Professor Emeritus Timothy R. Ginn retired from Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2015 and has recently relocated to Washington State University.

Please visit his current website at WSU

CV: GinnCV2015

Research foci Ureolytic calcite precipitation in porous media; Anaerobic biogeochemical cycling & kinetics; Colloid filtration theory; Lamella-based upscaling of reactive flow & transport; Groundwater age and sustainability; Inverse problems; In-well vapor stripping; Bacterial transport and population dynamics; Horizontal gene transfer; New fuels multimedia risk assessment.

Research metrics:115+ papers, ~4200 citations, h-index=28 (Google scholar 12/14), successful project leadership and grantsmanship, 5 active grants totaling ~ $1.6M. Over 150 abstracts, over 100 presentations delivered 33 of which are invited/plenary.

Currently funded projects:

NSF/EAR 1417495 A practical upscaling of subsurface reactive transport 2014-2017

NSF/CMMI 1234367 Bio-Cementation Field-Scale Trials: Addressing the Challenges of Treatment Uniformity & Verification, Biostimulation, & By Product Management 2013-2015

NSF/EAR 1215756 Collaborative Research: Near-Surface Repulsion and Mixing-Limitations: Upscaling of Colloid Transport in Non-Uniform Media under Unfavorable Conditions 2012-2014

NSF/EAR 1114257 Collaborative Research: Horizontal Gene Transfer in Porous Media: Experiments and Modeling 2012-2014

CA Air Resources Board – Multimedia Risk Assessment for Alternative Fuels 2011-2016

UC Office of President – Seed Grant for Outreach and International Activities: Educational Use of Environmental Tracers in the Calibration of Aquifer Models and Management of Groundwater 2013-2014

Prior research pages link is here: for updated notes on currently funded projects see dropdowns under PROJECTS

Research Website: http://retrocee.engr.ucdavis.edu/faculty/ginn/Ginn_Research_Pgs/