Yevgeniy A. Kontar, Ph.D., D.Sci.

Phone: 217-265-5438 • Fax: 217-244-2785
E-mail: kontar@isgs.uiuc.edu

Major Research Interests

• geophysical risks assessment and analysis
• development of new method of geophysical survey of saltwater-freshwater interface in the coastal zone
• groundwater-surface water interactions/application of geophysics
• geophysical applications for assessment and evaluation of coastal aquifers/water resources/pollution control

Current Projects

• Two grants from the European Union related to the field of Geophysical Risk Assessment and Analysis
http://shelfrisks.org/monitoring/index.asp

Current International Positions

• UNESCO/United Nations expert in geo-risk assessment
• President of the International Commission on Groundwater-Seawater Interactions
• Member of the Executive Committee of the International Natural Hazards Society
• Member of the Bureau of the IUGG GeoRisk Commission

Recent Publications

Kontar Y.A. (2008). Assessment of Groundwater – Surface Water Interaction in Tsunami Affected Areas. In: From the Watershed to the Global Ocean, AGU, ASLO, TOS Ocean Science Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 2-7, 2008, Abstract ID: 2579.

Bokuniewicz H., Taniguchi M., Ishitoibi T., Charette M., Allen M., and Kontar Y. (2008). Direct Measurements of Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) over a Fractured Rock Aquifer in Flamengo Bay Brazil. Journal of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2008, Vol. 76, Issue 3, 466-472.

Taniguchi, M., Burnett, W., Dulaiova H., Siringan F., Foronda J., Wattaykorn G., Rungsupa S., Kontar Y., and Ishitobi T. (2008). Groundwater Discharge as an Important land-sea Pathway into Manila Bay, Philippines, Journal of Coastal Research, 2008, Vol. 24(1A), 15-24.

Kontar, Y. (2007). Groundwater-Seawater Interactions in Tsunami Affected Areas: Solutions and Applications. In: A New Focus on Groundwater-Seawater Interactions. IAHS Press, UK, 312, 19-27.

Ozorovich, Yu.R. and Y. Kontar (2007). Possibilities of Geophysical Survey for Groundwater Contamination and Subsurface Pollution Determination and Monitoring in the Coastal Zone. In: A New Focus on Groundwater-Seawater Interactions. IAHS Press, UK, 312, 93-99.

Yevgeniy A. Kontar (2007). Development of New Approaches of Coastal Geo-Hazards Observation and Warning Systems. EOS, OSG23b-03. AGU Fall Meeting 2007. San Francisco, California, December 10-14, 2007.

Burnett, W., P.K. Aggarwal, A. Aureli, E. Kontar, et al. (2006). Quantifying Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Coastal Zone via Multiple Methods. Science of the Total Environment, 367, p. 498-543.

Povinec, P.P., P.K. Aggarwal, W. Burnett, E. Kontar, et al. (2006). Characterization of Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) offshore South-Eastern Sicily - IAEA-UNESCO SGD Collaboration. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, June 2006, p. 1-21.

Taniguchi, M., W. Burnett, H. Duevalova, E. Kontar, P. Povinec and W. Moore (2006). Submarine Groundwater Discharge Measured by Seepage Meters in Sicilian Coastal Waters. Continential Shelf Research, Vol. 26, Issue 7, May 2006, p. 835-842.

Kontar, E.A. and Yu. R. Ozorovich (2006). Geo-Electromagnetic Survey of Fresh/Salt Water Interface in the Coastal Southeastern Sicily. Continental Shelf Research, Vol. 26, Issue 7, May 2006, p. 843-851.

Kontar, E.A., L.I. Lobkovsky and K.A. Korotenko (2006). On Risk Assessment and Sustainable Industrial Development of Shelf Zones. In: Recent Geodynamics, Georisk and Sustainable Development in the Black Sea to Caspian Sea Region. Ismail-Zadeh, A.T. (Ed.). American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York. Vol. 825, p. 84-94.

Recent Science Meetings

• Organized and convened a Science Session on Groundwater Inputs to the Ocean, From the Watershed to the Global Ocean, AGU, ASLO, TOS Ocean Science Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 2-7, 2008, http://www.sgmeet.com/aslo/orlando2008/sessionschedule.asp?SessionID=089
• Convened a Science Session on Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Processes Associated with Natural and Man-Made Hazards, AGU Fall Meeting 2007. San Francisco, California, December 10-14, 2007 Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Processes Associated with Natural and Man-Made Hazards
• Invited speaker at IODP Geohazards Workshop, Portland, Oregon, August 26-30, 2007.
• Invited speaker at the XXIV General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics held in Perugia, Italy, July 2-13, 2007.
• Convened a Science Session on Earthquakes and Earthquake Prediction and delivered a lecture entitled: "Seawater - Groundwater Interactions in Tsunami Affected Areas, Solutions and Applications" during the 11^th International Symposium on Natural and Human Induced Hazards and 2^nd Workshop on Earthquake Prediction organized by the Natural Hazards Society (NHS) and European Seismological Commission, Patras, Greece, June 22-25, 2006. Represented the IUGG GeoRisk Commission at the meeting and was elected to be a Representative-at-Large at the Natural Hazards Society's Council.
• UNESCO International Workshop "Post-Disaster Assessment and Monitoring of Changes in Coastal, Ocean, and Human Systems in the Indian Ocean and Asian Waters", Phuket, Thailand, February 20-24, 2006. Chair of the Ocean Data, Observations, Disaster Warning and Risk Reduction Session.
• The 6^th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community. University of Bonn, Germany, October 9-13, 2005. Organizer and convener of the Risks and Sustainability Session.