Alaska Department of Natural Resources
Ronald Daanen is a Geohydrologist for the State of Alaska, where he is responsible for the Geohydrology Program. The program strives to quantify groundwater resources in Northern Alaska through state of the art hydrological research. The complexity of quantifying groundwater flow in permafrost dominated regions, the lack of available data, and a strong dependency on climate change, requires a strong focus on thermal aspects of the landscape and utilization of geophysics to map the subsurface. The program relies on state of the art physically based coupled heat and mass transfer models to resolve groundwater availability from sparsely measured hydrological data.