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Christopher Murray

Christopher Murray

Geosciences
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
(509) 371-7090

Research Interests

  • Geostatistical analysis for environmental mapping and risk assessment
  • Geostatistical modeling of sedimentary facies and petrophysical properties
  • Environmental sampling design and decision analysis
  • Statistical approaches to sedimentology and study of the geologic controls on subsurface fluid flow

Education and Credentials

  • Ph.D., Geostatistics, Stanford University, 1992
  • M.S., Geology, University of Montana, 1982
  • B.A., Geology, University of Montana, 1980

Affiliations and Professional Service

  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists
  • American Geophysical Union
  • Geological Society of America
  • International Association for Mathematical Geology
  • North American Council on Geostatistics
  • SEPM (the Society for Sedimentary Geology

Awards and Recognitions

  • Registered Professional Geologist, Washington (No. 1393)
  • Thomas D. and Janice H. Barrow Fellowship in the Earth Sciences (1988-1992)
  • Blaustein Fellowship in the Earth Sciences (1988-1992)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1980-1982)
  • Sigma Xi Research Award (1980)
  • Watkins Fellowship (1979-1980)
  • Marathon Oil Scholarship (1979-1980)
  • Estwing Award for Field Geology (1979)
  • National Association of Geology Teachers' Summer Field Scholarship (1979)

PNNL Publications

2013

  • Klett KJ, C Torgersen, J Henning, and CJ Murray. 2013. "Spatial consistency of Chinook salmon redd distribution within and among years in the Cowlitz River, Washington." North American Journal of Fisheries Management 33(3):508-518.  doi:10.1080/02755947.2013.778924

2012

  • Hou Z, ML Rockhold, and CJ Murray. 2012. "Evaluating the impact of caprock and reservoir properties on potential risk of CO2 leakage after injection." Environmental Earth Sciences 66(8):2403-2415.  doi:10.1007/s12665-011-1465-2
  • Kowalsky MB, SA Finsterle, KH Williams, CJ Murray, M Commer, DR Newcomer, AL Englert, CI Steefel, and S Hubbard. 2012. "On parameterization of the inverse problem for estimating aquifer properties using tracer data." Water Resources Research 48:Article No. W06535.  doi:10.1029/2011WR011203
  • Zachara JM, BN Bjornstad, JN Christensen, MS Conrad, JK Fredrickson, MD Freshley, R Haggerty, GE Hammond, DB Kent, A Konopka, PC Lichtner, C Liu, JP McKinley, CJ Murray, ML Rockhold, Y Rubin, VR Vermeul, RJ Versteeg, and C Zheng. 2012. Multi-Scale Mass Transfer Processes Controlling Natural Attenuation and Engineered Remediation: An IFRC Focused on Hanford's 300 Area Uranium Plume January 2011 to January 2012. PNNL-21169, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2011

  • Bonneville AHR, GD Black, I Gorton, PSY Hui, EM Murphy, CJ Murray, ML Rockhold, KL Schuchardt, C Sivaramakrishnan, MD White, MD Williams, and SK Wurstner. 2011. "Geologic Sequestration Software Suite (GS3): a collaborative approach to the management of geological GHG storage projects ." In Proceedings of the 10th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT10), September 19-23, 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Energy Procedia, vol. 4, ed. J Gale, C Hendriks W Turkenberg, pp. 3825-3832.  Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.318
  • Murray CJ, DR Geist, EV Arntzen, YJ Bott, and MA Nabelek. 2011. Development of a Conceptual Chum Salmon Emergence Model for Ives Island. PNNL-20035, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Yabusaki SB, Y Fang, KH Williams, CJ Murray, AL Ward, R Dayvault, SR Waichler, DR Newcomer, FA Spane, and PE Long. 2011. "Variably Saturated Flow and Multicomponent Biogeochemical Reactive Transport Modeling of a Uranium Bioremediation Field Experiment." Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 126(3-4):271-290.  doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2011.09.002
  • Zachara JM, BN Bjornstad, JN Christensen, MS Conrad, JK Fredrickson, MD Freshley, R Haggerty, GE Hammond, DB Kent, A Konopka, PC Lichtner, C Liu, JP McKinley, CJ Murray, ML Rockhold, Y Rubin, VR Vermeul, RJ Versteeg, AL Ward, and C Zheng. 2011. Multi-Scale Mass Transfer Processes Controlling Natural Attenuation and Engineered Remediation: An IFRC Focused on Hanford's 300 Area Uranium Plume January 2010 to January 2011. PNNL-20257, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2010

  • Tonkin MJ, M Karanovic, ME Byrnes, JG Morse, CJ Murray, and P Clement. 2010. "Systematic Application of Flow-and-Transport Modeling for Wellfield Design: the Hanford 200-ZP-1 Groundwater Pump-and-Treat Remedy - 10320." In 36th Annual Radioactive Waste Management Symposium (WM 2010), March 7-11, 2010, Phoenix, AZ, vol. 5, pp. 4102-4115.  WM Symposia, Inc., Tucson, AZ. 
  • Zachara JM, BN Bjornstad, JN Christensen, ME Conrad, JK Fredrickson, MD Freshley, R Haggerty, G Hammon, DB Kent, A Konopka, PC Lichtner, C Liu, JP McKinley, CJ Murray, ML Rockhold, Y Rubin, VR Vermeul, RJ Versteeg, AL Ward, and C Zheng. 2010. Multi-Scale Mass Transfer Processes Controlling Natural Attenuation and Engineered Remediation: An IFRC Focused on Hanford's 300 Area Uranium Plume. PNNL-19209, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2009

2008

2007

  • Clement WP, and CJ Murray. 2007. "GPR Imaging of Clastic Dikes at the Hanford Site, Hanford, Washington." In Stratigraphic Analyses Using GPR, vol. Special Paper 432, ed. Baker, GS, and Jol, HM, pp. 169-181.  Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO. 
  • Knight RJ, JD Irving, P Tercier, EJ Freeman, CJ Murray, and ML Rockhold. 2007. "A Comparison of the Use of Radar Images and Neutron Probe Data to Determine the Horizontal Correlation Length of Water Content ." In Subsurface Hydrology: Data Integration for Properties and Processes: Geophysical Monograph Series, vol. 171, ed. David W. Hyndman, Frederick D. Day-Lewis, Kamini Singha, pp. 31-44.  American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. 
  • Last GV, CJ Murray, DA Bush, EC Sullivan, ML Rockhold, RD Mackley, and BN Bjornstad. 2007. "Standardization of Borehole Data to Support Vadose Zone Flow and Transport Modeling." Vadose Zone Journal 6(4):906-912.  doi:10.2136/vzj2006.0175
  • Matzke BD, LL Nuffer, RO Gilbert, JE Hathaway, LH Sego, BL Roberts, JE Wilson, ST Dowson, NL Hassig, CJ Murray, BA Pulsipher, and SA McKenna. 2007. Visual Sample Plan Version 5.0 User's Guide . PNNL-16939, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Murray CJ, AL Ward, and J Wilson. 2007. "Influence of Clastic Dikes on Vertical Migration of Contaminants at the Hanford Site ." Vadose Zone Journal 6(4):959-970.  doi:10.2136/vzj2007.0004
  • Murray CJ, YJ Bott, and MJ Truex. 2007. Geostatistical Analyses of the Persistence and Inventory of Carbon Tetrachloride in the 200 West Area of the Hanford Site. PNNL-16509, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2006

  • Scheibe TD, Y Fang, CJ Murray, EE Roden, J Chen, YJ Chien, SC Brooks, and SS Hubbard. 2006. "Transport and biogeochemical reaction of metals in a physically and chemically heterogeneous aquifer." Geosphere 2(4):220-235. 
  • Truex MJ, MJ Nimmons, CD Johnson, PE Dresel, and CJ Murray. 2006. Screening of Potential Remediation Methods for the 200-ZP-1 Operable Unit at the Hanford Site . PNNL-15954, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Ward AL, ME Conrad, WD Daily, JB Fink, VL Freedman, GW Gee, GM Hoversten, JM Keller, EL Majer, CJ Murray, MD White, SB Yabusaki, and ZF Zhang. 2006. Vadose Zone Transport Field Study: Summary Report . PNNL-15443, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2005

2004

  • Chen J, S Hubbard, Y Rubin, CJ Murray, EE Roden, and EL Majer. 2004. "Geochemical Characterization Using Geophysical Data and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods: A Case Study at the South Oyster Bacterial Transport Site in Virginia." Water Resources Research Vol. 40(No. 12):W12412. 
  • Hampton MA, CT Blay, and CJ Murray. 2004. "Carbonate Sediment Deposits on the Reef Front Around Oahu, Hawaii." Marine Georesources & Geotechnology 22(1-2):65-102. 
  • Murray CJ, YJ Chien, and PD Thorne. 2004. A Geostatistical Analysis of Historical Field Data on Tritium, Technetium-99, Iodine-129, and Uranium. PNNL-14618 , Rev. 0, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Wildung RE, SMW Li, CJ Murray, KM Krupka, YL Xie, NJ Hess, and EE Roden. 2004. "Technetium Reduction in Sediments of a Shallow Aquifer Exhibiting Dissimilatory Iron Reduction Potential ." FEMS Microbiology Ecology 49(1):151-162. 

2003

  • Murray CJ, AL Ward, and JL Wilson, III. 2003. Influence of Clastic Dikes on Vertical Migration of Contaminants in the Vadose Zone at Hanford. PNNL-14224, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Musslewhite CL, M Mcinerney, H Dong, TC Onstott, M Green-Blum, DJP Swift, S MacNaughton, DC White, CJ Murray, and YJ Chien. 2003. "The Factors Controlling Microbial Distribution and Activity in the Shallow Subsurface ." Geomicrobiology Journal 20(3):245 - 261. 
  • Savelieva-Trofimova EA, M Kanevski, timonin, A Pozdnukhov, CJ Murray, TD Scheibe, YL Xie, PD Thorne, and CR Cole. 2003. "Aquifer Hydrogeologic Layer Zonation at the Hanford Site." In Proceedings IAMG 2003, p. 46+.  International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Kingston, ONT. 
  • Scheibe TD, CJ Murray, YL Xie, MD Williams, CR Cole, VR Vermeul, and MP Bergeron. 2003. "Temporal and Spatial Weighting of Head and Concentration Observations for a Large-Scale Transient Inverse Model." In Proceedings of Modflow and More 2003: Understanding through Modeling, pp. 610-614.  Colorado School of Mines, International Ground Water Modeling Center, Golden, CO. 
  • Vermeul VR, MP Bergeron, CR Cole, CJ Murray, WE Nichols, TD Scheibe, PD Thorne, SR Waichler, and YL Xie. 2003. Transient Inverse Calibration of the Site-Wide Groundwater Flow Model (ACM-2): FY03 Progress Report . PNNL-14398, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Xie YL, CJ Murray, GV Last, and RD Mackley. 2003. Mineralogical and Bulk-Rock Geochemical Signatures of Ringold and Hanford Formation Sediments . PNNL-14202, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2002

  • Murray CJ, HJ Lee, and MA Hampton. 2002. "Geostatistical mapping of effluent-affected sediment distribution on the Palos Verdes Shelf." Continental Shelf Research 22:881-897. 
  • Bredt PR, CC Ainsworth, FJ Brockman, DM Camaioni, OB Egorov, AR Felmy, YA Gorby, JW Grate, MS Greenwood, BP Hay, NJ Hess, TL Hubler, JP Icenhower, SV Mattigod, BP McGrail, PD Meyer, CJ Murray, PD Panetta, DM Pfund, D Rai, Y Su, SK Sundaram, WJ Weber, and JM Zachara. 2002. Science to Support DOE Site Cleanup: The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Environmental Management Science Program Awards -- Fiscal Year 2002 Mid-Year Progress Report. PNNL-13928, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Geist DR, TP Hanrahan, EV Arntzen, GA McMichael, CJ Murray, and YJ Chien. 2002. "Physicochemical charateristics of the hyporheic zone affect redd site selection of chum salmon and fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River." North American Journal of Fisheries Management 22(4):1077-1085. 
  • Hampton MA, H Karl, and CJ Murray. 2002. "Acoustic profiles and images of the Palos Verdes Margin: Implications concerning deposition from the White's Point outfall." Continental Shelf Research 22(6-7):841-857. 

2001

2000

  • Geist DR, J Jones, CJ Murray, and DD Dauble. 2000. "Suitability criteria analyzed at the spatial scale of redd clusters improved estimates of fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) spawning habitat use in the Hanford Reach, Columbia River." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57(8):1636-1646. 
  • Michael D, PE Dresel, CJ Chou, CJ Murray, RO Gilbert, and BA Pulsipher. 2000. "Rethinking Groundwater Monitoring at the Hanford Site." Remediation 10(2):19-44. 

1999

  • Rockhold ML, CJ Murray, and MJ Fayer. 1999. "Conditional simulation and upscaling of soil hydraulic properties." In Characterization and Measurement of the Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Porous Media, vol. 2, ed. M. Th. van Genuchten, F. J. Leij, and L. Wu, pp. 1391-1401.  University of California Press, Riverside, CA. 

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