Ulrich Mayer
Professor
umayer@eoas.ubc.ca
Home department: Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Website: MIN3P Reactive Transport Modeling
Research Interests
- Environmental Science
- Geochemistry
- Geological Engineering
- Hydrogeology
Research Projects
- Development of a process-oriented multicomponent reactive transport model, which can be used to investigate these complex systems and which is generally applicable to a large number of reactive transport problems in the fields of environmental sciences and engineering.
- Numerical analysis of groundwater contamination problems and remediation solutions with the goal to quantify, and potentially improve, existing conceptual models.
- Investigation of transport and reaction processes in groundwater systems using dissolved and vapor phase gases as natural tracers (Ar and N2) or indicators for biological processes (CH4, CO2, H2, H2S, O2, N2)
- Model development of the reactive transport model MIN3P to be applied in the following cases.
- The generation and fate of acid mine drainage in mine tailings and at reclaimed mine sites.
- Treatment of contaminated groundwater by permeable reactive barriers and KMnO4.
- Potential effect of secondary geochemical reactions on the long-term performance of remediation technologies.
- Natural attenuation of organic contaminants in variably-saturated media. Assessment of physical and chemical parameters controlling microbially-mediated degradation reactions.
- Development of an improved conceptual model capable of reproducing observed redox zones in natural and contaminated aquifers.