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Dave Gosselin

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Dave Gosselin

Hi, I’m Dave Gosselin, a professor of Earth Science in the School of Natural Resources. I am also the Director of UNL’s Environmental Studies program, which currently serves over 100 undergraduate students. Over the past 15 years, developing educational programs in the area of Earth systems science has become my passion.  My work in Earth systems science education started by providing professional development opportunities for K-12 educators as the director of the Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network (NESEN). The NESEN theme is to create a community among Earth science educators and scientists. For more information on NESEN, please see our homepage at http://nesen.unl.edu. My work with K-12 educators has involved traditional classroom teaching, summer workshops and, most recently, the delivery of online, distance-delivered courses as part of the Laboratory Earth professional development series. In 1999, I received the Catalyst Award from the Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science, a group that works closely with NESEN.

The common theme among my research activities throughout my career has been geochemistry, water-rock interaction and fluid migration. Most recently, my work has emphasized understanding the occurrence of arsenic and uranium in public water supplies and trying to develop a more economic approach to dealing with this water quality issue. I have also worked to understand the relationship between groundwater and surface water.  In this context, I have been involved in physical hydrogeologic investigations, groundwater-lake modeling and the use of remote sensing to study variability in lake behavior over large geographic areas.

David C. Gosselin

Since getting my Ph.D., my research has evolved from working in high-temperature environments to low-temperature surface and groundwater systems. My low temperature work has involved the application of major ions, rare earth elements, radiogenic isotopes, natural uranium, thorium radionuclides and the stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen to assess the history of groundwater movement through geologic materials.

My doctoral research emphasized the Archean rocks in the Black Hills of South Dakota and focused more specifically on elemental behavior and fluid migration at mid-crustal levels. My interest in remote sensing evolved out of my work on planetary materials and exposure to colleagues using remotely sensed planetary data sets.

 

 

 

Key Publications

  • Stotler. R., F.E. Harvey, and D.C. Gosselin. (in review) Chemical & Isotope Evidence for a Black Hills Origin for Ground Water in the Dakota Aquifer Beneath Northeastern Nebraska, Journal of Ground Water.
  • Harvey, F.E., Ayers, J.F. and Gosselin, D.C. 2008. Ground Water Dependence of Endangered Ecosystems: An Example from Nebraska's Saline Wetlands, Journal of Ground Water, 45, 6, 736-752.
  • Gosselin, D.C., V. Srihdar, F.E. Harvey and J.W. Goeke. 2006. Hydrological effects and groundwater fluctuations in interdunal environments in the Nebraska Sand Hills. Great Plains Research, 16, 17 – 28.
  • Gosselin, D.C., L.M. Klawer, R. M. Joeckel, F.E. Harvey, A.R. Reade, and K. McVey. 2006. Arsenic in Rural Public Water Supplies, Nebraska, U.S.A., Great Plains Research, 16, 137-148.
  • Anumalla, S, Ramamurthy, B., Gosselin, D., and Burbach, M. 2005. Groundwater monitoring using smart sensors. Proceedings of the IEEE EIT Conference, May 22-25, 2005, Lincoln, NE.
  • Gosselin, D.C., F.E. Harvey, C.D. Frost, R. Stotler, and A. Macfarlane. 2004. Strontium isotope geochemistry of ground water in the central part of the Great Plains (Dakota) aquifer. Applied Geochemistry, 19, 359–377.
  • Bonnstetter R.J. and D.C. Gosselin. 2004. Present Status on Earth Science Education in the USA. Proceedings of the Joint Conference (SITH2003) of The 38th Conference of Société Internationale des Techniques Hydrothermales and The 56th Annual Meeting of the Balneological Society of Japan, August, Okayama, Japan.
  • Gosselin, D.C., R.H. Levy, and R.J. Bonnstetter. 2003. Using Earth science research to develop collaboration between scientists at a research university and K-12 educators: Insights for future efforts. Journal of Geoscience Education. 51:113-120.
  • Gosselin, D.C. and J.L. Macklem-Hurst. 2002. Pre/Post Knowledge Assessment of an Earth Science Course for Elementary/Middle School Education Majors. Journal of Geoscience Education. 50:169-176.
  • Gosselin, D.C. and M. Khisty. 2001. Simulating the influence of two shallow, flow-through lakes on a ground water system. Hydrogeology Journal. 9:476-486.
  • Gosselin, D.C., F.E. Harvey, and C.D. Frost. 2001. Geochemical evolution of ground water in the Great Plains (Dakota) Aquifer of Nebraska: Implications for the management of a regional aquifer system. Ground Water. 39(1):98-108.
  • Gosselin, D.C., D.C. Rundquist, and S. McFeeters. 2000. Remote Monitoring of Selected Groundwater-Dominated Lakes in the Nebraska Sand Hills. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 36(5):1039-1052.
  • Gosselin, D.C., S. Lowrey, and S.J. Meyers. 2000. Process-oriented Environmental Change Curriculum Development Workshops. Journal of Geoscience Education. 48:631-635.

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Contact Information
Title(s) Environmental Studies, Director
Professor
Earth System Scientist
 
Affiliation (index) NESEN 
Address 150a Hardin Hall
3310 Holdrege Street
Lincoln NE
68583-0941 
Phone 402-472-8919 
Fax 402-472-3610 
Email dgosselin2@unl.edu  
 
Educational Background
BS
 College of St. Thomas, 1982 - Geology
PhD
 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 1987 - Geology
 
Academic Information
Office Hours MWF 8:00 
Potential Advising for Graduate Program Master of Science with a Specialization in
  • Hydrologic Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy with a Specialization in
  • Hydrologic Sciences
Courses Taught in the Current Semester
Course Number Course Title Day Time Cross Listings
ENVR 289  Environmental Studies: Sophomore Orientation  T  1230-0120 P  none 
ENVR 497  Intern Environmental Study  ARR  ARR  none 
ENVR 498  Independent Study  ARR  ARR  none 
ENVR 499A  Environmental Studies Senior Thesis I  ARR  ARR  none 
ENVR 499B  Environmental Studies Senior Thesis II  ARR  ARR  none 
ENVR 499H  Honors: Environmental Studies Senior Thesis I & II  R  1230-0120 P  none 
NRES 108  Earth's Natural Resource Systems  ARR  ARR  None 
NRES 108  Earth's Natural Resource Systems  ARR  ARR  None 
NRES 108  Earth's Natural Resource Systems  MW  1230-0250 P  None 
NRES 108X  Earth's Natural Resource Systems  ARR  ARR  None 
NRES 809  Laboratory Earth: Earth and Its Systems  ARR  ARR   
Additional Information
SNR Faculties Water, Human Dimensions, Geology & Soils  
Areas of Interest Groundwater Chemistry, Environmental Isotopes, Groundwater and Surface, Water Relationships, Sand Hills Hydrology, Science Education, Dakota aquifer/stratigrphy/geochemistry, Isotope hydrology for environmental tracking, Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network, Water quality, Wetlands 
Contact Preference email 
Notable Website http://nesen.unl.edu 
Notable Website http://snr.unl.edu/nebraskawaterquality 

 

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