Dr. Warren W. Wood Awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award
Our very own Dr. Warren W. Wood has been selected to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award! The Distinguished Alumni Award is presented to those who have differentiated themselves by obtaining the highest level of professional accomplishment, and who possess the utmost integrity and character to positively reflect and enhance the prestige of Michigan State University. This award is among the highest recognition awarded by the MSU Alumni Office on behalf of the university, and will be presented on November 1, 2024 at the MSU Alumni Grand Awards ceremony.
Warren spent his professional career in public service first as a geophysicist for the Michigan State Highway Department 1961-63; Hydrogeologist United States Geological Survey 1965-2003; Christensen Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, Univ. UK 1998-2004; John Hannah Professor of Integrative Studies at Michigan State University 2003-2010; and Visiting Professor at MSU since 2010. Warren’s published research of over 100 peer reviewed journal articles, over 20 editorials or Op Ed pieces on a variety of groundwater related topics plus numerous US Geological Survey and State of Michigan geophysical Highway publications. In his hydrogeology investigations, Warren utilized an approach that exploited field experiments and observations of groundwater flow, solute, and isotope geochemistry to resolve challenging, long-standing problems in the disparate fields of hydrogeology, economic geology, climate change, and geomorphology. Warren specialized in hydrogeology of arid areas of the world including western United States, Australia, Botswana, China, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Republic of South Africa, Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates.
Warren was an invited lecturer at over 150 universities in North America, Botswana, China, England, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, South Africa, and UAE. He served as adjunct professor at China University of Geoscience, Beijing, China; University of Nebraska; King Fahad University for Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran, Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain UAE and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. He was an external reviewer for Ph.D. candidates. at universities of Arizona; Flinders, Australia; Oxford, UK; Queens (UK); Texas; Texas Tech; Utah; Waterloo; and Yale. Warren gave the 2002 commence address at Virginia Tech Geoscience Department and served on the committees of several master’s and Ph.D. candidates in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Warren is currently finishing an introductory textbook on hydrogeochemistry and has recently published four seminal papers using AI in evaluating global groundwater solute flux.
Warren has been active in professional societies where he served on numerous science groups and committees including the Board of Directors of the National Ground Water Association and the American Ground Water Trust; He was also Editor-in-Chief of Ground Water and associate editor of several journals; Chairman of the Hydrogeologic Division of the Geological Society of America; Birdsall Lecturer, Geological Society of America; National Research Council (NAS) panel on desalinization; Chair of the annual technical conference for National Ground Water Association, Geological Society of America, and America Geophysical Union and advisor to the International Groundwater Project.
Warren testified before U.S. Congress on the impact of nuclear waste disposal on water resources, briefed the Secretary of Interior, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on role of hydrogeology in nuclear waste disposal. He briefed the Crown Princes of Jordan and Emirates of Abu Dhabi on their respective countries water resources. For his scientific contribution Wood has been awarded the Meritorious Service Award by the U. S. Department of Interior; M. King Hubbert Medal by the National Ground Water Association; Distinguished Service Award, Geological Society of America; Keith Anderson Award, Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers; the Bergquist Medal, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, MSU; and Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
Wood was raised in the small southwestern Michigan town of Lawton. He graduated from Jonesville High School and attended Michigan State University intermittently from 1955 to 1969 obtaining BS, MS, and Ph.D. in the Department of Geology.(He was asked to leave for a year after being involved in exuberance celebration after a MSU basketball win against Kentucky in 1957) Warren is an auto enthusiast and did club racing with his Porsche and Aston Martin at numerous tracks in the US and Canada. He is an amateur architect who designed, built, and furnished a mid-century modern summer cabin on a lake in northern Ontario, is an avid collector of 18th and 19th century scientific instruments and is a hiker, canoeist, and sailor. Warren and his wife Anneliese are enthusiastic supporters of Michigan State University at the Shaw donation level. They establish an endowed fund to support undergraduate research; donated a large 35-ton specimen of Banded Iron Formation (BIF) in front of the Natural Science building; “Art from Space” photos in the department; initiation of the student “Coffee with the Professors” EES departmental coffee hour; and provide a number of individual unrestricted research grants to faculty.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2024 Distinguished Alumni Award, Michigan State University
2020 Bergquist Medal Recipient from the Dept of EES, Michigan State University
2013 Invited Keynote Speaker 10th Saudi Geological Society, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
2013 Invited Speaker, Qatar Geological Society, Doha, Qatar
2013 Invited Speaker National Center for Groundwater Research and Training, Adelaide, Australia
2011 Invited Speaker Dhahran Geosciences Society, Saudi ARAMCO, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
2011 Invited Speaker Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2011 Invited EOS Speaker, Duke University, Durham, NC
2011 Invited Speaker, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2009 Invited Speaker, UAE University Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
2008 Invited Keynote Speaker, 2nd International Salinity Forum Adelaide, Australia
2007 Invited Speaker Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2005 Invited Hannah Speaker, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
2005 Invited Speaker University of Nebraska Lincoln Nebraska
2005 Invited – James Hutton Lecture, Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK
2005 Invited Speaker Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
2004 Invited keynote speaker Evaporite Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2003 Invited speaker University of Nevada, Reno Nevada
2002 M. King Hubbert Medal recipient ‘National Ground Water Association
2002 Invited Speaker, Water Resources in the Third Millennium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2001 Invited Speaker, Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, Australia
2001 Adrian Smith Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
2000 Commencement Address, Virginia Tech Univ., Dept. of Geological Sciences
2000 Invited Speaker, Zayed Conference on Desertification, Dubai, UAE
1999 Distinguished Service Award in Hydrogeology, Geological Society of America
1997 Elected Life Membership, National Ground Water Association
1992 Keith Anderson Award, Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers
1991 Meritorious Service Award, Department of Interior
1989 Phoebe Hearst Distinguished Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
1989 Birdsall Distinguished Lecture, Geological Society of America
1988 Distinguished Lecturer, National Water Well Association
1980 Outstanding Faculty Member, Texas Tech Chapter, Sigma Gamma Epsilon
1980 Fellow, Geological Society of America
1978 Elected Member of the Graduate Faculty, Texas Tech University
1976 Certificate of Excellence in Hydrology, National Water Well Association
1975 Honorable Mention, Best Paper, Society of Agricultural Engineering
1970 Elected, Sigma Xi
1969 Elected, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Earth Science Honorary
ADVISORY ROLE
Wright State University Ph.D. External review committee (2013)
Michigan State University, Geological Sciences Alumni Board of Advisors (1988-2000)
National Research Council, NAS, Committee on Advance Desalinization Technology (2006-2008)
Member, Accreditation Review Committee King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals 2005
Science Advisory Committee, Canadian Water Network (2004-2011)
Arab Healthy Water Association, Honorary Member of the Advisory Board (2004-2006)
Advisory Committee, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech (2000-2003)
Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, China Geological Survey (2002-2005)
Scientific Review Committee, Center of Excellence, Univ. of Waterloo (1988-1992)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY SERVICE:
- American Geological Institute
1998-2001 Editorial Board of Geotimes
- American Geophysical Union (member since 1963)
1990 Chairman, Symposium, Isotopes in Hydrology, Kanazawa, Japan
1983-88 Associate Editor, Water Resources Research
1983 Chair, Symposium, Ground Water Tracers, Toronto,
- American Ground Water Trust
1998-03 Board of Directors
- American Society for Advancement of Science
1982-94 Representative, Section W, American Geological Institute
2003-06 Representative, Section W, Geol. Soc. America
- Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers (member since 1972)
2001-04 Group 2020, Future Direction of Ground Water Hydrology
1996-01 Editor-in-Chief, Ground Water
1992-99 Chair, Theis Conference Committee
1991-94 Editorial Review Board of Ground Water
1991-92 Chair, Fellowship Committee
1986-91 Chair (95), Awards Committee
1985-86 Chair, National Program, Co-chairman, 1987
1984-10 Chair, Darcy Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee
1984-88 Board of Directors
- Geological Society of America - Hydrogeology Division (member since 1961)
1995-98 Vice Chair, Chair, Past Chair
1992-93 Chair, National Program
1992-94 Chair, Birdsall Lecturer Selection Committee
1988-89 GSA Birdsall Distinguished Lecturer
1985-86 Chair, Officer Selection Committee
- Geological Society Of Washington
1985-86 Chair, Membership
- Hydrogeology & Engineering Geology (China)
2002-05 Associate International Editor
- International Association Of Hydrogeologists
2002- 05 Associate Editor, Hydrogeology Journal
UNIVERSITY CONTRIBUTIONS:
Visiting Research Professor of Hydrogeology, Michigan State University (2010-current)
Adjunct Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, SA (2005-current)
Adjunct Professor, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska (2002-2006)
Guest Professor, China University of Geoscience (Beijing) (2002-05)
John Hannah Professor of Integrated Studies, Michigan State University (2002-2010)
Christiansen Fellow, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, UK (1998-04)
University of Oxford (2005) Ground Water as a resource: Water Science and Policy Program
Texas Tech University Undergraduate courses in Physical Geology, Ground Water Hydrology, Low Temperature Geochemistry, Graduate courses in Hydrogeology, and Ground Water Geochemistry,
- Advisory/Review:
Co-supervised MS and Ph.D. candidates, Michigan State University
Co-supervised MS candidate, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (2009-2012)
Co-supervised D.Phil. and MS candidates, Oxford, UK (1998-2003)
Co-supervised Ph.D. candidate, University of Utah (1999-2003)
External reviewer for Ph.D.’s at Arizona, Flinders (AU); Michigan State, Oxford, Queens (UK), Texas, Texas Tech, Utah, Waterloo, United Arab University, and Yale,
Supervised six master’s candidates at Texas Tech University
Reviewer of NSF, NSERC, Israel Academy of Science and other grant proposals (2 to 4/year)
- Other
Host for a Fulbright Fellow, Dr. A. S. Bazuhair, Saudi Arabia (1996)
Host for a sabbatical leave, Dr. Y. Yechieli, Israeli Geological Survey (2000)
Geologic Field trip leader, ICAR Lubbock, Texas (2002)
Geologic Field trip leader. MSU faculty, and alumni to UAE and Oman (2006)
INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS:
2008 Keynote Speaker, Second Forum on Salinization, Adelaide Australia
2004 Vice Chair, Symposium on Evaporite Stratigraphy, Structure and Geochemistry, Abu Dhabi
2003 Vice Chair, Water Sustainability, Al Ain, UAE
2002 Vice Chair, Science Committee, UN Conference on Water Resources and Integrated Management in the Third Millennium, Dubai, UAE
2001 Adrian Smith Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
2000 Technical Science Committee, UN Conference on Desertification, Dubai, UAE
1996 UNESCO study of Jordanian ground water in association with the Institute of Arid and Semi-Arid Studies
1995 Evaluation of recharge in fractured rocks by invitation of the Department of Water and Forestry, South Africa
1992 CSIRO advisor on water resources investigations in Western Australia
EDITORIALS
WOOD, W. W., 2023, Shallow brines, an enigmatic story; Hydrogeology Journal https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-023-02608-7
WOOD, W. W. and CHERRY, J. A., 2021, Food Security and Inaccurate Quantification of Groundwater Irrigation Use; Groundwater v. 59, no. 6, p 782-783. doi: 10.1111/gwat.13122.
WOOD, W. W., 2020, Groundwater “durability “not “suitability”; Groundwater, v. 58, No. 6, p. 1-2 https://ngwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/gwat.13032
WOOD, W. W. and HYNDMAN, D. W., 2018, Sea level rise cut in half?; Groundwater, v. 56, No. 6, p. 845. doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12821
WOOD, W.W. and WOOD, W. T., 2014, Fluxes versus the “Frankenstein” model of Earth Science education; Hydrogeology Journal , DOI: 10.1007/s10040-014-1158-5
WOOD, W. W., 2012, Reductionism to Integrationism--A Paradigm Shift: Ground Water v. 50, n 2, p167. .DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00900.x
WOOD, W. W., 2009, Enhanced Geothermal Systems: An Opportunity for Hydrology: Ground Water v. 47 n. 6, p 751.
WOOD, W. W., 2008, Water Resource Take Energy, Ground Water, v. 46, no 6, p. 789.
WOOD, W. W., 2008, “New” Water, Ground Water v. 46, no. 4, p. 517.
WOOD, W. W., 2005, Nanobots: A New Paradigm for Hydrogeologic Characterization? Ground Water v. 43, no. 4, p. 463
WOOD, W.W., 2001, Sustainability - science or management? Ground Water, v. 39, no. 5, p. 641.
WOOD, W. W., 2001, Sustainability: it’s philosophy/management not science; GSA Today, v. 11, no. 6, p. 53.
WOOD, W. W., 2001, Misperception: a challenge for geoscience; Ground Water, v. 39, no. 1, p. 1.
WOOD, W. W., 2000, Environmental accounting: the new bottom line; Ground Water, v. 38, no. 2, p. 161.
WOOD, W. W., 2000, It’s the heterogeneity! Ground Water, v. 38, no. 1, p. 1.
WOOD, W. W., 1999, Water use and consumption: what are the realities?; Ground Water, v. 37, no. 3, p. 321-322.
BAIR, E. S., and WOOD, W. W., 1999, A civil action - what will be the legacy of Wells G and H?; Ground Water, v. 37, no. 2, p. 161-162.
WOOD, W. W., 1999, Registration or certification? Ground Water, v. 37, no. 1, p. 1.
WOOD, W. W., 1997, To boldly go! Ground Water, v. 35, no. 5, p. 737.
WOOD, W. W., 1997, Tenure now! Ground Water, v. 35, no. 2, p. 193.
WOOD, W. W., 1997, Fluxes: a new paradigm for geologic education? Ground Water, v. 35, no. 1, p. 1.
WOOD, W. W., 1996, Ignorance, incompetence, or arrogance; Ground Water, v. 34, no. 5, p. 769.
WOOD, W. W., 1996, A question of ethics; Ground Water, v. 34, no. 3, p. 385.
Wood, W. W., 1996, Diffusion: the source of confusion; Ground Water, v. 34, no. 2, p. 193.
Wood, W. W., 1996, Thank you, John - the Bredehoeft years; Ground Water, v. 34, no. 1, p. 1.
PUBLICATIONS
WOOD, W.W., SANFORD, W. E., CHERRY, J. A., and WOOD, W.T., 2023, Wrecking the Rocks, Continental Weathering by Groundwater; Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G51571.1
WOOD, W.W., SANFORD, W. E., CHERRY, J. A., HYNDMAN, D. W., and WOOD, W.T., 2023, Global nitrogen mass flux from the active freshwater aquifer element pool. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37, e2023GB007878. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007878
WOOD, W. W., SMEDLEY, P. L., LINDSEY, B. D., WOOD, W. T., KIRCHHEIM, R. E., and CHERRY, J A., 2022, Global Groundwater Solute Composition and Concentrations; Groundwater, Volume 60, Issue 6 , Pages 714-720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13205. First published on line: 03 May 2022, p. 1-7
WOOD, W. W., and MACUMBER, P. G., 2022, Altithermal Climate Change and Groundwater Development; Groundwater First published online: 07 March 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13191
WOOD, W. W., 2021, A Conceptual Overview of Surface and Near‑Surface Brines and Evaporite Minerals; The Groundwater Project, 37 p. ISBN: 978‑1‑77470‑021‑1, https://books.gw-project.org/a-conceptual-overview-of-surface-and-near-surface-brines-and-evaporite-minerals/
SAEED, W., SHOUAKAR-STASH, O., WOOD, W. W., and FRAPE, S., 2021, Isotopically Enriched Geogenic δ81Br and δ37Cl: Primary Evidence for the Ascending Brine Model; Ground Water, v. 59, No 5, p. 671-676, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13096
SAEED, W., SHOUAKAR-STASH, O., UNGER, A., WOOD, W. W., and PARKER, B., 2021, Chemical evolution of an inland sabkha: a case study from Sabkha Matti, Saudi Arabia; Hydrogeology Journal p. 1-14 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-021-02346-8
SAEED, W., SHOUAKAR-STASH, O., UNGER,, A., WOOD, W. W., and PARKER,, B., 2021, Origin of solutes in a regional multi-layered sedimentary aquifer system (a case study from the Rub’ al Khali basin, Saudi Arabia; Applied Geochemistry, v. 126, doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2021.104871
SAEED, W., SHOUAKAR-STASH, O., WOOD, W., PARKER, B., and UNGER,, A., 2020, Groundwater and Solute Budget (A Case Study from Sabkha Matti, Saudi Arabia); Hydrology 2020, 7, 94; doi:10.3390/hydrology7040094
HUSSAIN, M., Al SHABIANI, A., Al RAMADAN, K., and WOOD, W.W., 2020, Geochemistry and isotopic analysis of brines in the coastal sabkhas, Eastern region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Journal of Arid Environments, v. 178 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104142
POETER, E., FAN, Y., CHEERY, J., WOOD, W., and MACKAY, D., 2020, Groundwater-in-our-water-cycle; The Groundwater Project, 136 p. https://gw-project.org
WOOD W.W., 2019, Geogenic groundwater solutes: the myth; Hydrogeology Journal, v. 27(8), p. 2729-2738. doi.org/10.1007/s10040-019-02057-1
WOOD, W. W. and HYNDMAN, D. W., 2017, Groundwater Depletion: A Significant Unreported Source of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide; Earth’s Future, v. 5, no, 11, p. 1133-1135. doi.org/10.1002/2017EF000586
WOOD, W. W, and BöHLKE, J. K., 2017, Density-Driven Free-Convection Model for Isotopically Fractionated Geogenic Nitrate in Sabkha Brine; Groundwater, v. 55, No. 2, p. 199-207. doi: 10.1111/gwat.12463. Epub 2016 Nov 28.
VAN DAM, R. L., EUSTICE, B. P., HYNDMAN, D. W., and WOOD, W. W, and, SIMMONS, C. T., 2017, Electrical Resistivity Tomography to Image Convective Flow in Groundwater; Examples from the United Arab Emirates Sabkha International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 9-12 October /doi.org/10.1190/iceg2017-066
KRAEMER, T. F., WOOD, W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 2014, Distinguishing seawater from geologic brine in saline coastal groundwater using radium-226; An example from the sabkhat of the UAE: Chemical Geology, v. 371 p. 1-8.
VAN DAM, R. L., EUSTICE, B. P., HYNDMAN, D. W., WOOD, W. W, and, SIMMONS, C. T., 2014, Electrical imaging and fluid modeling of convective fingering in a shallow water-table aquifer; Water Resour. Res., 50, doi:10.1002/2013WR013673. p. 954-968.
LABAUGH, J.W., HARTE, P.T., SHAPIRO, A.M., HSIEH, P.A., JOHNSON, C.D., GOODE, D. J., WOOD, W.W., BUSO, D.C., LIKENS, G.E., and WINTER, T.C., 2013, Physical, chemical, and isotopic data from groundwater in the watershed of Mirror Lake, and in the vicinity of Hubbard Brook, near West Thornton, New Hampshire, 1983 to 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1087, 147p, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1087/
WOOD, W.W., BAILEY, R. M., HAMPTON, B. A., KRAEMER, T. F., LU, ZHONG, CLARK, D. W., JAMES, R. H. R. and AL RAMADAN, K., 2012, Rapid Late Pleistocene/Holocene Uplift and Coastal Evolution of the Southern Arabian (Persian) Gulf; Quaternary Research, v. 77 p. 215-220 doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.10.008
WOOD, W.W., ECKARDT, F., KRAEMER, T. F., and ENG, K., 2011, Quantitative Eolian Transport of Evaporite Salts from the Makgadikgadi Depression (Ntwetwe and Sua Pans) in Northeastern Botswana: Implications for Regional Ground-Water Quality: In, Tasks for Vegetation Science, Vol. 46, Sabkha Ecosystems, Volume III: Africa and Southern Europe, (Eds) Öztürk, M.; Böer, B.; Barth, H.-J.; Breckle, S.-W.; Clüsener-Godt, M.; Khan, M.A., Springer 270 p. doi 10.1007/978-90-481-9673-9
WOOD, W. W., 2011, A historical odyssey: The origin of solutes in the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (pp 245-254): In, Quaternary Carbonates and Evaporites Sedimentary Facies and their Ancient Analogues: A Tribute to Douglas Shearman; Ed by C. G. St. C. Kendall and A. S. Alsharhan; Special Publication No. 43 of the International Association of Sedimentologists; Wiley-Blackwell, 478 p.
WOOD, W. W., CLARK, D. W., IMES J. L. and COUNCELL, T. B., 2010, Eolian Transport of Geogenic Hexavalent Chromium to Ground Water: Ground Water v. 48 no. 1, p 19-29. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2009.00592.x
WOOD, W. W. 2010, Source of paleo-groundwater in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Evidence from unusual oxygen and deuterium isotope data; Hydrogeology Journal, v. 19, no. 1, p. 155-161. doi 10.1007/s10040-010-0626-9.
VAN DAM, R. L., SIMMONS, C. T., HYNDMAN, D. W., and WOOD, W. W., 2009, Natural free convection in porous media: First field documentation in groundwater: Geophysical Research Letters v. 36, L11403. doi:10.1029/2008GL036906
WOOD, W. W., 2009 Carbon dioxide and ground water extraction in the United States: Ground Water v. 47 no. 2 p. 168-169.
ECKARDT F. D., BRYANT, R. G., MCCULLOCH, G., SPIRO, B., and WOOD, W., 2008, Hydrogeochemistry of a semi-arid pan basin case study: Makgadikgadi, Botswana Applied Geochemistry, v 23, no. 6, p. 1563-1580.
Desalination: A National Perspective, 2008, Committee on Advancing Desalination Technology, National Research Council of National Academes of Science; The National Academies Press, Washington DC. 240 p.
WOOD, W. W. and SANFORD, W. E., 2007, Atmospheric Bromine Flux from the Coastal Abu Dhabi Sabkhat: A Ground-Water Mass-Balance Investigation: Geophysical Research Letters v. 34, no. 14, doi:10.1029/2007GL029922
RIZK Z. S. ALSHARHAN A. S., and WOOD W.W., 2007, Sources of dissolved solids and water in Wadi Al Bih aquifer, Ras Al Khaimah Emirate, United Arab Emirates: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 15, no. 7, p. 1553-1563. doi 10.1007/s10040-007-0188-7
IMES, J. L., and WOOD, W. W., 2007, Solute and isotope constraint of groundwater recharge simulation in an arid environment, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 15, p. 1307–1315. doi 10.1007/s10040-007-0177-x
TYLER, S. W., MUÑOZ, J. F., and WOOD, W. W., 2006, The response of playa and sabkha hydraulic and mineralogy to climate forcing: Ground Water v. 44, no. 3, p. 329-338.
IMES, J. L., and WOOD, W. W., 2005, Simulation of observed solute distribution to constrain recharge and discharge estimates for a shallow unconfined aquifer, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates; U. S. Geological Survey, NDC-USGS Technical Series Administrative Report 2005-002
WOOD, W.W., SANFORD, W. E., and FRAPE, S., 2005, Chemical openness and potential for misinterpretation of the solute environment of coastal sabkhat, Chemical Geology v. 215/1-4 pp 361-372. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.06.043
WOOD, W.W., KRAEMER, T. F. and SHAPIRO, A., 2004, Radon (222Rn) in Ground Water of Fractured Rocks: A Diffusion/Ion Exchange Mode; Ground Water v. 42, No 4, p. 552-567.
ALSHARHAN, A.S., and WOOD, W.W. (Editors), 2003, Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam 385 p.
ALSHARHAN, A.S., WOOD, W.W., GOUDIE, A.S., FOWLER, A., and ABDELLAFIT, E.M. (Editors) 2003, Desertification in the Third Millennium: Proceedings of an International Conference, Dubai 12-15 February 2000; A. A. Balkema, Netherlands 517 p.
RICH, J., STOKES, S., WOOD, W.W., and BAILEY, R., 2003, Optical dating of tufa via in-situ aeolian sand grains: A case example form the Southern High Plains, USA, Quaternary Science Reviews v 22 p. 1145-1152.
STOKES, S., BRAY, H., GOUDIE, A., and WOOD, W.W., 2003, Later Quaternary paleorecharge events in the Arabian Peninsula in Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy, A. S. Alsharhan and W. W. Wood, Eds., p. 371-378, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 385 p.
WOOD, W.W. RIZK, Z.S., AND ALSHARHAN, A.S., 2003, Timing of recharge, and the origin, evolution, and distribution of solutes in a hyperarid aquifer system, in Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy, A. S. Alsharhan, and W. W. Wood, Eds., p.295-312, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam 385 p.
WOOD, W.W., 2003, Water sustainability: science or science fiction? – A perspective from one scientist; in Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy, A. S. Alsharhan, and W. W. Wood, Eds., p 45-52, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 385p.
WOOD, W. W., and IMES, J. L., 2003, Dating of Holocene ground-water recharge in the Rub al Khali of Abu Dhabi: constraints on global climate-change models; in Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy, A. S. Alsharhan and W. W. Wood, Eds., p379-385, Developments in Water Science 50, Elsevier, Amsterdam 385p.
WOOD, W.W., 2003, A fresh water odyssey: Some observations on the global resource; Ground Water v. 41 no. 3, p. 300-305.
WOOD, W. W., STOKES, S., and RICH, J., 2002, Implications of water supply for indigenous Americans during Holocene aridity phases on the Southern High Plains, USA; Quaternary Research v.58 p.139-148.
WOOD, W. W., 2002, Role of ground water in geomorphology, geology, and paleoclimate of the Southern High Plains; Ground Water, v. 40, no. 4, p. 438-447.
WOOD, W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 2002, Hydrogeology and solute chemistry of the coastal-sabkha aquifer in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi; in Sabkha Ecosystem, v. 1 - The Sabkhas of the Arabian Peninsula and Adjacent Countries, Hans-Joerg Barth and Benno Boer, Eds., pp. 173-185 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 354 p.
WOOD, W. W., SANFORD, W. E., and Al HABSCHI, A. R. S., 2002, The source of solutes in the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi; Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v. 114, no. 3, p. 259-268.
YECHIELI, Y., and WOOD, W.W., 2002, Hydrogeologic processes in saline systems: playas, sabkhas, and saline lakes; Earth- Science Reviews v. 58, p. 343-365.
SANFORD, W. E., and WOOD, W. W., 2001, Hydrology of the coastal sabkhas of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Hydrogeology Journal, v. 9, no. 4, p. 358-366.
WOOD, W. W., 2000, Ground-water recharge in the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico; U. S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-127-99, 4 p.
RICH, J., STOKES, S., and WOOD, W. W., 1999, Holocene chronology for lunette dune deposition on the Southern High Plains, USA; Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplmentband. 116, p. 165-180.
WOOD, W. W., KRAEMER, T. F., and SHAPIRO, A. M., 1999, Exchangeable ions, fracture volume, and specific surface area in fractured crystalline rocks; in U. S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, D. W. Morganwalp and H. T. Buxton, Eds., Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999, Volume 3 of 3 - Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 681-684.
WOOD, W. W., 1999, Comment on "Field study of spatial variability in unsaturated flow beneath and adjacent to plays" by Bridgit R. Scanlon and Richard S. Goldsmith; Water Resources Research, v. 35, no. 2, p. 601.
WOOD, W. W., 1999, Use and misuse of the chloride-mass balance method in estimating ground water recharge; Ground Water, v. 37, no. 1, p. 2-3.
ZHANG, H., SCHWARTZ, F. W., WOOD, W. W., GARABEDIAN, S. P., and LEBLANC, D. R., 1998, Simulation of variable-density flow and transport of reactive and non-reactive solutes during a tracer test at Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Water Resources Research, v. 34, no. 1, p. 67-82.
WOOD, W. W., RAINWATER, K. A, and THOMPSON, D. B., 1997, Quantifying macropore recharge: examples from a semi-arid area; Ground Water, v. 35, no. 6, p. 1097-1106.
Bazuhair, A. S., and Wood, W. W., 1996, Chloride mass-balance method for estimating ground-water recharge in arid areas: examples from western Saudi Arabia; Journal of Hydrology, v. 186, p. 153-159.
Drenkard, S., Torgersen, T., Weppernig, R., Farley, K., Schlosser, P., Michel, R. L., Shapiro, A. M., and Wood, W. W., 1996, Helium isotope analysis and tritium-helium age dating in the Mirror Lake Basin, Grafton County, New Hampshire; in U. S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, D. W. Morganwalp and D. A. Aronson, Eds.,Colorado Springs, September 20-24, 1993; U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, p. 159-166.
WOOD, W. W., SHAPIRO, A. M., HSIEH, P. A., and COUNCELL, T. B., 1996, Observational, experimental and inferred evidence for solute diffusion in fractured granite aquifers: examples from the Mirror Lake watershed, Grafton County, New Hampshire; in U. S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, D. W. Morganwalp and D. A. Aronson, Eds.,Colorado Springs, September 20-24, 1993, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, p. 167-170.
SHAPIRO, A. M., WOOD, W. W., BUSENBERG, G, E., DRENKARD, S., PLUMMER, L. N., TORGERSON, T., and SCHLOSSER, P., 1996, A conceptual model for estimating regional fluid velocity in the bedrock of the Mirror Lake area, Grafton County, New Hampshire; in U. S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, D. W. Morganwalp and D. A. Aronson, Eds.,Colorado Springs, September 20-24, 1993, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, p. 171-189.
WOOD, W. W., 1995, Diffusion in solute transport: three scales of importance; Proceedings of the U. S. Geological Survey/U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Workshop, May 4-6, 1993, Reston, Virginia, P. R. Stevens and T. J. Nicholson, Eds., U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources-Investigations Report 95-4015, 211 p.
WOOD, W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 1995, Eolian transport, saline lake basins, and groundwater solutes; Water Resources Research, v. 31, p. 3121-3129.
SANFORD, W. E., and WOOD, W. W., 1995, A paleohydrologic record from lake brine on the Southern High Plains; Geology, v. 23, p. 229-232.
WOOD, W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 1995, Chemical and isotopic methods for quantifying ground-water recharge in a regional, semi-arid environment; Ground Water, v. 33, no. 3, p. 458-468.
WOOD, W. W., and IMES, J. L., 1995, How wet is wet? Constraints on late Quaternary climate in southern Arabian Peninsula; Journal of Hydrology, v. 164, p. 263-268.
VOSS, C. I., and WOOD, W. W., 1994, Synthesis of geochemical, isotopic, and ground-water modeling analysis to explain regional flow in a coastal aquifer of southern Oahu, Hawaii; in Mathematical Models and their Applications to Isotope Studies in Groundwater Hydrology, International Atomic Energy Agency Report IEAE-TECDOC-777, p. 147-178.
WOOD, W. W. and SANFORD, W. E., 1994, Recharge to the Ogallala: 60 years after C. V. Theis's analysis; Proceedings of the Playa Basin Symposium, Lloyd V. Urban and A. Wayne Wyatt, Eds., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 324 p.
GOODE, D. J., HSIEH, P. A., SHAPIRO, A. M., WOOD, W. W., and KRAEMER, T. F., 1993, Concentration history during pumping from a leaky aquifer with stratified initial concentration; in Proceedings of the 1993 National Conference on Hydraulic Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Hsieh Wen Shen, S. T. Su, and Feng Wen, Eds., v. 1, p. 29-35.
BACK, W., BAEDECKER, M. J., and WOOD, W. W., 1993, Scales in chemical hydrogeology: a historical perspective; in Regional Ground-Water Quality, W. M. Alley, Ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY, 634 p.
SANFORD, W. E., WOOD, W. W., and COUNCELL, T. B., 1992, Calcium chloride-dominated brines: an ion-exchange model; in Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Water Rock Interaction; Yousif K. Kharaka and Ann S. Maest, Eds., A. A. Balkema Rotterdam, Netherlands, p. 669-672.
WOOD, W. W., SANFORD, W. E., and REEVES, C. C., 1992, Large lake basins of the Southern High Plains: ground-water control of their origin?; Geology, v. 20, p. 535-538.
SANFORD, W. E., and WOOD, W. W., 1991, Brine evolution and mineral deposition in hydrologically open evaporite basins; American Journal of Science, v. 291, p. 687-710.
WOOD W. W., and SANFORD, W. E., 1991, The origin of evaporite deposits-a model based on a hydrologically open system; in USGS Research on Minerals Resources - 1991, E. E. Good, J. F. Slack, and R. K. Kotra, Eds., U. S. Geological Survey Circular 1062, p. 79-80.
LEBLANC, D. R., GARABEDIAN, S. P., HESS, K. M., GELHAR, L. W., QUADRI, R. D., STOLLENWERK, K. G., and WOOD, W. W., 1991, Large-sale natural-gradient tracer test in sand and gravel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: 1 Experimental design and observed tracer movement; Water Resources Research, v. 27, no. 5, p. 895-910.
ROSENSHEIN, J. S., MOORE, J. E., and WOOD, W. W., 1991, Hydrogeology; Geotimes, v. 36, no. 2, p. 51-52.
WOOD, W. W., KRAEMER, T. F., and HEARN, P. P. Jr., 1990, Intergranular diffusion: an important mechanism influencing solute transport in clastic aquifers? Science, v. 247, p. 1569-1572.
WOOD, W. W. and SANFORD, W. E., 1990, Ground-water control of evaporite deposition; Economic Geology, v. 85, p. 1226-1235.
WOOD, W. W., 1990, Case study: solution and piping development of playa-lake basins on the Llano Estacado of Texas and New Mexico; in Groundwater Geomorphology, Charles Higgins, Ed., Chapter 4, Piping and pseudokarst in drylands, Geological Society of America Special Paper 252, p. 101-110.
WOOD, W. W., and JONES, B. F., 1990, Origin of solutes in saline lakes and springs on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico; in Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains, Thomas C. Gustavson, Ed., Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, p. 193-208.
WOOD, W. W., 1989, Birdsall Lecture Report; Ground Water, v. 27, no. 5, p. 729-730.
WOOD, W. W., HEARN, P. P., and KRAEMER, T. F., 1988, Solute diffusion within sand of the Cape Cod Massachusetts aquifer; in Proceeding of the Toxic Substance Hydrology Program, 1988, Phoenix, Arizona, September 26-30, 1988, U. S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 88-4220, p. 163-166.
WOOD, W. W., and LOW, W. H., 1988, Solute geochemistry of the Snake River Plain regional aquifer system, Idaho and eastern Oregon; U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1408-D, 79 p.
WOOD, W. W., and FERNADEZ, L. A., 1988, Volcanic rocks; in The Geology of North America, v. O-2 Hydrology, DNAG, Chapter 39, Geological Society of America, p. 353-365.
WOOD, W. W., 1988, Hydrologic development of playa-lake basins in the Southern High Plains; in U. S. Geological Survey Yearbook Fiscal Year 1987, p. 39-40.
WOOD, W. W., and OSTERKAMP, W. R., 1987, Playa-lake basins on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, Part II--a hydrological model and mass-balance arguments for their development; Bulletin, Geological Society of America, v. 99, p. 224-230.
OSTERKAMP, W. R., and WOOD, W. W., 1987, Playa-lake basins on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, Part I--hydrologic, geomorphic, and geologic evidence for their development; Bulletin, Geological Society of America, v. 99, p. 215-223.
LEBLANC, D. R., GARABEDIAN, S. P., WOOD, W. W., HESS, K. M., and QUADRI, R. D., 1987, Natural-gradient tracer test in sand and gravel: objective, approach, and overview of tracer movement; in U. S. Geological Survey Program on Toxic Waste--Ground-Water Contamination: Proceedings of the Third Technical Meeting, Pensacola, Florida, March 23-27, 1987, U. S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 87-109, p. B9-B12.
WOOD, W. W., and LOW, W. H., 1986, Aqueous geochemistry and diagenesis in the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer system, Idaho; Bulletin, Geological Society of America, v. 97, p. 1456-1466.
WOOD, W. W., 1985, Origin of caves and other solution openings in the unsaturated (vadose) zone of carbonate rocks, a model for CO2 generation; Geology, v. 13, p. 822-824.
OSTERKAMP, W. R., and WOOD, W. W., 1984, Escarpment development and retreat of the Southern High Plains; Proceedings, in Proceedings, Ogallala Aquifer Symposium II, George Whetstone, Ed., Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, Texas, p. 143-173.
WOOD, W. W., and OSTERKAMP, W. R., 1984, Playa Lake basins on the Southern High Plains of Texas, USA: A hypothesis for their development; in Proceedings, Ogallala Aquifer Symposium II, George Whetstone, Ed., Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, Texas, p. 304-311.
WOOD W. W., and OSTERKAMP, W. R., 1984, Recharge to the Ogallala aquifer from playa basins on the Llano Estacado: An outrageous proposal? in Proceedings, Ogallala Aquifer Symposium II, George Whetstone, Ed., Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, Texas, p. 337-349.
WOOD, W. W., and PETRAITIS, M. J., 1984, Origin and distribution of carbon dioxide in the unsaturated zone of the Southern High Plains of Texas; Water Resources Research, v. 20, p. 1193-1208. doi:10.1029/WR020i009p01193.
BASSETT, R. L., WEEKS, E. P., CEAZAN, M. L., PERKINS, S. G., SIGNOR, D., REDINGER, D. L., MALCOLM, R. L., AIKEN, G. R., THURMAN, E. M., AVERY, P. A., WOOD, W. W., THOMPSON, G. M., and STILES, G. K., 1981, Preliminary data from a series of artificial recharge experiments at Stanton, Texas; U. S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 81-149, 235 p.
WOOD, W. W., 1981, A geochemical method of determining dispersivity in regional ground-water systems; Journal of Hydrology, v. 54, p. 209-224.
WOOD, W. W., 1980, Development of technical site selection criteria for artificial recharge; in Wastewater Reuse for Groundwater Recharge, Taskashi Asano and P. V. Roberts, Eds., Office of Water Recycling, California State Water Resources Control Board, p. 73-79.
DeBUCHANANNE, G. D., and WOOD, W. W., 1979, Hydrologic considerations related to management of radioactive waste; in Radioactive Waste in Geologic Storage, Sherman Fried, Ed., American Chemical Society Symposium Series 100, Chapter 3, 344 p.
GROVE, D. B., and WOOD, W. W., 1979, Prediction and field verification of subsurface-water quality changes during artificial recharge, Lubbock, Texas; Ground Water, v. 17, no. 3, p. 250-257.
WOOD, W. W., and EHRLICH, G. G., 1978, Use of bakers yeast to trace microbial movement in ground water; Ground Water, v. 16, no. 6, p. 398-403.
BASSETT, R. L., and WOOD, W. W., 1978, Computer simulation as an aid to interpreting the geochemistry of fluoride in the Ogallala Aquifer, Texas; Twelfth Conference on Trace Substances in Environmental Health, p. 89-98.
BROWN, R. F., SIGNOR, D. C., and WOOD, W. W., 1978, Artificial ground-water recharge as a water management technique on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico; Texas Dept. of Water Resources Report 220, 32 p.
WOOD, W. W., 1978, Use of laboratory data to predict sulfate sorption during artificial ground-water recharge; Ground Water, v. 16, no. 1, p. 22-31.
WOOD, W. W., 1978, Toward a rational development of artificial recharge research; in Advances in Groundwater Hydrology, Zubair A. Saleem, Ed., American Water Resources Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 333 p.
REEDER, H. O., WOOD, W. W., EHRLICH, G. G., and SUN, R. J., 1976, Artificial recharge through a well in fissured carbonate rock, West St. Paul, Minnesota; U. S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 2004, 80 p.
WOOD, W. W., 1976, A hypothesis of ion filtration in a potable-water aquifer system, Ground Water, v. 14, no. 4, p. 233-244.
WOOD, W. W., 1976, Guidelines for collection and field analysis of ground-water samples for selected unstable constituents; Techniques of Water Resources Investigations, U. S. Geological Survey, Book 1, Chapter D2, U. S. Government Printing Office, 24 p.
WOOD, W. W., and BASSETT, R. L., 1975, Water quality changes related to the development of anaerobic conditions during artificial recharge; Water Resources Research, v. 11, no. 4, p. 553-558.
WOOD, W. W., and SIGNOR, D. C., 1975, Geochemical factors affecting artificial ground-water recharge in the unsaturated zone; Trans. of the American Society of Agriculture Engineering, v. 18, no. 4, p. 677-683.
WOOD, W. W., 1974, Reply to comments on, A technique using porous cups for sampling at any depth in the unsaturated zone; Water Resources Research, v. 10, no. 5, p. 1050.
WOOD, W. W., 1973, A technique using porous cups for sampling water at any depth in the unsaturated zone; Water Resources Research, v. 9, no. 2, p. 486-488.
WOOD, W. W., 1973, Rapid reaction rates between water and minerals observed by specific ion electrodes: U. S. Geological Survey Journal of Geological Research, v. 1, no. 2, p. 237-241.
VANLIER, K. E., WOOD, W. W., and BRUNETT, J., 1973, Water supply, development and management alternatives for Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties, Michigan; U. S. Geological Survey Water Survey Paper, 1969, 111 p.
ALLEN, W. B., MILLER, J. S., and WOOD, W. W., 1972, Availability of water in Kalamazoo County, southwestern Michigan; U. S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper, 1973, 129 p.
WOOD, W. W., 1970, Chemical quality of Michigan streams; U.S. Geological Survey Circular 634.
