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Department: Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering

Education: B.S., Carnegie Mellon Univ. (1989), B.A., University of Colorado (2018), M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991), M.S., Ph.D. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (1999, 2000)
Teaching: CVEN 3323 Hydraulic Engineering, CVEN 4353 Groundwater Engineering, CVEN 5353 Groundwater Hydrology, CVEN 4383/5383 Groundwater Modeling  
Research: Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling, Stream Depletion, Cold Regions Groundwater Hydrology, Active Spreading to Enhance Groundwater Remediation, Adjoint Methods

Office: SEEC C245

Honors and Distinctions:

• Margaret S. Peterson Award, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2022.
• Fellow, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, 2022.
• Fellow, Geological Society of America, 2010.
• Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006.
• Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters, 2013
• ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011
• Fellow, Geological Society of America, 2010
• John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award, 2010
• Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Teaching Award, 2009
• Charles A. Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award, 2008
• Teaching Award, CEAE Dept., 2007
• 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
• Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
• ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
• NSF CAREER Award, Hydrologic Sciences Program
• Young Researcher Award, CEAE Dept., 2006
• University Teaching Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2003

Recent Publications: 
** denotes work done in collaboration with graduate students
* denotes work done in collaboration with undergraduate students

• ** 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.
• 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.jcondhyc.2021.103909, 2022.
• 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 : 10.1007/s11242-021-01682-3, 2021.
• ** 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/x11242-021-01545-x, 2021.
• Neupauer, R.M. and C. Turnadge**, Stream depletion due to cyclical pumping, 2021 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784483466.004, 2021.
• 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.  Featured as Editor’s Choice for Journal of Hydrologic Engineering for February 2021.
• Okkonen, J., R. Neupauer, E. Kozlovskaya, N. Afonin, K. Moisio, K. Taewook, and E. Muurinen, Frost quakes: crack formation by thermal stress, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125, e2020JF00516, doi:10.1029/2020JF005616, 2020.