Michael J. Friedel, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Visiting and Adjunct Professor

email: mfriedel@usgs.gov; telephone: 303.236.7790

Teaching

Under Graduate Courses

GEOL 250 - Quantitative Hydrogeology, Department of Geology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 2003.

ENVS5500 - Unsaturated zone hydrology, Department of Environmental Science, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, 2004, 2005, 2006. (Co-instructor with Dr. James Tindall)

Post Graduate Courses

Hydrogeophysics - Application of geophysics in water resource investigationsInstituto de geociencias, Laboratorio de Geofisica Aplicada, Universidade de Brasilia, semester, December, 2008. (4 credits; Developed and instructed)

Model fitting, calibration, and uncertainty analysis in earth science
Instituto de geociencias, Laboratorio de Geofisica Aplicada, Universidade de Brasilia, semester, August, 2008. (4 credits; Developed and instructed)

Multicomponent reactive transport modeling for mining environments
Department of Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, Finland,
Fall semester, September 17-24, 2007. (4 credits; Co-developed and co-instructed) http://risk.eracnet.fi/edu/index.php/Reactive_transport_modeling_for_mining_environments

Ecological Risk Assessment,Department of Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, Finland, fall semester, 2007. (2 credits; Co-developed and co-instructed) http://risk.eracnet.fi/edu /index.php/Ecological_Risk_Assessment

Assessing and Managing Environmental Risks, Universidad Centroamericana-José Simeón Cañas, Department of Energy and Fluid Science, San Salvador, El Salvador, summer semester, 2006. (Developed and Instructed)

Advanced Concepts in Watershed Management, Department of Energy and Fluid Science, Universidad Centroamericana-José Simeón Cañas, Course part of post-graduate curriculum, San Salvador, El Salvador, summer semester, 2006. (Developed and Instructed)

Assessing and Managing Risks Associated with Hazards in our Environment, Universidad Centroamericana - José Simeón Cañas, Department of Energy and Fluid Science, San Salvador, El Salvador, spring semester, 2006. (Developed and Instructed)

Model Calibration and Predictive Analysis in Earth Science, University of Centroamericana - José Simeón Cañas, Department of Energy and Fluid Science, San Salvador, El Salvador, fall semester, 2004, 2005. (Developed and Instructed)

Modeling Coastal Water Flooding, Mud and Debris Flows (10-days), Department of Energy and Fluid Science, University Centroamericana - José Simeón Cañas, San Salvador, El Salvador, winter semester, 2003. (Developed and Instructed)

Peak flood frequency analysis and rainfall-runoff model calibration for gaged and ungaged watersheds with application to modeling coastal water flooding, Department of Energy and Fluid Science, University Centroamericana - José Simeón Cañas, San Salvador, El Salvador, fall semester, 2003. (Developed and Instructed)

Workshops

Assessment and management of mining-related environmental risks with applications: in Mining Environments - Potential Impact and Risk Assessment (1-day), Kuopio, Finland, February 7, 2007 (Developed and Presented) http://risk.eracnet.fi/edu/index.php/Workshop%3B_Mine_Environments_-_Potential_Impact_and_Risk_Assessment; http://risk.eracnet.fi/edu/images/c/ca/MikeFriedel01.pdf

Hazards risk mitigation and emergency preparedness project (1-day), Bucharest, Romania, January 18, 2006 (Developed and Presented)

Parameter estimation, model calibration, and uncertainty analysis  (1-day), State Key Laboratory of Hydrology, College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, China, November 3, 2005. (Developed and Instructed)

Mining applications of seismic tomography (1-day), Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysics, Denver, CO, November 1996. (Developed and Instructed)

Numerical modeling of flow in the vadose zone (2-days), U.S. Bureau of Mines – Mineral Availability Field Office, Lakewood, CO, August 3-7, 1992. (Developed and Instructed)

Seismic imaging: data acquisition, processing, and interpretation for spatial imaging of mine-tailings (5-day field course), U.S. Bureau of Mines – Western Field Operations Center, Spokane, WA, June 1992. (Developed and Instructed)

Digital signal processing (5-day), U.S. Bureau of Mines - Twin Cities Research Center, Minneapolis, September 1987. (Developed and Instructed)

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