keywords
- groundwater, fluid injection and reservoir induced earthquakes, impact of climate change on groundwater, surface water and groundwater interaction, permafrost hydrogeology
- Contact Info
Ge, Shemin
Positions
- Distinguished Professor, Geological Sciences
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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conference proceeding
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journal article
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A novel method to estimate baseflow using open-source well data.
Hydrogeology Journal.
2026
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Effects of Pore Pressure Change on Coulomb Stress Change and Initiation of Induced Seismicity in the Raton Basin, Colorado–New Mexico.
Seismological Research Letters.
1842-1852.
2026
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Extreme Precipitation Variability and Soil Texture Controls on Water-Table Response.
Water (Switzerland).
587-587.
2026
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Deep geothermal energy extraction can potentially reduce temperature and discharge at hot springs.
Scientific Reports.
2025
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Alleviating post-injection seismic hazard in enhanced geothermal systems: Insights from a multi-scale study.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
119579-119579.
2025
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Effect of climate warming on subsurface temperature in basins with topography-driven groundwater flow.
Journal of Hydrology.
2024
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Surface Deformation and Seismicity Linked to Fluid Injection in the Raton Basin.
Ground Water.
690-701.
2024
- Fixing the Flawed Colorado River Compact, Cover article. Eos. 2023
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Poroelastic stress relaxation, slip stress transfer and friction weakening controlled post-injection seismicity at the Basel Enhanced Geothermal System.
Communications Earth & Environment.
2023
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On the extinction depth of freezing-induced groundwater migration.
Journal of Hydrology.
2023
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Pore Pressure Diffusion and Onset of Induced Seismicity.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth.
2023
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Water-table response to extreme precipitation events.
Journal of Hydrology.
2023
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Insights on post-injection seismicity through analysis of the Enhanced Geothermal System at Basel (Switzerland)
2022
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A Simple Relation to Constrain Groundwater Models Using Surface Deformation.
Ground Water.
410-417.
2022
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Examining subsurface response to an extreme precipitation event using HYDRUS‐1D.
Vadose Zone Journal.
2022
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Review: Induced Seismicity During Geoenergy Development-A Hydromechanical Perspective.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth.
2022
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Impoundment-Associated Hydro-Mechanical Changes and Regional Seismicity Near the Xiluodu Reservoir, Southwestern China.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth.
2021
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Earthquakes and very deep groundwater perturbation mutually induced.
Scientific Reports.
2021
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Open Science: Open Data, Open Models, ...and Open Publications?.
Water Resources Research.
2021
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Impoundment-associated Hydro-mechanical Changes and Regional Seismicity near the Xiluodu Reservoir, Southwestern China
2020
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Future-proofing hydrogeology by revising groundwater monitoring practice.
Hydrogeology Journal.
2963-2969.
2020
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Causal mechanism of injection-induced earthquakes through the Mw 5.5 Pohang earthquake case study.
Nature Communications.
2020
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Origin of the Crescent Moon Spring in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China, based on understanding groundwater recharge.
Journal of Hydrology.
124344-124344.
2020
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Carbon and mercury export from the Arctic rivers and response to permafrost degradation.
Water Research.
54-60.
2019
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Triggering of the Pohang, Korea, Earthquake (Mw 5.5) by Enhanced Geothermal System Stimulation.
Seismological Research Letters.
2019
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Organic Carbon Pools in the Subsea Permafrost Domain Since the Last Glacial Maximum (Retracted Article).
Geophysical Research Letters.
8166-8173.
2019
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Managing injection-induced seismic risks..
Science.
730-732.
2019
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Geocryology: Characteristics and Use of Frozen Ground and Permafrost Landforms, by Stuart A. Harris, Anatoli Brouchkov, and Cheng Guodong. Leiden, The Netherlands: CRC Press, 2018. 765 pp. $192.00, ISBN: 978-1-138-05416-5 (hardcover); 978-1-315-16698-8 (eBook)..
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research.
313-314.
2019
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Distinguishing Fluid Flow Path from Pore Pressure Diffusion for Induced Seismicity.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
3684-3686.
2018
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Solar district heating with underground thermal energy storage: Pathways to commercial viability in North America.
Renewable Energy.
1-13.
2018
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Role of Nonequilibrium Water Vapor Diffusion in Thermal Energy Storage Systems in the Vadose Zone.
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
2018
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Streamflow Changes in the Vicinity of Seismogenic Fault After the 1999 Chi–Chi Earthquake.
Pure and Applied Geophysics.
2425-2434.
2018
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Small Earthquakes Matter in Injection-Induced Seismicity.
Geophysical Research Letters.
5445-5453.
2018
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The Role of Frozen Soil in Groundwater Discharge Predictions for Warming Alpine Watersheds.
Water Resources Research.
1599-1615.
2018
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A Possible Causative Mechanism of Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado Earthquakes Using Recent Seismicity Patterns and Pore Pressure Modeling.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth.
8051-8065.
2017
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Evaluating the effectiveness of induced seismicity mitigation: Numerical modeling of wastewater injection near Greeley, Colorado.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth.
6569-6582.
2017
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Contrasting hydrogeologic responses to warming in permafrost and seasonally frozen ground hillslopes.
Geophysical Research Letters.
1803-1813.
2017
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Induced seismicity: the potential hazard from shale gas development and CO2 geologic storage.
Geosciences Journal.
137-148.
2016
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Numerical Modeling of a Soil-Borehole Thermal Energy Storage System.
Vadose Zone Journal.
2016
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Analysis of groundwater flow in mountainous, headwater catchments with permafrost.
Water Resources Research.
9564-9576.
2015
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High-rate injection is associated with the increase in US mid-continent seismicity.
Science.
1336-1340.
2015
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Coping with earthquakes induced by fluid injection.
Science.
830-831.
2015
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Groundwater flow and its effect on salt dissolution in Gypsum Canyon watershed, Paradox Basin, southeast Utah, USA.
Hydrogeology Journal.
1403-1419.
2014
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Sharp increase in central Oklahoma seismicity since 2008 induced by massive wastewater injection.
Science.
448-451.
2014
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Insights into water level response to seismic waves: A 24 year high- fidelity record of global seismicity at Devils Hole.
Geophysical Research Letters.
74-80.
2014
- A book review for Permafrost Hydrology By Ming-ko Woo. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 2013
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A quantitative study on accumulation of age mass around stagnation points in nested flow systems.
Water Resources Research.
2012
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Groundwater modeling of the Silver Bell Mountains, Arizona, USA.
Environmental Earth Sciences.
1933-1941.
2012
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Coupled fluid flow and deformation modeling of the frontal thrust region of the Kumano Basin transect, Japan: Implications for fluid pressures and decollement downstepping.
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
2012
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Comment on "Evidence that the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake Could Not Have Been Induced by the Zipingpu Reservoir" by Kai Deng, Shiyong Zhou, Rui Wang, Russell Robinson, Cuiping Zhao, and Wanzheng Cheng.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
3117-3118.
2011
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A new analytical solution of topography-driven flow in a drainage basin with depth-dependent anisotropy of permeability.
Water Resources Research.
2011
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Exchange of groundwater and surface-water mediated by permafrost response to seasonal and long term air temperature variation.
Geophysical Research Letters.
n/a-n/a.
2011
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An analytical study on stagnation points in nested flow systems in basins with depth-decaying hydraulic conductivity.
Water Resources Research.
2011
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Constraining fault-zone hydrogeology through integrated hydrological and geoelectrical analysis.
Hydrogeology Journal.
1057-1067.
2010
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Simultaneous rejuvenation and aging of groundwater in basins due to depth-decaying hydraulic conductivity and porosity.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2010
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Can climate change cause the Yellow River to dry up?.
Water Resources Research.
2010
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Effect of exponential decay in hydraulic conductivity with depth on regional groundwater flow.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2009
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Did the Zipingpu Reservoir trigger the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake?.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2009
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Groundwater in the Tibet Plateau, western China.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2008
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Characterization of the shallow groundwater system in an alpine watershed: Handcart Gulch, Colorado, USA.
Hydrogeology Journal.
103-121.
2008
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An investigation of regional tectonic strain on water levels in Devils Hole, Death Valley National Park, Nevada.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2007
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Modeling of the effects of propagating thrust slip on pore pressures and implications for monitoring.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
454-464.
2007
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Analysis of strain-induced ground-water fluctuations at Devils Hole, Nevada.
Geofluids.
319-333.
2006
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Hydrodynamic response of subduction zones to seismic activity: A case study for the Costa Rica margin.
Tectonophysics.
167-187.
2006
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Modeling seismically induced deformation and fluid flow in the Nankai subduction zone - art. no. L17301.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2005
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Three‐dimensional numerical simulation of fluid flow and heat transport within the Barbados Ridge accretionary complex.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
2003
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A one-dimensional analytically based approach for studying poroplastic and viscous consolidation: Application to Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea - art. no. 2448.
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth.
2003
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The Permeability of the Elkhorn Fault Zone, South Park, Colorado.
Ground Water.
321-332.
2003
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Fluid flow in sub‐sea floor processes and future ocean drilling.
Eos.
145-152.
2003
- The effects of salt evolution, structural development, and fault propagation on Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic oil migration: A two-dimensional fluid-flow study along a megaregional profile in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. 1945-1966. 2001
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Solute dispersion in rock fractures by Non‐Darcian Flow.
Geophysical Research Letters.
3983-3986.
2001
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The effect of allochthonous salt evolution and overpressure development on source rock thermal maturation: a two-dimensional transient study in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin.
Petroleum Geoscience.
281-290.
2001
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Hydrodynamic response to strike‐ and dip‐slip faulting in a half‐space.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
25513-25524.
2000
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Anomalously high porosities in the proto‐decollement zone of the Barbados Accretionary Complex: Do they indicate overpressures?.
Geophysical Research Letters.
1993-1996.
2000
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Numerical Modeling of Perched Water Under Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Ground Water.
498-504.
1999
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A new conceptual model for fluid flow in discrete fractures: An experimental and numerical study.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
13049-13059.
1999
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Estimation of groundwater velocity in localized fracture zones from well temperature profiles.
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.
93-101.
1998
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A New Analytical Treatment of Airflow to Inlet Wells in Soil Vapor Extraction Systems.
GroundWater Monitoring and Remediation.
133-136.
1998
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The effect of surface geometry on fracture permeability: A case study using a sinusoidal fracture.
Geophysical Research Letters.
813-816.
1998
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An assessment of along‐strike fluid and heat transport within the Barbados Ridge Accretionary Complex: Results of preliminary modeling.
Geophysical Research Letters.
3085-3088.
1997
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A governing equation for fluid flow in rough fractures.
Water Resources Research.
53-61.
1997
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A Semianalytical Solution of One‐Dimensional Advective‐Dispersive Solute Transport Under an Arbitrary Concentration Boundary Condition.
Ground Water.
501-503.
1996
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Effect of Horizontal Heat and Fluid Flow on the Vertical Temperature Distribution in a Semiconfining Layer.
Water Resources Research.
1449-1453.
1996
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An Analytical Evaluation for Airflow to Inlet Wells in Vapor Extraction Systems Under Leaky Conditions.
Water Resources Research.
743-748.
1996
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A theoretical model for thrust‐induced deep groundwater expulsion with application to the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
13851-13868.
1994
- GENESIS OF STRATABOUND ORE-DEPOSITS IN THE MIDCONTINENT BASINS OF NORTH-AMERICA .1. THE ROLE OF REGIONAL GROUNDWATER-FLOW. American Journal of Science. 497-568. 1993
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Hydromechanical modeling of tectonically driven groundwater flow with application to the Arkoma Foreland Basin.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
9119-9144.
1992
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A novel method to estimate baseflow using open-source well data.
Hydrogeology Journal.
2026
Teaching
courses taught
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GEOL 1150 - Water, Energy and Environment: An Introduction to Earth Resources
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2025
Explores how geological processes and human populations together affect the quantitfy, quality and availability of Earth resources. Includes examination of the water cycle and how humans use and modify water; fossil-fuel and mineral resources, and renewable energy options. Sustainable versus non-sustainable use and population growth is considered. Formerly GEOL 1150. -
GEOL 3030 - Introduction to Hydrogeology
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Introduces groundwater flow concepts, hydrologic cycle, physical and chemical properties, flow net, hydraulic potential, geologic controls on heterogeneity and anisotropy, aquifers and aquitards in a geologic system, saturated and unsaturated flow, flow to a well, pumping tests, and role of groundwater in geologic processes. Formerly GEOL 3030. -
GEOL 5080 - Advanced Hydrogeology and Modeling Concepts
Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
Introduces advanced groundwater flow and modeling concepts, equations for steady state and transient flow, saturated and unsaturated flow, finite difference method, application of modeling in geologic processes, radial flow and aquifer parameters, infiltration and groundwater recharge, model calibration, verification and prediction. Department enforced prerequisite: MATH 2300 or Fortran. -
GEOL 5700 - Earth Science Topics Seminar
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
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GEOL 5721 - Classics and Frontiers in Hydrology
Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
The first part of this course studies classic papers in hydrology that include development of fundamental concepts and governing principles governing water flow in subsurface. It will also include benchmark papers that define critical advances in hydrology. The second part of this course focuses on latest research front that spans from theoretical and modeling studies to measuring and monitoring technologies. Formerly GEOL 5721. -
GEOL 6940 - Master's Candidate for Degree
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
Registration intended for students preparing for a thesis defense, final examination, culminating activity, or completion of degree. Formerly GEOL 6940. -
GEOL 6950 - Master's Thesis
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
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GEOL 6960 - Plan II Master's Research
Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
The Plan II program requires at least 3 credit hours of ERTH 6960 (Plan II Master�s Research) under the supervision of the advisory committee. Formerly GEOL 6960.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University 1990
- M.A., Johns Hopkins University 1987
- M.S., University of British Columbia (Canada) 1985
- B.S., Wuhan University (China) 1982
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- http://dbpedia.org/page/Hong_Kong Geographic Region
- Canada Country
- China Country
- South Korea Country
- Switzerland Country