Robert Rosman
Biography
Professional Experience
2011 - 2015 USGS Toxics Substances Hydrology Program Fractured Bedrock Research Site- NAWC, Ewing, New Jersey -- Maintains continuous groundwater level and stream flow data collection networks and maintains a straddle packer system for multiple wells. Create and maintains a packer testing facility off site. Assist multiple research groups from government, academia, and industry.
New Jersey NAWQA- Collect core samples and sediment for phase 1. Collect water levels for second phase of project.
Other WSC investigations:
Lansdale Project, PA WSC
Warminster Project. PA WSC
1984 - 2015
Assisted numerous projects with the following skill sets:
Install and maintain a network of continuous water-level recorders,
Collect punctuated water-level data,
Collect groundwater and surface-water samples
Geologic logging
Drill/Hammer and install shallow piezometers with the Minuteman mobile drill rig and Geoprobe
Well development
Install piezometers and collect water-level and water-quality data from groundwater below streambeds
Install soil gas probes and collect soil-gas probe data
Install submersible pumps for aquifer tests, water-quality sampling and other specialized borehole data collection
Collect drive point samples and cores in glacial and Coastal Plain sediments.
Set straddle packers, collect packed zone pressure data
Provide assistance on surface and borehole geophysics
Collect slug test data
Projects worked with
NJ-WSC investigations
Pinelands Acid Rain study, Bonds Projects (Atlantic County study, Camden County study, South River study), Lake Hopatcong study, Cumberland County, study, Picatinny Arsenal study, Rutgers University study, Lamington study, Passaic Tunnel study, McDonalds Branch study, Princeton University study, Fairlawn study, NAWQA study, Chloride synoptic study,Sandy Hook study, Forsythe Refuge Center study, Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst study, Atlantic Highlands Landslide study, Colts Neck water-level synoptic and Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Research Site at the NAWC, Ewing, NJ.
Multi state investigations
Coastal Plain water-level synoptics investigations, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013
Other WSC investigations
Toxic Substance Hydrology Program Research: Beaufort, South Carolina.
Warminster and Lansdale Projects, Exton, PA WSC,
Otis Air Force Base, Mass WSC.
Delaware, WSC
Maryland, WSC
Troy, New York, WSC
Virginia, WSC
Specialized skill
Operation of 5- and 10-ton Smeals; Geoprobe, and Minuteman Mobile Drill
Installation of packer assemblies
Arc welding and oxy-acetylene torch
Special licenses and Safety training
Hazmat-training, confined space training,
Class B Commercial Drivers
CPR
Write Site safety plans
1999- Present Collect monthly water-level and stream data at the Naval air Warefare Centar, Ewing NJ
2003-2005 Collect monthly water-level data for the New Jersey WSC
Groundwater Network
1996 Project Chief – Potentiometric Surfaces of the Potomac-Raritan-Magothy Aquifer
System Near National Park, New Jersey, 1996
1989-1993 Acting Field Operations Chief
1988-1991 Project Chief - Water Levels in Major Artesian Aquifers of the New Jersey Coastal Plain
Water Level Synoptic
1980-1981 Hydrologic Field Assistant USGS Colorado District
1980-1981 Summer field assistant. Collected rainfall and stage data, surface water and storm
samples at nine field sites for the National Urban Runoff Program in and around the
Denver metro area. Collected water quality data from shallow irrigation wells as
part of a feedlot study in north east Denver.