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

Senior Geophysicist, Large Scale Research Initiatives Coordinator
Geologic Mapping and Hydrogeology Center

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

Major Research Interests

• geo risks assessment and analysis
• assessment and evaluation of coastal aquifers/water resources/pollution control
• groundwater-surface water interactions/application of geophysics
• geophysical applications for assessment and evaluation of coastal aquifers/water resources/pollution control
• development of new method of geo surveys. Created numerous inventions in geosciences and received 125 patents in Russia, Japan, Germany, France, Canada, Finland, Australia, and USA (US Patents: 4,116,069; 4,155,491; 4,345,461, and 4,557,697).

Current Projects

• Illinois Geo Risks and Sustainability
• Application of Waterborne Geophysics in Illinois: Perspectives and Challenges
• Influence of Groundwater Seepage on Ecosystem Response in Lake Michigan
• Illinois — Lake Michigan EarthScope Seismic Experiment
• Combined Geo Risks http://shelfrisks.org/monitoring/index.asp

Current International Positions

• Executive Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Natural Hazards (2009-Present)
• Executive Member of the AGU Focus Groups Fellow Committee (2009-Present)
• Executive Member of the International Union of Geophysics and Geodesy (IUGG) GeoRisk Commission (2007-Present)
• President of the International Commission on Groundwater-Seawater Interactions (2005-Present)
• Member of the Executive Committee of the International Natural Hazards Society (2004-Present)

Recent Publications

Kontar, Y., Yu.R. Ozorovich, and A.T. Salokhiddinnov, 2009. Hazards in the Coastal Zones Related to Groundwater-Seawater Interactions. T. Beer (ed.), Geophysical Hazards, International Year of Planet Earth, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3236-2_12, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009

Ismail, A., Y. Kontar, E. Smith, A. Phillips, and A. Stumpf, 2009. Misleading Interpretation of Shallow Seismic Methods: Three Case Studies from MASW, P-Wave Reflection and S-Wave Reflection Surveys. In: Proceedings of SAGEEP, March 29-April 2, 2009, Fort Worth, Texas, CD-ROM edition

Povinec, P.P., H. Bokuniewicz, W.C. Burnett, J. Cable, M. Charette, J.F. Comanducci, E.A. Kontar, W.S. Moore, J.A. Oberdorfer, J. de Oliveira, R. Peterson, T. Stieglitz, and M. Taniguchi, 2008. Isotope Tracing of Submarine Groundwater Discharge offshore Ubatuba, Brazil: Results of the IAEA-UNESCO SGD Project. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volume 99, Issue 10, October 2008, 1596-1610.

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

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

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, EOS ID: 2579

Kontar, Y., 2008. Hazards in the Coastal Zones. Symposium PEH-01: Hazards: Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Awareness. In: IYPE Hazards Megasymposium, T. Beer, ed.: The 33^rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway, August 6-14, 2008

Stieglitz T., H. Bokuniewicz, W. Burnett, J. Cable, M. Charette, E. Kontar, J. Martin, W. Moore, J. Oberdorfer, R. Peterson, P. Povinec, J. de Olivera, and M. Taniguchi, 2008. Submarine Groundwater Discharge from a Fractured Rock Aquifer on the Ubatuba Coastline, Brazil: an Overview of the IAEA-UNESCO Project. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 89 (23), Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 29 July-1 August, 2008. Suppl. Abstract H25B-05. B-05

Kontar, Y., 2007. Groundwater-Seawater Interactions in Tsunami Affected Areas: Solutions and Applications. In: A New Focus on Groundwater-Seawater Interactions. IAHS, 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.

Kontar, Y.A., 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, H. Bokuniewicz, J.E. Cable, M.A. Charette, E. Kontar, S. Krupa, K.M. Kulkarni, A. Loveless, W.S. Moore, J.A. Oberdorfer, J. Oliveira, N. Ozyurt, P. Povinec, A.M.G. Privitera, R. Rajar, R.T. Ramessur, J. Scholten, T. Stieglitz, M. Taniguchi, and J.V. Turner, 2006. Quantifying Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Coastal Zone via Multiple Methods. Science of the Total Environment, 367, 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, 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, 26, 7, 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, 26, 7, 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, 84-94.

Bokuniewicz, H., E. Kontar, M. Rodrigues and D.A. Klein, 2004. Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) Patterns through a Fractured Rock: A Case Study in the Ubatuba Coastal Area, Brazil. AAS Revista, Asociacion Argentina de Sedimentologia, V. 11, N. 1, p. 9-16.

Lobkovsky, L., E. Kontar, I. Garagash, and Yu. Ozorovich, 2003. Monitors and Methods for Investigation of Submarine Landslides, Seawater Intrusion and Contaminated Groundwater Discharge as Coastal Hazards. In: Risk Science and Sustainability: Science for Reduction of Risk and Sustainable Development of Society, Kluwer, eds: T. Beer and A. Ismail-Zadeh, 191-207.

Burnett, W.C., J.P. Chanton, and E.A. Kontar (eds.), 2003. Submarine Groundwater Discharge. Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands. Biogeochemistry, 66, 202 p.

Burnett, W.C., J. Chanton, J. Christoff, E.A. Kontar, S.Krupa, M. Lambert, W. Moore, D.O.Rourke, R. Paulsen, C. Smith, L. Smith and M. Taniguchi, 2002. Assessing Methodologies for Measuring Groundwater Discharge to the Ocean. EOS, Volume 83, Number 11. 2002. 117, 122-123.

Kontar, E.A., W.C. Burnett and P.P. Povinec, 2002. Submarine Groundwater Discharge and Its Influence on Hydrological Trends in the Mediterranean Sea. Proceedings of the CIESM Workshop: Tracking long term hydrological change in the Mediterranean Sea. Monaco, 22-24 April, 2002, 109-114.

Kontar, E.A., Yu.R. Ozorovich, A. Salokhiddinov and Ye.B. Azhigaliyev, 2002, Study of Groundwater-Seawater Interactions in the Aral Sea Basin. Proceedings of the International Conference on Low-lying Coastal Areas. Hydrology and Integrated Coastal Zone Management, 9-12 September 2002, Bremerhaven, Germany, 225-230.

Nyffeler, F., C.H.-H, Godet, E. Kontar, R. Kos.yan, V.G. Krivosheya and I.I. Volkov, 2001. Optical properties of the water column along the continental margin of the anorth Eastern Black Sea. Journal of Marine Systems, 31, November 2001, 35-44.

Weatherly, G.L., Yoo Yin Kim and E.A. Kontar, 2000. Eulerian Measurement of the North Atlantic Deep Water Western Boundary Current at 18° S, Journal of Physical Oceanography, May 2000, 971-986.

Recent Science Meetings and Presentations

•       Organized and convened a Science Session on Advancing the Use of Electrical Resistivity and Electromagnetic Methods for Near-Surface Applications during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2009 Joint Assembly - The Meeting of the Americas, 2427 May 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Near Surface Geophysics
•       Invited presentation entitled "Illinois - Lake Michigan EarthScope Seismic Experiment" during the EarthScope National Meeting - Pre-meeting Workshop on May 12, 2009 in Boise, Idaho.
•       Organized and convened three Science Sessions on Uncertainty in Geophysical Data Interpretation: Implications and Developments and Groundwater Inputs to Lakes and Oceans (Posters) during the AGU 2008 Fall Meeting in San Francisco (December 15-19, 2008).
•       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
•       Organized and convened a Science Session on Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Processes Associated with Natural and Man-Made Hazards during the AGU 2007 Fall Meeting in San Francisco (December 10-14, 2007).
•       Invited speaker at the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (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.
•       Chair of the Ocean Data, Observations, Disaster Warning and Risk Reduction Session. 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.
•       Keynote lecture entitled: "The Southeast Asia Tsunami Disaster Aftermath: Development of New Approaches to Coastal Zone Hazard Observation and Warning Systems" during the LOICZ/IGBP II Inaugural Open Science Meeting, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, June 26-29, 2005. Convener of the Geohazards, Groundwater and Risk Session.
•       Organizer and convener of the Risks and Sustainability Session. The 6^th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community. University of Bonn, Germany, October 9-13, 2005.

Updated 9/10/2009 SLD