Staff profiles
Mike TavesScientist: Groundwater Modeller
Biography
Mike Taves (Toews) is a hydrogeologist and groundwater modeller. His primary interests include regional groundwater model development, simulation of groundwater-surface water interactions, and analysis of groundwater capture zones. Other specialists are with software development and geographical information systems.
Qualifications
- BSc, Applied & Environmental Geology
- MSc, Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Groundwater: Contaminants transport modeling
- Groundwater: Aquifer testing
- Geophysics: Seismic imaging methods
- Groundwater: Data management
- Groundwater: Database design
- Groundwater: Drilling
- Groundwater: Groundwater conceptual modeling
- Groundwater: Modeling
- Information Technology: Python
- Groundwater: Sampling
- Technical: 3-D computer modelling
- Technical: Field Work
- Technical: GIS
- Technical: Software and database development
- Geophysics: Electrical resistivity tomography
- Information Technology: Numerical modelling
- Information Technology: R scripting
- Groundwater: Geostatistics
- Groundwater: Climate change
Major Publications
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- Numerical simulation of transient groundwater age distributions assisting land and water management in the Middle Wairarapa Valley, New Zealand, Water Resources Research 52(12): p. 9430-9451. DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019422. p. 9430-9451
- A comparison of particle-tracking and solute transport methods for simulation of tritium concentrations and groundwater transit times in river water, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18(8): p. 3109-3119. DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-3109-2014. p. 3109-3119
- Calibration of a transient transport model to tritium data in streams and simulation of groundwater ages in the western Lake Taupo catchment, New Zealand, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17(3): p. 1217-1227. DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-1217-2013. p. 1217-1227
- Modelling groundwater abstraction scenarios using a groundwater-river interaction model of the Upper Motueka River catchment, Journal of Hydrology, New Zealand 51(2): p. 85-110. p. 85-110
- Evaluating different GCMs for predicting spatial recharge in an irrigated arid region, Journal of Hydrology 374(3/4): p. 265-281. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.06.022. p. 265-281
- Simulated response of groundwater to predicted recharge in a semi-arid region using a scenario of modelled climate change, Environmental Research Letters 4(3): 035003. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/3/035003. 035003