Degrees
Ph.D. Earth Resources Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2000
 M.S. Geology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1992
 B.S. Geology, State University of New York, Cortland, 1984

Dissertation
“Theoretical and Field Studies of Fracture/Matrix Interaction”, P. Witherspoon, Chair; Y. Yortsos (USC), F. Doyle, P. Pagni

Examination Fields
Multi-Phase Fluid Flow
Heat Transfer
Water Quality Geochemistry

Master’s Thesis
“Persistent Contamination in Five Ion-Exchanged Montmorillonites”, D. Kreamer, Chair; J. Hess (DRI), S. Steinburg

Grants and Awards
INEEL NEXT-Generation Subsurface Science research grant, 2000
IWRRI Grant for Subsurface Science and Education Outreach, 2000
Jane Lewis Fellowship, 1999
Stahl Grant for archaeological field work, 1999
Graduate Student Association Research Grant, 1992
 Scroungers in Geoscience Award, 1992

Research Experience
Assistant Professor (Hydrogeology).  University of Idaho Department of Geological Sciences, 2000 to present.  Research topics:  Multi-phase flow in fractured rock, coupled processes, biological/hydrological interactions, archaeohydrology.

E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, 1995 to 2000.  Environmental isotope transport modeling, arid lands hydrology, field test design and interpretation.  Supervisor: J.S.Y. Wang; Group Head: C.F. Tsang.

Professional Experience
Woodward-Clyde Federal Services, Senior Staff Hydrologist, 1994 to 1995 (full time), 1995 to 1998 (consulting).

U of Nevada, Coordinator of Teaching Assistants, 1992.

U of Nevada, Las Vegas, Teaching Assistant, 1991 to 1992.

 Converse Consultants SW, Staff Geologist, 1990.

Desert Research Institute, Field Geologist, 1989 to 1990.

Atlantic Testing Laboratories, Ltd., Staff Geologist, Soils Laboratory Supervisor, 1984-1986.

Professional Memberships and Activities
Session Organizer and Session Co-Chair (with C. Werth): “Pore to Continuum-Scale Transport and Fate Processes in Groundwater and Vadose Zone Environments”, spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Boston, MA, 6/01.

Member, American Geophysical Union.

 Member, Society for American Archaeology.

Reviewer, Water Resources Research.

Colloquium Committee, Materials Science and Mineral Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-2000.

Colloquium Committee Chair, Materials Science and Mineral Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1999-2000

Reviewer, Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques.

Organizer for Yucca Mountain Project Peer Review Panel on Thermal-Hydrology, Las Vegas, NV, 1995.

Graduate Student Association Grants Committee, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1992

Languages
 Spanish

Computer Skills
DOS, UNIX, FORTRAN, BASIC, TOUGH, TOUGH2, GSLIB, GEOEAS, TECPLOT, Showcase, Grapher, Surfer, Sigmaplot, most word processing and spreadsheet programs.

Publications
Fairley, J.P., In preparation.  “An analytical model of flow in a single fracture subject to matrix diffusion, and its application to the interpretation of a fracture/matrix interaction field test”; to be submitted to Water Resources Research.

Fairley, J.P., In preparation.  “An approximate, closed-form analytical solution for sorption from a fracture under negative water potential”; to be submitted to Water Resources Research.

Fairley, J.P., In preparation.  “Wetting front stability in a single fracture subject to matrix diffusion”; to be submitted to Water Resources Research.

Fairley, J.P., In comment resolution.  “Geologic water storage in pre-Columbian Peru”; conditionally accepted for publication in Latin American Antiquity.

Fairley, J.P., In LBNL comment resolution.  “The effect of a time-dependent temperature boundary condition on infiltration flux calculations at Yucca Mountain, Nevada”; to be submitted to The International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Steinberg, S., Fairley, J.P., and Kreamer, D., 1994.  “Slow vapor-phase desorption of toluene from several ion-exchanged montmorillonites”; Journal of Soil Contamination 3(3):249-264.

Selected Government Reports
Fairley, J.P., 2001.  “Numerical simulation for the design of in-situ injection tests”; In: Proceedings of the International Conference on High-Level Radioactive Waste Management, 2001, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL.

Fairley, J.P., 2000.  “Interpretation of injection tests in fractured porous media”; In: Earth Sciences Division Annual Report, 1999-2000, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Fairley, J.P., 1999, “Investigation of geologic water storage near Cuzco, Peru”; In: Earth Sciences Division Annual Report, 1998-1999, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-43816, Berkeley, CA.

Fairley, J.P., Doughty, C.A., and Wang, J.S.Y., 1998. “Discrete fracture modeling”; In: Progress Report on Fracture Flow, Drift Seepage and Matrix Imbibition Tests in the Exploratory Studies Facility, J.S.Y. Wang, Principal Investigator. Yucca Mountain Project Report SP33PBM4; Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office, Las Vegas, NV.

Fairley, J.P., and Wu, Y.S., 1998. “Modeling fast pathways using isotopic tracers at Yucca Mountain, Nevada”; In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on High-Level Radioactive Waste Management, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL.

Fairley, J.P., and Wu, Y.S., 1997. “Modeling of fast flow and transport pathways in the unsaturated zone using environmental isotopic tracers”; In: The Site-Scale Unsaturated Zone Model of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the Viability Assessment, Bodvarsson, Bandurraga, and Wu, eds. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-40370, Berkeley, CA.

Wu, Y.S., and Fairley, J.P., 1997. “Analysis of fracture and matrix flow components”; In: The Site-Scale Unsaturated Zone Model of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the Viability Assessment, Bodvarsson, Bandurraga, and Wu, eds. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-40370, Berkeley, CA.

Fairley, J.P., and Sonnenthal, E.S., 1996. “Preliminary conceptual model of flow pathways based on 36Cl and other environmental isotopes”; In: Development and Calibration of the Three-Dimensional Site-Scale Unsaturated Zone Model of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Bodvarsson and Bandurraga, eds., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-39315, Berkeley, CA.

United States Department of Energy, 1995. “Modeling and testing thermohydrologic processes in the Yucca Mountain site characterization project”; Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office, Las Vegas, NV.

Presentations and Poster Sessions
“Wetting front instability in unsaturated, fractured rock”; Poster given at the Unsaturated Zone Interest Group meeting, Idaho Falls, ID, 8/01.

“Analysis of a fracture/matrix interaction test in low-permeability, welded tuff”; Presented at the spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Boston, MA, 6/01.

“A feasibility study of geologic water storage in arid regions”; Presented at the spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Boston, MA, 6/01.

“Numerical simulation for the design of in-situ injection tests”; Presented at the 2001 International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 4/01.

“Wetting front instability in unsaturated, fractured rock”; Poster given at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 12/00.

“Comparing observations with theoretical predictions of in-situ tests in fractured, unsaturated rock”; Invited presentation to the Center for Water Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6/00.

“Calculation of fracture/matrix interaction for unsaturated, low permeability welded tuff”; Poster given at the Symposium on Dynamics of Fluids in Fractured Rocks: Concepts and Recent Advances (the Witherspoon Symposium), Berkeley, CA, 2/99.

“Modeling the fracture/matrix interaction test in the Exploratory Studies Facility, Yucca Mountain, Nevada”; Invited presentation to the Yucca Mountain Peer Review on Seepage into Drifts, Las Vegas, NV, 1/99.

“Investigation of fracture/matrix interaction models: field tests and numerical models”; Presented at the 2nd Annual Field Testing and Associated Modeling (FTAM) Workshop, Berkeley, CA, 12/98.

“Modeling of fast pathways using isotopic tracers at Yucca Mountain, Nevada”; Presented at the Eighth International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 5/98.

“Modeling of 36Cl transport in the unsaturated zone”; Invited presentation to the Yucca Mountain Peer Review on 36Cl Testing and Modeling, Las Vegas, NV, 1/98.

“Transient flow and transport”; Invited presentation to the Unsaturated Zone Radionuclide Transport Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, 2/97.

“Conceptual models of 36Cl transport”; Invited presentation to the Yucca Mountain Project Expert Elicitation on Unsaturated Zone Modeling, Berkeley, CA, 10/96.

“Slow rate kinetics of toluene desorption from several ion-exchanged montmorillonites”; Poster given at the National Symposium on Measuring and Interpreting VOCs in Soils, Las Vegas, NV, 3/93.

Archaeohydrology Presentations and Poster Sessions
“Water management in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala”, Presented at the 66th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, 4/01.

 “Inca water management practices in the Cuzco valley”; Invited presentation to the Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, CA, 4/00.

“Water management in pre-Columbian Peru: the fountains of the Cuzco valley”; Presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, CA, 1/00.

“Geologic water storage in pre-Columbian Peru”; Poster given at the 101st annual meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology, Dallas, TX, 12/99.

“Water management in pre-Columbian Peru: The fountains of the sacred valley”; Invited presentation to the Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 10/99.

“Water management in pre-Columbian Peru: The fountains of the sacred valley”; Invited presentation to the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 10/99.

“Geologic water storage in pre-Columbian Peru: The fountains of Tambomachay”; Presented at 39th annual meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, CA, 1/99.