Michael Sukop is professor of hydrogeology in the Department of Earth and Environment and the Institute of Environment at Florida International University in Miami, where he has taught and conducted research since 2003. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a licensed professional geologist, and a certified hydrogeologist in California.
He principally works on groundwater issues in Southeast Florida, including saltwater intrusion, septic systems, injection wells, and groundwater inundation. He has expertise in groundwater and solute transport modeling especially as they apply to seawater intrusion and the physics of the Biscayne Aquifer. He co-authored Version 4 of the popular SEAWAT model for seawater intrusion. He is author and co-author of 2 books on Lattice Boltzmann computational fluid dynamics modeling. Publications are listed here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xFIZLe4AAAAJ&hl=en
He and his students have leveraged the United States Geological Survey’s Urban Miami-Dade Surface-Groundwater Model in a number of studies, including for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Florida Building Commission, and for the estimation of septic discharge fate. They are building applications to estimate flooding from short-term groundwater rises in response to rainfall events and evaluating the potential impacts of widespread use of injection wells for stormwater disposal. His team is currently implementing the coastal subsurface monitoring network for Southeast Florida (https://coastal-subsurface.fiu.edu/).
Sukop’s lectures are:
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"A Bellwether for Change: Groundwater and Sea Level Rise in Southeast Florida" and
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"The Enigmatic Biscayne Aquifer: Field, Laboratory, and Computational Approaches".
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