Adrian Harpold

Email:aah38@cornell.edu
Office: 165 Riley Robb Hall
Advisor: Tammo Steenhuis
Degree Program: PhD

Background

My background is in hydrology and NPS pollutant transport.  I have an B.S. and M.S. from Virginia Tech in Biological Systems Engineering. My Master's Thesis focused on using Particle Image Velocimetry to measure discharge in small streams.  My personal interests are rock and ice climbing, road and mountain biking, painting, playing the guitar, and traveling.

Research Interests

My dissertation research will focus on quantifying hydrologic travel time distributions using in-situ measurements and modeling.  Early projects will be to quantify pipe flow using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and conductivity probes in the Town Brook research watershed (DEC Site). Additionally, I hope to locate low-permeability layers and quantify the pore distribution, such that we can find a physical mechanism for the travel time distributions observed by J.W. Kirchner et al. (See Journal of Hydrology 2001).  Ultimately, the project hopes to find the physical processes controlling "fractal filtering" and identify the potential predicative capabilities of spectral modeling.

Links

Town Brook research watershed (DEC Site)

J.W. Kirchner et. al. (full-text link from Ecohydrology course website)

South Hill TCE Report (BEE672)