ROBERT M. HOLT

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

118 Carrier Hall
University, MS 38677
E-mail address: rmholt@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-6687
Office: Old Chemistry 9

Classes:

Geol 615 - Geostatistics

ENGR 636 - Groundwater Mechanics

ENGR 637 - Groundwater Modeling
ENGR 645 - Contaminant Transport

Degrees:

Ph.D. Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institue of Mining and Technology, 2000.

M.S. Geology, University of Texas at El Paso, 1988.

B.S. Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 1985.

Research Interests:

Depositional systems, Geologic control of hydraulic properties in heterogeneous media, Techniques for characterizing hydraulic properties, Stochastic modeling of subsurface flow and transport, Physical processes controlling transport during single and multi-phase flow in porous and fractured media

Professional History:

2000 - present: Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi

1992 - present: Owner, Holt Hydrology
1997 - 2000 : Student Intern, Sandia National Laboratories

1995 - 1996: DOE Fellowship, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

1994 - 1995: DOE Fellowship, Sandia National Laboratories

1984 - 1992: Senior Geologist, International Technology (IT) Corporation
1983: Research Assistant, University of Texas at El Paso

Professional Memberships :

American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)

Awards :

2002: Faculty Fellowship Award, Academic Center for Excellence, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

2001: Faculty Fellowship Award, Academic Center for Excellence, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Selected Publications:

Holt, R. M., J. L. Wilson, and R. J. Glass, 2003, "Error in Unsaturated Stochastic Models Parameterized with Field Data, Water Resources Research, Vol. 39, No. 2, 1028, doi:10.1029/2001WR000544.

Holt, R. M., J. L. Wilson, and R. J. Glass, 2002, "Spatial Bias in Field-Estimated Unsaturated Hydraulic Properties," Water Resources Research, Vol. 3 8, No. 12, 1311, doi:10.1029/2002WR001336 .

Powers, D.W., and Holt, R.M., 2000, "The Salt that Wasn't There: Mudflat Facies Equivalents to Halite of the Permian Rustler Formation, Southeastern New Mexico," Journal of Sedimentary Research, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 29-36.

Powers, D.W., and Holt, R.M., 1999, "The Los Medaños Member of the Permian (Ochoan) Rustler Formation," New Mexico Geology, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 97-103.

Holt, R. M., and D. W. Powers, 1993, "Summary of Delaware Basin-End Stage Deposits," in D. W. Love, J. W. Hawley, B. S. Kues, J. W. Adams, G. S. Austin, and J. M. Barker (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 44 th Field Conference, Carlsbad Region, New Mexico and West Texas, p. 90-92.

Powers, D. W., and R. M. Holt, 1993, "The Late Cenozoic Gatuna Formation of Southeastern New Mexico," in D. W. Love, J. W. Hawley, B. S. Kues, J. W. Adams, G. S. Austin, and J. M. Barker (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 44th Field Conference, Carlsbad Region, New Mexico and West Texas, p. 271-282.

Beauheim, R. L., and R. M. Holt, 1990, "Hydrology of the WIPP Site," Geological and Hydrological Studies of Evaporites in the Northern Delaware Basin for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), D. W. Powers, R. M. Holt, R. L. Beauheim, and N. Rempe, eds., Geological Society of America Fieldtrip Guidebook 14, pp. 131-179.

Holt, R. M., and D. W. Powers, 1990, "Halite Sequences within the Later Permian Salado Formation in the Vicinity of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Southeastern New Mexico," Geological and Hydrological Studies of Evaporites in the Northern Delaware Basin for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), D. W. Powers, R. M. Holt, R. L. Beauheim, and N. Rempe, eds., Geological Society of America Fieldtrip Guidebook 14, pp. 45-78.

Holt, R. M., and D. W. Powers, 1990, "The Late Permian Dewey Lake Formation at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant," Geological and Hydrological Studies of Evaporites in the Northern Delaware Basin for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)," D. W. Powers, R. M. Holt, R. L. Beauheim, and N. Rempe, eds., Geological Society of America Fieldtrip Guidebook 14, pp. 107-129.

Powers, D. W., and R. M. Holt, 1990, "Sedimentology of the Rustler Formation Near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Site," Geological and Hydrological Studies of Evaporites in the Northern Delaware Basin for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), D. W. Powers, R. M. Holt, R. L. Beauheim, and N. Rempe, eds., Geological Society of America Fieldtrip Guidebook 14, pp. 79-106.

Holt, R. M., and D. W. Powers, 1987, "The Permian Rustler Formation at the WIPP Site, Southeastern New Mexico," Geology of the Western Delaware Basin, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, El Paso, D. W. Powers and W. C. James, eds., El Paso Geological Society Guidebook 18, pp. 140-148.

Powers, D. W., R. M. Holt, and J. M. Hoffer, 1987, "Preliminary Studies of Near-Surface Sediments, Salt Flat Graben, West Texas," Geology of the Western Delaware Basin, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, El Paso, D. W. Powers and W. C. James, eds., El Paso Geological Society Guidebook 18, pp. 184-194.