Ronald L. Parker, Lpg Email & Phone Number

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

My work entails looking at borehole image log and open-hole data to characterize geologic phenomenon that a drillbit encountered while grinding a cylindrical hole into the sedimentary "icing" on the Earth's crust. My everyday work involves establishing rock structural dip ("up" is important), the orientation (and sometimes perturbation) of present-day stresses and, the spatial geometry of fault and fracture systems. The fun, however, lies in extending these data to wrench much more interesting stuff out of the archive of geologic time.

Denver, Co, Us

As 1st Vice President of RMAG I was in charge of Publications. Our 2 main publications are the monthly newsletter "Outcrop" and the Quarterly, peer-reviewed journal "The Mountain Geologist."

Richmond, In, Us

I taught introductory and advanced Geology courses to undergraduate students at a small liberal arts college in Indiana. I taught full-semester courses in Physical Geology, Historical Geology, Mineralogy, Hydrogeology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Aqueous Geochemistry, Environmental Science and Sustainability, and seminar courses on Tectonics, Energy Resources, GIS in Water Resources, and the Evolution of Nuclear Technology.• I taught a month-long field trip course, twice: “The Natural Geological Laboratory of the American Southwest” and “Geology of a Mantle Plume Hot-Spot: Hawaiian Volcanoes.”• I conducted independent study research that intentionally involved students and presented the results at national conferences. Examples of student research include: Determining heavy metal pollutant history by analyzing lake bottom sediments; Sedimentary petrography of a carbonate spring (tufa) deposit; Determining the sources of nitrate pollution in watersheds.• I updated computing and instrumentation capabilities and developed curriculum applications for X-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy, and inductively-coupled plasma spectroscopy.

College Station, Tx, Us

Doctoral studies in hydrogeology (Domenico), soil mineralogy (Dixon) environmental geochemistry (Herbert and Morse), and sedimentary basin analysis (Dorobek).• I conducted research on molybdate and PAH sorption onto mineral surfaces in controlled aqueous environments.• I chemically analyzed the landscape geochemistry of redox-sensitive trace elements (As, Mo, Se, V and U) near South Texas uranium mines.• I taught undergraduate labs in Mineralogy (‘95,97,98,99), Historical Geology (‘96, 97), Physical Geology (‘98), and Petrology (‘ 99).

• Initiated a sole proprietorship hydrogeological and environmental consulting firm.• Specialized in environmental site assessments, UST closures, and ground water characterization and contamination remediation.

• Started a satellite office for Ground Water, Inc., a Connecticut-based environmental consulting firm.• Set up office, equipment, vendors, hired employees, marketed and established clients, wrote proposals and conducted work.• Specialized in technical and administrative oversight of projects with contaminated soil, sediment, air, ground and surface water.

Multi-faceted geologic consulting specializing in the delineation and cleanup of contaminated soil, surface and ground water.

• Technical and administrative oversight of multiple ground water contaminant investigations and remedial operations.• Project work concentrated on remediation of uncontrolled petroleum hydrocarbon releases.

• Hydrogeologic consulting that specialized on wastewater disposal capacity demonstration.• Conducted detailed hydrogeological studies of proposed in-ground, mound and spray irrigation wastewater disposal sites.

• Technical oversight to protect public community water supply sources from adverse quality and quantity impacts.• Extensive work with Act 250, Vermont’s Land Use and Development Law.• Assisted with the development of the Wellhead Protection Area program.

B.A., Geology

Phd Work, Abd, Environmental Geochemistry

M.S., Geology

Education record