Kevin Barnhart
Ph.D. Candidate
Center
for the Experimental Study of Subsurface
Environmental Processes (CESEP)
Division
of ESE
Colorado School
of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303-273-3483
Fax: 303-273-3413
email: kbarnhar@mines.edu
curriculum vitae (pdf)
CESEP Work
• Subsurface Transport Models: Calibration and Validation using Wireless Sensor Networks. Affiliated with Wireless Sensor Network Based Subsurface Contaminant Plume Monitoring and Model Calibration. Link.
• Stochastic Modeling of Fingering due to Pore-scale Heterogeneities:
Affiliated with
Numerical and Experimental Validation of Stochastic Upscaling for Subsurface Contamination Problems Involving Multiphase Volatile Organic Chlorinated Solvents , working under Dr.
Tissa Illangasekare and Dr. David Dean. Link.
• MS Thesis: Adding Microscale Effects to a Macroscalse SDE Model of NAPL Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media
Education
• MS in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Denver, 2005
• BS in Computer Science, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, 2002
Publication & Presentations
Kevin Barnhart, Iñigo Urteaga, Qi Han, Anura Jayasumana, Tissa Illangasekare, /“Integration of Groundwater Transport Models with Wireless Sensor Networks,”/ (presentation and paper) MODFLOW and More 2008: Groundwater and Public Policy, 2008.
Iñigo Urteaga, Kevin Barnhart, Qi Han, /“REDFLAG: A REal-time, Distributed, Flexible, Lightweight, And Generous Fault Detection Service for Sensor Applications,”/ IEEE MASS Conference Proceedings, 2008, under review.
Kevin Barnhart, Iñigo Urteaga, Qi Han, Lisa Porta, Anura Jayasumana, Tissa Illangasekare, “Combining Wireless Sensor Networks and Groundwater Transport Models: Protocol and Model Development in a Simulative Environment,” AGU Fall Meeting, Oral Presentation, December, 2007, San Francisco, California.
K.S. Barnhart, D.W. Dean, T.H. Illangasekare, “Modeling Fingering at a Continuum Scale: A Stochastic Lagrangian Approach,” American Geophysical Union Hydrology Days, Poster Presentation, March 2007, Fort Collins, Colorado.
K.S. Barnhart, D.W. Dean, T.H. Illangasekare, T. Russell, “DNAPL Flow In Heterogeneous Porous Media - A Multi-Scale Stochastic Approach,” Czech Japanese Seminar in Applied Mathematics, Poster Presentation, September, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic.
K.S. Barnhart, D.W. Dean, T. Russell, T.H. Illangasekare, “A Stochastic Differential Equation Approach For Modeling DNAPL Flow In Heterogeneous Porous Media,” Gordon Research Conference: Flow and Transport in Permeable Media, Poster Presentation, August, 2006, Proctor Academy, New Hampshire.
K.S. Barnhart, “Adding Microscale Effects to a Macroscale SDE Model of NAPL in Heterogeneous Porous Media,” M.Sc. Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, December, 2005.
D.W. Dean, T.F. Russell, K.S. Barnhart, and T.H. Illangasekare, “Modeling DNAPL Flow In Heterogeneous Porous Media: A Stochastic Differential Equation Approach,” Vadose Zone Journal, in revision for re-submittal.
K.S. Barnhart, D.W. Dean, T.H. Illangasekare, and T.F. Russell, “On The Modeling Of Fingering At A Continuum Scale: A Stochastic Differential Equation Approach,” Vadose Zone Journal, to be submitted in conjuction with “Modeling DNAPL Flow In Heterogeneous Porous Media: A Stochastic Differential Equation Approach.”
Work Experience
• Embedded Software Engineer for Echostar Communications, 2002-2004
• Instructor in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Denver, 2004-2005, (Calculus, Statistics and Probability)