Groundwater Model

Three-dimensional conceptual model of groundwater. The upper layers visualize conductivity and permeability of soils; sinkholes and caves above the aquifer level; aquifer recharge estimates. Lower layer is the aquifer vulnerability map. Vertical lines represent the monitor wells. This is based on an ESRI arcGIS map.

INVISIBLE FIRE: Visualizing Contaminated Groundwater near Fernald Uranium Plant, Ohio.

Interdisciplinary artist Eve Andrée Laramée has launched a new project, INVISIBLE FIRE, visualizing water in Ohio contaminate with radioactive isotopes of plutonium, uranium, radium, thorium and technitium.






Visualizing Data from wells, groundwater, and aquifer samples surrounding the Fernald Uranium Processing Plant, near Cincinnati, Ohio.

Eve Andrée Laramée Launches Project on Ohio Water Contaminated by Radioactive toxins

Eve Andrée Laramée launches new interdisciplinary art project addressing Ohio Water Quality issues, entitled INVISIBLE FIRE. Laramée, who has devoted thirty years working on activist art projects addressing Cold War environmental legacy sites contaminated with radioactive toxins has initiated a series of new projects addressing Ohio Atomic Legacy Sites. The SYNAPSE CENTER at Akron University has sponsored the beginning stages of this work.

Using data from the Department of Energy Geospatial Environmental Mapping System, Laramee worked with computer scientists, Kalyan Thokala and Yincai Xiao to create images of contaminated groundwater based on well water samples from the Fernald Site. The project will develop to include water sample data from surrounding agricultural land. Laramee hopes to collaborate with a GIS specialist and a geologist/hydrologist to include underground aquifer maps into the simulated toxin plume.

INVISIBLE FIRE Copyright 2011, Eve Andree Laramee. All rights reserved.

More information on Eve Andree Laramee's work can be found on her website: http://evelaramee.com