Professional Background:

Expertise and occupational assignments range from environmental testing of drinking water wells, groundwater flow modeling, site contaminant evaluations, geologic investigations & hydrologic reports,  and much more.

Instrumental in developing a low-cost contaminant evaluation & remediation process, successfully tested at an arsenic polluted field and track arena in an artificial water recharge area.

Currently Assistant Professor of Geology at Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO.

Educational Background:

Educator of over 10 years in college and secondary classrooms including Ecology, Genetics, Meteorology, Physics, Chemistry, Water Resources, Astronomy, Geology, Physical Science, Earth and Space Science, Oceanography, World & Physical Geography, Environmental Science, World Resources, and Hydrology.

Dr. Uwe Richard Kackstaetter

Education:

B.A. Geology (1985), University of Northern Colorado, CO

Secondary Teaching Certification (1988), Brigham Young University, UT: Physical Science, Earth & Space Science, Geology, & German

M.S. Economic Geology (1990), Brigham Young University, UT

Thesis: Stratigraphy, Petrology, Geochemistry, and Diagenesis of  the Early Jurassic Springdale Sandstone, Shivwits, Washington County, Utah

Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Applied Geology / Mineralogy (2005),  University of Würzburg, Germany

Dissertation: Contaminant diffusion and sorption of an artificial leachate in selected geologic barriers of Frankonia, Bavaria, Germany

Sample of Publications:

(in preparation) Kackstaetter, U.R., (anticip. 2010), Mineralogy & Petrology Laboratory e-Manual.

Kackstaetter, U.R., 2008, Physical Geology Laboratory e-Manual.  1st ed., Earthscience Education LLC, ISBN-13 978-0-9820580-0-8, 138 p.

Kackstaetter, U.R., 2002,  Geologic Survey of the Crystal Meadow Subdivision Property near Berthoud, Colorado, South-Eastern Larimer County.  Report submitted to Colorado Geological Survey and Larimer County Zoning & Planing, 32 p.

Kackstaetter, U.R., & Udluft, P., 1997, Diffusion und Adsorption anorganischer und organischer Schadstoffe innerhalb ausgewählter geologischer Einheiten - Statusbericht, BayForrest Statusseminar, Munich, Bavaria, Oct. 97, Vol. 6, p.228-235

Kackstaetter, U.R., & Heinrichs, G., 1997, Validity of Low-Cost Laboratory Geochemistry for Environmental Application - Water, Air & Soil Pollution 95, p. 116-131.

Kackstaetter, U.R., Heinrichs, G., & Udluft, P., 1994, The Use of Low-Cost Exploration Geochemical Analysis for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of Arsenic and Heavy-Metal Contaminated Sites - Second International Symposium & Exhibition on Environmental Contamination in Central & Eastern Europe, Sep. 20-23, 1994, Budapest, Hungary p. 100-102