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.
Publications
Cosatal Plaine Aquifers
Barringer, J. L.; Reilly, P. A.; Eberl, D. D.; Blum, A. E.; Bonin, J. L.; Rosman, R.; Hirst, B.; Alebus, M.; Cenno, K.; Gorska, M. , 2011. Arsenic in sediments, groundwater, and streamwater of a glauconitic Coastal Plain terrain, New Jersey, USA-Chemical " fingerprints" for geogenic and anthropogenic sources. ,
2009
dePaul, Vincent T.; Rosman, Robert; Lacombe, Pierre J., 2009, Water-Level Conditions in Selected Confined Aquifers of the New Jersey and Delaware Coastal Plain, 2003, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5145
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2008/5145/
2005
Lewis-Brown, Jean C.; Rice, Donald E.; Rosman, Robert; Smith, Nicholas P., 2005, Hydrogeologic framework, ground-water quality, and simulation of ground-water flow at the Fair Lawn Well Field Superfund site, Bergen County, New Jersey , Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5280 http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/sir2004-5280/
2001
Lacombe, P. J.; Rosman, Robert, 2001, Water levels in, extent of freshwater in, and water withdrawals from ten confined aquifers, New Jersey and Delaware coastal plain, 1998, Water-Resources Investigations Report, 2000-4143 10 over-size sheets. http://onlinepubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/WRI/wrir_00_4143.djvu,
1997
Rosman, Robert, 1997, Potentiometric surfaces of the Potomac-Raritan-Magothy aquifer system near National Park, New Jersey, 1996, Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4112; 3 maps http://onlinepubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/WRI/wrir_97_4112_plt.djvu
Lacombe, Pierre J.; Rosman, Robert, 1997, Water levels in, extent of freshwater in, and water withdrawal from eight major confined aquifers, New Jersey Coastal Plain, 1993 Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4206
http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri96-4206/,
1995
Lacombe, Pierre J.; Rosman, Robert, 1995, Hydrology of the unconfined aquifer system in the upper Maurice River Basin and adjacent areas in Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1986-87, Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-412, 5 maps ; http://onlinepubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/WRI/wrir_92_4128_plt.djvu,
Rosman, Robert; Lacombe, Pierre J.; Storck, Donald A. , 1995, Water Levels In Major Artesian Aquifers Of The New Jersey Coastal Plain, 1988, Water-Resources Investigations Report, 95-4060 http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri95-4060/,
Science and Products
Water-level conditions in the confined aquifers of the New Jersey Coastal Plain, 2008
Groundwater-level altitudes in 10 confined aquifers of the New Jersey Coastal Plain were measured and evaluated to provide an overview of regional groundwater conditions during fall 2008. Water levels were measured in more than 900 wells in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and northern Delaware and potentiometric surface maps prepared for the...
Depaul, Vincent T.; Rosman, Robert
Arsenic in sediments, groundwater, and streamwater of a glauconitic Coastal Plain terrain, New Jersey, USA-Chemical " fingerprints" for geogenic and anthropogenic sources
Glauconite-bearing deposits are found worldwide, but As levels have been determined for relatively few. The As content of glauconites in sediments of the Inner Coastal Plain of New Jersey can exceed 100mg/kg, and total As concentrations (up to 5.95??g/L) found historically and recently in streamwaters exceed the State standard. In a major...
Barringer, J.L.; Reilly, P.A.; Eberl, D.D.; Blum, A.E.; Bonin, J.L.; Rosman, R.; Hirst, B.; Alebus, M.; Cenno, K.; Gorska, M. Pathways for arsenic from sediments to groundwater to streams: Biogeochemical processes in the Inner Coastal Plain, New Jersey, USA
The Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments that underlie the Inner Coastal Plain of New Jersey contain the arsenic-rich mineral glauconite. Streambed sediments in two Inner Coastal Plain streams (Crosswicks and Raccoon Creeks) that traverse these glauconitic deposits are enriched in arsenic (15–25 mg/kg), and groundwater discharging to the...
Barringer, Julia L.; Mumford, Adam; Young, Lily Y.; Reilly, Pamela A.; Bonin, Jennifer L.; Rosman, Robert Mercury and methylmercury dynamics in a coastal plain watershed, New Jersey, USA
The upper Great Egg Harbor River watershed in New Jersey's Coastal Plain is urbanized but extensive freshwater wetlands are present downstream. In 2006-2007, studies to assess levels of total mercury (THg) found concentrations in unfiltered streamwater to range as high as 187 ng/L in urbanized areas. THg concentrations were <20 ng/L in...
Barringer, J.L.; Riskin, M.L.; Szabo, Z.; Reilly, P.A.; Rosman, R.; Bonin, J.L.; Fischer, J.M.; Heckathorn, H.A.
Water-Level Conditions in Selected Confined Aquifers of the New Jersey and Delaware Coastal Plain, 2003
The Coastal Plain aquifers of New Jersey provide an important source of water for more than 2 million people. Steadily increasing withdrawals from the late 1800s to the early 1990s resulted in declining water levels and the formation of regional cones of depression. In addition to decreasing water supplies, declining water levels in the confined...
dePaul, Vincent T.; Rosman, Robert; Lacombe, Pierre J.
Hydrogeologic framework, ground-water quality, and simulation of ground-water flow at the Fair Lawn Well Field Superfund site, Bergen County, New Jersey
Production wells in the Westmoreland well field, Fair Lawn, Bergen County, New Jersey (the 'Fair Lawn well field Superfund site'), are contaminated with volatile organic compounds, particularly trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, and 1,1,1-trichloroethane. In 1983, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) placed the Westmoreland well...
Lewis-Brown, Jean C.; Rice, Donald E.; Rosman, Robert; Smith, Nicholas P.
Water levels in, extent of freshwater in, and water withdrawals from ten confined aquifers, New Jersey and Delaware coastal plain, 1998
Lacombe, P.J.; Rosman, Robert Potentiometric surfaces of the Potomac-Raritan-Magothy aquifer system near National Park, New Jersey, 1996
Rosman, Robert
Water levels in, extent of freshwater in, and water withdrawal from eight major confined aquifers, New Jersey Coastal Plain, 1993
Water levels in 722 wells in the Coastal Plain of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and northeastern Delaware were measured during October and November 1993 and were used to define the potentiometric surface of the eight major confined aquifers of the area. Isochlors (lines of equal chloride concentration) for 250 and 10,000 milligrams per liter are...
Lacombe, Pierre J.; Rosman, Robert
Water Levels In Major Artesian Aquifers Of The New Jersey Coastal Plain, 1988
Water levels in 1,251 wells in the New Jersey Coastal Plain, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and Kent and New Castle Counties, Delaware, were measured from October 1988 to February 1989 and compared with 1,071 water levels measured from September 1983 to May 1984. Water levels in 916 of the wells measured in the 1983 study were remeasured in...
Rosman, Robert; Lacombe, Pierre J.; Storck, Donald A.