Clay Cooper

Affiliation

Desert Research Institute

Biography

Clay Cooper is an Associate Research Professor at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, where he and his students work on problems associated with subsurface fluid flow and transport, the use of dissolved gases to delineate heat and fluid sources in geothermal areas, the migration and storage of tritium in unsaturated zones, and the nature of dissolved CO2 stored in rocks undergoing large mechanical shocks such as seismic events. In addition to his research, Clay teaches Contaminant Transport in Groundwater Flow Systems at the University of Nevada, Reno.