John Selker

University Distinguished Professor
John.Selker [at] Oregonstate.edu

Office: 1-541-737-6304
Other: 1-541-829-0137
Fax: 541-737-2082

Gilmore Hall

Gilmore Hall 210

124 SW 26th Street

124 SW 26th Street
Corvallis, OR 97331
  • Hydrologic Instrumentation; Vadose Zone Hydrology; Groundwater Hydrology; Stochastic Hydrology; Contaminant Transport

Current Research: 

Directs laboratory experiments in five facilities, including column/chamber experiments, flow of non-Newtonian fluids, sediment transport, and development of instrumentation for hydrological research.  Directs multi-dimensional numerical research including simulation of two and three-phase flow in porous media, focusing on the role of local heterogeneity upon fate and transport, and management of aquifers (e.g., for Aquifer Storage and Recovery). Field experiments are ongoing in Oregon (atmospheric turbulence, river/aquifer exchange, artificial recharge of aquifers for habitat restoration), France/Switzerland/Spain/Germany (DTS), Chile (swelling soil hydrology), and across Africa (automated remote monitoring of hydrologic variables).

Curriculum Vitae: 
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Profile Field Tabs

At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Biological and Ecological Engineering
Career Links: 
CTEMPs DTS Center
Trans-African Hydro-Meterological Observatory
Openly Published Environmental Sensing Lab (OPEnS)
BEE 542 Vadose Zone Transport
Vadose Teaching Kits
Materials related to Lewis Press text “Vadose Zone Processes” by Selker, Keller and McCord, 1999
Chilean Soil Physics Course
Do you accept grad students?: 
I accept graduate students for the Biological & Ecological Engineering Department
I accept graduate students for the Crop and Soil Science Department
I accept graduate students for the Soil Science Program
I can serve on graduate committees
Student(s): 
Joseph Ellingson
Jordan Jimmie
Matthew Tippett-Vannini
Sevval Sare Gulduren
Bradley Best
Courses Taught: 
  • BEE 469 - Ecological Engineering Design I
  • BEE 470 - Ecological Engineering Design II
  • BEE 542 - Vadose Zone Transport
Biography

Dr. Selker, OSU professor of Biological and Ecological Engineering and co-Director of both CTEMPs.org and TAHMO.org, has worked USA, Kenya, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Canada, Chile, and England and carried out research in Chile, Ghana, Senegal, Israel, China, and 10 European countries.  His areas of expertise include electronic design irrigation and water systems, and development projects. Dr. Selker has been a professor in the department of Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University for 30 years focused on Water Resources Engineering, publishing 225 peer-reviewed articles. In 2013 he was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and 2013 received the John Hem Award for Science and Technology from the American Groundwater Association. In 2020 he was elected President of the American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section (7,000 members).  He will give the 2022 Boussinesq lecture at the Netherlands National Academy of Sciences. He is President-Elect of the AGU Hydrology Section (7000 members)

My Publications
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2016

Conference Paper

R. Hut, Selker, J., Weijs, S., Luxemburg, W., Wickert, A., Blume, T., Bamburger, J., Stoof, C., and Tauro, F., “7 years of MacGyver sessions at EGU and AGU: what happened?”, in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2016.
N. van de Giesen, Selker, J., Sayde, C., Thomas, C. K., Higgins, C. W., Schilperoort, B., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Luxemburg, W., Hilgersom, K., van Emmerik, T., and , “Distributed Temperature Sensing in the Atmosphere”, in EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2016.

Journal Article

R. D. Stewart, Rupp, D. E., Najm, M. R. Abou, and Selker, J., “A Unified Model for Soil Shrinkage, Subsidence, and Cracking”, Vadose Zone Journal, vol. 15, 2016.
S. T. E. P. H. E. N. A. DRAKE, Huwald, H., Parlange, M. B., Selker, J., NOLIN, A. N. N. E. W., and Higgins, C. W., “Attenuation of wind-induced pressure perturbations in alpine snow”, Journal of Glaciology, pp. 1–10, 2016.
J. Benítez-Buelga, Rodriguez-Sinobas, L., Calvo, R. Sánchez, Gil-Rodriguez, M., Sayde, C., and Selker, J., “Calibration of soil moisture sensing with subsurface heated fiber optics using numerical simulation”, Water Resources Research, vol. 52, pp. 2985–2995, 2016.
K. Hilgersom, Van Emmerik, T. H. M., Solcerova, A., Berghuijs, W. R., Selker, J., and Van De Giesen, N., “Practical considerations for enhanced-resolution coil-wrapped Distributed Temperature Sensing”, 2016.
K. Hilgersom, Van Emmerik, T. H. M., Solcerova, A., Berghuijs, W. R., Selker, J., and Van de Giesen, N. C., “Practical considerations for enhanced-resolution coil-wrapped Distributed Temperature Sensing (discussion)”, Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems Discussions, 2016, 2016.
A. Arnon, Selker, J., and Lensky, N. G., “Thermohaline stratification and double diffusion diapycnal fluxes in the hypersaline Dead Sea”, Limnology and Oceanography, 2016.

2015

Conference Paper

J. Selker, “A new chapter in environmental sensing: The Open-Source Published Environmental Sensing (OPENS) laboratory”, in 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, 2015.
J. Selker, “Characterizing dynamic processes in the Critical Zone: Crazy new tools provide crazy new insights”, in 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, 2015.

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