James R. Hunt
- Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Lawrence E. Peirano Professor of Environmental Engineering

Mailing Address:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
779 Davis Hall # 1710
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1710

Email:
hunt@ce.berkeley.edu

Office Hours: Mon 2-3:30, Wed 2-3:30

 Phone:
(510) 642-0948

Fax:
(510) 642-7483

Teaching and Research

For the 2006-2007 academic year, formal classroom teaching is limited to CE 103, Hydrology, in Fall Semester.

Professor Hunt's research emphasizes quantification of contaminant transport processes in natural and altered environments including groundwater, surface and subsurface soils, and estuarine sediments. These efforts are conducted by a combination of field data analysis, development of mechanistic models, and verification of those models at the laboratory scale. Contaminants of interest include trace metals, persistent organics, radionuclides, pathogenic organisms, and poorly characterized wastes from new industries. The research program seeks to understand the dominant processes that control contaminant mobility in natural and altered environments. A new research direction is anticipating the conflict between institutions having overlapping responsibilities in environmental systems, such as flood control and environmental restoration in a period of climate change.

Ongoing research projects include:

Recent Publications

  • T. J. Kneafsey and J. R. Hunt (2004) Non-aqueous phase liquid spreading during soil vapor extraction, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 68, 143-164, doi:10.1016/S0169-7722(03)00147-5.
  • A. H. Love, J.R. Hunt, J.S. Vogel, J.P. Knezovich (2004) Improving tritium exposure reconstructions using accelerator mass spectrometry, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 379, 198-203; DOI 10.1007/s00216-003-2425-9.
  • G. W. Su, J. T. Geller, J. R. Hunt, and K. Pruess (2004) Small-scale features of gravity-driven flow in unsaturated fractures, Vadose Zone Journal 3, 592-601.
  • D. C. Mays and J. R. Hunt (2005) Hydrodynamic aspects of particle clogging in porous media, Environmental Science and Technology 39(2), 577-584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es049367k
  • W. Chu, W. K. Choy, and J. R. Hunt (2005) Effects of nonaqueous phase liquids on the washing of soil in the presence of non-ionic surfactant. Water Research 39, 340-348.
  • J. R. Hunt and A. F. B. Tompson (2005) Tracing long-term vadose zone processes at the Nevada Test Site, U.S.A., Hydrological Processes 19 (17), 3383-3394, 10.1002/hyp.5976.
  • A. F. B. Tompson, G. B. Hudson, D. K. Smith, and J. R. Hunt (2006) Analysis of radionuclide migration through a 200-m vadose zone following a 16-year infiltration event, Advances in Water Resources 29, 281-292, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.02.015.
  • T. C. Flowers and J. R. Hunt (accepted) Viscous and gravitational contributions to mixing during vertical brine transport in water-saturated porous media, Water Resources Research.

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