Earth Sciences Division Staff: Haruko Wainwright

Haruko Wainwright

Haruko Wainwright

Postdoctoral Fellow

Hydrogeology Department

 

Phone: 510-495-2038

Fax: 510-486-5686

Email: hmurakami@lbl.gov

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Biographical Summary

My research focuses on hydrogeological/geophysical data assimilation and stochastic modeling of flow and transport. I started from modeling radionuclide transport for a hypothetical nuclear waste repository. Later I expanded my research into geostatistics and stochastic hydrogeology to include complex datasets and their uncertainty into prediction of existing/possible groundwater contamination. I am currently involved in subsurface characterization related to environmental remediation. I integrate datasets with various types (e.g. cores, hydraulic tests, borehole/crosshole/surface geophysical measurements) and scales (several inches to several hundred meters) for plume-scale flow-and-transport simulations. I am also involved in a project, related to CO2 sequestration, to quantify uncertainty and sensitivity of CO2 plume migration and pressure build-up.

Research Interests

  • Geostatistics
  • Hydrogeophysics
  • Hydrogeological/geophysical data assimilation
  • Stochastic inverse modeling
  • Stochastic hydrogeology

Education

  • Dec. 2010: Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  • May 2010: M.A. in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Dec. 2006: M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  • Mar. 2003: B.Eng. in Engineering Physics, University of Kyoto, Japan

Professional Experience

  • Feb. 2011 – Present: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, postdoctoral fellow
  • Mar. 2004 – Aug. 2005: Argonne National Laboratory, visiting graduate student program
  • Jan. 2004 – Mar. 2004: Argonne National Laboratory, Japan Atomic Energy Society international student exchange program
  • Jul. 2003 – Aug. 2003: Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute, graduate student traineeship
  • Sep. 2002 – Oct. 2002: Schlumberger-Doll Research, summer internship

Awards

  • Student travel fellowship for the U.S. Department of Energy, Subsurface Biogeochemical Research 5th Annual PI Meeting, 2010
  • Student travel fellowship for the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Remediation Science Program 4th Annual PI Meeting, 2009
  • Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship, 2009
  • Jane-Lewis Fellowship, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008