Professor
Environmental Geophysics, Engineering Geology, Seismology
Office: 417B Davis Hall
Phone: (815) 753-1523
E-mail: pjcarpenter@niu.edu
Ph.D. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; 1984
M.S. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; 1981
B.S. University of Minnesota, Duluth; 1979
2008-10, $210,000, Software grant from Seismic-Micro Technology (with Ph.D. student Bryce Willems)
2006-08, $21,471, Dynamic water balance and geotechnical stability of bioreactor landfills, Centre de Recherche pour l'Environnement, l'Energie, et le Dechet (CReeD), Limay, France, (K. Reddy, UIC, co-PI).
2007-08, $65,000, International Linear Collider technical feasibility study: ground motion and vibration studies, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Atre, S.R. and P.J. Carpenter (2009). Identification of cross-valley faults in the Maynardville Limestone, Oak Ridge Reservation, Tennessee, using seismic refraction tomography: Environmental Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s12665-009-0265-4 (in press).
Carpenter, P.J., Ding, A., Cheng, L., Liu, P., and F. Chu (2009). Apparent formation factor for leachate-saturated waste and sediments: examples from the USA and China: Journal of Earth Science, v. 20, no. 3, 606-617.
Carpenter, P.J., Grellier, S., Reddy, K.R., Adib, R., Peters, C. and Gangathulasi, J., (2008). Investigating the interior of a landfill cell with leachate injection using electromagnetic conductivity and ground-penetrating radar surveys: in SAGEEP2008: Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society, Wheat Ridge, CO, pp. 212-222 (published on CD-ROM).
Higuera, I.C., P.J. Carpenter, and M.D. Thompson, (2007), Identification of buried sinkholes using seismic refraction tomography at Ft. Campbell Army Airfield, Kentucky, Environmental Geology, 53, 805-812.
Ding, A., L. Cheng, P. Liu, P.J. Carpenter, and Y. Han, (2007), Plant response to metal contamination at an oil shale tailing site in Maoming, South China, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 27, 111-117.
Ahmed, S. and P.J. Carpenter, (2003), Geophysical response of filled sinkholes, soil pipes and associated bedrock fractures in thinly mantled karst, east-central Illinois, Environmental Geology, 44, 705-716.
Ding, A., J. Fu, G. Sheng, P. Liu and P.J. Carpenter, (2003). Effects of oil shale waste disposal on soil and water quality: hydrogeochemical aspects: Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability, 14, 79-86.
Carpenter,P.J., Ding, A., Cheng, L., Sturnfield, E., Liu, P., and F. Chu (2009). Use of geophysics, SRTM and remote sensing to characterize groundwater contamination from oil shale wastes in south China, Abstracts Volume, American Association of Petroleum Geolologists Annual Convention and Exhibition, Vol. 18, p. 36.
Bennett, S. A. and P. Carpenter (2009). Lava tubes in the Alba Patera region of Mars: Future human habitats and incubators of life? North-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (2-3 April 2009), Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 4, p. 51.
Sturnfield, E. L. and P. J. Carpenter (2009). Use of SRTM and fieldwork in rural villages near Maoming, southern China, to assess groundwater contamination from oil shale wastes: North-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (2-3 April 2009), Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 4, p. 30.
Carpenter, P. J. and D.W. Ekberg (2009). Detection of fractures and filled sinkholes within thinly-mantled karst near Rockford, Illinois, using geophysics: North-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (2-3 April 2009), Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 4, p. 17.
Carpenter, P.J. (2009). Contaminant detection and identifying hydrogeological complexity from simple geophysical surveys at landfills near Maoming (south China) and Beijing: North-Central Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (2-3 April 2009), Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 4, p. 19.
Atre, S.R. and P.J. Carpenter (2008). Use of P-, SV- and SH-waves to characterize thinly-mantled karst and identify solution-enlarged fractures, Bourbonnais, Illinois: Programs with Abstracts, 2008, Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists Annual Meeting, p. 57.
Johnson, B.A. and P.J. Carpenter (2008). Analysis of slackwater sediments found in the Savanna Terraces along the Mississippi River, northwestern Illinois: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, Abst. No. 146-2.