Résumé for Dr. John Tauxe

John D. Tauxe, PhD, PE

environmental engineer • hydrogeologist

Work Address
Neptune and Company, Inc.
1505 15^th St., Suite B
Los Alamos, NM 87544
voice: 505.662.0707 ext. 15
fax: 505.662.0500
e-mail: engineering(a)tauxe.net
URL: http://www.neptuneandco.com/~jtauxe
(change "(a)" to "@" to fix the e-mail address)

Home Address
550 Kiva St.
Los Alamos, NM 87544-3177
505-661-7272
URL: http://john.tauxe.net

Education

1994: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering

1990: M.S. in Civil Engineering
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Division
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
1984: B.A. in Earth Science
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
1979: completed secondary education at
Indian Springs School, Helena, Alabama

Professional Experience

1999 - present: Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New Mexico.
As a P.E., I subscribe to this

Engineering Code of Ethics

Senior Environmental Engineer

Neptune and Company, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Assisted in development of a guidance document for decision making regarding Material Disposal Areas (MDAs) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Critical review and technical analyses for the Greater Confinement Disposal boreholes at DOE's Nevada Test Site Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site
Critical review of activities at LANL's MDA AB, Technical Area 49, the site of legacy radioactive contamination from past underground nuclear safety tests.
Critical Review of dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPL) site characterization technologies for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Technology Innovations Office (TIO)
Probabilistic contaminant transport and environmental modeling of MDA G at LANL in support of the Technical Area 54 RCRA Feasibility Investigation (RFI)
Conceptual model construction for the former Naval Air Station, Alameda IR Site 2 Remedial Investigation, and design and implementation of computer modeling using GoldSim of biotic contaminant transport at Alameda's West Beach Landfill.
Options Analysis for radioactive ground surface contamination at the Smoky Site at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Nevada Test Site (NTS).
Design and development of a Java computer program (Java classes) for the manipulation of NOAA oceanographic and meterological buoy data for EPA's National Exposure Research Laboratory, Ecosystems Research Division.
Design and development of a contaminant transport model for transuranic radioactive (TRU) wastes in the Greater Confinement Disposal boreholes at NTS, using the GoldSim modeling platform.
Development of an Integrated Groundwater Monitoring Strategy for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
Development of a preliminary radiological performance assessment model for the E-Area Trenches at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, using the GoldSim platform.
Consultation regarding the development of a Quality Management Plan for the Toxics Release Inventory Petition Review Process for the U.S. EPA.
Provision of consulting services related to development of a GoldSim model to support closure of the High-Level Waste Tanks at the Savannah River Site.
Conceptual design of a web-based Quality Management Plan system for the EPA's Office of Environmental Information.
Provision of consulting services for GoldSim model development for a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Mochovce, Slovak Republic.

Research Staff Member

Center for Energy and Environmental Analysis, Energy Division

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

DOE Disposal Work Group Core Team member for the groundwater exposure pathway from proposed low level radioactive waste disposal at several U.S. DOE sites
Evaluation of the quantity and quality of groundwater resources near the Tuolumne River in the Central Valley of California as part of the New Don Pedro Dam licensing under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
ORNL impoundments consolidation cell engineering team to evaluate the feasibility of consolidating radioactive sludges to aid in closure of on site impoundments
Rule-based simulation of the operation of Montana Power's hydroelectric power dams along the Missouri and Madison Rivers
Development of an Environmental Data Management System to support the Los Angeles County NPDES Municipal Storm Water Permit
Performance Assessment of the SWSA 6 and CIIDF low level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Oak Ridge
Composite Analysis of the SWSA 6 low level radioactive waste disposal facility in Oak Ridge.
Groundwater contaminant transport modeling in support of the Remedial Investigation of Bethel Valley and the main plant area of ORNL
Development and compilation of an atlas of watersheds of the Oak Ridge Reservation, produced in html as an on-line document
Designed and implemented the internet home page for the CEEA
Served as Chairman of the CEEA Computer Resources Committee.

Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Fellow

Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

and

Research Assistant

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Center for Research in Water Resources

Visiting Fellow to the WIPP Performance Assessment Group

Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee and
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Research Assistant

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

ShowFlow

HSSM-WIN

Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory

EPA

LBJ School of Public Affairs

Marine Technician

Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

SEDCO/BP 471

JOIDES Resolution

Research Assistant / Technician with SeaMARC I system

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, New York

Field Technician at Experimental Lakes Area, Kenora, Ontario, Canada

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, New York

in situ

Nuclear Medicine Laboratory Assistant / Stagière

Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, Division de Biologie, Saclay, France

Other Skills and Experience

Computer experience:

Hardware: VAX, IBM-compatible Personal Computers, Sun Workstations

Operating Systems: Unix, VMS, DOS, Windows variants

Languages: C, Java, Microsoft Windows API, HTML, DOS, BASIC, FORTRAN, and DCL

Applications: Surfer, GeoEAS, MathCad, TK Solver, Excel, Origin, ArcGIS, Arc/Info, ArcView, MapInfo, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW

Modeling software: HSSM, MODFLOW, GWSIM, Arc/Info GRID, RIP, GoldSim, ShowFlow, PRSYM (now RiverWare), HEC series, DWOPER
My software that may be of general utility is available here.
Languages:
- Native English
- Fluent in French
- Conversant in American Sign Language
Awards:
- University Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1988 - 1990
- Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Fellowship, United States Department of Energy, 1990 - 1993
Professional Training, Affiliations, and Service:
- NEPA Training, Modules 1 and 4
- Member, American Geophysical Union (Hydrology Section)
- Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
- Elected to ΦΚΦ Honor Society 1994
- Member, Edwards Underground Water District Technical Advisory Panel, 1989 - 1990
- Member, Los Alamos County Solid Waste Management Board, 2002 - 2004
- Member, Engineering Development Panel of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 2008 - present

Software Products

ShowFlow, an example of an graphical interface for a DOS-based groundwater modeling program. ShowFlow implements a model for groundwater contaminant advection and dispersion from a gaussian source.
HSSM-WIN, the second incarnation of ShowFlow, as a graphical interface for EPA's Hydrocarbon Spill Screening Model (HSSM).
SunCalc, a Java applet for calculating the time of sunrise and sunset at any point on earth at any time within about 10,000 years of present.
A Generic Performance Assessment GoldSim Model, an example of environmental transport modeling using the GoldSim platform.
A Radiological Performance Model of the Area 3 Radioactive Waste Management Site, being a GoldSim model used in low-level radioactive waste Performance Assessment and disposal site operations at the Nevada Test Site
A Radiological Performance Model of the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site, a similar model for the Area 5 RWMS
plus a number of useful routines and programs available to the public here.

Publications and Presentations

Tauxe, J.D., ShowFlow: A Practical Interface for Groundwater Modeling, Thesis for the degree of Master of Science in Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, December 1990 • Abstract, • Full PDF except for ShowFlow User's Guide (232 kB)
Weaver, J.W. and J.D. Tauxe, �Hydrocarbon Spill Simulation Modeling: Use of a Graphical Interface�, U.S. EPA 4th Annual Nationwide Conference on Underground Storage Tanks, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, November 5-8, 1991
Tauxe, J.D., HSSM-WIN: A Windows Interface for the Hydrocarbon Spill Screening Model, A computer program designed and written for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1992
Tauxe, J.D., D.R. Maidment, and R.J. Charbeneau, �Contaminant Transport Modeling Using New GRID Operators�, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual ESRI User's Conference, Palm Springs, California, June 8-12, 1992
Charbeneau, R.J., J.W. Weaver, J.D. Tauxe, B.K. Lien, �A Screening Model for Subsurface Hydrocarbon Spills�, American Society of Agronomy 84th Annual Meeting, Agronomy Abstracts, p. 79, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1-6, 1992
Tauxe, J.D., �Porous Medium Advection-Dispersion Modeling in a Geographic Information System�, 1993 Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 4-28, 1993
Tauxe, J.D., �Porous Medium Advection-Dispersion Modeling in a Geographic Information System�, Second International Conference/Workshop on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, Breckenridge, Colorado, September 26-30, 1993
Weaver, J.W., R.J. Charbeneau, J.D. Tauxe, B.K. Lien, and J.B. Provost, The Hydrocarbon Spill Screening Model (HSSM) Volume 1: User's Guide, EPA/600/R-94/039a, Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ada, Oklahoma, 1994
Also available in Spanish:
Weaver, J.W., R.J. Charbeneau, J.D. Tauxe, B.K. Lien, and J.B. Provost, Modelo para Evaluación de Derrames de Hidrocarburos (HSSM): Guía del Usuario, EPA/600/R-97/003, Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ada, Oklahoma, 1997
Tauxe, J.D., Porous Medium Advection-Dispersion Modeling in a Geographic Information System, Doctoral Dissertation in Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 1994 • Abstract, • Full PDF except for Code Appendix (15 MB) Contact me for source code.
Tauxe, J.D., Porous Medium Advection-Dispersion Modeling in a Geographic Information System, Center for Research in Water Resources Technical Report No. 253, Bureau of Engineering Research, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 1994 • Abstract, • Full PDF (15 MB)
Contact me for a hard copy, or order one from Center for Research in Water Resources
Wang, J.C., J.D. Tauxe,, and D.W. Lee, Estimation of Contaminant Transport in Groundwater Beneath Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities, Eleventh Proceedings of Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics; 1995 American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, San Francisco, California, October 29 - November 2, 1995
Wang, J.C., J.D. Tauxe,, and D.W. Lee, Estimation of Contaminant Transport in Groundwater Beneath Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Volume 73, American Nuclear Society, Inc., La Grange Park, IL, 1995
Tauxe, J.D., D.W. Lee, J.C. Wang, and G.P. Zimmerman, A Comparative Subsurface Transport Analysis for Radioactive Waste Disposal at Various DOE Sites, 1995 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December 11-15, 1995 • Abstract
Tauxe, J.D., Watersheds of the Oak Ridge Reservation in a Geographic Information System, ORNL/TM-13618, Oak Ridge, TN, May 1998 Web version of the document
Tauxe, J.D., A Probabilistic Physical Systems Model of Multipathway Contaminant Transport for Assessment of Future Risk, 1999 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December 13-17, 1999 • Web site
Tauxe, J.D., A Probabilistic Exposure Assessment of Radioactive Waste Disposal: Coupling Vadose Zone Contaminant Fate and Transport With Risk Assessment, 2000 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19, 2000 • Web site
Documentation of Java Classes for the Manipulation of Oceanographic Data, for the U.S. EPA, Neptune and Company, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, January, 2001
Tauxe, J.D., P.K. Black, B.M. Crowe, and D.W. Lee, Modeling Uncertainty: Realism vs Conservatism in Radiological Performance Assessment, 2003 NGWA Midsouth Focus Conference • Subsurface Monitoring & Modeling Issues, Nashville, TN, September 18-19 2003 • Web site
Tauxe, J.D., Development of a Probabilistic Performance Assessment Model to Support Environmental Decision Making, 2004 Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, November 7-10, 2004 • Web site
Tauxe, J.D., Probabilistic Radiological Performance Assessment Modeling and Uncertainty, 2004 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December 13-17, 2004 • Web site
Stockton, T.S., P.K. Black, J.D. Tauxe, and K.M. Catlett, Environmental Modeling and Bayesian Analysis for Assessing Human Health Impacts from Radioactive Waste Disposal, 2004 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December 13-17, 2004 • Web site
Tauxe, J.D. and P. Duffy, Performance Assessment and its Role in Identification of Performance Indicators for Ground-Water Monitoring, Presented to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2005 and 2006
Tauxe, J.D. and P.K. Black, Radioactive Waste Disposal in Hydrologically-Challenged Environments: Opportunities for Waste Disposal Resource Optimization, 2006 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, December 11-15, 2006 • Web site
Tauxe, J.D. P.K. Black, and Hanušík, V., A Systems Modeling Approach for Performance Assessment of the Mochovce National Radioactive Waste Repository, Slovak Republic, 2007 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 05821, 2007 • Web site
Tauxe, J.D., Modeling Hydropower Dam Operations With Environmental Constraint, 2007 GoldSim User Conference, San Francisco, California, October 2007 • Web site

Contributing Authorship

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Performance Evaluation of the Technical Capabilities of DOE Sites for Disposal of Mixed Low-Level Waste, Volume 2: Technical Basis and Discussion of Results, DOE/ID-10521/2, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, March 1996 • Executive Summary
DOE, Performance Evaluation of the Technical Capabilities of DOE Sites for Disposal of Mixed Low-Level Waste, Volume 3: Site Evaluations, DOE/ID-10521/3, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, March 1996 • Executive Summary
DOE, Environmental Assessment: Lease of Parcel ED-1 of the Oak Ridge Reservation by the East Tennessee Economic Council, DOE/EA-1113, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations, Oak Ridge, TN, April 1996
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Draft Environmental Impact Statement • Reservoir Release Requirements for Fish at the New Don Pedro Project, California • FERC Project No. 2299-024, FERC-EIS-0081D, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, April 1996
FERC, Final Environmental Impact Statement • Reservoir Release Requirements for Fish at the New Don Pedro Project, California • FERC Project No. 2299-024, FERC-EIS-0081F, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, July 1996
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), User Requirements Report for an Environmental Data Management System in Support of the Los Angeles County NPDES Municipal Storm Water Permit, Oak Ridge, TN, February 1997
ORNL, Conceptual Solution Report for an Environmental Data Management System to Support the Los Angeles County NPDES Municipal Storm Water Permit, Oak Ridge, TN, February 1997
ORNL, Performance Assessment for the Class L-II Disposal Facility, ORNL/TM-13401, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, March 1997 • Full text (PDF) • Report Brief • Executive Summary
ORNL, Performance Assessment for Continuing and Future Operations at Solid Waste Storage Area 6, ORNL/6783/R1&R2, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, September 1997 • Chapters (R1) (PDF) • Appendices (R2) (PDF) • Report Brief • Executive Summary
ORNL, Composite Analysis for Solid Waste Storage Area 6, ORNL/6929, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, September 1997 • Full text (PDF) • Report Brief • Executive Summary
DOE, Final Environmental Assessment: Lease of Land and Facilities Within the East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, DOE/EA-1175, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations, Oak Ridge, TN, November 1997
ORNL, Draft Remedial Investigation of the Bethel Valley Watershed, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, March 1998
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), DRAFT Compliance Assessment Document for the Transuranic Wastes in the Greater Confinement Disposal Boreholes at the Nevada Test Site: Volume 2: Performance Assessment, SNL, Albuquerque, NM, September 1999
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), DRAFT RFI Report for Material Disposal Areas G, H, and L at Technical Area 54, LA-UR-99-4635, LANL Environmental Restoration Project, Los Alamos, NM, September 1999
IR Site 2 Remedial Investigation Report Alameda Point (Draft), for Southwest Division Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Neptune and Company, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, December 2000
Nevada Test Site Smoky Site Decision Analysis, Neptune and Company, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, January, 2001
Tauxe, J.D., K.M. Catlett, M. Hooten, A Model of Contaminant Transport from Greater Confinement Disposal Boreholes 1-4 at the Area 5 RWMS of the Nevada Test Site Using GoldSim, Neptune and Company, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, November, 2001 • Web page
Tauxe, J.D., User's Guides for TestBuoyData and BuoyDataViewer, Neptune and Company, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, December, 2001
Tauxe, J.D. and J.M. Green, Documentation of Java Classes for the Manipulation of Oceanographic Data, Neptune and Company, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, December, 2001
Mercier, T.M. and J.D. Tauxe, Quality Assurance Report for Java Classes Developed for the Manipulation of Oceanographic Data, Neptune and Company, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, December, 2001
DOE, Addendum 2 to the Performance Assessment for the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, DOE/NV/11718--176-ADD2, June 2006
DOE, E-Area Low Level Waste Facility DOE 435.1 Performance Assessment, WSRC-STI-2007-00306, Aiken, SC
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), 2007, Integrated Ground Water Monitoring Strategy for NRC-Licensed Facilities and Sites, NUREG/CR 6948, NRC, Washington, DC, November 2007

last updated 2 Sep 2008