Paul McGinley, Ph.D.

Biography

Paul McGinley teaches in the College of Natural Resources and is a UW-Extension Water Quality Specialist. His extension, teaching and research interests revolve around lake, stream and drinking water quality. Specific applications include lake management, impacts of land use change, water treatment, and the fate and transport of aquatic pollutants.

Formal Education

Ph.D. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Environmental Engineering, 1991

M.S. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Water Chemistry, 1987.

B.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Soil Science, 1980; Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1983.

Professional Positions

Assistant Professor, Water Resources, College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, January 2001-present.

Project Manager/Team Leader, MSA Professional Services, Baraboo, WI December, 1994-2000.

Environmental Technician, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, 1980-1983.

Professional Memberships

North American Lake Management Society (NALMS)

American Water Works Association (AWWA)

American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE)

American Water Resources Association (AWRA)

Registered Professional Engineer (WI)

Recent Professional Service

Shoreland Advisory Committee (2003-present), Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

President-Elect (2004), Wisconsin Section of the American Water Resources Association

Pioneer Farm Water Team (2003-present)

Courses

Natural Resources 251 - Introduction to Soil and Water Resources

Water 350, Drinking Water Quality and Treatment

Water 451, Agricultural Hydrologic Planning and Design

Water 452, Urban Hydrologic Planning and Design

Water 480, Water Chemistry

Water 380, Water Resources Summer Camp

Research

Publications and Presentations

McGinley, P.M., R. Cook, N. Turyk and B. Shaw. Evaluating the Impacts of Land Use on Small Seepage Lakes. Abstract and Presentation at the North American Lake Management Society 2004 Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia.

McGinley, P.M. 2003. A 10,000 year relationship-- the lakes and land, how are they getting along? Lake Tides 29(1):9-11 (http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/uwexlakes/laketides/vol29-1/vol29-1.pdf)

McGinley, P. and R. Stephens. 2004. Exploring groundwater phosphorus concentrations through private water supply testing. American Water Resources Association Wisconsin Chapter Annual Meeting, March 2004.

McGinley, P.M, N. Turyk and W. Halverson. Reaching Out with Science to Help Communities Make Decisions Presented at the 3rd Nonpoint Source Pollution Information & Education Conference, Chicago, IL, October 20-23, 2003.

Dechamps, A., P.M. McGinley and N. Turyk. The influence of calcium carbonate on the phosphorus in the water column of a hard water lake. Abstract and presentation at North American Lake Management Society 2002 Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska.

McGinley, P.M. and J. Baumann. Arsenic and Iron: What’s the Connection Presented at the Wisconsin Water Association Annual Meeting, September, 2002. Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.

McGinley, P.M. Herbicides and Wisconsin Groundwater, Presented at the Wisconsin Rural Water Association Annual Meeting, April, 2002.

McGinley, P.M. and S. Kesarju. Organic Contaminants in Sedimentary Rock Systems- Experimental Evaluation of Sorption in Limestones and Shales, In: Proceedings of the Fourth Great Lakes Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Conference on In-Situ Remediation of
Contaminated Sites, Chicago, IL, May 17, 1996.

McGinley, P.M., L.E.Katz, W.J. Weber, Jr. Competitive Sorption and Displacement of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants in Saturated Subsurface Soil Systems, Water Resources Research 32:3571-3577, 1996.

McGinley, P.M., L.E. Katz, and W.J. Weber, Jr. A Distributed Reactivity Model for Sorption by Soils and Sediments: II. Competitive Sorption of Hydrophobic Organic Compounds.
Environmental Science & Technology, 27:1524-1531, 1993.

Weber, W.J., Jr., P.M. McGinley, and L.E. Katz. A Distributed Reactivity Model for Sorption by Soils and Sediments: I. Thermodynamic Basis and Equilibrium Assessments, Environmental
Science & Technology, 26:1955-1962, 1992.

Weber, W.J., Jr., P.M McGinley, L.E. Katz. Sorption Phenomena in Subsurface Systems: Concepts, Models and Effects on Contaminant Fate and Transport, Water Research, 25:499-528, 1991.

Recent Research Projects

Field Scale Evaluation of the Phosphorous Index in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region.

Integration of Watershed Management Issues in a Comprehensive Community Plan

Portage County Lakes at the Turn of the Century: Assessing Watersheds, Water Quality, Habitat and Changes to inform Citizen Based Lake Protection.

Patterns of Herbicde Transfer to Surface Water at the Field and Farm-Scale

Mill Creek and Fever River Atrazine Investigation

Personal

Hobbies:

Hiking, fishing and camping