Donald I. Siegel
Donald I. Siegel
Research Professor, Earth Sciences and Professor Emeritus
CONTACT
Earth and Environmental Sciences
218 Heroy Geology Laboratory
Email: disiegel@syr.edu
I have retired and “rewired” myself to a blend of service as President of the Geological Society of America (my Presidential Address) consulting (https://indiescientists.com/),and indulging in humanities; playing jazz and writing fiction. What teaching I do now will be in the form of short courses and possibly Maymester courses.
My Current Research Thrusts Include:
- Development of lump-parameter and other modeling approaches to characterize non-point contamination and solute transport where data availability is minimal in real world applications
- Spring and seepage face hydrology
- Isotopic and other geochemical analysis of water and solutes to characterize contaminant sources including PFAS compounds, MBTE and or organic compounds.
- Exploring Storytelling to communicate science with the public
- Gao, P., Wang, Z.Y. and Siegel, D.I. ,2015. Spatial and temporal changes of sedimentation in Three Gorges Reservoir of China. Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management, 20, pp.1-10.
- Siegel, D.I., Smith, B., Perry, E., Bothun, R. and Hollingsworth, M., 2015. Pre-drilling water-quality data of groundwater prior to shale gas drilling in the Appalachian Basin: Analysis of the Chesapeake Energy Corporation dataset. Applied Geochemistry, 63, pp.37-57.
- Gracz, M.B., Moffett, M.F., Siegel, D.I. and Glaser, P.H., 2015. Analyzing peatland discharge to streams in an Alaskan watershed: An integration of end-member mixing analysis and a water balance approach. Journal of Hydrology, 530, pp.667-676.
- Christian, K., Lautz, L.K. Hoke. G.D., Siegel, D.I.. Lu. Z. and J. Kessler, 2015. Methane occurrence is associated with sodium-rich valley waters in domestic wells overlying the Marcellus shale in New York State, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017805.
- Smith. B., Becker, M., and D.I. Siegel, 2016, Temporal Variability of Methane in Domestic Groundwater Wells, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Environmental Geosciences, vol. v. 23, p. 49– 80.
- Gracz, M.B., Moffett, M.F., Siegel, D.I. and Glaser, P.H., 2015. Analyzing peatland discharge to streams in an Alaskan watershed: An integration of end-member mixing analysis and a water balance approach. Journal of Hydrology, 530, pp.667-676.
- Christian, K., Lautz, L.K. Hoke. G.D., Siegel, D.I.. Lu. Z. and J. Kessler, 2015. Methane occurrence is associated with sodium-rich valley waters in domestic wells overlying the Marcellus shale in New York State, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017805
- Siegel, D.I., Smith, B., Perry, E., Bothun, R. and M. Hollingsworth, 2016, Dissolved methane in shallow groundwater of the Appalachian Basin: Results from the Chesapeake Energy predrilling geochemical database, Environmental Geosciences, v. 23, pp. 1– 47.
- Levy, Z. F., Siegel D.I., Glaser PH, Samson S.D., Dasgupta. S.S.. 2016. Peat porewaters have contrasting geochemical fingerprints for groundwater recharge and discharge due to matrix diffusion in a large, northern bog-fen complex. Journal of Hydrology, vol. 541, p. 941–951.
- Glaser, P.H., Siegel, D.I. , 2016, Climate-Driven Shifts in the Vertical Transport of Solutes Through Deep Peat Deposits Alter Methane Production Zones in a Large Peat Basin, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 30, p. 1578-1598
- Levy, Z.F., Siegel, D.I., Glaser, P.H., Samson, S.D. and Dasgupta, S.S., 2016. Peat porewaters have contrasting geochemical fingerprints for groundwater recharge and discharge due to matrix diffusion in a large, northern bog-fen complex. Journal of Hydrology, 541, pp.941-951.
- Levy, Z.F., Rosenberry, D.O., Moucha, R., Mushet, D.M., Goldhaber, M.B., LaBaugh, J.W., Fiorentino, A.J. and Siegel, D.I., 2018. Drought-induced recharge promotes long-term storage of porewater salinity beneath a prairie wetland. Journal of hydrology, 557, pp.391-406.
- Levy, Z.F., Mills, C.T., Lu, Z., Goldhaber, M.B., Rosenberry, D.O., Mushet, D.M., Lautz, L.K., Zhou, X. and Siegel, D.I., 2018. Using halogens (Cl, Br, I) to understand the hydrogeochemical evolution of drought-derived saline porewater beneath a prairie wetland. Chemical Geology, 476, pp.191-207.
(Aug. 16, 2016)
Geochemist Donald Siegel is a 'rock star' on the stage, in the classroom
(Dec. 8, 2015)
New study confirms poor water quality existed in Appalachian region, long before fracking