Contact Information

• Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
• Athens, Georgia
• Room:4-115
• Phone:706.542.4300
• Fax:706.542.8356
• trasmuss@arches.uga.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)

For information about Hydrology and Water Resources at UGA, please see: UGA Water Resources Website UGA Hydrology Website

Education

Ph.D. Hydrology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1988

M.S. Hydrology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1982

B.S. Forest Management, University of California, Berkeley, 1976

Research Specialization

Fluid flow and solute transport through surface and subsurface environments, focusing on the physical, chemical, mathematical, and statistical description and quantification of hydrologic processes.

Area of Specialization

• Watershed management
• Erosion and sedimentation
• Wetland restoration
• Fluid flow and solute transport through surface and subsurface environments.

Resources and Presentations

• Rules for Healthy Streams
• Lake Lanier Hydrology
• Characterizing Sediment Loads
• Total Maximum Daily Loads
• Groundwater Flow Velocities
• Hydrology of Isolated Wetlands
• Urban Water Research
• Pressure vs. Tracer Velocities in Unsaturated Saprolite
• Gwinnett County Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Water Resources
• Soils and Hydrology
• Quantitative Methods in Hydrology
• Field Methods in Hydrology
• Hydrology, Geology and Soils of Georgia
• Aquifer Mechanics
• Hydrologic Modeling

Selected Publications

• A complex variable boundary-element strategy for determining groundwater flownets and travel times
• Determination of groundwater flow velocities using complex flux boundary conditions
• Estimating aquifer hydraulic properties using sinusoidal pumping at the Savannah River site, South Carolina, USA