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Event date: 10/25/2021 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Export event
Water Seminar Series: Groundwater of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
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Water Seminar Series: Groundwater of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

Grad-Student Research Presentation from Colorado School of Mines - Hydrologic Science Program

Hydrogeological controls of arsenic and uranium dissolution into groundwater of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

Kenny Swift Bird, PhD student in Hydrologic Science and Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

Monday 10/25 | 4 pm | in Center of SW Studies 120 (Lyceum)

Kenny Swift Bird is a PhD student in Hydrologic Science and Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, studying metal(loid) fate and transport in groundwater and stream corridors. He is an Oglala Sioux Tribal member, and is particularly interested in addressing water quality issues on Indigenous lands. His masters thesis focused on quantifying controls of arsenic and uranium dissolution into the Arikaree aquifer on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which many people rely on as their domestic water source.

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