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Lawrence C. Murdoch Assistant Professor Department of Geological Sciences Box 341908 Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634
Education Ph.D. University of Cincinnati, 1991, Geology M.S. University of Cincinnati, 1987, Environmental Science M.S. University of Cincinnati, 1983, Geology B.S. Penn State University, 1980, Geology
Professional Registration Professional Geologist, Indiana, 1992, No. 1421
Professional experience Clemson University, 1997-present, Assistant Professor of Geology
FRx Inc. 1994-present, President
University of Cincinnati, Center for Geoenvironmental Science and Technology, 1990-1996, Director of Research.
University of Cincinnati, Center for Geoenvironmental Science and Technology, 1986-1990, Geohydrology Group Leader.
Memberships Affiliate Member, Society Petroleum Engineers, 1987 Member, National Water Well Association, 1990 Member, National Ground Water Association, 1990 Member, American Geophysical Union, 1989 Member, Association of Engineering Geologists, 1995 Affiliate Member, Society of Civil Engineers, 1994 Member, Professional Geologists of Indiana, 1995
Publications Books and chapters Murdoch, L.C. and others. (2000) Remediation of organic chemicals in the vadose zone, Chapter 7. In Falta, R. and Looney, B. eds. Vadose Zone, Science and Technology Solutions. Battelle Press
Murdoch, L.C., D. Wilson, K. Savage, W. Slack, and J. Uber. Alternative Methods for Fluid Delivery and Recovery. USEPA/625/R-94/003, 1995.
Murdoch, L.C. Hydraulic and impulse fracturing for low permeability soils, Chapter in Petroleum Contaminated Low Permeability Soil, American Petroleum Institute Publication 4631, 1995.
Beljin, M. and L.C. Murdoch. Analytical solutions to the performance of interceptor trenches and drains, 1995. International Ground Water Modeling Center, Golden, CO.
Refereed Journal Publications Roulier, Mike, Mark Kemper, Souhail Al-Abed, Larry Murdoch, and Wendy Davis-Hoover. Feasibility of electrokinetic soil remediation in horizontal Lasagna cells, Journal of Hazardous Materials (in press). Murdoch,
L.C., W.W. Slack, W.G. Harrar,
R.L. Siegrist. Embedded
sidewall samplers and sensors to monitor the subsurface.
Ground Water , v.38, n. 5.
p. 657-664. Uber,
J.G. and L.C. Murdoch. Evaluation
of hopscotch method for transient groundwater flow.
J. Hydrau. Eng., ASCE, v.
126, n. 8, August 2000, p. 615-626. Murdoch, L.C., W.W. Slack, W. Harrar, B. Nilsson, and R. Siegrist. Sidewall sensors for monitoring fractured clay till. Journal of Nordic Hydrology, in press Jan. 1998.
Chen, J-L, Al-Abed, Bryndzia, and Murdoch, L.C. Effects of cation transport and partitioning during a field test of electroosmosis. Water Resources Research, in press.
Siegrist R.L., K. S. Lowe , L.C. Murdoch, T.L. Case, and D. A. Pickering. 1999. In situ oxidization by fracture emplaced reactive solids. Jour of Environ. Eng. ,v. 125, n. 5, 429-440.
Chen, J-L. and Murdoch, L.C. In-situ electroosmosis between horizontal electrodes: a field test. submitted to J. Geotech. Eng., in press.
Murdoch, L.C. and J-L. Chen. Effects of conductive fractures during in situ electroosmosis: Journal of Hazardous Materials, 55, 239-262, 1997.
Murdoch, L.C. Forms of hydraulic fractures created during a field test in fine-grained glacial drift, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 28, 23-35, 1995.
Murdoch, L.C. and J. Franco. Analysis of constant head wells using instantaneous source functions, Water Resources Research v. 30, (1) 117-124, 1994.
Murdoch, L.C. Transient analysis of an interceptor trench, Water Resources Research, 30(11), 3023-3032, 1994.
Vesper, S. L.C. Murdoch, S. Hayes, and W. Davis-Hoover. Slow-release oxygen sources for bio-remediation in soils. Journal Hazardous Materials, 36, 265-274, 1994.
Murdoch, L.C. Hydraulic fracturing of soil during laboratory experiments: methods and observations, Geotechnique, 43(2), 255-265, 1993.
Murdoch, L.C. Hydraulic fracturing of soil during laboratory experiments: propagation, Geotechnique, 43(2), 266-276, 1993.
Murdoch, L.C. Hydraulic fracturing of soil during laboratory experiments: theoretical analysis, Geotechnique, 43(2), 277-287, 1993.
Du, Y., A, Aydin, and L.C. Murdoch. Incremental growth of a shallow hydraulic fracture at a waste remediation site, Oakbrook, Illinois from inversion of elevation changes. Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci., 30(7), 1273-1279, 1993.
Wang, Stodt, Steirman and Murdoch. Mapping hydraulic fractures using a borehole-to-surface electrical resistivity method. Geoexploration. 28, 1991.
Reviewed Conference Publications
Siegrist, R.L., K.S. Lowe, L.C. Murdoch, and A.M. Struse. In situ chemical treatment using hydraulic fracturing to emplace Fe methal and KMnO4 reactive solids. Proceedings of the Conference on Abiotic In Situ Technologies for Groundwater Remediation. Aug. 31-Sept 2, 1999, Dallas, Texas.
Murdoch, L.C., W.W. Slack, W. Harrar, R. Siegrist, and T. Whiting. Sidewall sensors for measuring in situ properties. Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds Conference Proceedings, Monterey, CA, May 18-21, 1998.
Murdoch, L.C., W.W. Slack, W. Harrar, B. Nilsson, and R. Siegrist. Sidewall sensors for monitoring fractured clay till. Proceedings of the Mass Transport in Fractured Aquifers and Aquitards Conference. Copenhagen, DK. May 14-16, 1998.
Murdoch, L.C., W.W. Slack, W. Harrar, R. Siegrist, and T. Whiting. Arrays of sidewall sensors to monitor subsurface conditions. 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology, Boston, Mass. Aug. 9-13, 1998.
Murdoch, L.C., W. Slack, R. Siegrist, S. Vesper, T. Meiggs, Hydraulic fracturing advances. Civil Engineering, May 1997, 10A-12A.
Murdoch, L.C., W. Slack, R. Siegrist, S. Vesper, T. Meiggs , Advanced hydraulic fracturing methods to create in situ reactive barriers. Proceedings of the International Containment Technology Conference and Exhibition, Feb. 9-12, 1997, St. Petersburg, FL
Chen, J.-L., and Murdoch, L. Field demonstration of in situ electroosmosis between horizontal electrodes. Proceedings ASCE 1997 Annual Convention, Minneapolis, Minn, Jan. 1997.
Wolf, A. And L.C. Murdoch. A field test of air flow to a hydraulic fracture, NGWA Outdoor Action Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May 1993.
Du, Y., A. Aydin, and L.C. Murdoch. Incremental growth of a shallow hydraulic fracture. 34th Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Madison, WI, June 27-30, 1993.
Davis-Hoover, W., S. Vesper and L.C. Murdoch, Delivery techniques and enhancement of bioremediation for in situ restoration of contaminated subsurface soils. Subsurface Restoration Conference, Dallas, TX, June 21-24, 1992.
Murdoch, L.C. Some recent developments in delivery and recovery: hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling, ETEX’92, Washington, D.C., 1992.
Murdoch, L.C. In situ delivery and recovery of liquids to facilitate corrective actions, Chapter 5 in RCRA Corrective Action and Stabilization Technologies, USEPA, EPA/625/R-92/014, October, 1992.
Murdoch, L.C., M. Kemper, and A. Wolf. Hydraulic fracturing to improve delivery and recovery. Air and Waste Management Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH, Feb. 1992.
Schroeder, S., D. Mckenzie, and L.C. Murdoch, Soil vapor extraction from hydraulic fractures in glacial till: initial field testing in Chicago, Illinois. Air and Waste Management Conference, Kansas City, MO, June 21-26, 1992.
Davis-Hoover, W., L.C. Murdoch, and S. Vesper. Hydraulic fracturing to improve nutrient and oxygen delivery for in situ bioremediation. First International Symposium on In Situ and On-site Bioreclamation, San Diego, CA, April, 1991.
Uber, J. And L.C. Murdoch. Monte Carlo optimization of interceptor trench network for contaminated groundwater remediation. American Geophysical Union Conference, December, 1991.
Spence, R.C., A. Bodocsi, and L.C. Murdoch. State of stress and hydraulic fracturing potential in soil/bentonite cutoff walls, Proceedings of 21st Ohio River Valley Soils Seminar, October, 26, 1990.
Murdoch, L.C. G. Losonsky, I. Klich, and P. Cluxton. Hydraulic fractures to increase fluid flow. Contaminated Soil ‘90, ed. F. Arendt, M. Hinsenfeld, and W.J. van der Brink, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 1087-1094, 1990.
Murdoch, L.C. Increased permeability of soils by hydraulic fracturing--a field test, Proceedings of 21st Ohio River Valley Soils Seminar, October, 26, 1990.
Murdoch, B. Patterson, G. Losonsky, B. Harrar. A review of innovative technologies for delivery and recovery for the remediation of hazardous waste sites. Final report EPA/600/S2-89/066, 1989.
Murdoch, L.C. A field test of hydraulically fracturing glacial till. Proceedings of 15th Annual USEPA Research Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, 1989.
Albertz, J. Murdoch, L.C., R. McCandless, and A. Bodocsi. An algorithm for determining the stability of soil slopes assuming translational failure. 5th National Conference on Microcomputers in Engineering, Tampa, Florida, 1986.
Abstracts (partial listing)
Dinwiddie, C.L. F.J. Molz, L.C. Murdoch, and J.W. Castle. A new mini-permeameter probe and associated analytical techniques for measuring in situ spatial distribution of permeability. AGU abstracts, 1999 Fall meeting
Murdoch, L.C., WW. Slack, Whiting and Siegrist. Sidewall sensors for measuring in situ properties. International Conf. On Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, CA, May 1998.
Whiting, T., W. Slack, L.C. Murdoch. Dual-phase extraction with hydraulic fractures at a superfund site. International Conf. On Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, CA, May 1998.
Davis Hoover, W. , Murdoch, L.C. and others. Demonstration of the horizontal Lasagna process: Electroosmosis with in situ methanotrophic bioremediation. International Conf. On Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, CA, May 1998.
Chen, J.-L., Al-Abed, S., Bryndzia, L. T., and Murdoch, L. (1997). Effects of cation exchange properties on soil chemistry during fieldscale electroosmosis using horizontal fractures. EOS Supplement, Transactions, AGU 1997 Spring Meeting, v.78, No.17, S174
Murdoch, L.C., M. Kemper, and W.W. Slack. Applications of hydraulic fractures during in situ remediation. 1st Hawaiian National Remediation Technology Conference, Honolulu, HI, Sept. 1994.
Murdoch, L.C. Field applications of hydraulic fractures in Ohio. Ohio Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Toledo, OH, April, 1994.
Savage, K., L.C. Murdoch, and J.Franco. GRACE: Predictive modeling of remedial performance and cost. Federal Environmental Restoration Conference and Exhibition, May 25-27, Washington, D.C., 1993.
Murdoch, L.C., M.Kemper, and A. Wolf, Hydraulic fracturing to improve in situ remediation of contaminated soil, Annual Geological Society of America Meeting, Cincinnati, OH., October, 1992.
Franco, J., L.C. Murdoch, K. Jha, K. Savage, and J. Uber. Graphical remedial assessment and cost evaluation (GRACE): a hydrologic and economic-based environmental design tool, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH., October, 1992.
Murdoch, L.C. Innovative delivery and recovery using hydraulic fracturing, Proceedings 14th Annual USEPA Research Symposium, 1988, p. 613.
Cluxton, P., W. Harrar, and L.C. Murdoch. Demonstration of computer-assisted engineering techniques for remedial action. Proceedings 14th Annual USEPA Research Symposium, 1988, p. 611.
Murdoch, L.C. General characteristics of some mineralized breccia structures. Proceedings Geological Society America Meeting, 1983. Patents Method and system for bioremediation of contaminated soil using innoculated support spheres. S.C. Hunt, T.O. Meiggs, L.C. Murdoch, W.W. Slack. Patent 5,733,067 issued 31 March 1998
Oxidative particle grouts for in situ ground water treatment. Patent filed with U.S. Patent Office Aug. 1998., Co-inventor with R. Seigrist.
Published Research Reports (partial listing) Seigrist, R. L., K.S. Lowe, L.C. Murdoch, W.W. Slack, T.C. Houk. X-231A demonstration of in situ remediation of DNAPL compounds in low permeability media by soil fracturing with thermally enhanced mass recovery and reactive barrier destruction. DOE document ORNL/TM-13534, March 1998.
Murdoch, L.C. G. Losonsky, P. Cluxton, B. Patterson, I. Klich, B. Braswell. The feasibility of hydraulically fracturing soil to improve remedial actions. NTIS Report PB91-181818, 1991.
Murdoch, L.C., G. Holzhausen, and J-C. Roegiers. Innovative delivery and recovery systems: hydraulic fracturing, EPA 68-03-3379, 207 p., 1987. Presentations "Transient Water Budgets from Stream Hydrographs." 7th Annual Clemson Hydrogeology Symposium, April, 1999.
"Opportunities for sidewall sampling and hydraulic fracturing at Savannah River Site." SRS Technical Panel Meeting, 17 Dec. 1998.
"Environmental Applications for Hydraulic Fractures, (with a field demonstration)" Association of Engineering Geologists Banquet, Nov. 6, 1998.
"Feasibility of creating reactive barriers using fracturing or related injection techniques." Review panel for the remediation of the East Fork of the Upper Poplar Creek Watershed. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sept. 1998.
"Hot-fluid injection into hydraulic fractures in fine-grained formations." DOE Workshop and Program Review. Aug. 1998
"Sidewall sensors for monitoring fractured clay till." Mass Transport in Fractured Aquifers and Aquitards Conference. Copenhagen, DK. May 14-16, 1998.
"Arrays of sidewall sensors to monitor subsurface conditions." 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology, Boston, Mass. Aug. 9-13, 1998.
"Sidewall sensors to monitor subsurface conditions." 6th Annual Clemson Hydrogeology Symposium, April, 1998.
"Subsurface injection of solid oxidants," Workshop on Subsurface Applications for Chemical Oxidants, WEFTEC Annual Meeting, Chicago, Oct. 1997
"Recent Advances in Environmental Applications for Hydraulic Fractures," Danish ATV Technical Conference on Soil Remediation, Jutland, Denmark, March 11-12, 1997 Environmental Applications for Hydraulic Fractures, 5th Annual Clemson Hydrogeology Symposium, April, 1997.
"Applications for Hydraulic Fractures," South Carolina Geological Association, Southeast Chapter, Monthly Meeting, Aiken, SC, July, 1997
"Environmental Applications for Hydraulic Fractures," Association of Engineering Geologists Banquet, Jan. 1996
"Use of Hydraulic Fractures to Facilitate Remediation of Fine-Grained Soils Contaminated with DNAPL," Workshop on remediation of fine-grained soils contaminated with DNAPL. Sponsored by DOE and American Petroleum Institute, 1993 and 1994.
"Use of Hydraulic Fractures to Facilitate Remediation of Fine-Grained Soils Contaminated with Petroleum Hydrocarbons," Workshop on remediation of fine-grained soils contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons, sponsored by API, 1993.
"State-of-the-art of hydraulic fracturing research for remediation," Solvents in Groundwater Research Consortium meeting, University of Waterloo, Canada, Sept. 1994.
"Environmental applications of horizontal barrier technologies", Society American Military Engineers meeting, August, 1994.
"New methods for enhancing recovery of contaminants" Society American Military Engineers meeting, April, 1994.
"Innovative methods of enhancing recovery of contaminated groundwater", Short course on groundwater field methods, Ohio University, Athens, OH, July, 1992.
"In situ delivery and recovery of liquids to facilitate corrective actions," USEPA Seminar on RCRA Corrective Action Stabilization Technologies: 13 Nov. 1991 Boston, MA 14 Nov. 1991 Chicago, IL 10 Dec. 1991 San Francisco, CA 7 Jan. 1992 Kansas City, MO 11 Feb. 1992 Denver, CO 12 Feb. 1992 Seattle, WA 18 March 1992 Philadelphia, PA 19 March 1992 New York, NY 2 April 1992 Atlanta, GA
"Mechanics of hydraulic fractures in soil," Purdue University, Feb. 1990.
"Hydraulic fracturing to improve remediation," IBM Environmental Seminar, Jan. 1989.
Sponsored Research "Characterization of Hydrologically Active Sheet Fractures in the Piedmont", NSF, Principal Investigator, June 1999-June 2001.
"Evaluation of steam stripping and hot air injection into fine-grained soils containing hydraulic fractures," API/DOE, Co-Principal Investigator, Oct. 1995-1997, .
"Electrokinetic remediation of soil using innovative subsurface techniques," USEPA, Principal Investigator, 1994-1997, .
"Evaluation of an in situ horizontal grout barrier," DOE, Principal Investigator, 1994-1995 .
"Alternative methods for delivery or recovery, Handbook Preparation, USEPA, Principal Investigator, 1994,
"Innovative delivery and recovery systems", USEPA, Principal Investigator, 1993, 1992 , 1991 , 1990
"Hydraulic fracturing field demonstration" , USEPA, Principal Investigator, 1992 , 1991 1990
"Development of methods to hydraulically fracture soil", USEPA, Principal Investigator, 1989 ($188,088), 19881987
"Interceptor trenches for recovery of hazardous waste site leachates; USEPA, Principal Investigator, 1993
"A survey of innovative delivery and recovery systems and techniques for hazardous waste remediation," USEPA, Principal Investigator, (1988), .
"A demonstration of hydraulic fracturing to facilitate remediation in Illinois," Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources-Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center, Principal Investigator,(1990-1992), .
"Acoustic methods for enhancing well performance and remediation," USEPA, Co- Principal Investigator, 1989,
"Uniformity of in situ soil mixing," USEPA, Co- principal investigator, "Feasibility of using solar energy and optical fibers to heat subsurface soils," USEPA, Co-principal Investigator, 1989
Other Sponsored Activity A new method for sampling groundwater, Clemson University Research Grant Committee, 1998, Testing Sidewall Sensors in Denmark, Travel Funds, Geological Survey of Denmark, 1997, University of Cincinnati Summer Research Fellowship, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1982, 1981
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