Quality Control Water

Stephen Komor

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City: Ithaca

State: NY

Zip: 14850

Country: USA

Phone: 607-***-****

Skill Level: Senior

Salary Range: $135,000

Willing to Relocate

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STEPHEN C. KOMOR

Present Position: Part-time Researcher with the International Ocean Drilling Program (funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)). Self-employed geochemist/hydrologist.

DOB: March 5, 1958, Ithaca, NY.

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. - University of Houston, (Houston, Texas), 1985 (Ph.D. Geochemistry).

Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), 1979 (B.A. Geology)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2004-2007 Marine geochemistry funded by NSF

1989 to 2004 - Research Geochemist with the U.S. Geological Survey. I completed or directed all phases of geochemical and hydrogeologic investigations, including: identifying new opportunities and potential customers who might need our services; recommending study designs and scopes to meet the needs of new and existing customers; writing and budgeting formal proposals; field sampling or directing junior staff on sampling needs and protocols ; obtaining necessary sample analyses; ensuring rigorous analytical quality control; data interpretation; manuscript preparation; and oral presentation of study results to customers. I took early retirement in 2004.

1986 - 1988 - Postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I conducted geochemical studies of fluid/rock interactions in fractured crystalline bedrock.

1985 - 1986 - Research Geologist in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Research Center in Washington, D.C. I Conducted phase-equilibrium experiments to develop improved methods for recovering fluxing salts used in the aluminum industry.

1980 - 1981 - Part-time laboratory technician with Getty Oil Company Research Center, Houston, Texas.

1979 - 1980 - Well-site geologist for Exploration Logging Inc., Houston, Texas

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Compound-specific carbon and chlorine isotope investigation of chromium-, iron-, sulfur- and organochlorine-contaminated ground water.

Age dating of ground water with chlorofluorocarbons and tritium.

Pore-water geochemistry and water/rock interactions in serpentine from the Mariana Subduction Zone.

LABORATORY SKILLS

Wet-chemistry and instrumental analytical techniques, including in inductively coupled plasma, atomic absorption, ion-specific electrochemistry, spectrophotometry, and titration procedures.

Sampling techniques for chlorofluorocarbon and compound-specific stable isotope analyses.

Stable-isotope extraction techniques for minerals and water and operation of mass spectrometers for measuring stable-isotope ratios.

Fluid-inclusion investigations with heating and freezing stages.

Major- and trace-element analyses of geologic materials with the electron microprobe and x-ray fluorescence spectrometers.

Mineral identification and characterization with x-ray diffractometers.

Optical microscopic procedures, including flat-stage, universal-stage, and spindle-stage techniques.

Cathodoluminescence microscopy.

Design and analysis of 1-atm phase-equilibria experiments in aqueous systems.

Extensive knowledge of field techniques for collecting ground- and surface-water samples, measuring hydrologic and geochemical parameters, and installing ground-water wells and surface-water monitoring equipment (flumes, autosamplers, stage-measuring instrumentation, etc.).

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Geophysical Union - 4/82 to present. Named by AGU President to Bylaws and Statutes Committee of the American Geophysical Union for the term7/94 to 7/00.

The Geochemical Society - 6/83 to present.

REFERENCES

Dr. Louis Derry, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853 607-***-**** *****@*******.*******.***

Dr. John Valley, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 608-***-**** ******@*******.****.***

Dr. L. Neil Plummer, U.S. Geological Survey, National Center, MS 432, Reston, VA20192 703-***-**** *********@****.***

FIELD EXPERIENCE

1989-2004 - Ground-water, surface-water, and sediment sampling in many settings throughout North and South Dakota, Minnesota and New York.

2001 Shipboard geochemist on Leg 195 of the Ocean Drilling Program.

1996 - Detailed description and sampling of cores from the KTB super-deep borehole, Germany.

1986 & 1988 - Mapping and sample collecting in the Thetford Mines ophiolite complex, Quebec, Canada.

1987 - Mapping and sample collecting in Precambrian granitic terrain, South-central Sweden.

1986 - Shipboard petrologist on Ocean Drilling Project Leg 109 Mark II/ Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mapping and sample collecting in the Bay of Islands ophiolite, Newfoundland, Canada.

1979 - Cornell University Field Course in the U.S. Western Cordillera.

1978 - Princeton University Summer Field Course, Beartooth Mountains, Montana.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

USGS REPORTS

Hetcher, KK.; Miller, T.S.; and, Komor S.C., (2003) Chemical quality of base flow in 18 selected streams in the upper Susquehanna River basin, New York. U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2003-4100, 42 p.

Komor, S.C., and Hansen, D.S. (2003) Attenuation of Runoff and Chemical Loads in Grass Filter Strips at Two Cattle Feedlots, Minnesota, 1995-98. Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4036, 15 p.

Komor, S.C. (2002)

Ground-Water Age Dating in Community Wells in Oswego County, New York

Ground-Water Age Dating in Community Wells in Oswego County, New York U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-232, 16 p.

Komor, S.C. (1999) Sources of geospatially oriented data for central and western New York. US Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-191, 38 p.

Komor, S.C. (1999) Iron, chromium, sulfur and chlorinated hydrocarbons in ground water near Johnson City, New York. US Geological Open-File Report 26, continued.

Berkas, W., and Komor, S.C. (1997) Arsenic and selenium in soils and shallow ground water in the Turtle Lake, New Rockford, Harvey Pumping, Lincoln Valley, and LaMoure irrigation areas of the Garrison Diversion Unit. U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigation Report 96-4025, 197 p.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Komor, S.C. and Mottl, M.J., (2006) Pore Water Chemical and Isotopic Compositions from the West Philippine Basin, Ocean Drilling Program Site 1201, Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, 195SR-109

Komor, S.C. and Mottl, M.J., (2005) Stable Isotope Compositions of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Methane, Sulfate, and Sulfide in Pore Water from the South Chamorro Serpentinite Mud Volcano, Mariana Subduction Complex, Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, 195SR-109.

Mottl M. J., Komor, S.C., Fryer P., and Moyer, C. L. (2003) Deep-slab fluids fuel extremophilic Archaea on a Mariana forearc serpentinite mud volcano: Ocean Drilling Program Leg 195, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4 (11), 9009

Landon, M.K., Delin, G.N., Komor, S.C., and Regan, C.P. (2000) Relation of pathways and transit times of recharge water to nitrate concentrations using stable isotopes. Ground Water, 38, 381-395.

Landon, M.K., Delin, G.N., Komor, S.C., and Regan, C.P. (1999) Comparison of the stable-isotopic composition of soil water collected from suction lysimeters, wick samplers, and cores in a sandy unsaturated zone, Journal of Hydrology, v. 224, p. 45-54

Komor SC (1999) Water chemistry in a Nutrient and Sediment Control System near Owasco, New York. Water Resources Impact, v. 1, no. 6, p. 19-21.

Komor SC (1997) Boron contents and isotopic compositions of hog manure, selected fertilizers, and water in Minnesota. Journal of Environmental Quality 26, 1212-1222.

Komor SC, Magner JA (1996) Nitrate in ground water and water sources used by riparian trees: A chemical and isotopic investigation on farms in southern Minnesota. Water Resources Research 32: 1039-1050.

Komor SC (1995) Chemistry and petrography of calcite from the KTB pilot borehole, Bavarian Oberpfalz, Germany. Chemical Geology 124: 199-216.

Komor SC (1994) Geochemistry and hydrology of a calcareous fen in the Savage Fen wetlands complex, Minnesota. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 58: 3353-3367.

Komor, SC (1994) Chemistry of bottom-sediments in Devils Lake, northeast North Dakota. In Renaut R, Last WM, eds., Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Modern and Ancient Saline Lakes, SEPM Special Publication 50: 21-32.

Komor SC, Emerson DG (1994) Movements of water, solutes, and stable isotopes in the unsaturated zones of two sand plains in the Upper Midwest (USA). Water Resources Research 30: 253-268.

Komor SC, Anderson HW (1993) Nitrogen-isotopes as indicators of nitrate sources in Minnesota sand-plain aquifers. Groundwater 31: 260-270.

Komor, SC (1992) Bidirectional sulfate diffusion in saline-lake sediments: evidence from Devils Lake, northeast North Dakota. Geology 20: 319-322.

Freeman JE, Komor SC (1991) Selected water-quality data for the Rapid Creek basin, southwestern South Dakota. 1946-90. U S Geological Survey Open

-File Report 91-129,-249: 194 p.

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