Monitoring Groundwater Safety Research
With support from the NSF’s 3-year grant, five civil and environmental engineering juniors and seniors have been put to work on this research project along with Dr. Bohnhoff. The student researchers are running lab tests in the environmental engineering lab and the geotechnical engineering lab to help fill in the knowledge gap between theory and real-time movement of radioactive contaminants. Their results will eventually be used as input into models that will predict long-term behavior.
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Meet the Research Group
Faculty
Dr. Gretchen Bohnhoff, PE
Principal InvestigatorCivil and Environmental Engineering
bohnhoffg@uwplatt.edu
Join our Research Group
Dr. Bohnhoff's project provides an opportunity for students to build on prior knowledge and exercise new skills. It is also a place to apply what is learned within courses and to build academic experience, for graduate school or for future professional work. Courses provided in the civil and environmental engineering curricula are helpful for this research project, including geotechnical engineering and groundwater hydrology.
Undergraduate research, which happens every day in every department at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, is an excellent means of gaining knowledge and experience that can be applied both in other courses and further down the road.