Earthquakes Matter in Injection-Induced Seismicity. Geophysical Research Letters. 5445-5453. 2018 The Role of Frozen Soil in Groundwater Discharge Predictions for Warming Alpine Watersheds. Water Resources Research. 1599-1615. 2018 A Possible Causative Mechanism of Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado Earthquakes Using Recent Seismicity Patterns and Pore Pressure Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth. 8051-8065. 2017 Evaluating the effectiveness of induced seismicity mitigation: Numerical modeling of wastewater injection near Greeley, Colorado. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth. 6569-6582. 2017 Contrasting hydrogeologic responses to warming in permafrost and seasonally frozen ground hillslopes. Geophysical Research Letters. 1803-1813. 2017 Induced seismicity: the potential hazard from shale gas development and CO2 geologic storage. Geosciences Journal. 137-148. 2016 Numerical Modeling of a Soil-Borehole Thermal Energy Storage System. Vadose Zone Journal. 2016 Analysis of groundwater flow in mountainous, headwater catchments with permafrost. Water Resources Research. 9564-9576. 2015 High-rate injection is associated with the increase in US mid-continent seismicity. Science. 1336-1340. 2015 Coping with earthquakes induced by fluid injection. Science. 830-831. 2015 Groundwater flow and its effect on salt dissolution in Gypsum Canyon watershed, Paradox Basin, southeast Utah, USA. Hydrogeology Journal. 1403-1419. 2014 Sharp increase in central Oklahoma seismicity since 2008 induced by massive wastewater injection. Science. 448-451. 2014 Insights into water level response to seismic waves: A 24 year high- fidelity record of global seismicity at Devils Hole. Geophysical Research Letters. 74-80. 2014 A book review for Permafrost Hydrology By Ming-ko Woo. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 2013 A quantitative study on accumulation of age mass around stagnation points in nested flow systems. Water Resources Research. 2012 Groundwater modeling of the Silver Bell Mountains, Arizona, USA. Environmental Earth Sciences. 1933-1941. 2012 Coupled fluid flow and deformation modeling of the frontal thrust region of the Kumano Basin transect, Japan: Implications for fluid pressures and decollement downstepping. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 2012 Comment on "Evidence that the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake Could Not Have Been Induced by the Zipingpu Reservoir" by Kai Deng, Shiyong Zhou, Rui Wang, Russell Robinson, Cuiping Zhao, and Wanzheng Cheng. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 3117-3118. 2011 A new analytical solution of topography-driven flow in a drainage basin with depth-dependent anisotropy of permeability. Water Resources Research. 2011 Exchange of groundwater and surface-water mediated by permafrost response to seasonal and long term air temperature variation. Geophysical Research Letters. n/a-n/a. 2011 An analytical study on stagnation points in nested flow systems in basins with depth-decaying hydraulic conductivity. Water Resources Research. 2011 Constraining fault-zone hydrogeology through integrated hydrological and geoelectrical analysis. Hydrogeology Journal. 1057-1067. 2010 Simultaneous rejuvenation and aging of groundwater in basins due to depth-decaying hydraulic conductivity and porosity. Geophysical Research Letters. 2010 Can climate change cause the Yellow River to dry up?. Water Resources Research. 2010 Effect of exponential decay in hydraulic conductivity with depth on regional groundwater flow. Geophysical Research Letters. 2009 Did the Zipingpu Reservoir trigger the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake?. Geophysical Research Letters. 2009 Groundwater in the Tibet Plateau, western China. Geophysical Research Letters. 2008 Characterization of the shallow groundwater system in an alpine watershed: Handcart Gulch, Colorado, USA. Hydrogeology Journal. 103-121. 2008 An investigation of regional tectonic strain on water levels in Devils Hole, Death Valley National Park, Nevada. Geophysical Research Letters. 2007 Modeling of the effects of propagating thrust slip on pore pressures and implications for monitoring. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 454-464. 2007 Analysis of strain-induced ground-water fluctuations at Devils Hole, Nevada. Geofluids. 319-333. 2006 Hydrodynamic response of subduction zones to seismic activity: A case study for the Costa Rica margin. Tectonophysics. 167-187. 2006 Modeling seismically induced deformation and fluid flow in the Nankai subduction zone - art. no. L17301. Geophysical Research Letters. 2005 Three‐dimensional numerical simulation of fluid flow and heat transport within the Barbados Ridge accretionary complex. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2003 A one-dimensional analytically based approach for studying poroplastic and viscous consolidation: Application to Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea - art. no. 2448. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth. 2003 The Permeability of the Elkhorn Fault Zone, South Park, Colorado. Ground Water. 321-332. 2003 Fluid flow in sub‐sea floor processes and future ocean drilling. Eos. 145-152. 2003 The effects of salt evolution, structural development, and fault propagation on Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic oil migration: A two-dimensional fluid-flow study along a megaregional profile in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. 1945-1966. 2001 Solute dispersion in rock fractures by Non‐Darcian Flow. Geophysical Research Letters. 3983-3986. 2001 The effect of allochthonous salt evolution and overpressure development on source rock thermal maturation: a two-dimensional transient study in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin. Petroleum Geoscience. 281-290. 2001 Hydrodynamic response to strike‐ and dip‐slip faulting in a half‐space. Journal of Geophysical Research. 25513-25524. 2000 Anomalously high porosities in the proto‐decollement zone of the Barbados Accretionary Complex: Do they indicate overpressures?. Geophysical Research Letters. 1993-1996. 2000 Numerical Modeling of Perched Water Under Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Ground Water. 498-504. 1999 A new conceptual model for fluid flow in discrete fractures: An experimental and numerical study. Journal of Geophysical Research. 13049-13059. 1999 Estimation of groundwater velocity in localized fracture zones from well temperature profiles. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 93-101. 1998 A New Analytical Treatment of Airflow to Inlet Wells in Soil Vapor Extraction Systems. GroundWater Monitoring and Remediation. 133-136. 1998 The effect of surface geometry on fracture permeability: A case study using a sinusoidal fracture. Geophysical Research Letters. 813-816. 1998 An assessment of along‐strike fluid and heat transport within the Barbados Ridge Accretionary Complex: Results of preliminary modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 3085-3088. 1997 A governing equation for fluid flow in rough fractures. Water Resources Research. 53-61. 1997 A Semianalytical Solution of One‐Dimensional Advective‐Dispersive Solute Transport Under an Arbitrary Concentration Boundary Condition. Ground Water. 501-503. 1996 Effect of Horizontal Heat and Fluid Flow on the Vertical Temperature Distribution in a Semiconfining Layer. Water Resources Research. 1449-1453. 1996 An Analytical Evaluation for Airflow to Inlet Wells in Vapor Extraction Systems Under Leaky Conditions. Water Resources Research. 743-748. 1996 A theoretical model for thrust‐induced deep groundwater expulsion with application to the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Journal of Geophysical Research. 13851-13868. 1994 GENESIS OF STRATABOUND ORE-DEPOSITS IN THE MIDCONTINENT BASINS OF NORTH-AMERICA .1. THE ROLE OF REGIONAL GROUNDWATER-FLOW. American Journal of Science. 497-568. 1993 Hydromechanical modeling of tectonically driven groundwater flow with application to the Arkoma Foreland Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research. 9119-9144. 1992
education and training Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University 1990 M.A., Johns Hopkins University 1987 M.S., University of British Columbia (Canada) 1985 B.S., Wuhan University (China) 1982
awards and honors Distinguished Professorship, conferred by University of Colorado President, 2023 Union Fellows, conferred by American Geophysical Union, 2023 Fellow, conferred by American Geophysical Union, 2023 Traditional Fulbright Scholarship, conferred by Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2019 O.E. Meinzer Award, conferred by Geological Society of America, The, 2018 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, conferred by Geological Society of America, The, 2016 Fellow, conferred by Geological Society of America, The, 2006
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