Volume 5. Surface and Ground Water, Weathering, and Soils

James I. Drever
Professor, Low Temperature Geochemistry, Environmental Geochemistry
Department of Geology & Geophysics
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071-3006
USA
E-mail: drever@uwyo.edu

About the editor

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The focus of my research is to understand the processes, inorganic and biological, that control the chemistry of surface water and groundwater. I have worked for many years on the weathering of silicate minerals and silicate dissolution kinetics, both from the perspective of global cycles and global climate (weathering is the most important long-term mechanism for removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere) and from the perspective of anthropogenic effects such as acid rain and acid mine drainage.
In the last few years, the emphasis has been more on pollutant geochemistry. We have been studying the processes controlling the movement of arsenic in groundwater, the chemistry of a high-elevation stream affected by acid mine drainage, and the use of stable isotopes (C, O, N, C1) to identify the source of contaminants and to quantify microbial degradation of contaminants in the subsurface.