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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

Ph.D., Geology, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
M.S., Geology, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1977
B.S., Earth Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1974

TEACHING:

General Geology (GEOS 101)
Physical Geology (GEOS 102)
Introduction to Environmental Science (GEOS 130)
Concepts in the Physical Sciences (GEOS 141)
Principles of Historical Geology (GEOS 203)
Environmental Science (GEOS 330)
Environmental Geology (GEOS 340)
Science and the American Idea (GEOS 351)
Geologic Hazards (GEOS 355)
Energy in the Human Environment (GEOS 370)
Economic Geology (GEOS 549)
Geochemistry (GEOS 565)
Geological Evolution of North America (GEOS 580)
Isotope Geochemistry (GEOS 598)
Geosciences Seminar (GEOS 600,601)
Hydrogeochemistry (GEOS 640)
Environmental Monitoring (GEOS 650)

M.S. THESES DIRECTED:

Watershed Factors Affecting Flow and Nutrient Supply in California Park Lakes, Butte County, 
California, Charlene R. Sundermann, Spring 2006

The Paragenesis of Metal Sulfate Minerals in Acid Mine Drainage Environments and the Synthesis 
of Magnesiocopiapite, James D. Livingston, Spring 2007

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Geochemistry, Environmental Science, Water-Rock Interactions, 
Geologic Disposal of Nuclear Waste

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

The Geochemical Society
Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management Steering Committee
American Geophysical Union
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Murphy, W.M. (1995) Contributions of thermodynamic and mass transport modeling to evaluation 
of groundwater flow and groundwater travel time at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Scientific Basis for 
Nuclear Waste Management XVIII, Murakami, T., and Ewing, R.C. (eds.) Materials Research Society 
Symposium Proceedings, v. 353, p. 419-426.

Murphy, W.M. (1995) Natural analogs for Yucca Mountain. Radwaste Magazine, November, v. 2, 
no. 6, p. 44-50.

Murphy, W.M., Pabalan, R.T., Prikryl, J.D., and Goulet, C.J. (1996) Reaction kinetics and 
thermodynamics of aqueous dissolution and growth of analcime and clinoptilolite at 25°C. 
American Journal of Science, v. 296, p. 128-186.

Oelkers, E.H., Bjørkum, P.A., and Murphy, W.M. (1996) A petrographic and computational 
investigation of quartz cementation and porosity reduction in North Sea sandstones. American 
Journal of Science, v. 296, p. 420-452.

Murphy, W.M. (1997) Are pit lakes susceptible to limnic eruptions? In Tailings and Mine Waste 
'97, Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 543-548.

Murphy, W.M., Pearcy, E.C., Green, R.T., Prikryl, J.D., Mohanty, S., Leslie, B.W., and 
Nedungadi, A. (1998) A test of long term, predictive, geochemical transport modeling at the 
Akrotiri archaeological site. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, v. 29, p. 245-279.

Murphy, W.M., and Codell, R.C. (1999) Alternate source term models for Yucca Mountain 
performance assessment based on natural analog data and secondary mineral solubility. 
Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXII, Wronkiewicz, D.J., and Lee, J.H. (eds.) 
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 556, p. 551-558.

Murphy, W.M., and Shock, E.L. (1999) Environmental aqueous geochemistry of actinides. 
In Burns, P.C., and Finch, R. (eds.) Uranium: Mineralogy, Geochemistry and the Environment. 
Mineralogical Society of America Reviews in Mineralogy, v. 38, p. 221-253.

Murphy, W.M. (2000) Natural analogs and performance assessment for geologic disposal of nuclear 
waste. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXIII, Smith, R.W., and Shoesmith, D.W. 
(eds.) Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 608, p. 533-544.

Murphy, W.M., and Pickett, D.A. (2002) Radioisotope fractionation and secular equilibrium 
in performance assessment for geologic disposal of nuclear waste. Scientific Basis for Nuclear 
Waste Management XXV, B.P.  McGrail, and G.A. Cragnolino (eds.) Materials Research Society 
Symposium Proceedings, v. 713, p. JJ8.7.1-JJ8.7.8.

Browning, L., Murphy, W.M., Manepally, C., and Fedors, R. (2003) Reactive transport 
model for the ambient unsaturated hydrogeochemical system at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.  
Computers & Geosciences, v. 29. p. 247-263. 

Murphy, W.M. (2004) Measures of geologic isolation. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste
Management XXVII, Hanchar, J., Stroes-Gascoyne, S., and Browning, L. (eds.)
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 824, p. 533-541

Murphy, W.M., Soldavini, S., and Gallagher, C.M. (2004) Distributions of concentration
limits for the source term in performance assessments. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste
Management XXVII, Hanchar, J., Stroes-Gascoyne, S., and Browning, L. (eds.)
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 824, p. 561-566.

Prykryl, J.D., and Murphy, W.M. (2004) The dissolution of uranophane in CaCl2-SiO2(aq)
test solutions. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste managememt XXVII, Hanchar, J.,
Stroes-Gascoyne, S., and Browning, L. (eds.) Materials Research Society Symposium 
Proceedings, v. 824, p. 189-194.

Pickett, D.A., and Murphy, W.M. (2004) Preferential radionuclide release due to 
alpha decay:  effect of repository performance.  Scientific Basis for Nuclear 
Waste managememt XXVII, Hanchar, J., Stroes-Gascoyne, S., and Browning, L. (eds.) 
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 824, p. 555-560.

Verlaguet, A., Brunet, F., Goffé, B., and Murphy, W.M.  (2006) Experimental 
study and modeling of fluid reaction paths in the  quartz-kyanite±muscovite-water 
system at 0.7 GPa in the 350-550 °C range: Implications  for Al selective transfer 
during metamorphism. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,  v. 70, p. 1772-1788.

Murphy, W.M. (2006) Regulating the geologic disposal of  high-level nuclear waste at Yucca 
Mountain. In Macfarlane,  A.M., and Ewing, R.C. (eds.) Uncertainty  Underground, 
MIT Press, p. 45-56.

Murphy, W.M. (2006) The near field at Yucca Mountain:  Effects of coupled processes on nuclear
waste isolation. In Macfarlane, A.M.,  and Ewing, R.C. (eds.) Uncertainty  Underground,
MIT Press, p. 271-283. 

Murphy, W.M., and Chen, R. (2007) Water chemistry in the  ancient city of Lijiang, 
Yunnan Province, China.  The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic 
and Social  Sustainability, v. 3, p. 71-78.

Murphy, W.M. (2007) Hydrothermal phase relations among  uranyl minerals at the Nopal I analog 
site. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste  Management XXX, Dunn, D.S., Poinssot, C., and 
Begg, B. (eds.), Materials  Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 985, p. 53-58.

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