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Overview

Allen M. Shapiro is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in environmental engineering, water science and technology, geochemistry and petrology, ocean engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

The main topics addressed in Shapiro's work include:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Groundwater and isotope geochemistry
  • Reservoir engineering and simulation methods
  • Hydrological forecasting using AI
  • Dam engineering and safety
  • Flood risk assessment and management

Shapiro has published frequently in several scientific venues, including:

  • Ground Water
  • Water Resources Research
  • USGS professional paper
  • Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World
  • Hydrogeology Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Shapiro demonstrate a focus on groundwater hydrology and recharge estimation methods. These include:

  • Reframing groundwater hydrology as a data-driven science, 2022, Ground Water
  • Estimating and Forecasting Time-Varying Groundwater Recharge in Fractured Rock: A State-Space Formulation With Preferential and Diffuse Flow to the Water Table, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Incorporating Snowmelt into Daily Estimates of Recharge Using a State-Space Model of Infiltration, 2022, Ground Water

In collaboration with other researchers, Shapiro has contributed to interdisciplinary studies and methodological advancements, including a publication on applying recursive estimation techniques to heat tracing for groundwater/surface-water exchange:

  • Application of Recursive Estimation to Heat Tracing for Groundwater/Surface-Water Exchange, 2022, Water Resources Research

Shapiro's frequent co-authors include F. D. Day-Lewis, Wallace Anderson McAliley, David M. Rey, Martin A. Briggs, and Dale Werkema. These collaborations suggest an active engagement with experts specializing in groundwater modeling, hydrology, and related environmental fields.

Best Publications

  • Tracer transport in fractured crystalline rock: Evidence of nondiffusive breakthrough tailing

    Matthew W. Becker;Allen M. Shapiro

  • A solute flux approach to transport in heterogeneous formations: 1. The general framework

    G. Dagan;V. Cvetkovic;A. Shapiro

  • Stochastic analysis of solute arrival time in heterogeneous porous media

    Allen M. Shapiro;Vladimir D. Cvetkovic

  • Interpreting tracer breakthrough tailing from different forced-gradient tracer experiment configurations in fractured bedrock

    Matthew W. Becker;Allen M. Shapiro

  • Effective matrix diffusion in kilometer‐scale transport in fractured crystalline rock

    Allen M. Shapiro

  • Mass arrival of sorptive solute in heterogeneous porous media.

    Vladimir D. Cvetkovic;Allen M. Shapiro

  • A solute flux approach to transport in heterogeneous formations: 2. Uncertainty analysis

    V. Cvetkovic;A. M. Shapiro;G. Dagan

  • A Stochastic Model of a Fractured Rock Conditioned by Measured Information

    Johan Andersson;Allen M. Shapiro;Jacob Bear

  • Movement of Road Salt to a Small New Hampshire Lake

    D. O. Rosenberry;P. A. Bukaveckas;D. C. Buso;G. E. Likens

  • Stochastic analysis of one‐dimensional steady state unsaturated flow: A Comparison of Monte Carlo and Perturbation Methods

    Johan Andersson;Allen M Shapiro

  • How good are estimates of transmissivity from slug tests in fractured rock

    Allen M. Shapiro;Paul A. Hsieh

  • Bacterial Transport Experiments in Fractured Crystalline Bedrock

    Matthew W. Becker;David W. Metge;Samantha A. Collins;Allen M. Shapiro

  • Effect of cell physicochemical characteristics and motility on bacterial transport in groundwater.

    Matthew W. Becker;Samantha A. Collins;David W. Metge;Ronald W. Harvey

  • Assessing the validity of the channel model of fracture aperture under field conditions

    Allen M. Shapiro;James R. Nicholas

  • Cautions and Suggestions for Geochemical Sampling in Fractured Rock

    Allen M. Shapiro

  • Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 3. Use of microspheres to estimate the transport potential of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts

    Ronald W. Harvey;David W. Metge;Allen M. Shapiro;Robert A. Renken

  • Steady state fluid response in fractured rock: A boundary element solution for a coupled, discrete fracture continuum model

    Allen M. Shapiro;Johan Andersson

  • Assessing the Vulnerability of a Municipal Well Field to Contamination in a Karst Aquifer

    R. A. Renken;K. J. Cunningham;M. R. Zygnerski;M. A. Wacker

  • Application of carbonate cyclostratigraphy and borehole geophysics to delineate porosity and preferential flow in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer, SE Florida

    Kevin J. Cunningham;Robert A. Renken;Michael A. Wacker;Michael R. Zygnerski

  • A New Collocation Method for the Solution of the Convection-Dominated Transport Equation

    George E. Pinder;Allen Shapiro

  • Pathogen and chemical transport in the karst limestone of the Biscayne aquifer: 1. Revised conceptualization of groundwater flow

    Robert A. Renken;Kevin J. Cunningham;Allen M. Shapiro;Ronald W. Harvey

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Hsieh
Paul A. Hsieh United States Geological Survey
Frederick D. Day-Lewis
Frederick D. Day-Lewis United States Geological Survey
Ronald W. Harvey
Ronald W. Harvey United States Geological Survey
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Vladimir Cvetkovic Royal Institute of Technology
Lee Slater
Lee Slater Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jacob Bear
Jacob Bear Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Warren W. Wood
Warren W. Wood Michigan State University
Gedeon Dagan
Gedeon Dagan Tel Aviv University
Thomas C. Winter
Thomas C. Winter United States Geological Survey
Joseph N. Ryan
Joseph N. Ryan University of Colorado Boulder

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