Allen M. Shapiro, Ph.D. (Former Employee)
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Interpretation of hydraulic conductivity in a fractured-rock aquifer over increasingly larger length dimensions
A comparison of the hydraulic conductivity over increasingly larger volumes of crystalline rock was conducted in the Piedmont physiographic region near Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Fluid-injection tests were conducted on intervals of boreholes isolating closely spaced fractures. Single-hole tests were conducted by pumping in open boreholes for approximately 30 min, and an interference test was conduct
Authors
Allen M. Shapiro, Jeffery Ladderud, Richard M. Yager
Imaging pathways in fractured rock using three-dimensional electrical resistivity tomography
Major challenges exist in delineating bedrock fracture zones because these cause abrupt changes in geological and hydrogeological properties over small distances. Borehole observations cannot sufficiently capture heterogeneity in these systems. Geophysical techniques offer the potential to image properties and processes in between boreholes. We used three-dimensional cross borehole electrical resi
Authors
Judith Robinson, Lee Slater, Timothy B. Johnson, Allen M. Shapiro, Claire R. Tiedeman, Dimitrios Ntlargiannis, Carole D. Johnson, Frederick D. Day-Lewis, Pierre Lacombe, Thomas E. Imbrigiotta, John W. Lane
Integration of stable carbon isotope, microbial community, dissolved hydrogen gas, and 2HH2O tracer data to assess bioaugmentation for chlorinated ethene degradation in fractured rocks
An in situ bioaugmentation (BA) experiment was conducted to understand processes controlling microbial dechlorination of trichloroethene (TCE) in groundwater at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), West Trenton, NJ. In the BA experiment, an electron donor (emulsified vegetable oil and sodium lactate) and a chloro-respiring microbial consortium were injected into a well in fractured mudstone of Tri
Authors
Kinga M. Révész, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Julie D. Kirshtein, Claire R. Tiedeman, Thomas E. Imbrigiotta, Daniel J. Goode, Allen M. Shapiro, Mary A. Voytek, Pierre J. Lancombe, Eurybiades Busenberg
Physical, chemical, and isotopic data from groundwater in the watershed of Mirror Lake, and in the vicinity of Hubbard Brook, near West Thornton, New Hampshire, 1983 to 1997
Research on the hydrogeologic setting of Mirror Lake near West Thornton, New Hampshire (43° 56.5’ N, 71° 41.5’ W), includes the study of the physical, chemical, and isotopic characteristics of groundwater in the vicinity of the lake and nearby Hubbard Brook. Presented here are those physical, chemical, and isotopic data for the period 1983 to 1997. Data were collected from observation wells instal
Authors
James W. LaBaugh, Philip T. Harte, Allen M. Shapiro, Paul A. Hsieh, Carole D. Johnson, Daniel J. Goode, Warren W. Wood, Donald C. Buso, Gene E. Likens, Thomas C. Winter
Advancing electrical geophysical characterization of DNAPL-contaminated fractured rock aquifers
No abstract available.
Authors
Judith Robinson, Timothy Johnosn, Lee Slater, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis, Pierre Lacombe, Frederick D. Day-Lewis, John W. Lane, Carole D. Johnson, Allen M. Shapiro, Claire R. Tiedeman, Daniel J. Goode
The challenge of interpreting environmental tracer concentrations in fractured rock and carbonate aquifers
No abstract available.
Authors
Allen M. Shapiro
Effects of simplifying fracture network representation on inert chemical migration in fracture-controlled aquifers
[1] While it is widely recognized that highly permeable ‘large‐scale' fractures dominate chemical migration in many fractured aquifers, recent studies suggest that the pervasive ‘small‐scale’ fracturing once considered of less significance can be equally important for characterizing the spatial extent and residence time associated with transport processes. A detailed examination of chemical migrat
Authors
Tristan Wellman, Allen M. Shapiro, Mary C. Hill
Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 3. Use of microspheres to estimate the transport potential of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts
The vulnerability of a municipal well in the Northwest well field in southeastern Florida to potential contamination by Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts was assessed in a large‐scale, forced‐gradient (convergent) injection and recovery test. The field study involved a simultaneous pulse introduction of a nonreactive tracer (SF6, an inert gas) and oocyst‐sized (1.6, 2.9, and 4.9 μm diameter) carboxyl
Authors
Ronald W. Harvey, David W. Metge, Allen M. Shapiro, Robert A. Renken, Christina L. Osborn, Joseph N. Ryan, Kevin J. Cunningham, Lee L. Landkamer
The use of groundwater age as a calibration target
Groundwater age (or residence time), as estimated on the basis of concentrations of one or more environmental tracers, can provide a useful and independent calibration target for groundwater models. However, concentrations of environmental tracers are affected by the complexities and mixing inherent in groundwater flow through heterogeneous media, especially in the presence of pumping wells. An an
Authors
Leonard F. Konikow, G.Z. Hornberger, L.D. Putnam, A.M. Shapiro, B.A. Zinn
Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 1. Revised conceptualization of groundwater flow
The Biscayne aquifer is a highly transmissive karst limestone that serves as the sole source of drinking water to over two million residents in south Florida. The aquifer is characterized by eogenetic karst, where the most transmissive void space can be an interconnected, touching‐vug, biogenically influenced porosity of biogenic origin. Public supply wells in the aquifer are in close proximity to
Authors
Robert A. Renken, Kevin J. Cunningham, Allen M. Shapiro, Ronald W. Harvey, Michael R. Zygnerski, David W. Metge, Michael A. Wacker
Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 2. Chemical retention from diffusion and slow advection
A tracer experiment, using a nonreactive tracer, was conducted as part of an investigation of the potential for chemical and pathogen migration to public supply wells that draw groundwater from the highly transmissive karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer in southeastern Florida. The tracer was injected into the formation over approximately 1 h, and its recovery was monitored at a pumping well a
Authors
Allen M. Shapiro, Robert A. Renken, Ronald W. Harvey, Michael R. Zygnerski, David W. Metge
In situ estimation of the effective chemical diffusion coefficient of a rock matrix in a fractured aquifer
An in situ method of estimating the effective diffusion coefficient for a chemical constituent that diffuses into the primary porosity of a rock is developed by abruptly changing the concentration of the dissolved constituent in a borehole in contact with the rock matrix and monitoring the time-varying concentration. The experiment was conducted in a borehole completed in mudstone on the campus of
Authors
R.A. Gebrekristos, A.M. Shapiro, B.H. Usher
Non-USGS Publications**
Pinder, G. F. and Shapiro, A. 1982. Physics of Flow in Geothermal Systems, in Recent Trends in Hydrogeology. ed. T. N. Narasimhan. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO. p. 25-30. https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE189-p25.
Pinder, G. F. and Shapiro, A. 1979. A new collocation method for the solution of the convection-dominated transport equation. Water Resources Research 15(5): 1177-1182. https://doi.org/10.1029/WR015i005p01177.
Pinder, G. F. and Shapiro, A. 1980. Reply to comment on "A new collocation method for the solution of the convection-dominated transport equation". Water Resources Research 16(6): 1137. https://doi.org/10.1029/WR016i006p01137.
Shapiro, A. and Pinder, G. F. 1981. Analysis of an upstream weighted collocation approximation to the transport equation. Journal of Computational Physics 39(1): 46-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(81)90136-4.
Andersson, J. and Shapiro, A. M. 1983. Stochastic analysis of one-dimensional steady state unsaturated flow: A Comparison of Monte Carlo and Perturbation Methods. Water Resources Research 19(1): 121-133. 10.1029/WR019i001p00121.
Shapiro, A. M. and Andersson, J. 1983. Steady state fluid response in fractured rock: A boundary element solution for a coupled, discrete fracture continuum model. Water Resources Research 19(4): 959-969. 10.1029/WR019i004p00959.
Andersson, J., Shapiro, A. M. and Bear, J. 1984. A Stochastic Model of a Fractured Rock Conditioned by Measured Information. Water Resources Research 20(1): 79-88. 10.1029/WR020i001p00079.
Bear, J. and Shapiro, A. M. 1984. On the shape of the non-steady interface intersecting discontinuities in permeability. Advances in Water Resources 7(3): 106-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/0309-1708(84)90037-X.
Bear, J., Shamir, U., Gamliel, A. and Shapiro, A. M. 1985. Motion of the seawater interface in a coastal aquifer by the method of successive steady states. Journal of Hydrology 76(1): 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(85)90093-9.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 68
Interpretation of hydraulic conductivity in a fractured-rock aquifer over increasingly larger length dimensions
A comparison of the hydraulic conductivity over increasingly larger volumes of crystalline rock was conducted in the Piedmont physiographic region near Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Fluid-injection tests were conducted on intervals of boreholes isolating closely spaced fractures. Single-hole tests were conducted by pumping in open boreholes for approximately 30 min, and an interference test was conduct
Authors
Allen M. Shapiro, Jeffery Ladderud, Richard M. Yager
Imaging pathways in fractured rock using three-dimensional electrical resistivity tomography
Major challenges exist in delineating bedrock fracture zones because these cause abrupt changes in geological and hydrogeological properties over small distances. Borehole observations cannot sufficiently capture heterogeneity in these systems. Geophysical techniques offer the potential to image properties and processes in between boreholes. We used three-dimensional cross borehole electrical resi
Authors
Judith Robinson, Lee Slater, Timothy B. Johnson, Allen M. Shapiro, Claire R. Tiedeman, Dimitrios Ntlargiannis, Carole D. Johnson, Frederick D. Day-Lewis, Pierre Lacombe, Thomas E. Imbrigiotta, John W. Lane
Integration of stable carbon isotope, microbial community, dissolved hydrogen gas, and 2HH2O tracer data to assess bioaugmentation for chlorinated ethene degradation in fractured rocks
An in situ bioaugmentation (BA) experiment was conducted to understand processes controlling microbial dechlorination of trichloroethene (TCE) in groundwater at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), West Trenton, NJ. In the BA experiment, an electron donor (emulsified vegetable oil and sodium lactate) and a chloro-respiring microbial consortium were injected into a well in fractured mudstone of Tri
Authors
Kinga M. Révész, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Julie D. Kirshtein, Claire R. Tiedeman, Thomas E. Imbrigiotta, Daniel J. Goode, Allen M. Shapiro, Mary A. Voytek, Pierre J. Lancombe, Eurybiades Busenberg
Physical, chemical, and isotopic data from groundwater in the watershed of Mirror Lake, and in the vicinity of Hubbard Brook, near West Thornton, New Hampshire, 1983 to 1997
Research on the hydrogeologic setting of Mirror Lake near West Thornton, New Hampshire (43° 56.5’ N, 71° 41.5’ W), includes the study of the physical, chemical, and isotopic characteristics of groundwater in the vicinity of the lake and nearby Hubbard Brook. Presented here are those physical, chemical, and isotopic data for the period 1983 to 1997. Data were collected from observation wells instal
Authors
James W. LaBaugh, Philip T. Harte, Allen M. Shapiro, Paul A. Hsieh, Carole D. Johnson, Daniel J. Goode, Warren W. Wood, Donald C. Buso, Gene E. Likens, Thomas C. Winter
Advancing electrical geophysical characterization of DNAPL-contaminated fractured rock aquifers
No abstract available.
Authors
Judith Robinson, Timothy Johnosn, Lee Slater, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis, Pierre Lacombe, Frederick D. Day-Lewis, John W. Lane, Carole D. Johnson, Allen M. Shapiro, Claire R. Tiedeman, Daniel J. Goode
The challenge of interpreting environmental tracer concentrations in fractured rock and carbonate aquifers
No abstract available.
Authors
Allen M. Shapiro
Effects of simplifying fracture network representation on inert chemical migration in fracture-controlled aquifers
[1] While it is widely recognized that highly permeable ‘large‐scale' fractures dominate chemical migration in many fractured aquifers, recent studies suggest that the pervasive ‘small‐scale’ fracturing once considered of less significance can be equally important for characterizing the spatial extent and residence time associated with transport processes. A detailed examination of chemical migrat
Authors
Tristan Wellman, Allen M. Shapiro, Mary C. Hill
Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 3. Use of microspheres to estimate the transport potential of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts
The vulnerability of a municipal well in the Northwest well field in southeastern Florida to potential contamination by Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts was assessed in a large‐scale, forced‐gradient (convergent) injection and recovery test. The field study involved a simultaneous pulse introduction of a nonreactive tracer (SF6, an inert gas) and oocyst‐sized (1.6, 2.9, and 4.9 μm diameter) carboxyl
Authors
Ronald W. Harvey, David W. Metge, Allen M. Shapiro, Robert A. Renken, Christina L. Osborn, Joseph N. Ryan, Kevin J. Cunningham, Lee L. Landkamer
The use of groundwater age as a calibration target
Groundwater age (or residence time), as estimated on the basis of concentrations of one or more environmental tracers, can provide a useful and independent calibration target for groundwater models. However, concentrations of environmental tracers are affected by the complexities and mixing inherent in groundwater flow through heterogeneous media, especially in the presence of pumping wells. An an
Authors
Leonard F. Konikow, G.Z. Hornberger, L.D. Putnam, A.M. Shapiro, B.A. Zinn
Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 1. Revised conceptualization of groundwater flow
The Biscayne aquifer is a highly transmissive karst limestone that serves as the sole source of drinking water to over two million residents in south Florida. The aquifer is characterized by eogenetic karst, where the most transmissive void space can be an interconnected, touching‐vug, biogenically influenced porosity of biogenic origin. Public supply wells in the aquifer are in close proximity to
Authors
Robert A. Renken, Kevin J. Cunningham, Allen M. Shapiro, Ronald W. Harvey, Michael R. Zygnerski, David W. Metge, Michael A. Wacker
Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 2. Chemical retention from diffusion and slow advection
A tracer experiment, using a nonreactive tracer, was conducted as part of an investigation of the potential for chemical and pathogen migration to public supply wells that draw groundwater from the highly transmissive karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer in southeastern Florida. The tracer was injected into the formation over approximately 1 h, and its recovery was monitored at a pumping well a
Authors
Allen M. Shapiro, Robert A. Renken, Ronald W. Harvey, Michael R. Zygnerski, David W. Metge
In situ estimation of the effective chemical diffusion coefficient of a rock matrix in a fractured aquifer
An in situ method of estimating the effective diffusion coefficient for a chemical constituent that diffuses into the primary porosity of a rock is developed by abruptly changing the concentration of the dissolved constituent in a borehole in contact with the rock matrix and monitoring the time-varying concentration. The experiment was conducted in a borehole completed in mudstone on the campus of
Authors
R.A. Gebrekristos, A.M. Shapiro, B.H. Usher
Non-USGS Publications**
Pinder, G. F. and Shapiro, A. 1982. Physics of Flow in Geothermal Systems, in Recent Trends in Hydrogeology. ed. T. N. Narasimhan. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO. p. 25-30. https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE189-p25.
Pinder, G. F. and Shapiro, A. 1979. A new collocation method for the solution of the convection-dominated transport equation. Water Resources Research 15(5): 1177-1182. https://doi.org/10.1029/WR015i005p01177.
Pinder, G. F. and Shapiro, A. 1980. Reply to comment on "A new collocation method for the solution of the convection-dominated transport equation". Water Resources Research 16(6): 1137. https://doi.org/10.1029/WR016i006p01137.
Shapiro, A. and Pinder, G. F. 1981. Analysis of an upstream weighted collocation approximation to the transport equation. Journal of Computational Physics 39(1): 46-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(81)90136-4.
Andersson, J. and Shapiro, A. M. 1983. Stochastic analysis of one-dimensional steady state unsaturated flow: A Comparison of Monte Carlo and Perturbation Methods. Water Resources Research 19(1): 121-133. 10.1029/WR019i001p00121.
Shapiro, A. M. and Andersson, J. 1983. Steady state fluid response in fractured rock: A boundary element solution for a coupled, discrete fracture continuum model. Water Resources Research 19(4): 959-969. 10.1029/WR019i004p00959.
Andersson, J., Shapiro, A. M. and Bear, J. 1984. A Stochastic Model of a Fractured Rock Conditioned by Measured Information. Water Resources Research 20(1): 79-88. 10.1029/WR020i001p00079.
Bear, J. and Shapiro, A. M. 1984. On the shape of the non-steady interface intersecting discontinuities in permeability. Advances in Water Resources 7(3): 106-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/0309-1708(84)90037-X.
Bear, J., Shamir, U., Gamliel, A. and Shapiro, A. M. 1985. Motion of the seawater interface in a coastal aquifer by the method of successive steady states. Journal of Hydrology 76(1): 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(85)90093-9.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.