Professor of Hydrology & Water Resources
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
The University of Georgia, Athens 30602.2152
706.542.4300 - trasmuss@uga.edu
Research Specialization - Fluid flow and transport through surface and subsurface environments, focusing on the physical, chemical, mathematical, and statistical description and quantification of hydrologic processes.
Courses Taught
- FANR 3060 - Soils and Hydrology
- WASR 1020 - Introduction to Water Resources
- WASR 4300 - Field Methods in Hydrology
- WASR 4500 - Quantitative Methods in Hydrology
- WASR 4700 - Hydrology, Geology and Soils of Georgia
- WASR 8730 - Aquifer Mechanics
- WASR 8740 - Hydrologic Modeling
Ground-Water Resources and Presentations
- BETCO - Utility to remove fluctuations due to barometric pressure and Earth tides from aquifer water-level observations.
- Groundwater Flow Velocities
- Pressure vs. Tracer Velocities in Unsaturated Saprolite
- Environmental Risk: Perception, Voice, and Transfers
Surface-Water Resources and Presentations
Web Programming Tools
Educational and Research Opportunities
Groundwater Modeling
- WRR2007.pdf - Modeling the effects of throughfall reduction on soil water content in a Brazilian Oxisol under a moist tropical forest
- EABE2006.pdf - Determination of groundwater flownets, fluxes, velocities, and travel times using the complex variable boundary element method
- CMWR2004.pdf - Determination of groundwater flow velocities using complex flux boundary conditions
- ADWR2003.pdf - A complex variable boundary-element strategy for determining groundwater flownets and travel times
- IJNME1997.pdf - Application of the ordinary least-squares approach for solution of complex variable boundary element problems
Subsurface Characterization
- VZJ2007.pdf - Monitoring surface and subsurface water storage using confined aquifer water levels at the Savannah River Site, USA
- GW2007.pdf - Removal of barometric pressure effects and earth tides from observed water levels
- JAWRA2006.pdf - Hydrologic behavior of vegetated roofs
- HG2006.pdf - Combining multivariate statistical analysis with geographic information systems mapping: A tool for delineating groundwater contamination
- HG2003.pdf - Estimating aquifer hydraulic properties using sinusoidal pumping at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, USA
- GW2002.pdf - Optimized system to improve pumping rate stability during aquifer tests
- SSSAJ2000.pdf - Tracer vs. pressure wave velocities through unsaturated saprolite
- GW2000.pdf - Regulation of injected ground water tracers
- GW1997.pdf - Identifying and removing barometric pressure effects in confined and unconfined aquifers
Surface Water Quality
- EMS2006.pdf - A biogeochemical model for metabolism and nutrient cycling in a Southeastern Piedmont impoundment
- JEQ2005.pdf - Multivariate statistical characterization of water quality in Lake Lanier, Georgia, USA
- ASCE2005.pdf - Simulated moving bed form effects on real-time in-stream sediment concentration measurement with densitometry
- FISC2001.pdf - Densimetric monitoring of suspended-sediment concentrations, Northeastern Georgia
- JEQ1999.pdf - Determination of suspended sediment concentrations and particle size distributions using pressure measurements
Fractured Rock Hydrology
- GRL1995.pdf - Laboratory characterization of fluid flow parameters in a porous rock containing a discrete fracture
- SSSAJ1994.pdf - Neutron probe calibration in unsaturated tuff
- WRR1993.pdf - Permeability of Apache Leap Tuff: Borehole and core measurements using water and air
- SSSAJ1993.pdf - Water infiltration into exposed fractured rock surfaces
- WRR1991.pdf - Steady fluid flow and travel times in partially saturated fractures using a discrete air-water interface
- WRR1986.pdf - Water and air intake of surface-exposed rock fractures in situ
- NUREG5239.pdf - Fluid flow and solute transport modeling through three-dimensional networks of variably saturated discrete fractures, Appendix A