Michael N. Gooseff, Assistant Professor
Hartz Family Career Development Professor

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802 USA

Office: 231P Sackett Building
Phone: (814) 867-0044 Fax: (814) 863-7304

Email: mgooseff@engr.psu.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Colorado 2001
• M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Colorado 1998
• Bachelors of Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech 1996
  

Classes:

• CE 360 - Fluid Mechanics (Spring, 2008, Spring 2009)
• CE 462 - Open Channel Hydraulics (Spring 2009)
  
• CE 597 - Surface Water Quality Modeling (Fall, 2008)
  
• CE 597 - Initiating your Academic Career (Fall, 2008)

Current Research Projects:

• McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research Project (MCMLTER; NSF, 2008-2010)
  
• The role of snow patches on distribution of soil microbial communities and biogeochemical cycling in the Antarctic Dry Valleys (NSF, 2009-2012)
  
• What are the seasonal controls on stream-riparian groundwater exchange during baseflow recession in headwater catchments? (NSF, 2009-2013)
  
• How does changing seasonality affect the capacity of arctic stream networks to influence nutrient fluxes from the landscape to the ocean? (NSF, 2009-2012)
  
• Spatial and Temporal Influences of Thermokarst Failures on Surface Processes in Arctic Landscapes                 (NSF, 2008-2012)
  
• Understanding N Cycle Controls Throughout a River Network  (NSF, 2006-2009)
  
• Stream Restoration and Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions (NSF, 2004-ongoing)
  

Past Research Projects:

• Ground-Penetrating Radar Hyporheic Zone Project  (2006-2008)
• Arctic National Parks Thermokarst Inventory and Monitoring  (2006-2008)
  (a complimentary element of the Noatak River Freshwater Vital Signs Initiative)
• Antarctic Aquatic/Terrestrial Margins Microbial Hydrobiogeochemistry (2004-2008)
  
• Hydrological Linkages Between Streams and Landscapes  (2004-2008)
  
• Arctic Climate Change and Hyporheic Responses  (2003-2007) 
• Antarctic Taylor Valley Glacier Melt Water Modeling  (2004)
  
• Spring Hydrologic Contribution to the Logan River, UT  (2003)
  
• Utah Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration Partnership - Hydrologic Functions  (2003-2004)
  
• Hyporheic Exchange Along the River Continuum  (2001-2003)
  
• Antarctic Hyporheic Exchange and Biogeochemical Cycling (1998-2002)