News & Events
- 01/26/2012
INTERA’s Cody Hudson Works to Provide Safe Drinking Water to Village in Kenya - 01/25/2012
NPR Interview with Dr. Barney Austin, INTERA’s Director of Hydrologic Services - 10/27/2011
INTERA Names Alaa Aly Vice President - 10/25/2011
INTERA's Dr. Abhishek Singh Named New Associate Editor for the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - 10/19/2011
INTERA Wins Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Project in Japan - 09/09/2011
INTERA's Larry Coons Receives 2011 Excellence in Reclamation Award - 06/15/2011
INTERA Develops Adjoint Capture Function for MODFLOW - 04/20/2011
ICP Selects INTERA to Permit New Mine - 04/12/2011
INTERA's Tampa Office Moves to a New Location - 12/23/2010
INTERA Divests Ownership in Canadian Affiliate - 12/02/2010
Dr. William (Bill) Linderfelt Joins INTERA's Albuquerque Office - 11/22/2010
INTERA's Dr. Mick Apted Publishes Book on Disposal of Radioactive Wastes in Geological Repositories - 09/04/2010
INTERA's Greg Ruskauff to Speak at the International Groundwater Symposium - 08/20/2010
INTERA Receives 2010 Excellence in Reclamation Award from the New Mexico Mining and Minerals Division - 07/02/2010
Larry Coons Joins INTERA's Albuquerque Office - 06/01/2010
INTERA Wins Environmental Services Contract with the City of Austin - 04/28/2010
INTERA's Abhishek Singh Lead Author on Paper Published in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering - 04/27/2010
Dr. Steve Young Joins INTERA Team - 03/23/2010
INTERA's Dr. Abhishek Singh to Speak at ASCE World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2010 - 01/29/2010
INTERA Continuing to Support EPRI's Oversight of DOE's Nuclear Waste Management and Geological Disposal Programs - 12/31/2009
Dr. Mick Apted Lectures on Various Aspects of the Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes - 12/17/2009
Navarro - INTERA Team Wins $60 Million Environmental Characterization and Remediation Contract at DOE's Nevada Test Site - 12/15/2009
INTERA Awarded Contract to Assess Abandoned Uranium Mines - 12/14/2009
INTERA Acquires Monitor Scientific, LLC - 11/19/2009
INTERA Personnel Publish Paper on Model Averaging Techniques for Quantifying Conceptual Model Uncertainty - 10/13/2009
Dr. Robert W. Andrews Rejoins INTERA as a Principal Scientist - 10/02/2009
INTERA's Srikanta Mishra Publishes Review Paper on Global Sensitivity Analysis Techniques - 08/31/2009
INTERA Personnel to Speak at PEST Conference - 07/29/2009
INTERA Hires John Sigda, PhD - 07/15/2009
INTERA's Srikanta Mishra Publishes Article on Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Techniques - 07/13/2009
Dr. Barney Austin Joins INTERA as Director of Hydrologic Services - 06/01/2009
Dr. Srikanta Mishra to Teach Short Course on Global Sensitivity Analysis Techniques as Part of ModelCARE2009 - 04/17/2009
INTERA Personnel to Speak at the 2009 Devils Hole Workshop - 04/17/2009
INTERA to Exhibit at U2009 in Keystone, Colorado, May 10-13, 2009 - 10/17/2008
Geoscientific Site Characterization - 10/10/2008
INTERA Sponsoring the American Water Resource Association's 2008 Annual Water Resources Conference - 10/01/2008
INTERA Wins $15M Subcontract with CH2M Hill to Support Environmental Restoration at DOE's Hanford Site - 10/01/2008
INTERA Opens Richland, Washington Office - 09/25/2008
INTERA Approved for $900,000 Contract to Provide Environmental Services for Austin Energy - 09/24/2008
INTERA Wins Contract to Revise Groundwater Model for the St. Johns River Water Management District in Florida - 09/15/2008
INTERA Staff Members Publish Article on Texas Groundwater Availability Modeling in the August Issue of The Water Report - 07/15/2008
INTERA Names Marsh Lavenue President & CEO - 06/11/2008
INTERA Employee Receives Special Recognition for Work at NTS - 04/10/2008
Dr. Srikanta Mishra to Speak in Italy on Environmental Issues Related to Geological Storage - 10/30/2007
INTERA Personnel to Speak at American Water Resources Association Annual Conference - 08/16/2007
INTERA Sponsoring Regional Water Symposium - 08/14/2007
INTERA to Provide Key Support on Petroleum Storage - 08/08/2007
INTERA Signs Contract with Southwest Florida Water Management District - 07/27/2007
INTERA to Provide Environmental Commissioning Services for the New City of Austin Water Treatment Plant #4 - 07/27/2007
INTERA to Provide Environmental Investigation and Remediation Services to TXDOT - 07/20/2007
INTERA Employee Published on Using Decision Support - 07/19/2007
INTERA to Provide Services to the City of Albuquerque at the Former Los Angeles Landfill - 07/15/2007
INTERA Awarded Modeling Contract by NAGRA - 07/11/2007
INTERA Awarded Contract with ANDRA to Conduct Hydrogeologic Testing - 06/19/2007
INTERA Employee Published in Hydroline - 06/18/2007
INTERA Hires Peter Castiglia - 06/14/2007
INTERA Selected by South Florida Water Management District to Provide Modeling Support Services - 05/30/2007
INTERA Awarded Contract from the University of Mississippi - 05/22/2007
INTERA Signs Contract with Metropolitan Water District of Southern California - 05/05/2007
INTERA to Provide Sandoval County with Hydrologic Services - 05/01/2007
INTERA Relocates Corporate Office in Austin, Texas - See all News & Events »
In Remembrance of Former INTERA Senior Scientist, Dr. Mark Reeves
03/16/2010
Dr. Mark Reeves, a Senior Scientist at INTERA from 1978 to 2000, passed away Thursday, March 11, 2010 in Katy, Texas at the age of 72 years. Mark played a key role in INTERA's corporate history. He was an expert mathematical modeler with over 30 years of experience in the ground-water area. From a background of theoretical physics and scientific programming, he moved into the field of environmental modeling in the late 1960s. He focused on waste-management problems in partially saturated, saturated, and multi-phased flow systems, and has written several well-known computer models in these areas. He led and participated in numerous projects with activities relating to high- and low-level nuclear-waste disposal, Class-I hazardous waste disposal, in situ mining, and other subjects. Sites considered include the DOE Oak Ridge Reservation in eastern Tennessee, the WIPP Site in southeastern New Mexico, the Yucca Mountain Site near Las Vegas, Nevada, and approximately one-third of all Class-I hazardous waste-injection plants in the United States.
During his career, Mark developed software for mathematical modeling of ground-water systems for the safe burial of nuclear waste. While working at the Computer Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he jointly with fellow scientists developed the FEMWATER and FEMWASTE, two well-known models which consider contamination problems in partially saturated, near-surface media. At INTERA, Mark led the development of SWIFT-II, a well-known model which considers contamination problems in fully saturated, fractured, and non-isothermal geologic media. Through his participation on the INTERA WIPP Project for Sandia National Laboratories, he joined a fellow scientist Dr. Banda Ramarao, in extending the adjoint-sensitivity code GRASP-II to include automatic calibration of flow fields. These codes served as the foundation for INTERA's waste management services—services that the company has now been providing for over 30 years. Mark was a mentor to many of INTERA's current senior staff and was perhaps best known for his ability to numerically formulate and solve challenging technical problems oftentimes with first-of-its-kind numerical solutions. He authored and coauthored approximately 50 publications, papers and reports on mathematical modeling of ground water systems.
Since retiring from INTERA, he taught computer programming and advanced mathematics at several schools in Houston Texas and donated his time to the Texas Prison System where he helped educate and prepare inmates to lead more productive lives. Mark will be greatly missed on both a professional and personal level, and will always be remembered as an integral contributor to INTERA's history and success.
