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William T.R. Morgan-Jones

Hydrogeologist

Experience: 15 years
Qualifications:

1986 University of Exeter B.Sc. Honours Degree in GEOLOGY, 2nd Class
1994 University College London M.Sc., Hydrogeology
Chartered Geologist,
European Geologist Fellow of the Geological Society.

Year of Birth: 1965
Nationality: British
Languages: English, French

Career Summary

Bill is a hydrogeologist specialising in groundwater modelling. He has fifteen years geological work experience both in the UK and overseas on diverse projects ranging from groundwater resources and groundwater contamination to mineral extraction, mining, civil engineering and radioactive waste disposal. He specialises in groundwater flow and solute transport modelling, mainly using MODFLOW and associated models. He has advanced skills in GIS, database construction and computer programming.

Professional Experience

2000 to present Director, Hydrosolve Ltd.

Specialised in groundwater modelling, GIS, databases, programming

Modification of Modflow code for artesian flow

Review of the Modflow code

Arcview script for plotting Modflow grids in Arcview

Modflow modelling with GroundwaterVistas for water resources, mineral extraction and contaminated sites

Modflow and solute transport modelling with GMS for several contaminated sites and groundwater remediation

Modelling and hydrochemistry for EIA, gold mine site. Access database design.

1998 - 2000 Groundwater Modeller with Environment Agency, Peterborough, UK

Project manager for the assessment of seven regional groundwater resources modelling studies, including finite difference code assessment, flow and head calibration assessment, recharge routing models, updating models using GIS, Y2K compliance of code.

Software support in the regional hydrogeology department.

Project Manager for regional groundwater resources modelling study of the Essex aquifers

Construction of GUIs using VB6, assessment of distributed recharge runoff models

Advising on hydrometric database construction 1996 - 1998 Senior Hydrogeologist with Dong Ah Consortium, WJS,Libya

A major water wellfield in the Libyan desert for the Great Manmade River Project comprising 320 production wells approximately 500m deep in a sandstone aquifer. Supervision of the drilling contractor’s borehole geophysics, hydrochemical laboratory, geology and hydrogeology departments, approximately 50 personnel. Supervision of four workover rigs carrying out development and pumping tests. Quality control of data acquisition Liaison and advisory role for the drilling department. Reporting to the client Fieldwork in adverse conditions Project management 1996 Groundwater modeller with Mott MacDonald, Cambridge,UK

Groundwater solute transport modelling with MT3D. A study of the possible effect of drought on groundwater levels in East Anglia

1995 - 1996 Senior Hydrogeologist with Ministry of Water Resources, Oman (Secondment from Mott MacDonald)

Activities in support of a large water resources assessment project in Oman. Fieldwork in remote areas Pumping test supervision and interpretation Observation and pumping well construction Arid zone catchment groundwater modelling with MODFLOW Hydrochemistry Surface geophysics-interpretation of EM and seismic reflection profiles Interpretative hydrogeology, reporting

1994 - 1995 Groundwater modeller with Water Research Centre, UK

Modelling groundwater flow, oil flow and contamination in an alluvial aquifer in Italy.

Assessing models to be used for modelling contamination of surface water by agriculture.

Pumping test analyses and Penman water balances.

1993 - 1994 M.Sc. in hydrogeology at UCL, London .

Studies included: Mathematics, Fluid mechanics Pumping tests, Borehole construction Hydrochemistry, Hydrology Borehole and surface geophysics Modelling of groundwater flow and solute transport Contamination of groundwater

Research project: Water resources project in an alluvial aquifer in Romania: The application of hydrochemistry and groundwater flow modelling in determining river- aquifer interactions.

1990 - 1993 Engineering Geologist with Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners

The senior site geologist for Gibb at the Nirex nuclear repository site investigation Sellafield, Cumbria. (1 year). Responsibility for three geologists and three technical support staff.

Site geologist on the above project.(1 year) Supervision of drill stem tests, and other specialised packer tests and hydrochemical procedures

Site geologist on the A46 road site investigation, Bath (3 months).

1989 - 1990 Assistant Geotechnical Engineer with Parkman Consulting Engineers, Bristol

Carrying out ground investigations (trial pits and boreholes) to BS5930. Contaminated land investigation, mine stabilisation. Compiling desk study, factual and interpretative reports. Tendering and accounting.

1987 - 1989 Mine Geologist with JCI,South Africa

Computer Literacy Windows: Windows 95/98, Office 97/2000, VBA in Excel and Access

VB Pumping tests: Stest, Ptest, Aqtesolv, radial flow models, Excel, Aquiferwin32

Hydrochemistry: Netpath, Hydrowin Numerical Models: Modflow, Modpath, MT3D, Groundwater Vistas, GMS, Birmingham University models, Flowpath, Armos, Spillcad, Biotrans.

GIS: Advanced Arcview, Avenue scripting Environment Agency: Hydrolog 2 and 3, Hydrodat, SFM, SPRING, Rainark and other groundwater and surface water databases.

Programming : Visual Basic 6.0 compiler. Development of Visual Basic applications. Access Basic. Fortran compilers (Salford, RM and Microsoft). Assessment and improvement of a number of Birmingham University regional groundwater flow and recharge model codes. Thorough familiarity with MODFLOW code, implentation of code changes. Visual C++ compiler. Other: Surfer 7, Mathcad 6 GPS: Magellan, Garmin and Trimble global positioning system

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