Maureen A. Muldoon

Associate Professor
Hydrogeology & Environmental Geology
email: muldoon@uwosh.edu
Contact Info
(920) 424-4461

Courses Taught:

Course Number	Course Name	Next Taught
51-150	Environmental Geology	Fall 2009
51-360	Spring Field Trip	?
51-365	Physical Hydrogeology	Fall 2009
51-366	Chemical Hydrogeology	Spring 2010
51-370 & 371	Hydro Field Methods	Spring 2010
87-008	PBIS	?
37-395	Env Studies Belize Trip	Jan 2011

Fall '09 Class and Office Hour Schedule:

Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:00	Class Prep	Env Geol Lab	Class Prep	Research	Class Prep
9:10	Env Geol lec	Env Geol Lab	Env Geol Lec	Research	Env Geol Lec
10:20	Office Hour	Env Geol Lab	Office Hour	Research	Office Hour
11:30	Office Hour	Env Geol Lab	Office Hour	Research	Office Hour
12:40	Faculty Mtg	Research	Class Prep	Research	Research
1:50	Class Prep	Research	Class Prep	Research	Research
3:00	Hydro Lecture	Research	Hydro Lecture	Research	Research
4:10	Hydro Lab	Research	Hydro Lab	GeoClub	Research

Education:

Ph.D. Hydrogeologic Characterization of the Silurian Dolomite in Door County, Wisconsin, at Regional and Site-specific Scales: Comparison of Continuum and Discrete-Fracture Approaches (May 1999; Advisor: Mary P. Anderson) University of Wisconsin Madison

M.S. Hydrogeologic and Geotechnical Properties of Pre-Late Wisconsin Till Units in Western Marathon County, Wisconsin (1987, Advisor: Dave Mickelson) University of Wisconsin Madison

A.B.: Senior Thesis: Paleoclimatic Analysis of the Clarno Nut Beds (1983, Advisors: Hal Levin and Steve Manchester) Washington University

Awards:
American Society of Testing and Materials Standards Development Award for Standard D5717-95Standard Guide for Design of Ground-Water Monitoring Systems in Karst and Fractured-Rock Aquifers (Jan. 1997)

Outstanding Student Paper Award, Autumn meeting of the American Geophysical Union (December 1995)

University of Wisconsin Professional Development Award (1991)

Professional Experience:
2004 - present, Associate Professor, Dept. of Geology, UW-Oshkosh
1998 - 2004, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geology, UW-Oshkosh
1987 - 1998, Hydrologist, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
1985-1987, Research Assistant, Water Resources Center, University of Wisconsin
Summer 1983, Field Assistant (mapping of Precambrian metasediments in the Northwest Territories)
1981-1983, Research Assistant (mid-oceanic ridge basalts), Washington University
Summers 1978-1982, Field Assistant (NSF/SST paleobotany research team) OMSI Hancock Field Station

Research Interests:
My main research interests include the investigation of groundwater quality and flow in carbonate rocks, relationship between carbonate stratigraphy and hydraulic properties, hydrogeology of Pleistocene deposits, land-use impacts on groundwater quality, and delineation of wellhead protection zones in fractured rock.

Maureen Muldoon ("Miss March"), using WGNHS drill rig to install corehole at her PhD. research site in Door County Wisconsin. Photo from the 1998 Women in Trades & Technology calendar.
Recent Projects
Selected publications
Recent Abstracts

Other Activities:
Odessey, Conversation with Faculty as part of New Student Orientation
Science Olympiad
Campus Sustainability Council
Earth Charter Community Summit

Geological Society of America, North Central Section Representative to Hydrogeology Division
Chair Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology Research Group (3/01 - 3/02), SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)

North East Wisconsin Karst Task Force, final report released February 2007
City of Oshkosh Stormwater Utility Board
Research and Groundwater Quantity Subcommittees, Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council
Wisconsin DNR's Arsenic Advisory Group (9/99 - 3/01)

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