Donald M. "Matt" Reeves
Assistant Research Professor
Division of Hydrologic Sciences
Desert Research Institute
2215 Raggio Parkway
Reno, Nevada 89512
(775) 673-7605
mreeves@dri.edu
http://www.unr.nevada.edu/~dreeves/cv.html

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Hydrogeology, University of Nevada, Reno, 2006.

M.S., Geology/Hydrogeology, University of Montana, Missoula, 2001.

B.S., Soils and Environmental Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, 1998.


PUBLICATIONS

Zhang, Y., D.A. Benson, and D.M. Reeves, Time and space nonlocalities underlying fractional derivative models: Distinction and literature review of field-scale applications, Advances in Water Resources, in review.

Schultz, R.A., R. Soliva, H. Fossen, C. Okubo, and D.M. Reeves, Dependence of displacement-length scaling relations for fractures and deformation bands on the volumetric changes across them, Journal of Structural Geology, in review.

Botros, F., A.E. Hassan, D.M. Reeves, and G. Pohll, On mapping fracture networks onto continuum, Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2007WR006092, in press. pdf

Reeves, D.M., D.A. Benson, and M.M. Meerschaert, Influence of fracture statistics on advective transport and implications for geologic repositories, Water Resources Research, 44, W08405, doi:10.1029/2007WR006179, 2008. pdf

Reeves, D.M., D.A. Benson, M.M. Meerschaert, and H.-P. Scheffler(2008), Transport of conservative solutes in simulated fracture networks: 2. Ensemble solute transport and the correspondence to operator-stable limit distributions, Water Resources Research, 44, W05410, doi:10.1029/2008WR006858. pdf

Reeves, D.M., D.A. Benson, and M.M. Meerschaert(2008), Transport of conservative solutes in simulated fracture networks: 1. Synthethic data generation, Water Resources Research, 44, W05401, doi:10.1029/2007WR006069. pdf

Reeves, D.M. and W.W. Woessner(2004), Hydrologic controls on the survival of Water Howellia (Howellia aquatilis) and implications of land management, Journal of Hydrology, 287(1-4), 1-18. pdf


THESES/REPORTS/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PAPERS

Reeves, D.M., Statistical Analysis and Stochastic Simulation of Fault and Joint Properties at the T-Tunnel Complex, Rainer Mesa, Nevada Test Site, in preparation for DRI Report.

Y. Zhang, D.A. Benson, E.M. LaBolle, and D.M. Reeves, (2008), Fractional RWHet: An enhanced solver for solute transport with both spatiotemporal memory and conditioning on local aquifer properties, Proceedings of MODFLOW and MORE 2008: Ground Water and Public Policy, May 19-21, Golden, CO, 62-66. pdf

Reeves, D.M., Y. Zhang, G. Pohll, and D. Benson, (2008), FRACK: A freeware flow and transport suite for fractured media, Proceedings of MODFLOW and MORE 2008: Ground Water and Public Policy, May 19-21, Golden, CO, 67-71. pdf

Ye, M., K.F. Pohlmann, J.B. Chapman, G.M. Pohll, and D.M. Reeves, (2008), Assessing recharge and hydrostratigraphic model uncertainty in the Climax Mine area of the Nevada Test Site, Proceedings of MODFLOW and MORE 2008: Ground Water and Public Policy, May 19-21, Golden, CO, 310-314. pdf

Pohlmann, K., M. Ye, D. Reeves, M. Zavarin, D. Decker, and J. Chapman, Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Radionuclide Transport at the Climax Mine sub-CAU, Nevada Test Site, DOE/NB/26383-05, DRI Report No. 45226, September, 2007. pdf

Reeves, D.M., Ensemble Transport of Conservative Solutes and the Correspondence to Operator-Stable Limit Distributions, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2006. pdf

Reeves, D.M., Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Technologies, In: Restoration of Abandoned Mine Sites (RAMS) Technological Database, http://www.unr.edu/mines/ramstech, 2004.

Reeves, D.M., Hydrologic Controls on the Survival of Water Howellia (Howellia aquatilis) and Implications of Land management, Swan Valley, Montana, M.S. Thesis, University of Montana, 2001.


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

Benson, D., Y. Zhang, and D. Reeves, Purely Lagrangian simulation of advection, dispersion, precipitation, and dissolution, AGU Joint Assembly, May 27-30, 2008.

Humphrey, S., D. Reeves, G. Pohll, G. Oppliger, and J. Huntington, A stochastic approach to a groundwater flow model for the southern Honey Lake Valley in Lassen County, California and Washoe County, Nevada, Nevada Water Resources Annual Conference, Mesquite, Nevada, March 4-6, 2008. (best student poster)

Reeves, D.M., R. Schultz, C. Bingham, K. Pohlmann, C. Russell, and J. Chapman, Characterization of preferential flowpaths at the T-Tunnel Complex, Rainier Mesa, Nevada, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, December 12, 2007.

Schultz, R., R. Soliva, H. Fossen, C. Okubo, and D. Reeves, Displacement-length scaling realtions for geologic structural discontinuities and implications for near-tip processes, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, December 10, 2007.

Zhang, Y., D.A. Benson, and D.M. Reeves, Nonlocal transport captured by spatiotemporal fractional derivative models: Modeling approach and field-scale applications, AGU Fall Meeting, December 10, 2007.

Application of Fractional-Order Governing Equations to Solute Transport in Fractured Rock, Stochastic Transport and Emergent Scaling in Earth-surface Processes Meeting, Incline Village, CA, November 4-7, 2007. *invited talk

Reeves, D.M., K.F. Pohlmann, G.M. Pohll, J. Chapman, and M. Ye, Incorporation of model and parameter uncertainty in predicting radionuclide fluxes from the Climax Granite Intrusive, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, December 10, 2006.

Hassan, A.E., F.Botros, D.M. Reeves, and G. Pohll, On the continuum representation of fracture networks, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, December 10, 2006.

Reeves, D.M., D.A. Benson, and M.M. Meerschaert, Predictions of solute transport in fractured media using operator-stable densities and fracture network statistics, Geological Society of America-Programs with Abstracts, 37(7), 2005.

Reeves, D.M., D.A. Benson, and M.M. Meerschaert, On the predictability of solute transport in fractured media, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, December 5, 2005.

Reeves, D.M., D.A. Benson, and M.M. Meerschaert, Predictions of solute transport in fractured media using operator-stable densities and fracture network statistics, Geological Society of America-Programs with Abstracts, 37(7), 2005.

Reeves, D.M., D.A. Benson, and M.M. Meerschaert, Limit theorems and their application to solute transport in simulated fractured media, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, December 8, 2003. (outstanding student paper award)

Reeves, D.M., W.W. Woessner, and B. Heidel, Interface exchange of water in wetlands supporting the largest known population of Water Howellia, Swan Valley, Montana, Geological Society of America-Programs with Abstracts, 32(7), pp.405, 2000.

Reeves, D.M., W.W. Woessner, and B. Heidel, Preliminary evaluation of the hydrology and hydrogeology of forested wetlands containing Water Howellia, western Montana, Geological Society of America-Programs with Abstracts, 32, (5), pp.36, 2000.


INVITED SEMINAR TALKS

Solute Transport in Fractured Media: Correspondence to Operator-Stable Limit Distributions and Implications for Geologic Repositories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, June 9, 2008.

Stochastic Simulation of Fracture Networks for Ground Water Flow and Transport Models, Department of Mathematics, Probability and Statistics Seminar, University of Nevada, Reno, November 30, 2007.


CURRENT STUDENTS

Steven Humphrey (M.S., Hydrogeology) Thesis title: "A Stochastic Approach to a Groundwater Flow Model of the Southern Honey Lake Valley in Lassen County, California and Washoe County, Nevada"

Lise Comartin (M.S., Hydrogeology) Thesis topic: Development of a Validated Groundwater Flow Model of Pahrump Basin, Nevada.


POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Rishi Parashar (Ph.D., Purdue)


OTHER STUDENT COMMITTEES

Breann Westfall (M.S., Hydrogeology)

Jeff Olsen (Ph.D., Hydrogeology)

Mehmet Yilmax (Ph.D., Physics)


COURSES TAUGHT

GEOL 702S Fortran Programming for Earth Scientists and Engineers (Spring 2007 and 2008)


RELEVENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Research Professor
Desert Research Institute
Reno, Nevada
July, 2007 to Present

CURRENT RESEARCH

  • Technical lead on a U.S. Department of Energy funded investigation into variably saturated preferential flow and radionuclide transport through a Tertiary sequence of faulted, low-permeability welded and non-welded vitric and zeolitized tuff units from a tunnel complex at Rainier Mesa, Nevada Test Site. Subtasks of this large project include statistical characterization of faults and joints, stochastic generation of random fracture fields, and upscaling of fault and joint properties for variably saturated, dual permeability flow and transport models.
  • Application of spatiotemporal fractional advection-dispersion equations to transport in porous and fractured media.
  • An investigation into the water resources of Honey Lake basin and the prediction of impacts associated with the first interbasin groundwater transfer in Nevada.
  • Application and development of a subordinated kinematic wave equation to describe lateral subsurface flow in hillslopes.
  • Development of a validated groundwater flow model of Pahrump Basin, Nevada - intended to be used as a tool for water management decisions.
  • I am a faculty member of the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences.

    Post-Doctoral Research Associate
    Desert Research Institute
    Reno, Nevada
    January, 2006 to July, 2007
    Supervisor: Mr. Karl Pohlmann

    Completed a numerical investigation (sub-CAU model) into the flux of radionuclides from a fractured granite rock mass (Climax Stock) to the Northern boundary of Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site. The numerical simulations incorporated both model averaging and Monte Carlo approaches to address both geologic/recharge model uncertainty and parametric uncertainty, respectively.

    Graduate Research Assistant
    Desert Research Institute
    Reno, Nevada
    August, 2002 to December, 2005
    Supervisor: Dr. David A. Benson

    Completed a National Science Foundation funded project that served as the basis of my Ph.D. Dissertation. The Desert Research Institute's ACES supercomputer was used to generate synthetic transport data in simulated fracture networks based on realistic fracture statistics. Ensemble plumes produced by multiple flow and transport realizations were found to contain both sub- and super-diffusive characteristics of anomalous transport. Characteristics of the "mobile" portion of the plume (i.e., leading plume edge) were explored in an effort to access the applicability of a multiscaling fractional-order advection-dispersion equation (MFADE). It was found that fracture network properties, such as the distribution of fracture trace-length and orientation, could be used for a priori predictions of solute transport. A fractal mobile-immobile model was used to model solute retention in and around the source release area.

    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Nevada, Reno
    February, 2002 to August, 2002
    Supervisor: Dr. Dirk J.A. van Zyl

    Worked in collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers and UNR Mining-Life Cycle Center to research both established and developing technologies for the treatment of acid-mine drainage. This work is presently incorporated into the Restoration of Abandoned Mine Sites (RAMS) Technological Database, RAMS Database. The purpose of the RAMS technology database is to provide reliable information to land managers, environmental consultants, scientists, and other professionals on mining reclamation technologies.

    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    University of Nevada, Reno
    August, 2001 to February, 2002
    Supervisor: Dr. Stephen W. Wheatcraft

    Served as a teaching assistant for an introductory-level hydrogeology class (GE 484/684). Duties included the creation of homework problem sets, grading, and assisting students during scheduled office hours.

    Staff Hydrogeologist
    MCS Environmental, Inc.
    Missoula, Montana
    June, 2001 to August, 2001
    Supervisor: Mr. Eric Smart

    Worked as an environmental consultant during Summer 2001. Duties included: detailed geomorphic surveying of waste rock piles for volumetric calculations at an abandoned mine site, assisting in the design of a repository for the disposal of waste rock and mine tailings, conducting a stream survey of mine tailings, identifying and surveying a reference stream for stream restoration design, collecting samples of mine tailings and waste rock according to USGS procedures, sampling monitoring wells for aromatic hydrocarbons and diesel range organics, interpretation of current remediation efforts, and writing proposals and reports.

    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Montana, Missoula
    Supervisor: Dr. William W. Woessner
    May, 1999 to May, 2001

    Worked on a Montana Department of Environmental Quality Funded research project in the Swan Valley, Montana. The purpose of the research was to determine the hydrology and hydrodynamics of wetlands containing a rare and endangered wetland plant species, Water Howellia. Duties included well installation and experimental design, building and installing various instrumentation, water balance calculations, data collection and analysis, procedural water sampling, written reports, and oral presentations. This research was the basis of my Master's thesis.

    Field Engineer Intern
    Schlumberger Dowell, Inc.
    Worland, Wyoming
    Supervisor: Mr. Rick Eason
    June, 1995 to August, 1995

    Fulfilled a summer internship in the petroleum industry. Duties included assisting in the execution of well formation acidizing and hydrofracturing, well cementation and completion, well abandonment, completing the Dowell internship manual, and working around the Worland, Wyoming district location in the chemical warehouse.

    Floorman/Roughneck
    Exeter Drilling Company
    Denver, Colorado
    Supervisor: Mr. Tom Coons
    June, 1994 to August, 1994

    Worked on an oil and gas drilling rig. Duties included general servicing, lubrication, and cleaning of oil and gas drilling rigs. Assisted in the execution of drill pipe connections and for trips in and out of the well bore, and setting up and taking down the rig during site moves.


    PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

  • Outstanding Faculty Award, Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, 2007-2008.

  • ACADEMIC AWARDS

  • Outstanding Student Research Paper (1st Place), University of Nevada, Reno Graduate Student Association, 2005.
  • Nevada NSF EPSCoR Graduate Research Fellowship in the Advanced Computing in the Environmental Sciences (ACES) Program, 2004-2005.
  • Colin Warden Research Paper Competition (1st Place), Desert Research Institute, 2004.
  • Outstanding Student Poster (1st Place), University of Nevada, Reno Graduate Student Association, 2004.
  • George Burke Maxey Fellowship, Desert Research Institute, 2003-2004.
  • Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall 2003 Meeting.
  • Outstanding Student Research Paper (2nd Place), University of Nevada, Reno Graduate Student Association, 2002.
  • Douglass Rennie Scholarship, University of Nevada, Reno, 2002.

  • PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • American Geophysical Union
  • Geological Society of America
  • National Ground Water Association

  • PERSONAL INTERESTS

    Fly Fishing, Skiing, Martial Arts, Backpacking, Mountain Biking, and Homebrewing



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