Casey is a valuable member of the Utah Water Science staff.
Casey graduated from the University of Utah with a B.S. in Geoscience in 2013. After briefly working with Schlumberger in Salt Lake City, he went on to study at Cornell University with Dr. Teresa Jordan where he earned an M.S. in Geological Science. His research focused on carbonate petrology and sedimentology. During this time, Casey interned with the U.S. Geological Survey at the New York Water Science Center in Ithaca where he assisted in developing geospatial models to identify large-scale closed depressions in New York state. Casey returned to Utah after graduation and continued his career with the U.S. Geological Survey at the Utah Water Science Center where his work has primarily focused on sedimentation processes in Lake Powell and the Upper Colorado River Basin.
Education
M.S. 2018 - Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Thesis: Petrological and isotopic evidence for diagenetic evolution in the Cherry Valley carbonates and adjacent mudrocks of the Marcellus "shale" from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York
B.S. 2013 - Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Professional Experience
2018 - Present
Hydrologist, Utah Water Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
2016 - 2018
Student hydrology intern, Eastern Geographic Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
2015 - 2017
Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
2013 - 2015
Petrologist, TerraTek, A Schlumberger Company
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Lake Powell Coring
Statewide Assessment of New York’s Karst Aquifers With an Inventory of Closed-Depression and Focused-Recharge Features
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Lake Powell Coring
In response to the August 5, 2015, Gold King Mine Spill from the Bonita Peak Mining District that resulted in the release of three-million gallons of mine-impacted waters, the Utah Water Science Center, in partnership with the Utah Division of Water Quality, National Park Service, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, cored the San Juan and Colorado River deltas in multiple locations in Lake Powell...Statewide Assessment of New York’s Karst Aquifers With an Inventory of Closed-Depression and Focused-Recharge Features
Background: The New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) and Health (NYS DOH) are concerned about groundwater contamination in the carbonate-bedrock aquifers in New York, especially relating to the unintended introduction of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and liquid manure to these aquifers. These carbonate rocks form extensive aquifers that transmit, and can yield, wa - Publications
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