Professor • President's Teaching Scholar • Professional Engineer (PE)
Hydrology, Water Resources & Environmental Fluid Mechanics • Engineering Science • Geoenvironmental Engineering
Office:听SEEC C245
Education:
- B.A. Spanish, University of Colorado, 2018
- Ph.D. in Hydrology, New Mexico Tech, 2000
- M.S. in Applied Math, New Mexico Tech, 1999
- S.M. in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989
Honors and Distinctions:
- Outstanding Reviewer for Water Resources AV名湿, 2023
- Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023
- Margaret S. Petersen Award, Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2022
- Fellow, Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- 鈥淏est Should Teach鈥� Faculty Gold Award, 2016
- 鈥婸resident鈥檚 Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado, 2015
- Fulbright Scholar, 2015
- Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011
- John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, 2010
- Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Teaching Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, 2009
- Charles A. Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, 2008
- ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
- Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering AV名湿 Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
- Fellow, Geological Society of America
Professional Affiliations:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Geological Society of America
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- American Society for Engineering Education
- National Ground Water Association (NGWA)
Interests:
- Arctic subsurface hydrology
- Geothermal energy and groundwater quality
- Groundwater flow and transport modeling
- Chaotic advection
- Groundwater remediation
- Adjoint theory and applications
Recent Publications:
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- Lainis, A., R.M. Neupauer,听J.C. Koch, and M.N. Gooseff, Seasonal and decadal subsurface thaw dynamics of an aufeis feature investigated through numerical simulations, Hydrological Processes, 38(3), e15106, , 2024.
- Zhang, Y., G.E. Fogg, H. Sun, D.M. Reeves, R.M. Neupauer, and W. Wei, Adjoint subordination to calculate backward travel time probability of pollutants in water with various velocity resolutions, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,听28, 179鈥�203, , 2024.
- 听Neupauer, R.M., C. Turnadge, and J. Okkonen, Forward and adjoint modeling of sensitivities to periodic sources in groundwater flow and transport, Mathematical Geosciences, doi:10.1007/s11004-023-10074-w, 2023.听
- Sather, L.J., E.J. Roth, R.M. Neupauer, J.P. Crimaldi, and D.C. Mays, Experiments and simulations of plume spreading in porous media, Water Resources AV名湿, 59, e2022WR032943, DOI:10.1029/2022WR032943, 2023.听
- Zhang, Y., M.L. Brusseau, B. Baeumer, R.M. Neupauer, W. Wei, A general backward model to identify source for contaminants undergoing non-Fickian diffusion in water, Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c01873, 2022.听
- Sather, L.J., R.M. Neupauer, D.C. Mays, J.P. Crimaldi, and E.J. Roth, Active spreading: Hydraulics for enhancing groundwater remediation, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0002167, 2022.听
- Hwang, H-T., R.M. Neupauer, S.-W. Jeen, D.T. Steinmoeller, E.A. Sudicky, S.-S. Lee, K.-K. Lee, Evaluating backward probability model for source zone identification problems under various hydrologic conditions, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2021.103909, 2022.听
- Neupauer, R.M., E.J. Roth, J.P. Crimaldi, D.C. Mays, and L.J. Sather, Demonstration of reversible dispersion in a Darcy-scale push-pull laboratory experiment, Transport in Porous Media, DOI :听10.1007/s11242-021-01682-3, 2021.听
- Roth, E.J. , D.C. Mays, R.M. Neupauer, L.J. Sather, and J.P. Crimaldi, Methods for Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging of Solute Plumes in Quasi-Two-Dimensional, Refractive Index-Matched Porous Media, Transport in Porous Media, doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01545-x, 2021.听
- Neupauer, R.M., G.D. Lackey, and J. Pitlick, Exaggerated stream depletion in streams with spatio-temporally varying streambed conductance, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 26(2), 04020066, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0002043, 2021.听 Featured as Editor鈥檚 Choice for Journal of Hydrologic Engineering for February 2021.听
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