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J. Val Klump
Senior Scientist, Great Lakes WATER Institute
Senior Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Geosciences

Phone: (414) 382-1700
Fax: (414) 382-1705
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Great Lakes WATER Institute
600 E. Greenfield Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Research Interests
    biogeochemistry, nutrient cycling, radiochemistry
Education
  • B.S., Duke Univ. 1971
  • J.D., Georgetown Univ. 1975
  • Ph.D., Univ. of North Carolina 1980
Publications
  • Das, S., J. Routh, A.N. Roychoudhury, and J.V. Klump. 2008. Major and trace element geochemistry in Zeeloevlei, South Africa: a lacustrine record of present and past processes. Applied Geochemistry (in press)
  • Consi, T.R., T.F. Hansen, and J.V. Klump. 2007. GLUCOS: The Great Lakes Urban Coastal Observing System: A radio-linked buoy network for real-time monitoring of water quality in an urban freshwater coastal zone. Sea Technology 48(9): 39-43.
  • Das, S., J. Routh, A.N. Roychoudhury, and J.V. Klump.  2007.  Elemental ratio (C/N, H/C) and stable isotope (dN-15 and dC-13) record of sedimentary organic mater in Zeekoevlei, South Africa – a record of human induced environmental changes. J. Paleolimnology DOI 10.1007/s10933-007-9110-5
  • Waples, J.T., B. Eadie, J.V. Klump, M. Squires, J. Cotner, and G. McKinley. 2006.  National Carbon Program,  The Laurentian Great Lakes. In the Coastal Carbon Dioxide 2005 Workshop Report.
  • Waples, J.T., R. Paddock, J. Janssen, D. Lovalvo, B. Schulze, J. Kaster, and J.V. Klump. 2005. High Resolution Bathymetry and Lakebed Characterization in the Nearshore of Western Lake Michigan. J. Great Lakes Res. 31 (suppl. 1): 64-74.
  • Waples J.T., K.A. Orlandini, D.N. Edgington, and J.V. Klump. 2004. Seasonal and spatial dynamics of Th-234/U-2328 disequilibria in southern Lake Michigan. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 109, No. C10, C10S06 10.1029/2003JC002204.
  • MacKenzie, R.A., J.L. Kaster, and J.V. Klump. 2004. The ecological patterns of benthic invertebrates in a Great Lakes coastal wetland. J. Great Lakes Res. 30(1): 58-69.
  • Klump JV, D.N. Edgington, J.T. Waples, D.C. Szmania, B.E. Brown and K.A. Orlandini. 2003. Sampling methods and approaches using radionuclide tracers in the study of sediment resuspension and cross margin transport in the nearshore of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Internat. J. Sediment Res. 18(2): 266-277.
  • Waples J.T., K.A. Orlandini, K.M. Weckerly, D.N. Edgington and J.V. Klump. 2003. Measuring low concentrations of Thorium-234 in water and sediments. Marine Chemistry 80: 265-281
  • Waples J.T. and J.V. Klump. 2002. Biophysical effects of a decadal shift in summer wind direction over the Laurentian Great Lakes. Geophysical Sci. Lett. 29 (8), 10.1029/2001GL014564
  • Fitzgerald S.A., J.V. Klump, P.W. Swarzenski, R.A. Mackenzie and K.D. Richards. 2001. Beryllium-7 as a tracer of short-term sediment deposition and resuspension in the Fox River, Wisconsin. Environ. Sci. Tech. 35: 300-305.
  • Klump JV, RW Paddock, P Auster and I. Babb. 2001. The Evolution and Development of the Small ROV as an Essential Experimental Tool in Limnological and Coastal Marine Research. Oceans 2001 MTS/IEEE Conference Proceedings, 2: 826-832.
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