Hydrogeologist/Engineering Geologist
P.E. LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc.
(PELA)
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Education
Ph.D., Environmental & Water Resource Engineering, 1995, Imperial
College of Science, Technology, & Medicine, London
M.S., Karst Hydrogeology, 1987, China Geology University, Beijing
B.S., Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, 1984, China Mining University,
Jiangsu
Professional Geologist Registrations
Tennessee #TN3942
Dr. Wanfang combines experience in academic instruction with an extensive background in applied karst hydrogeology. This experience includes research and project management relating to environmental and engineering geology, mining in karst terranes, sinkholes, dye tracing, and groundwater modeling. Since joining PELA, Dr. Wanfang has assisted with the collection and analysis of hydrologic and geophysical data. He also provides expertise in groundwater modeling and other computer applications.
Prior to joining PELA, Dr. Wanfang served as a hydrogeologist for the Central Coal Mining Research Institute of China, where he was responsible for mine dewatering and prevention of sinkhole collapse in karst terranes, water resources evaluations in semi-arid areas, geochemical analysis of mine water, and numerical simulation of groundwater movement. Major research performed in China under his direction included a United Nations study to control mine water inflow from limestone and reduction of sinkhole collapse hazard.
Dr. Wanfang also served as a guest lecturer and researcher for more than one year at the Central Mining and Environmental Research Institute of Hungary. His lecture series included control and management of karst groundwater in mining areas, development of computer software to predict karst water inflow from limestone, drainage in mines, numerical modeling of karst groundwater flow, grouting techniques in karstic limestone, and other karst environmental concerns.
While a researcher and doctoral student at the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Dr. Wanfang performed stochastic modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport in fractured rock for the purpose of developing an efficient fracture-flow computer model. He also evaluated groundwater contamination by non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs), including petroleum and chlorinated hydrocarbons, and formulated appropriate aquifer remediation strategies based on laboratory and numerical methods.
Dr. Wanfang is one of the authors of the book Studies on the Control and Management of Karstic Water from Ordovician Limestone in Collieries, North China, which was published by the Shaanxi People's Publishing House in 1990.
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