Applied Stochastic Hydrogeology

The future of applied tracers in hydrogeology

Tracing techniques have a broad application in science and have demonstrated particular usefulness in hydrogeology. Applied tracers, which are defined as non-natural constituents that are intentionally introduced, are especially powerful investigative tools because the tracer application (or source term) is controlled and well characterized. This permits quantification of transport parameters a...

Stochastic hydrogeology: what professionals really need?

Quantitative hydrogeology celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2006. Geostatistics is younger but has had a very large impact in hydrogeology. Today, geostatistics is used routinely to interpolate deterministically most of the parameters that are required to analyze a problem or make a quantitative analysis. In a small number of cases, geostatistics is combined with deterministic approaches to f...

Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology

Geomatics in hydrogeology

Design and construction of hydrogeological information systems is now a necessity. For proper functionality of these systems, it is necessary to create them in accordance with widely accepted international standards regarding geospatial information. Geomatics research tools allow for creation of basic models of hydrogeological data, consistent with these standards. The models can be based upon ...

Applied stochastic Eigen-analysis

The first part of the dissertation investigates the application of the theory of large random matrices to high-dimensional inference problems when the samples are drawn from a multivariate normal distribution. A longstanding problem in sensor array processing is addressed by designing an estimator for the number of signals in white noise that dramatically outperforms that proposed by Wax and Ka...