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Office: 760 Natural Sciences Complex
Phone: 716.645.6800 ext 3960
Email: mwbecker@geology.buffalo.edu
Website: Home Page
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1996
Specialty: Ground-water contaminant transport, colloid and microbe transport in ground water, fractured rock hydrology, numerical ground-water modeling
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Courses Offered
GLY 312 Surface Processes and Hydrology II
GLY 414/514 Hydrogeology
GLY 522B Advanced Hydrology
GLY 560 GIS for Earth Scientists
Research Interests
I am interested in hydrogeology from millimeter to kilometer scales. Our group is using hydrogeophysical techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and ground penetrating radar to explore channeled flow of ground water through rock fractures. We are also using remote sensing methods to delineate the behavior of ground water from space and using high performance ground-water models linked to geographic information systems to model ground water flow and residence time at the basin scale.
Recent Publications
Tsoflias, G. and M.W. Becker, Ground
penetrating radar response to fracture fluid salinity: Why lower frequencies
are favorable for resolving salinity changes, submitted, Geophysics
Becker, M.W. and Jiang, Z., 2007. Flux-based contaminant transport in a GIS
environment. Journal of Hydrology, 343(3-4): 203-210
Rabideau, A. J., J. R. Craig, W. Silavisesrith, K. Fredrick, D. M. Flewelling,
I. Jankovic, M. W. Becker, K. Bandilla, and L. S. Matott , Analytic-element
modeling of supraregional groundwater flow: Concepts and tools for automated
model configuration, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 12, 83-96, 2007.
(Invited) Fredrick, K. C., M. W. Becker, L. S. Matott, A. Daw, K. Bandilla,
and D. M. Flewelling, Development of a numerical groundwater flow model using
SRTM elevations, Hydrogeology Journal, 10.1007/s10040-006-0115-3, 2006.
Becker, M. W., Potential for satellite remote sensing of ground water, /Ground
Water/, /44/, 306-318, 2006.
Becker, M.W., A. Daw, Influence of Lake Morphology and Clarity on Water Skin
Temperature as Measured by EOS ASTER, /Remote Sensing of Environment,/99/, /288-294,
2005.
Rabideau, A.J., S. Mattot, I. Jankovic, J. Craig, M.W. Becker, Influence of
numerical precision on the calibration of AEM-based groundwater flow models,
/Environmental Geology/, 48 (1), 57-67, 2005.
Talley, J., G.S. Baker, M.W. Becker, and N. Beyrle, Four dimensional mapping
of tracer channelization in subhorizontal bedrock fractures using surface ground
penetrating radar, /Geophys. Res. Lett/., 32 (doi:10.1029/2004GL021974), 2005.
