Microbial-Contaminant Interactions Laboratory — Boulder, Colorado. Bacteria contained in filter chambers placed in downgradient observation wells were exposed to sulfamethoxazole for 30 days as it traveled past the wells.
Ronald W Harvey
Ronald W Harvey is a Scientist Emeritus Research Hydrologist for the USGS Water Resources Mission Area.
Ronald Harvey earned his PhD in Environmental Sciences from Stanford in 1981. Following an NRC postdoctoral fellowship, he conducted research for USGS National Research Program in Menlo Park, CA (1982-1990) and in Boulder, CO (1991-present). From 2002 to 2005 he served as the first president of the International Society for Subsurface Microbiology (ISSM). He is a former chair of the Environmental (Q) Division of the American Society for Microbiology and is an adjunct professor in Environmental Engineering at the Univ. Colorado. His research focuses on subsurface microbial transport and ecology. He has authored/co-authored over 100 papers in his field. Field studies involve microbial transport and ecology of granular, fractured-rock, and karst-limestone aquifers throughout the country.
Mentorship/Outreach
- Adjunct Professor (1991-present), Univ. Colorado;
- Visiting Professor (2000) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland;
- Consulting Asst. Prof. (1983) Stanford University;
- Lectures: 36 lectures at 25 different academic institutions and USDOE National Labs
- Thesis committees: 16 graduate students at 7 U.S. and 3 foreign universities
- Postdoctoral advisor: 3 (currently faculty at Univ. Colo., Univ. Kansas, Colo. Sch. Mines)
- Written opinions: 10 on hiring/tenure/promotion decisions for U.S. universities
- Foreign Universities: “Official opponent”: Univ. Lund (Sweden), “Outside examiner”: Univ. Neuchâtel (Switzerland) “Outside examiner”: Univ. Waterloo (Canada)
- USGS: Technical advice/assistance regarding groundwater contamination problems for researchers in 30 different USGS Water Science Centers (WSC). Asked by WSC Directors/Associates & USGS program managers (e.g., Offices of Groundwater, Water Quality, Toxics) to provide technical input on microbiological issues.
- USDOE: Advice provided to Subsurface Science Program (SSP) over eight years facilitated an emphasis on subsurface microbial transport patterned, in part, after my earlier USGS Cape Cod site research. Chaired DOE’s formal peer review of SSP transport study.
- USEPA: Advisory
Professional Experience
Professional Studies/Experience
USGS National Research Program (NRP) Project Chief (1985-present);
Adjunct Professor (1991-present), Univ. Colorado;
NRP Asst. Research Advisor for Ecology (2003-2005),
Research Advisor for Ecology (2006-2009),
President (2002-2005) Int’l Society for Subsurface Microbiology (ISSM),
Visiting Professor (2000) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland;
Consulting Asst. Prof. (1983) Stanford University;
National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (1981-1983),
Water Quality Specialist, State of California, (1974-1976)
Education and Certifications
Education
PhD (1981), Environ. Sci., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA;
MS (1974), Environ. Eng., USC, Los Angeles, CA;
BS (1973), Biol. Sci., U. Mass/Lowell Inst. Tech., Lowell, MA
Science and Products
Importance of Lake Sediments in Removal of Cyanobacteria, Viruses, and Dissolved Organic Carbon
Microbial community analyses of groundwater collected during an enhanced bioremediation experiment of trichlorethylene in a fractured rock aquifer, West Trenton, NJ (2008-2015)
Chemical Data From 40 Years of Monitoring a Treated-Wastewater Groundwater Plume in a Sand and Gravel Aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1978-2018
Microbial Community and N-cycling gene abundance from Ponds and Groundwater on Cape Cod, MA (2015 - 2018)
Water quality of samples collected in the Russian River Watershed (2017-2019)
Microbial-Contaminant Interactions Laboratory — Boulder, Colorado. Bacteria contained in filter chambers placed in downgradient observation wells were exposed to sulfamethoxazole for 30 days as it traveled past the wells.
Bacteria contained in filter chambers placed in downgradient observation wells were exposed to sulfamethoxazole for 30 days as it traveled past the wells
Bacteria contained in filter chambers placed in downgradient observation wells were exposed to sulfamethoxazole for 30 days as it traveled past the wells
Relation between the relative abundance and collapse of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and microbial antagonism in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon
Microbial community response to a bioaugmentation test to degrade trichloroethylene in a fractured rock aquifer, Trenton, N.J
Future research needs involving pathogens in groundwater
Microbial-sized, carboxylate-modified microspheres as surrogate tracers in a variety of subsurface environments: An overview
Importance of the colmation layer in the transport and removal of cyanobacteria, viruses, and dissolved organic carbon during natural lake-bank filtration
Mobilization of microspheres from a fractured soil during intermittent infiltration events
Adaptations of indigenous bacteria to fuel contamination in karst aquifers in south-central Kentucky
Colloid transport in saturated porous media: Elimination of attachment efficiency in a new colloid transport model
Transport and fate of microbial pathogens in agricultural settings
Transport of ARS-labeled hydroxyapatite nanoparticles in saturated granular media is influenced by surface charge variability even in the presence of humic acid
Effect of dissolved organic carbon on the transport and attachment behaviors of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts and carboxylate-modified microspheres advected through temperate humic and tropical volcanic agricultural soil
Humic acid facilitates the transport of ARS-labeled hydroxyapatite nanoparticles in iron oxyhydroxide-coated sand
Science and Products
Importance of Lake Sediments in Removal of Cyanobacteria, Viruses, and Dissolved Organic Carbon
Microbial community analyses of groundwater collected during an enhanced bioremediation experiment of trichlorethylene in a fractured rock aquifer, West Trenton, NJ (2008-2015)
Chemical Data From 40 Years of Monitoring a Treated-Wastewater Groundwater Plume in a Sand and Gravel Aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1978-2018
Microbial Community and N-cycling gene abundance from Ponds and Groundwater on Cape Cod, MA (2015 - 2018)
Water quality of samples collected in the Russian River Watershed (2017-2019)
Microbial-Contaminant Interactions Laboratory — Boulder, Colorado. Bacteria contained in filter chambers placed in downgradient observation wells were exposed to sulfamethoxazole for 30 days as it traveled past the wells.
Microbial-Contaminant Interactions Laboratory — Boulder, Colorado. Bacteria contained in filter chambers placed in downgradient observation wells were exposed to sulfamethoxazole for 30 days as it traveled past the wells.
Bacteria contained in filter chambers placed in downgradient observation wells were exposed to sulfamethoxazole for 30 days as it traveled past the wells
Bacteria contained in filter chambers placed in downgradient observation wells were exposed to sulfamethoxazole for 30 days as it traveled past the wells