Roseanna M.听Neupauer

  • Professor
  • President's Teaching Scholar
  • Professional Engineer (PE)
  • HYDROLOGY, WATER RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS
  • ENGINEERING SCIENCE
  • GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Address

Office:听SEEC C245

Education

  • BA Spanish, University of Colorado, 2018
  • PhD in Hydrology, New Mexico Tech, 2000
  • MS in Applied Math, New Mexico Tech, 1999
  • SM in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
  • BS in Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989

Honors and Distinctions

  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, 2025
  • Outstanding Reviewer for Water Resources Research, 2023
  • Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023
  • Margaret S. Petersen Award, Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2022
  • Fellow, Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
  • 鈥淏est Should Teach鈥 Faculty Gold Award, 2016
  • 鈥婸resident鈥檚 Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado, 2015
  • Fulbright Scholar, 2015
  • Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011
  • John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, 2010
  • Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Teaching Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, 2009
  • Charles A. Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, 2008
  • ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
  • Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
  • Fellow, Geological Society of America

Professional Affiliations

  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Geological Society of America
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  • American Society for Engineering Education
  • National Ground Water Association (NGWA)

Interests

  • Arctic subsurface hydrology
  • Geothermal energy and groundwater quality
  • Groundwater flow and transport modeling
  • Chaotic advection
  • Groundwater remediation
  • Adjoint theory and applications

Recent Publications

  1. Lainis, A., R.M. Neupauer,听J.C. Koch, and M.N. Gooseff, Seasonal and decadal subsurface thaw dynamics of an aufeis feature investigated through numerical simulations, Hydrological Processes, 38(3), e15106, , 2024.
  2. Zhang, Y., G.E. Fogg, H. Sun, D.M. Reeves, R.M. Neupauer, and W. Wei, Adjoint subordination to calculate backward travel time probability of pollutants in water with various velocity resolutions, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,听28, 179鈥203, , 2024.
  3. Neupauer, R.M., C. Turnadge, and J. Okkonen, Forward and adjoint modeling of sensitivities to periodic sources in groundwater flow and transport, Mathematical Geosciences, doi:10.1007/s11004-023-10074-w, 2023.
  4. Sather, L.J., E.J. Roth, R.M. Neupauer, J.P. Crimaldi, and D.C. Mays, Experiments and simulations of plume spreading in porous media, Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR032943, DOI:10.1029/2022WR032943, 2023.
  5. Zhang, Y., M.L. Brusseau, B. Baeumer, R.M. Neupauer, W. Wei, A general backward model to identify source for contaminants undergoing non-Fickian diffusion in water, Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c01873, 2022.
  6. Sather, L.J., R.M. Neupauer, D.C. Mays, J.P. Crimaldi, and E.J. Roth, Active spreading: Hydraulics for enhancing groundwater remediation, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0002167, 2022.
  7. Hwang, H-T., R.M. Neupauer, S.-W. Jeen, D.T. Steinmoeller, E.A. Sudicky, S.-S. Lee, K.-K. Lee, Evaluating backward probability model for source zone identification problems under various hydrologic conditions, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2021.103909, 2022.
  8. Neupauer, R.M., E.J. Roth, J.P. Crimaldi, D.C. Mays, and L.J. Sather, Demonstration of reversible dispersion in a Darcy-scale push-pull laboratory experiment, Transport in Porous Media, DOI :听10.1007/s11242-021-01682-3, 2021.
  9. Roth, E.J. , D.C. Mays, R.M. Neupauer, L.J. Sather, and J.P. Crimaldi, Methods for Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging of Solute Plumes in Quasi-Two-Dimensional, Refractive Index-Matched Porous Media, Transport in Porous Media, doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01545-x, 2021.
  10. Neupauer, R.M., G.D. Lackey, and J. Pitlick, Exaggerated stream depletion in streams with spatio-temporally varying streambed conductance, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 26(2), 04020066, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0002043, 2021.听 Featured as Editor鈥檚 Choice for Journal of Hydrologic Engineering for February 2021.听