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Dr. Reed Maxwell

Contact Information

Education

• Ph.D., Civil and Enviornmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Miami

Research Interests

• watershed hydrology
• groundwater-surface-water-land-surface interaction
• land-atmosphere interactions
• microbial subsurface contaminant transport
• spectral scaling in watersheds
• integrated watershed response to climate change
• environmental risk assessment
• development of numerical models
• Lagrangian methods and high-performance computing

Experience

• 2009-present Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geologic Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
• 2000-2008 Physicist, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Staff Member, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Selected Publications

• de Barros, F.P.J., Rubin, Y. and Maxwell, R.M., The concept of comparative information yield curves and their application to risk-based site characterization. Water Resources Research in press.
• Lobell, D., Bala, G. Mirin, A., Phillips, T., Maxwell, R.M. and Rotman, D. Regional differences in the influence of irrigation on climate. Journal of Climate in press.
• Maxwell, R.M. and Kollet, S.J. Interdependence of groundwater dynamics and land-energy feedbacks under climate change. Nature Geoscience 1(10) 665-669, doi:10.1038/ngeo315, 2008.
• Kollet, S.J. and Maxwell, R.M., Demonstrating fractal scaling of baseflow residence time distributions using a fully-coupled groundwater and land surface model. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L07402, 2008.
• Maxwell, R.M. and Kollet, S.J., Quantifying the effects of three-dimensional subsurface heterogeneity on Hortonian runoff processes using a coupled numerical, stochastic approach. Advances in Water Resources 31(5), 807-817, 2008.
• Kollet, S.J. and Maxwell, R.M., Capturing the influence of groundwater dynamics on land surface processes using an integrated, distributed watershed model. Water Resources Research 44: W02402, 2008.
• Maxwell, R.M., Carle, S.F. and Tompson, A.F.B., Contamination, Risk, and Heterogeneity: On the Effectiveness of Aquifer Remediation. Environmental Geology 54:1771-1786, 2008.
• Maxwell, R.M., Chow, F.K. and Kollet, S.J., The groundwater-land-surface-atmosphere connection: soil moisture effects on the atmospheric boundary layer in fully-coupled simulations. Advances in Water Resources 30(12), 2007.
• Maxwell, R.M., Welty, C. and R.W. Harvey, R.W., Revisiting the Cape Cod Bacteria Injection Experiment Using a Stochastic Modeling Approach. Environmental Science and Technology 41(15), 5548-5558, 2007.
• Kollet, S.J. and R.M. Maxwell<,/strong> Integrated surface-groundwater flow modeling: A free-surface overland flow boundary condition in a parallel groundwater flow model. Advances in Water Resources, 29(7), 945-958, 2006.
• Maxwell, R.M. and N.L. Miller. Development of a coupled land surface and groundwater model. Journal of Hydrometeorology,6(3), 233-247, 2005.
• Maxwell, R.M., C. Welty, and A.F.B. Tompson. Streamline-based simulation of virus transport resulting from long term artificial recharge in a heterogeneous aquifer. Advances in Water Resources, 25(10),1075-1096, 2003.
• Tompson AFB., C.J. Bruton, G.A. Pawloski, D.K. Smith, W.L. Bourcier , D.E. Shumaker A.B. Kersting, S.F. Carle and R.M. Maxwell, On the evaluation of groundwater contamination from underground nuclear tests. Environmental Geology. 42(2-3):235-247, 2002.
• L.R. Anspaugh, K.I. Gordeev, I.A. Likhtarev, R.M. Maxwell, S.L. Simon, Movement of Radionuclides in Terrestrial Ecosystems by Physical Processes. Health Physics, 82(5), 669-679, 2002.
• Tompson, A.F.B., S.F. Carle, N.D. Rosenberg, and R.M. Maxwell, Analysis of groundwater migration from artificial recharge in a large urban aquifer: A simulation perspective. Water Resources Research, 35(10),2981-2998, 1999.
• Maxwell, R.M., W.E. Kastenberg, and Y. Rubin, A methodology to integrate site characterization information into groundwater-driven health risk assessment. Water Resources Research, 35(9), 2841-2856, 1999.
• Rubin, Y., A. Sun, R.M. Maxwell, and A. Bellin, The concept of block effective macrodispersivity and a unified approach for grid-scale and plume-scale dependent transport. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 395, 161-180, 1999.
• Maxwell, R.M. and W.E. Kastenberg, A Model for Assessing and Managing the Risks of Environmental Lead Emissions. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 13(4), 231-250, 1999.
• Maxwell, R.M. and W.E. Kastenberg, Stochastic Environmental Risk Analysis: An Integrated Methodology for Predicting Cancer Risk from Contaminated Groundwater. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 13(1-2), 27-47, 1999.
• Maxwell, R.M., S.D Pelmulder, A.F.B. Tompson, and W.E. Kastenberg, On the Development of a New Methodology for Groundwater-Driven Health Risk Assessment. Water Resources Research, 34(4), 833-847, 1998.

Courses

Spring 09

• GEGN 351A Geological Fluid Mechanics, M/W 2-3:50
  BH 106
• GEGN 598A Coupled processes and scaling in hydrology W 4-4:50
  BH 204