Liz Major Email & Phone Number

Greater Denver Area

At DHI I continue to apply and expand my groundwater modeling and hydrologic consulting skills predominantly on mining projects, with an increasing commitment to developing Decision Support Systems for these clients.

Lakewood, Colorado, Usa

Hydrogeologist and groundwater numerical modeller, based in Golder’s Brisbane office from January 2011, and Lakewood office from November 2015. Involved on all stages of office based analyses including gap analyses, conceptualisation, analytical estimations, data collation and manipulation, model construction and calibration, results analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. Project experiences range over several types of sites, extents, complexities, and project implications. Uses a number of different methods and techniques to assess saturated and unsaturated groundwater flow and transport including the use of conceptual models, analytical models, and both finite element and finite difference models, and use of calibration codes. Uses programming background to perform file and data manipulation, and to extract, reorganize, and calculate statistics on large amounts of data, as well as develop modelling code. Field skills involve drilling bores for and installing standpipe and vibrating wire piezometers, and rising head field testing, including analysis of field results. Geophysical field skills include ERI and downhole televiewer imaging.Majority of projects within the mining, oil and gas, and land development sectors, including seepage analyses for TSF, various water storage ponds, and land development structures and activities; impacts and dewatering estimates for large infrastructure projects; open pit and underground mine dewatering; CSG (CBM) related analyses including consolidation settlement; conceptualisation and quantification of seepage pathways for various projects including landfills; groundwater monitoring network design. Undertakes GWIA's and ESIA's.

Hydologic Science and Engineering MS-thesis student and research assistant. Thesis work on the experimental comparison of classical and non-local transport theories, involving saturated, conservative transport modeling in heterogeneous porous media and particle tracking code development. Primary author of article related to thesis work: Major, Elizabeth, David A. Benson, Jordan Revielle, Hamed Ibrahim, Arianne Dean, Reed M. Maxwell, Eileen Poeter and Mine Dogan. Comparison of Fickian and temporally nonlocal transport theories over many scales in an exhaustively sampled sandstone slab. Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010857 (2011), Vol. 47, Issue 10.

Breckenridge Climbing Team instructor; assistant with wall-setting and management; assistant with gear management; assistant with climbing wall events.

Database management and automation; bit manipulation and analysis.

Developed voice over IP (VoIP) software for Application Enablement Services (AES).

Master Of Science (Ms), Hydrology

Activities and Societies: Presented at AGU 2010; Diggin Hoopin - hula hoop club (founder and president, 2009-2010);Thesis on non-local.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mathematics And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Blue Key Honor Society (secretary 2005); KME Mathematics honor society (secretary 2004); Varsity soccer NCAA II.