LARRY DONALD McKAY

Jones Associate Prof. in Hydrogeology
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
email: lmckay@utk.edu
Office: 423-974-0821
Fax:423-974-2368

ACADEMIC RECORD AND AWARDS

1998 Chancellor's Award for Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement, University of Tennessee

1996-Present Associate Editor, Journal of Ground Water

1992 Doctor of Philosophy in Earth Sciences (Contaminant Hydrogeology), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Dissertation: Groundwater flow and contaminant transport in a fractured clay till.
Supervisors: Drs. J.A. Cherry and R.W. Gillham

1981 Bach. of Applied Sci., Geol. Engineering Univ. of B.C., Vancouver, Canada

88-90 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship

86-87 NALACO/Canadian Council of Professional Engineers Scholarship

1981 Dr. A.E. Aho Memorial Award for Academic Excellence

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

1998- Jones Assoc. Prof. of Hydrogeology, Department of Geological Science, University of Tennessee. The Jones professorship is an endowed chair with capital of approximately $350,000. Revenue from the endowment can be used to further the research or teaching program of the holder of the chair. 1993-98 Assistant Professor (Jones Professorship in Hydrogeology), Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

1992 Post-doctoral Res. Assoc., Geol. Survey of Denmark & Technical Univ. of Denmark

86-91 Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

81-86 Consulting Engineer in western Canada on groundwater and geotech./mining projects

1984- Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Province of British Columbia

CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS

McKay, L. (PI), P. Jardine, and J. Cherry (Co-PIs), Behavior of dense immiscible solvents in fractured clay-rich glacial deposits, U.S. Dept. of Energy - EMSP Program, 1996-99.

McKay, L.(PI), Colloid transport and retention in fractured deposits, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, (funded through US DOE - EMSP) 1996-99.

McKay, L., (PI), Fate and transport of contaminants and microorganisms in the subsurface, UT- Waste Management Res. & Educ. Inst., 1999-01.

Thonnard, N., and L. McKay (Co-PIs), Field-testing of Krypton-85 as an emerging tool for age-dating groundwater, TN Water Resour. Res. Center, 1997-99.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

McKay, L.D., W.E. Sanford, and J.M. Strong, Field-scale migration of colloidal tracers in a fractured shale saprolite, Ground Water, accepted pending minor revisions.

McCarthy, J.F., K.M. Howard, and L.D. McKay, Effect of pH on sorption and transport of fluorobenzoic acid groundwater tracers, J. of Environmental Quality, accepted pending minor revisions.

McKay, L.D., J. Fredericia, M. Lenczewski, J. Morthorst, and K.E.S. Klint, Spatial variability of contaminant transport in a fractured till, Avedore, Denmark, Nordic Hydrology, in press.

McKay, L.D., and T. Kammer, Incorporation of hydrogeology into the curriculum of an Appalachian field camp, J. Geoscience Education, 47, 124-130, 1999.

Cumbie, D.H., and L.D. McKay, Influence of diameter on particle transport in a fractured shale saprolite, J. Contaminant Hydrology, 31(1-2), 2-20, 1999.

McKay, L.D., D.J. Balfour, and J.A. Cherry, Lateral chloride migration from a landfill in a fractured clay-rich glacial deposit, Ground Water, 35(6), 988-999, 1998.

Jørgensen,P., L.McKay, and N. Spliid, Evaluation of chloride and pesticide transport in a fractured clay till using undisturbed columns and numerical modeling, Water Resour. Res., 34(4), 539-553, 1998.

Stafford, P.L., L.E. Toran, and L.D. McKay, Influence of fracture truncation on dispersion: A dual permeability model, J. Contaminant Hydrol., 30(1-2), 79-100, 1998.

McKay, L.D., P.L. Stafford, and L.E. Toran, EPM modeling of a field-scale tritium tracer experiment in fractured, weathered shale, Ground Water, 35(6), 997-1007, 1997.

Allen-King, R. M., L. D. McKay, and M. R. Trudell, Organic-carbon dominated trichloroethene sorption in a clay-rich glacial deposit, Ground Water, 35(1), 124-130, 1997.

Hinsby, K., L.McKay, P.Jorgensen, M.Lenczewski, and C. Gerba, Fracture aperture measurements and migration of solutes, viruses and immiscible creosote in a column of clay-rich till, Ground Water, 34(6), 1065-1075, 1996.

McKay, L. D., and J. Fredericia, Distribution, origin and hydraulic-influence of fractures in a clay-rich glacial deposit, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 32(6), 957-975, 1995.

McKay, L. D., Cherry, J. A., and R. W. Gillham, Field experiments in a fractured clay till: 1. Hydraulic conductivity and fracture aperture, Water Resour. Res., 29(4), 1149-1162, 1993.

McKay, L. D., R. W. Gillham, and Cherry, J.A., Field experiments in a fractured clay till: 2. Solute and colloid transport, Water Resour. Res., 29(12), 3879-3890, 1993.

McKay, L. D., Cherry, J. A., Bales, R. C., Yahya, M. T., and C. P. Gerba, A field example of bacteriophage as tracers of fracture flow, Environ. Sci. Tech., 27(6), 1075-1079, 1993.

Garga, V.K., and L.D. McKay, Cyclic triaxial strength of mine tailings, ASCE J. of Geotechnical Eng., 110(8), 1091-1105, 1984.

BOOK CHAPTERS PUBLISHED OR IN-PRESS

McKay, L.D., Chapter 5. Groundwater and the environment, and Chapter 9. Groundwater contamination, In: Laboratory exercises in environmental geology, Ed. K.C. Misra, 205 pp., Wiley, 1997.

McKay, L.D., Chapter 1. Hydrogeology and groundwater contamination, In: Microbial characterization of aquifers, Ed. S. Pillai, Sprinter-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1998.

INVITED SPEAKER AT WORKSHOPS, AND SYMPOSIUMS

McKay, L. D., Field and laboratory studies of DNAPL behaviour in fractured and highly weathered shales, Univ. Consortium Solvents-in-Groundwater Research Program, Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont., May 11-13, 1999.

McKay, L. D., US DOE Environm Management Science Program Workshop, Chicago, IL, July 27-30, 1998.

McKay, L.D., Contaminant Transport in highly weathered and fractured shales, University of Copenhagen, Conference on Mass Transport in Fractured Aquifers and Aquitards. Copenhagen, Denmark, May 13-15, 1998.

Thonnard, N., L.D. McKay, Emerging new ultra-sensitive analytical techniques using resonance ionization: Applications in groundwater dating, Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber, Shaeffergarden, Denmark, April 23, 1997.

McKay, L.D., Influence of fractures on groundwater flow and contaminant migration in low hydraulic conductivity materials, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Intl. Containment Technology Workshop, Baltimore, MD, Aug 29-31, 1995.

McKay, L.D., Contaminant transport experiments in fractured clays and shales, Keynote speaker at GSA Penrose Conference on Hydrogeology of Fractured Unlithified Deposits, Racine, WI, June 15-20, 1994.

McKay, L.D., Origin, distribution and hydraulic properties of fractures in a clay-rich till in southwestern Ontario, Invited speaker for Symposium on Joints in Fine-grained Materials and Contaminant Remediation Strategies, Ohio Geol. Survey/Ohio Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Toledo, OH, Apr 22, 1994.

McKay, L.D., Groundwater sampling in fractured clay and rock, Invited speaker for U.S. EPA Workshop on Ground Water Sampling, Dallas, TX, Nov 30- Dec 2, 1993.

McKay, L.D., Groundwater flow and contaminant migration at a hazardous waste disposal site, Invited speaker for U.S. Dept. of Energy/FERMCO Workshop on Characterization of the Vadose Zone in Glacial Tills, Cincinnati, OH, Apr 15-16, 1993.

McKay, L.D., Pollutant transport in fractured clay tills, Invited speaker for International Symposium on Groundwater Pollution at Waste Disposal Sites, Technical Univ. of Denmark - Danish Agency for Environ. Protection, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 20-22, 1992.

Email questions, comments or concerns to: mlenczew@utk.edu