Christopher Conaway
Christopher Conaway is a Research Chemist in the USGS Water Mission Area Earth System Processes Division, where he conducts research to improve the understanding of environmental aspects of energy resources, climate change, carbon cycling and sequestration, water quality, and subsurface hydrology using geochemical approaches such as the use of isotopic tracers, trace elements, and radioisotopes.
Christopher (Kit) Conaway is a geochemist with the USGS Water Mission Area Earth System Processes Division. His research has focused on the sampling and analysis of produced waters from geologic carbon sequestration studies, geochemical characterization of sediment transport in the coastal zone, the environmental chemistry of mercury in coastal regions, and water quality analysis for samples from areas of mineralized rock, mining activity, and wetlands. His current work focuses principally isotope geochemistry in hydrological and biogeochemical applications.
Christopher completed a B.A. degree in English literature at the Ohio State University in 1993, an M.S. in geology at the Ohio State University in 1999, and a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology and chemistry at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2003. Prior to his current position at USGS, he was a USGS Mendenhall Scholar at the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, and then worked in the USGS National Research Program.
Science and Products
Microbial survival strategies in ancient permafrost: insights from metagenomics
Comparison of geochemical data obtained using four brine sampling methods at the SECARB Phase III Anthropogenic Test CO2 injection site, Citronelle Oil Field, Alabama
Hydrologic controls on nitrogen cycling processes and functional gene abundance in sediments of a groundwater flow-through lake
Seasonal electrical resistivity surveys of a coastal bluff, Barter Island, North Slope Alaska
Carbon isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon in fresh and saline (NaCl) water via continuous flow cavity ring-down spectroscopy following wet chemical oxidation
Short-term variability of 7Be atmospheric deposition and watershed response in a Pacific coastal stream, Monterey Bay, California, USA
The energy-water nexus: Potential groundwater-quality degradation associated with production of shale gas
Recent paleorecords document rising mercury contamination in Lake Tanganyika
Mercury speciation and transport via submarine groundwater discharge at a southern California coastal lagoon system
Suspended sediment and organic contaminants in the San Lorenzo River, California, water years 2009-2010
The dynamics of fine-grain sediment dredged from Santa Cruz Harbor
Subsurface geotechnical investigations near sites of ground deformation caused by the January 17, 1994, Northridge, California, earthquake
Non-USGS Publications**
2009, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (28) 2091–2100
2002, Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis (2) 211–217
**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
Microbial survival strategies in ancient permafrost: insights from metagenomics
Comparison of geochemical data obtained using four brine sampling methods at the SECARB Phase III Anthropogenic Test CO2 injection site, Citronelle Oil Field, Alabama
Hydrologic controls on nitrogen cycling processes and functional gene abundance in sediments of a groundwater flow-through lake
Seasonal electrical resistivity surveys of a coastal bluff, Barter Island, North Slope Alaska
Carbon isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon in fresh and saline (NaCl) water via continuous flow cavity ring-down spectroscopy following wet chemical oxidation
Short-term variability of 7Be atmospheric deposition and watershed response in a Pacific coastal stream, Monterey Bay, California, USA
The energy-water nexus: Potential groundwater-quality degradation associated with production of shale gas
Recent paleorecords document rising mercury contamination in Lake Tanganyika
Mercury speciation and transport via submarine groundwater discharge at a southern California coastal lagoon system
Suspended sediment and organic contaminants in the San Lorenzo River, California, water years 2009-2010
The dynamics of fine-grain sediment dredged from Santa Cruz Harbor
Subsurface geotechnical investigations near sites of ground deformation caused by the January 17, 1994, Northridge, California, earthquake
Non-USGS Publications**
2009, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (28) 2091–2100
2002, Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis (2) 211–217
**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.