Alan E. Williams
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 1980
Specialty: Stable isotope geochemistry
Email: alan.williams@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-4611
Office: Geology 408
Research Interests:
Stable isotope geochemistry; meteoric origin, fractionation mechanisms, and transport of ground waters. Chemical hydrology; chemical and isotopic interaction of water and rock in environmental, groundwater and hydrothermal circulation systems.
Recent Projects:
Stable isotope chemistry of surface and groundwaters in southern California; water-rock interactions in the Salton Sea geothermal system, California; fluid inclusions as indicators of chemical evolution of geo-fluids, water quality degradation and movement of nitrate in waste water.
Selected Publications:
Williams, A.E., McKibben M.A., and Eldridge C.S., Chapter 37 In: Dauphin J. P. and Simoneit B.R.T. , eds., 1991, An Overview of Fluid Geochemistry and Ore Genesis in the Salton Sea Geothermal System, and Comparison with the Gulf of California Hydrothermal Systems. The Gulf and Peninsular Province of the Californias, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir, v. 47, p. 781-792
Lee, T.C., Williams, A.E., and Chuching W., 1992, An artificial recharge experiment in the San Jacinto basin, Riverside, southern California, Journal of Hydrology, v. 140 p. 235-259
Williams, A.E., Lund, L.J., and Kabala, Z., 1996, Investigation of nitrate contamination in the Sierra Pelona groundwater basin Agua Dulce. final report submitted to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Williams, A.E., 1996, Mass spectrometic analysis of volatiles in fluid inclusions: aliquot calibration valve to simulate inclusion rupture. Chemical Geology v. 131 p. 155-165
Williams, A.E. and Taylor, M.C., 1996, Mass spectrometic identification of boric acid in fluid inclusions in pegmatite minerals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 60, no. 18, p. 3435-3443
Williams, A.E., 1997, Fluid density distribution in a high temperature, stratified thermohaline system: implications for saline hydrothermal circulation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 146 p. 121-136
Williams, A.E. and Rodoni, D. P., 1997, Regional isotope effects and application to hydrologic investigations in southwestern California. Water Resources Research, v. 33(7) p. 1721-1729
Williams, A.E., 1997, Stable isotope tracers: natural and anthropogenic recharge, Orange County, California. Journal of Hydrology, v. 201 p. 230-248
Williams, A. E., Lund, L. J., Johnson, J. A., and Kabala, Z. J., 1998, Natural and anthropogenic nitrate contamination of groundwater in a rural community, California. Environmental Science and Technology, v. 32 p. 32-39.