Dr. Tom Ballestero

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Phone: 603 862 1405
Fax: 603-862-3957
tom.ballestero@unh.edu

238 Gregg Hall
Civil Engineering , UNH
Durham , NH 03824

Current Projects

Major focus is the field monitoring of hydrologic processes. The UNH Stormwater Center ( http://www.unh.edu/erg/cstev/ ) evaluates the treatment performance of stormwater management technologies at a variety of field settings. In collaboration with the US Fish & Wildlife Service, stream and wetland sites are actively studied and restored ( http://www.unh.edu/erg/usfws-unh/ ). The groundwater hydraulics of fractured rock systems, as well as monitoring and sampling of these systems, is explored in the Bedrock Bioremediation Center ( http://www.unh.edu/erg/bbc/index.html ). Additional recent research studies include: the fate if PAHs in salt marsh systems; biosolids land application; and fate of radionuclides in groundwater supply systems.

Selected Publications

Roseen Robert M., Thomas P. Ballestero, James J. Houle, Pedro Avellaneda, Robert Wildey, and Joshua Briggs, 2007, Storm Water Low-Impact Development, Conventional Structural, and Manufactured Treatment Strategies for Parking Lot Runoff Performance Evaluations Under Varied Mass Loading Conditions, in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1984, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2006, pp. 135–147.

Watts , Alison Weatherly, Thomas P. Ballestero, Kevin H. Gardner, 2005, Uptake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in salt marsh plants Spartina alterniflora grown in contaminated sediments, Chemosphere, no. 62 (2006), pp. 1253-1260.

De Alba, P. and Ballestero, T, 2006, "Residual strength after liquefaction: a rheological approach, in " International Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier, v. 26, pp. 143-151.

Ballestero, T. P., B. Herzog, D. D. Evans, and G. Thompson, 2006, Chapter 4 "Monitoring and Sampling the Vadose Zone" in Practical Handbook of Environmental Site Characterization and Ground-Water Monitoring, second edition , ed. David M. Nielson, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Selected Grants

“ Stormwater Center : Field Testing and Verification of Stormwater Management Technologies”, NOAA, 2001 – 2008.

“Instream Flow Studies and Water Management Plan for the Souhegan River Designated Reach”, NH DES, 2004-2007.

“Inflow and Loadings from Ground Water to the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire ”, NOAA, 1999 – 2003.

“The Evaluation of Radioactive Contamination at Leach Fields Resulting from the Disposal of Small Water System Treatment Byproducts”, EPA, 2003-2007.

Courses Taught