Meet Prof. Emmanuelle Arnaud Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Emmanuelle Arnaud describes her work, and the work of a graduate student, studying glacial deposits and how they affect how ground water or contaminants flow through the subsurface.

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Emmanuelle: My research focuses basically on materials that are left behind  by glaciers in the past either the recent past or the ancient past and with the view to reconstruct past glaciation, past climate change, or answer questions related to ground water resource management. So, it's important because basically a lot of the materials that are in the subsurface  here today are related to those past glaciations and they affect how groundwater or contaminants flow through the subsurface.

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Emmanuelle: My graduate student Tara Harvey is working on a site in Wisconsin that is contaminated  with industrial contaminants and she's looking at the distribution and the nature of those glacial deposits in subsurface and trying to understand how they're affecting the  distribution of contaminants at depth in the underlying aquifer that the people in the surrounding [music fades in] town are reliant upon for drinking water.

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