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Matthew R. Kearns

Matt Kearns is a hydrologist in the Charleston Field Office of the Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center.

Matt works on a variety of water resources studies, including water availability and water use.

Current projects and interests:

  • Groundwater assessment of Fauquier County, Virginia

  • West Virginia Aquifer characterization with borehole geophysics

  • Mid-Atlantic water use and consumption

  • Water resources management for ecological and environmental flows

  • Drought and climate change

Education and Certifications

  • M.S. Forest Resource Management, West Virginia University

  • B.S. Marine and Environmental Science, United State Coast Guard Academy

Science and Products

Groundwater-level contour map of Fauquier County, Virginia, October-November 2018

Groundwater withdrawals provide most public-water supplies and all private-domestic users in Fauquier County, Virginia, a fast-growing rural area southwest of Washington, D.C. Groundwater levels were measured in 129 wells during a county-wide synoptic survey from October 29 through November 2, 2018. Field measurements, combined with datapoints from the National Hydrography Dataset, were used to de
Authors
Matthew R. Kearns, Kurt J. McCoy
By
Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Raster and vector geospatial data of interpolated groundwater level altitude associated with a groundwater-level map of Fauquier County, Virginia, October - November 2018

This dataset is the product of a geospatial interpolation using groundwater-level data obtained from a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) synoptic survey of 129 groundwater wells in Fauquier County, VA from October 29 through November 2, 2018 and selected points from the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). Methodology is detailed in USGS SIR 2022-5014 "Groundwater-level contour map of Fauquier County,
By
Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
Collecting water quality samples from the New River Gorge
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