Si-Yong Lee

Instructinal research staff

phone 801.587.8368
faX 801.585.3540

EMAIL
sylee@egi.utah.edu

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Languages

• English
• Korean

Professional Research Interests and Expertise –

• Geostatistcal characterization of subsurface heterogeneity
• Resevoir/aquifer characterization and management
• Subsurface solute transport
• Numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport
• Groundwater age dating

Regional and Basin experience –

• Lawrence Livermore National Library site, California
• King's River alluvial fan aquifer system, California
• South Lake Tahoe basin, California
• Yucca Mountain Site, Nevada
• Borden site, Canada

Education –

• B.S. in Geology, Korea University
• M.S. in Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M university
• Ph.D. in Hydrologic Sciences, University of California, Davis
  

Memberships –

• American Geophysical Union
• Geological Society of America

Honors and Awards –

• U.S. Army Acheivement Medal, US 8th Army
• Harris Chair Scholarship, Texas A&M University
• Ecotoxicology Lead Campus Program Fellowship, UC Davis
• Jastro-Shields Graduate Research Scholarship, UC Davis

Publications –

Lee, S-Y., Carle, S., and Fogg, G., Geologic heterogeneity and a comparison of two geostatistical models: sequential Gaussian simulation and transition probability-based geostatistical simulation. Advances in Water Resources, (30), 1914-1932, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.03.005, 2007

Lee, S., Polmanteer, R., McGrane, S., Allen-King, R., Dominic, D., and Ritzi, R., Does small variance of ln K (~0.3) represent less geologic heterogeneity? A recent lithofacies study at the Borden Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., 2007

Mathias, P., Lee, S-Y., Fogg, G., Plummer, N., Busenberg, E., and Zhang, Y., Monitoring and modeling the fluctuations in apparent groundwater age during a 30-day pumping test, Theis Conference, Ground Water Age: Estimation, Modeling, and Water Quality Sustainability, Tahoe city, CA, 2005

Lee, S., Ginn, T., and Fogg, G., Analysis of field-scale contaminant transport behavior using continuous time random walk theory Eos Trans. AGU, 85 (47), Fall Meet. Suppl., 2004