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My main research interests pertain to groundwater resources and environmental change across a range of temporal and spatial scales. These includes the impacts of land use and climatic changes on groundwater quality and quantity, as well as deducing palaeoenvironmental information from properties of groundwater and dissolved constituents. My Ph.D. work focused on aquifer recharge patterns and Quaternary hydrological trends in China using geochemical tracer techniques. Other related interests include hydrogeochemistry and environmental isotope systematics.
B.S. Mathematics (Magna cum Laude), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2003
M.Sc. (with Distinction) Environmental Change and Management, University of Oxford, 2003
Ph.D. Physical Geography, University of Oxford, 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007–Present
Lecturer, University of Oxford, 2005–2006
Laboratory Instructor, University of Oxford, 2005–2006
Associate, Environment International Ltd., Seattle, Washington, 2003–2004
Articles Gates, J. B., 2005, Groundwater irrigation in the development of the Grand Prairie rice industry: Arkansas Historical Quarterly, v. 64, no. 4, p. 394–413. Abstracts Gates, J. B., Ma, J., Edmunds, W. M., and Sheppard, P. R., 2007, East Asian monsoon variability and groundwater recharge in Northern China (abs.): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 6. Gates, J. B., and Edmunds, W. M., 2007, Identifying salinity sources and recharge mechanisms with stable isotopes: The Badain Jaran Desert, China (abs.): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 6. Edmunds, W. M., Ma, J., and Gates, J. B., 2007, Geochemical indicators of water scarcity in Northwestern China (abs.), in 12th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, July 31–August 5, Kunming. Gates, J. B., Edmunds, W. M., and Ma, J., 2006, Recharge rates to the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia (abs.), in 34th Congress of International Association of Hydrogeologists, October 9–13, Beijing. Gates, J. B., Edmunds, W. M., and Ma, J., 2006, Evidence for palaeowaters in the drylands of NW China (abs.), in International Workshop on the Isotope Effects in Evaporation, May 3–6, Pisa. Gates, J. B., and Edmunds, W. M., 2006, Recharge investigations in an arid region of northwestern China using geochemical methods and environmental tracers (abs.), in Research in Progress Meeting, Geochemistry Group of the Mineralogical Society of London, March 7, London. Gates, J. B., 2005, Paleohydrology of the Badain Jaran Desert (NW China) from unsaturated zone records (abs.), in Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Postgraduate Forum, February 19, Nottingham. |
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John B. Gates
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
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Telephone: 512-471-5739