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warren woodWarren W. Wood
John Hannah Visiting Professor of Integrative Studies

206 Natural Science Building
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 355-4629
Fax:     (517) 353-8787
e-mail: wwwood@msu.edu

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EXPERIENCE:

2003 - 2009John Hannah Professor of Integrative Studies , Mich. State Univ.
2002 - 2005 Guest Professor , China University of Geoscience, Beijing, China
2002 - 2005 Associate Editor , Hydrogeology Journal (IAH)
2002 - 2005 Associate Editor , Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology
2000 - 2005 Visiting University Lecturer , Oxford University, UK
1981 - 2003 Research Hydrologist, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
1996 - 2002 Editor-in-Chief , Ground Water
1983 - 1988 Associate Editor , Water Resources Research
1978 - 1981 Associate Professor , Dept. of Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock., TX
1977 - 1978 Assistant Chief, Office of Radiohydrology, USGS, Reston, VA
1972 - 1977 Adjunct Professor , Dept. of Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX
1970 - 1977 Hydrologist , U. S. Geological Survey, Lubbock, TX
1964 - 1970 Hydrologist , U. S. Geological Survey, Lansing, MI
1961 - 1963 Geophysicist , Michigan State Highway Department, Ann Arbor, MI


AWARDS & HONORS :

2002 M. King Hubbert Medal, National Ground Water Association.
2002 Invited Speaker , Water Resources in the Third Millennium , Dubai, UAE
2001 Invited Speaker , Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, Australia
2001 Adrian Smith Distinguished Lecturer , Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
2000 Commencement Address , Virginia Tech Univ., Dept. of Geological Sciences
2000 Invited Speaker , Zayed Conference on Desertification, Dubai, UAE
1999 Distinguished Service Award in Hydrogeology , Geological Society of America
1998 Christiansen Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK
1997 Elected Life Membership , National Ground Water Association
1992 Keith Anderson Award , Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers
1991 Meritorious Service Award , Department of Interior
1989 Phoebe Hearst Distinguished Lecturer , University of California, Berkeley
1988 Distinguished Lecturer , National Water Well Association
1980 Outstanding Faculty Member , Texas Tech Chapter, Sigma Gamma Epsilon
1980 Fellow, Geological Society of America
1978 Elected Member of the Graduate Faculty , Texas Tech University
1976 Certificate of Excellence in Hydrology , National Water Well Association
1975 Honorable Mention, Best Paper , Society of Agricultural Engineering
1970 Elected, Sigma Xi
1969 Elected, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Earth Science Honorary


EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D.  Geology/Hydrology, Michigan State University, 1969
    Dissertation: Geochemistry of Ground Water of the Saginaw Formation in the Upper Grand River Basin, Michigan
  • MS Geology/Geophysics, Michigan State University, 1961
    Thesis: Reversely Polarized Precambrian Dikes of Northern Michigan
  • BS Geology , Michigan State University, 1959

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY SERVICE:

* American Geological Institute

  • 1998 - 2001 Editorial Board of Geotimes

* American Geophysical Union

  • 1990 Chairman , Symposium, Isotopes in Hydrology, Kanazawa, Japan
  • 1983 - 1988 Associate Editor , Water Resources Research
  • 1983 Chair, Symposium, Ground Water Tracers, Toronto, Canada

* American Ground Water Trust

  • 1998 - 2003 Board of Directors

* American Society for Advancement of Science

  • 1982 - 1994 Representative , Section W, American Geological Institute
  • 2003 - 2006 Representative , Section W, Geol. Soc. America

* Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers

  • 2001 - present Group 2020, Future Direction of Ground Water Hydrology
  • 1996 - 2001 Editor-in-Chief, Ground Water
  • 1992 - 1999 Chair , Theis Conference Committee
  • 1991 - 1994 Editorial Review Board of Ground Water
  • 1991 - 1992 Chair , Fellowship Committee
  • 1986 - 1991, 1995 Chair , Awards Committee
  • 1985 - 1986 Chair , National Program, Co-chairman, 1987
  • 1984 - present Chair , Darcy Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee
  • 1984 - 1988, 1995 Board of Directors

* Geological Society Of America - Hydrogeology Division

  • 1995 - 1998 Vice Chair, Chair, Past Chair
  • 1992 - 1993 Chair, National Program
  • 1992, 1994 Chair, Birdsall Distinguish Lecturer Selection Committee
  • 1988 - 1989 Birdsall Distinguished Lecturer ,
  • 1985 - 1986 Chair, Selection Committee

* Geological Society Of Washington

  • 1985 - 1986 Chair, Membership

* Hydrogeology & Engineering Geology (China)

  • 2002 - 2005 Associate International Editor

* International Association of Hydrogeologists

  • 2002 - 2005 Associate Editor, Hydrogeology Journal

UNIVERSITY CONTRIBUTIONS :

* Teaching:

  • Guest Professor , China University of Geoscience (Beijing) (2002-05)
  • Visiting University Lecturer , University of Oxford, Department of Geography (2000-09)
  • Course on Ground Water and Geomorphology of Arid Lands, Oxford, UK (98-02)
  • Graduate courses in Physical Geology, Ground Water Hydrology, Low Temperature Geochemistry
  •  Hydrogeology, and Ground Water Geochemistry, Texas Tech University
  • Lectured in universities in Abu Dhabi, Australia, Botswana, England, Israel, Japan, Jordan,
  • N. Ireland, Spain, and S. Africa
  • Lectured at 60 universities in North America during the last 10 years

* Advisory/Review:

  • Advisory Committee to Dept. of Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech (2000 to present)
  • Co-supervised two D.Phil. students , Oxford, UK (1998-2003)
  • Co-supervised Ph.D. candidate , University of Utah (1999-2003)
  • Advisory Committee of the Dept. of Geosciences, Michigan State Univ. (1988-2000)
  • Scientific Review Committee , Center of Excellence, Univ. of Waterloo (1988-92)
  • External reviewer for Ph.D. at Arizona, Queens (UK), Texas, Utah, Waterloo and Yale
  • Served on Ph.D. committees at Arizona, Oxford (UK), Texas, Texas Tech, and Utah
  • Supervised numerous Masters candidates
  • Reviewer of NSF, NSERC, Israel Academy of Science and other grant proposals (2 to 4/year)

* Other:

  • Host for a sabbatical leave , Israeli Geological Survey (2000)
  • Host for a Fulbright Fellow from Saudi Arabia (1996)

INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS:

  • 2002 Vice Chair, Science Committee, UN Conference on Water Resources and Integrated Management in the Third Millennium, Dubai, UAE
  • 2001 Invited Speaker , Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, Australia
  • 2001 Adrian Smith Distinguished Lecturer , Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
  • 2000 Technical Science Committee, UN Conference on Desertification, Dubai, UAE
  • 1998-2000  Research on concentration and mass of commercially valuable solutes in sabkha brines, UAE
  • 1996 UNESCO study of Jordanian ground water in association with the Institute of Arid and Semi-Arid Studies
  • 1995 Evaluation of recharge in fractured rocks by invitation of the Department of Water and Forestry, South Africa
  • 1992 CSIRO advisor on water resources investigations in Western Australia

BIBLIOGRAPHY :

Wood W.W., 2009, Carbon Dioxide and Ground Water Extraction in the United States, Groundwater, 47, 168-169

Wood W.W., 2009, William "Bill" Back: An Incisive Geochemist and a Great Mentor , Groundwater, 47, 314-318

Eckardt F.D., Bryant R.G., McCulloch G., Spiro B., and Wood, W.W., 2008, The hydrochemistry of a semi-arid pan basin case study: Sua Pan, Makgadikgadi, Botswana. Applied Geochemistry, 15, 1307-1315.

Wood W.W., 2008, Water Resources Take Energy , Groundwater, 46, 789-789

Wood W.W., 2008, "New'' water , Groundwater, 46, 517-517

Imes J.L. and Wood W.W., 2007, Solute and isotope constraint of groundwater recharge simulation in an arid environment, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates. Hydrogeology Journal, 15, 1307-1315

Rizk Z.S., Alsharhan A.S., Wood W.W., 2007, Sources of dissolved solids and water in Wadi Al Bih aquifer, Ras Al Khaimah Emirate, United Arab Emirates. Hydrogeology Journal, 15, 1553-1563

WOOD, W.W. and SANFORD, W. E., 2007, Atmospheric bromine flux from the coastal Abu Dhabi sabkhat: A ground-water mass-balance investigation. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(14).

TYLER S.W., MUNOZ J.F., and WOOD W.W., 2006, The response of playa and sabkha hydraulics and mineralogy to climate forcing. Ground Water, 44(3), 329-338.

WOOD, W.W., SANFORD, W. E., and FRAPE, S., 2005 , Chemical openness and potential for misinterpretation of the solute environment of coastal sabkhat; Chemical Geology, 215(1-4), 361-372.

WOOD, W.W., KRAEMER, T.F. and SHAPIRO, A., 2004 , Radon ( 222 Rn) in Ground Water of Fractured Rocks: A Diffusion/Ion Exchange Model, Ground Water v. 42(4), 552-567

RICH, J., STOKES, S., WOOD, W.W., and BAILEY, R., 2003, Optical dating of tufa via in-situ aeolian sand grains: A case example form the Southern High Plains, USA, Quaternary Science Reviews v 22 p1145-115.2

STOKES, S., BRAY, H., GOUDIE, A., and WOOD, W.W., 2003 , Later Quaternary paleorecharge events in the Arabian Peninsula in Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy , A. S. Alsharhan and W. W. Wood, Eds., p.371-378, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 385p.

WOOD, W.W. RIZK, Z.S., AND ALSHARHAN, A.S., 2003 , Timing of recharge, and the origin, evolution, and distribution of solutes in a hyperarid aquifer system , in Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy , A. S. Alsharhan, and W. W. Wood, Eds., p.295-312, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam 385p.

WOOD, W.W., 2003 , Water sustainability: science or science fiction? - A perspective from one scientist; in Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy , A. S. Alsharhan, and W. W. Wood, Eds., p 45-52, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 385p.

WOOD, W. W., and IMES, J. L. , 2003, Dating of Holocene ground-water recharge in the Rub al Khali of Abu Dhabi: constraints on global climate-change models ; in Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy , A. S. Alsharhan and W. W. Wood, Eds., p379-385, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam 385p.

WOOD, W.W., 2003, A fresh water odyssey: Some observations on the global resource; Ground Water v. 41 no. 3, p. 300-305.

WOOD, W. W., STOKES, S., and RICH, J., 2002, Implications of water supply for indigenous Americans during Holocene aridity phases on the Southern High Plains, USA; Quaternary Research v.58 p.139-148.

WOOD, W. W., 2002, Role of ground water in geomorphology, geology, and paleoclimate of the Southern High Plains; Ground Water, v. 40, no. 4, p. 438-447.

WOOD, W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 2002, Hydrogeology and solute chemistry of the coastal-sabkha aquifer in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi; in Sabkha Ecosystem, v. 1 - The Sabkhas of the Arabian Peninsula and Adjacent Countries, Hans-Joerg Barth and Benno Boer, Eds.,  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 354 p.

WOOD, W. W., SANFORD, W. E., and Al HABSCHI, A. R. S., 2002, The source of solutes in the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi; Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v. 114, no. 3, p. 259-268.

YECHIELI, Y., and WOOD, W.W., 2002, Hydrogeologic processes in saline systems: playas, sabkhas, and saline lakes; Earth- Science Reviews v. 58, p. 343-365.

SANFORD, W. E., and WOOD, W. W. , 2001, Hydrology of the coastal sabkhas of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Hydrogeology Journal, v. 9, no. 4, p. 358-366.

WOOD, W. W ., 2000, Ground-water recharge in the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico; U. S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-127-99, 4 p.

RICH, J., STOKES, S., and WOOD, W. W., 1999, Holocene chronology for lunette dune deposition on the Southern High Plains, USA ; Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplmentband. 116, p. 165-180.

WOOD, W. W., KRAEMER, T. F., and SHAPIRO, A. M., 1999, Exchangeable ions, fracture volume, and specific surface area in fractured crystalline rocks; in U. S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, D. W. Morganwalp and H. T. Buxton, Eds., Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999, Volume 3 of 3 - Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 681-684.

WOOD, W. W., 1999, Comment on "Field study of spatial variability in unsaturated flow beneath and adjacent to plays" by Bridgit R. Scanlon and Richard S. Goldsmith; Water Resources Research, v. 35, no. 2, p. 601.

WOOD, W. W., 1999 , Use and misuse of the chloride-mass balance method in estimating ground water recharge; Ground Water, v. 37, no. 1, p. 2-3.

ZHANG, H., SCHWARTZ, F. W., WOOD, W. W., GARABEDIAN, S. P., and LEBLANC, D. R., 1998, Simulation of variable-density flow and transport of reactive and non-reactive solutes during a tracer test at Cape Cod, Massachusetts ; Water Resources Research, v. 34, no. 1, p. 67-82.

WOOD, W. W., RAINWATER, K. A, and THOMPSON, D. B., 1997, Quantifying macropore recharge: examples from a semi-arid area; Ground Water, v. 35, no. 6, p. 1097-1106.

Bazuhair, A. S., and Wood, W. W., 1996, Chloride mass-balance method for estimating ground-water recharge in arid areas: examples from western Saudi Arabia; Journal of Hydrology, v. 186, p. 153-159.

Drenkard , S., Torgersen, T., Weppernig, R., Farley, K., Schlosser, P., Michel, R. L., Shapiro, A. M., and Wood, W. W ., 1996, Helium isotope analysis and tritium-helium age dating in the Mirror Lake Basin, Grafton County, New Hampshire; in U. S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, D. W. Morganwalp and D. A. Aronson, Eds.,Colorado Springs, September 20-24, 1993; U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, p. 159-166.

WOOD, W. W., SHAPIRO, A. M., HSIEH, P. A., and COUNCELL, T. B. , 1996 , Observational, experimental and inferred evidence for solute diffusion in fractured granite aquifers: examples from the Mirror Lake watershed, Grafton County, New Hampshire; in U. S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, D. W. Morganwalp and D. A. Aronson, Eds.,Colorado Springs, September 20-24, 1993, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, p. 167-170.

SHAPIRO, A. M., WOOD, W. W., BUSENBERG, G, E., DRENKARD, S., PLUMMER, L. N., TORGERSON, T., and SCHLOSSER, P., 1996 , A conceptual model for estimating regional fluid velocity in the bedrock of the Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire; in U. S.  Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, D. W. Morganwalp and D. A. Aronson, Eds.,Colorado Springs, September 20-24, 1993, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, p. 171-189.

WOOD, W. W., 1995 , Diffusion in solute transport : three scales of importance ; Proceedings of the U. S.  Geological Survey/U. S.  Nuclear Regulatory Workshop, May 4-6, 1993, Reston, Virginia, P. R. Stevens and T. J. Nicholson, Eds., U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources-Investigations Report 95-4015, 211 p.

WOOD, W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 1995 , Eolian transport saline lake basins, and groundwater solutes ; Water Resources Research, v. 31, p. 3121-3129.

SANFORD, W. E., and WOOD, W. W., 1995 , A paleohydrologic record from lake brine on the Southern High Plains ; Geology, v. 23, p. 229-232.

WOOD, W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 1995 , Chemical and isotopic methods for quantifying ground-water recharge in a regional, semi-arid environment; Ground Water, v. 33, no. 3, p. 458-468.

WOOD, W. W., and IMES, J. L., 1995, How wet is wet? Constraints on late Quaternary climate in southern Arabian Peninsula; Journal of Hydrology, v. 164, p. 263-268.

VOSS, C. I., and WOOD, W. W., 1994, Synthesis of geochemical, isotopic, and ground-water modeling analysis to explain regional flow in a coastal aquifer of southern Oahu, Hawaii; in Mathematical Models and their Applications to Isotope Studies in Groundwater Hydrology, International Atomic Energy Agency Report IEAE-TECDOC-777, p. 147-178.

WOOD, W. W. and SANFORD, W. E., 1994 , Recharge to the Ogallala: 60 years after C. V. Theis's analysis ; Proceedings of the Playa Basin Symposium , Lloyd V. Urban and A. Wayne Wyatt, Eds., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 324 p.

GOODE, D. J., HSIEH, P. A., SHAPIRO, A. M., WOOD, W. W., and KRAEMER, T. F., 1993, Concentration history during pumping from a leaky aquifer with stratified initial concentration ; in Proceedings of the 1993 National Conference on Hydraulic Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers , Hsieh Wen Shen, S. T. Su, and Feng Wen, Eds., v. 1, p. 29-35.

BACK, W., BAEDECKER, M. J., and WOOD, W. W., 1993, Scales in chemical hydrogeology: a historical perspective ; in Regional Ground-Water Quality , W. M. Alley, Ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY, 634 p.

SANFORD, W. E., WOOD, W. W., and COUNCELL, T. B., 1992 , Calcium chloride-dominated brines: an ion-exchange model ; in Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Water Rock Interaction ; Yousif K. Kharaka and Ann S. Maest, Eds., A. A. Balkema Rotterdam, Netherlands, p. 669-672.

WOOD, W. W., SANFORD, W. E., and REEVES, C. C., 1992, Large lake basins of the Southern High Plains: ground-water control of their origin?; Geology, v. 20, p. 535-538.

SANFORD, W. E., and WOOD, W. W., 1991 , Brine evolution and mineral deposition in hydrologically open evaporite basins ; American Journal of Science, v. 291, p. 687-710.

WOOD W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 1991, The origin of evaporite deposits-a model based on a hydrologically open system; in USGS Research on Minerals Resources - 1991, E. E. Good, J. F. Slack, and R. K. Kotra, Eds., U. S.  Geological Survey Circular 1062, p. 79-80.

LEBLANC, D. R., GARABEDIAN, S. P., HESS, K. M., GELHAR, L. W., QUADRI, R. D., STOLLENWERK, K. G., and WOOD, W. W., 1991, Large-sale natural-gradient tracer test in sand and gravel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: 1 Experimental design and observed tracer movement; Water Resources Research, v. 27, no. 5, p. 895-910.

ROSENSHEIN, J. S., MOORE, J. E., and WOOD, W. W ., 1991, Hydrogeology ; Geotimes, v. 36, no. 2, p. 51-52.

WOOD, W. W., KRAEMER, T. F., and HEARN, P. P. Jr., 1990, Intergranular diffusion: an important mechanism influencing solute transport in clastic aquifers?; Science, v. 247, p. 1569-1572.

WOOD, W. W. and SANFORD, W. E., 1990, Ground-water control of evaporite deposition ; Economic Geology, v. 85, p. 1226-1235.

WOOD, W. W., 1990, Case study: solution and piping development of playa-lake basins on the Llano Estacado of Texas and New Mexico; in Groundwater Geomorphology, Charles Higgins, Ed., Chapter 4, Piping and pseudokarst in drylands, Geological Society of America Special Paper 252, p. 101-110.

WOOD, W. W., and JONES, B. F., 1990, Origin of solutes in saline lakes and springs on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico ; in Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains , Thomas C. Gustavson, Ed., Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, p. 193-208.

WOOD, W. W., 1989 , Birdsall Lecture Report ; Ground Water, v. 27, no. 5, p. 729-730.

WOOD, W. W., HEARN, P. P., and KRAEMER, T. F., 1988, Solute diffusion within sand of the Cape Cod Massachusetts aquifer ; in Proceeding of the Toxic Substance Hydrology Program, 1988, Phoenix, Arizona, September 26-30, 1988, U. S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 88-4220, p. 163-166.

WOOD, W. W., and LOW, W. H., 1988, Solute geochemistry of the Snake River Plain regional aquifer system, Idaho and eastern Oregon; U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1408-D, 79 p.

WOOD, W. W., and FERNADEZ, L. A., 1988, Volcanic rocks ; in The Geology of North America , v. O-2 Hydrology, DNAG, Chapter 39, Geological Society of America, p. 353-365.

WOOD, W. W., 1988 , Hydrologic development of playa-lake basins in the Southern High Plains; in U. S.  Geological Survey Yearbook Fiscal Year 1987, p. 39-40.

WOOD, W. W., and OSTERKAMP, W. R., 1987 , Playa-lake basins on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, Part II--a hydrological model and mass-balance arguments for their development; Bulletin, Geological Society of America, v. 99, p. 224-230.

OSTERKAMP, W. R., and WOOD, W. W., 1987 , Playa-lake basins on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, Part I--hydrologic, geomorphic and geologic evidence for their development; Bulletin, Geological Society of America, v. 99, p. 215-223.

LEBLANC, D. R., GARABEDIAN, S. P., WOOD, W. W., HESS, K. M., and QUADRI, R. D., 1987, Natural-gradient tracer test in sand and gravel: objective, approach, and overview of tracer movement; in U. S.  Geological Survey Program on Toxic Waste--Ground-Water Contamination: Proceedings of the Third Technical Meeting, Pensacola, Florida, March 23-27, 1987, U. S.  Geological Survey Open-file Report 87-109, p. B9-B12.

WOOD, W. W., and LOW, W. H., 1986, Aqueous geochemistry and diagenesis in the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer system, Idaho ; Bulletin, Geological Society of America, v. 97, p. 1456-1466.

WOOD, W. W., 1985 , Origin of caves and other solution openings in the unsaturated (vadose) zone of carbonate rocks, a model for CO2 generation; Geology, v. 13, p. 822-824.

OSTERKAMP, W. R., and WOOD, W. W., 1984 , Escarpment development and retreat of the Southern High Plains ; Proceedings, in Proceedings, Ogallala Aquifer Symposium II , George Whetstone, Ed., Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, Texas, p. 143-173.

WOOD, W. W., and OSTERKAMP, W. R., 1984 , Playa lake basins on the Southern High Plains of Texas, USA: A hypothesis for their development; in Proceedings, Ogallala Aquifer Symposium II , George Whetstone, Ed., Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, Texas, p. 304-311.

WOOD W. W., and OSTERKAMP, W. R., 1984, Recharge to the Ogallala aquifer from playa basins on the Llano Estacado: An outrageous proposal? ; in Proceedings, Ogallala Aquifer Symposium II , George Whetstone, Ed., Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, Texas, p. 337-349.

WOOD, W. W., and PETRAITIS, M. J., 1984, Origin and distribution of carbon dioxide in the unsaturated zone of the Southern High Plains of Texas; Water Resources Research, v. 20, p. 1193-1208.

BASSETT, R. L., WEEKS, E. P., CEAZAN, M. L., PERKINS, S. G., SIGNOR, D., REDINGER, D. L., MALCOLM, R. L., AIKEN, G. R., THURMAN, E. M., AVERY, P. A., WOOD, W. W., THOMPSON, G. M., and STILES, G. K., 1981, Preliminary data from a series of artificial recharge experiments at Stanton, Texas ; U. S.  Geological Survey Open-file Report 81-149, 235 p.

WOOD, W. W., 1981, A geochemical method of determining dispersivity in regional ground-water systems; Journal of Hydrology, v. 54, p. 209-224.

WOOD, W. W., 1980, Development of technical site selection criteria for artificial recharge ; in Wastewater Reuse for Groundwater Recharge , Taskashi Asano and P. V. Roberts, Eds., Office of Water Recycling, California State Water Resources Control Board, p. 73-79.

DeBUCHANANNE, G. D., and WOOD, W. W., 1979 , Hydrologic considerations related to management of radioactive waste ; in Radioactive Waste in Geologic Storage , Sherman Fried, Ed., American Chemical Society Symposium Series 100, Chapter 3, 344 p.

GROVE, D. B., and WOOD, W. W., 1979 , Prediction and field verification of subsurface-water quality changes during artificial recharge, Lubbock, Texas; Ground Water, v. 17, no. 3, p. 250-257.

WOOD, W. W., and EHRLICH, G. G., 1978, Use of bakers yeast to trace microbial movement in ground water ; Ground Water, v. 16, no. 6, p. 398-403.

BASSETT, R. L., and WOOD, W. W., 1978 , Computer simulation as an aid to interpreting the geochemistry of fluoride in the Ogallala Aquifer, Texas ; Twelfth Conference on Trace Substances in Environmental Health, p. 89-98.

BROWN, R. F., SIGNOR, D. C., and WOOD, W. W., 1978, Artificial ground-water recharge as a water management technique on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico; Texas Dept. of Water Resources Report 220, 32 p.

WOOD, W. W., 1978 , Use of laboratory data to predict sulfate sorption during artificial ground-water recharge ; Ground Water, v. 16, no. 1, p. 22-31.

WOOD, W. W., 1978, Toward a rational development of artificial recharge research ; in Advances in Groundwater Hydrology , Zubair A. Saleem, Ed., American Water Resources Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 333 p.

REEDER, H. O., WOOD, W. W., EHRLICH, G. G., and SUN, R. J., 1976 , Artificial recharge through a well in fissured carbonate rock, West St. Paul, Minnesota ; U. S.  Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 2004, 80 p.

WOOD, W. W., 1976 , A hypothesis of ion filtration in a potable-water aquifer system, Ground Water, v. 14, no. 4, p. 233-244.

WOOD, W. W., 1976 , Guidelines for collection and field analysis of ground-water samples for selected unstable constituents ; Techniques of Water Resources Investigations, U. S.  Geological Survey, Book 1, Chapter D2, U. S.  Government Printing Office, 24 p.

WOOD, W. W., and BASSETT, R. L., 1975, Water quality changes related to the development of anaerobic conditions during artificial recharge; Water Resources Research, v. 11, no. 4, p. 553-558.

WOOD, W. W., and SIGNOR, D. C., 1975, Geochemical factors affecting artificial ground-water recharge in the unsaturated zone ; Trans. of the American Society of Agriculture Engineering, v. 18, no. 4, p. 677-683.

WOOD, W. W., 1974, Reply to comments on, A technique using porous cups for sampling at any depth in the unsaturated zone ; Water Resources Research, v. 10, no. 5, p. 1050.

WOOD, W. W., 1973, A technique using porous cups for sampling water at any depth in the unsaturated zone; Water Resources Research, v. 9, no. 2, p. 486-488.

WOOD, W. W., 1973, Rapid reaction rates between water and minerals observed by specific ion electrodes ; U. S.  Geological Survey Journal of Geological Research, v. 1, no. 2, p. 237-241.

VANLIER, K. E., WOOD, W. W., and BRUNETT, J., 1973, Water supply, development and management alternatives for Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties, Michigan ; U. S. Geological Survey Water Survey Paper, 1969, 111 p.

ALLEN, W. B., MILLER, J. S., and WOOD, W. W., 1972, Availability of water in Kalamazoo County, southwestern Michigan ; U. S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper, 1973, 129 p.

WOOD, W. W., 1970, Chemical quality of Michigan streams ; U .S. Geological Survey Circular 634.

EDITORIALS AND LETTERS:

WOOD, W.W., 2001, Sustainability - science or management? ; Ground Water, v. 39, no. 5, p. 641.

WOOD, W. W ., 2001, Sustainability: it's philosophy/management not science; GSA Today, v. 11, no. 6, p. 53.

WOOD, W. W., 2001, Misperception: a challenge for geoscience ; Ground Water, v. 39, no. 1, p. 1.

WOOD, W. W., 2000, Environmental accounting: the new bottom line ; Ground Water, v. 38, no. 2, p. 161.

WOOD, W. W., 2000, It's the heterogeneity !; Ground Water, v. 38, no. 1, p. 1.

WOOD, W. W., 1999, Water use and consumption: what are the realities? ; Ground Water, v. 37, no. 3, p. 321-322.

BAIR, E. S., and WOOD, W. W., 1999, A civil action - what will be the legacy of Wells G and H? ;

Ground Water, v. 37, no. 2, p. 161-162.

WOOD, W. W., 1999, Registration or certification ?; Ground Water, v. 37, no. 1, p. 1.

WOOD, W. W., 1997 , To boldly go! ; Ground Water, v. 35, no. 5, p. 737.

WOOD, W. W., 1997 , Tenure now !; Ground Water, v. 35, no. 2, p. 193.

WOOD, W. W., 1997 , Fluxes: a new paradigm for geologic education ?; Ground Water, v. 35, no. 1, p. 1.

WOOD, W. W., 1996 , Ignorance, incompetence, or arrogance ; Ground Water, v. 34, no. 5, p. 769.

WOOD, W. W., 1996 , A question of ethics ; Ground Water, v. 34, no. 3, p. 385.

Wood , W. W., 1996 , Diffusion: the source of confusion; Ground Water, v. 34, no. 2, p. 193.

Wood, W. W., 1996 , Thank you, John - the Bredehoeft years; Ground Water, v. 34, no. 1, p. 1.