Gary Icopini

Gary Icopini


Hydrogeologist—Professor
Phone: (406) 496-4841
Email: gicopini@mtech.edu
MBMG—Butte
1300 West Park Street
Butte, MT 59701


  • Outreach & Presentations
  • Publications
Date Citation
10/11/2018 Icopini, G., 2018, Water Chemistry Changes in the Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana: Presented at the 2018 Mining and Mineral Symposium, Butte, Montana, October 11, 2018.
10/3/2018 Icopini, G., 2018, History and Recent Changes in the Geochemistry of the Berkeley Pit Lake: Presented at the Chemistry & Geochemistry Department Seminar Series, at Montana Tech, Butte, Montana, October 3, 2018.
10/2/2008 Icopini, G.A., 2008, Screening for Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Montana Ground Water: Poster Presentation at the AWRA Annual Conference, Big Sky, Montana, October 2, 2008.
lcopini, G,.A., Loconto, P.R., and Long, D.T., 1999, Quantitative Trace Environmental Analysis: Inorganic Anions and Selected Organic Acid Anions via Capillary Electrophoresis with Indirect Photometric Detection: Presented at the 50th Anniversary Pittsburgh Conference, Orlando, Florida, p. 44.
lcopini, G.A., Gruhl, W., Gardner, J., Tien, M., and Brantley S.L., 2000, Preliminary Investigations of Membrane Bound Fe(lll) Reductase and Siderophore Electron Transport Processes: Allegheny Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Fall Meeting.
Year Citation
2023 Duaime, T.E., McGrath, S.F., and Icopini, G.A., 2023, Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit: Forty years of water-level monitoring and water-quality sampling, 2022 Consent Decree update, Butte, Montana 1982-2022: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 761, 167 p.
2022 Duaime, T.E., McGrath, S.F., and Icopini, G.A., 2022, Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit water-level monitoring and water-quality sampling 2021 consent decree update Butte, Montana, 1982-2021: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 751, 170 p.
2021 Duaime, T., McGrath, S., Icopini, G., and Thale, P., 2021, Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit water-level monitoring and water-quality sampling 2019 consent decree update, Butte, Montana, 1982-2019: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 736, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana, January 21, 2021.
2020 Duaime, T., McGrath, S., Icopini, G., and Thale, P., 2020, Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit water-level monitoring and water-quality sampling 2018 consent decree update, Butte, Montana, 1982-2018, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 731, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana, July 21, 2020.
2019 Gammons, C. and Icopini, G., 2019, Improvements to the Water Quality of the Acidic Berkeley Pit Lake Due to Copper Recovery and Sludge Disposal, Mine Water and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-019-00648-8, Butte, Montana, 2019.
2011 Ellis, R.J., Long, D.T., and Icopini, G.A., 2011, Understanding Partitioning of Fe, Cu, and Zn, in Contaminated Oxic and Anoxic Soils: 12th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 8 - 10 September 2011, Rhodes Island, Greece, in CEST2011, A-497-506.
2010 Timmer, J., and Icopini, G.A., 2010, Screening for Organic Wastewater Chemicals in the Groundwater of Summit Valley, Montana: in Proceeding of the American Water Resources Association, Montana Section, 2010 Conference, Helena Montana, p. 43.
2009 Icopini, G.A., Boukhalfa, H., Reilly S.D., and Neu, M.P., 2009, Pu(V)/(VI) Reduction by Metal Reducing Bacteria Geobacter Metallireducens GS-15 and Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(11): p. 3641-3647.
2008 Abdo, G., Icopini, G., LaFave, J., Michalek, T., Metesh, J., and Waren, K., 2008, Lower Beaverhead River Case Study: in Final Case Study Report to the 60th Legislature Water Policy Interim Committee, 135 p., September 11, 2008.
2008 Icopini, G.A., 2008, Screening for Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Montana Ground Water: Technical Report Submitted to U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 48 p.
2007 Boukhalfa, H., Icopini, G.A., Reilly S.D., and Neu, M.P., 2007, Pu(IV) Reduction by Metal-Reducing Bacteria Geobacter Metallireducens GS15 and Shewanella Oneidensis MR1: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73(18): p. 5897-5903.
2007 Conrad, C.F., Icopini, G.A., Yasuhara, H., Bandstra, J.Z., Brantley, S.L., and Heaney, P.J., 2007, Modeling the Kinetics of Silica Nanocolloid Formation and Growth in Aqueous Solutions as a Function of pH and Ionic Strength: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71(3): p. 531-542.
2007 Icopini, G.A., Boukhalfa, H., and Neu, M.P., 2007, Biological Reduction of Np(V) and Np(V)-Citrate by Metal Reducing Bacteria: Environmental Science and Technology, 41(8): p. 2764 - 2769.
2007 Icopini, G.A., Long, D.T., Ellis, R.J., and Marsh, T.L., 2007, Intrinsic Remediation of a Chromium Contaminated Wetland by Biogeochemical Stabilization: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Cos island, Greece, A520-A527.
2006 Icopini, G.A., Boukhalfa, H., and Neu, M.P., 2006, Environmental Reduction of Tc, U, Np, and Pu by Bacteria and the Stability of Reduction Products: in Recent Advances in Actinide Science, eds., May, I., Alvares, R., and Bryan, N., Royal Society of Chemistry, London, p. 20-25.
2006 Neu, M. P., Icopini, G. A., and Boukhalfa, H., May 02, 2006, Plutonium Speciation Affected by Environmental Bacteria: Cheminform, 37, 18.
2006 Ruebush, S.R., Icopini, G.A, Brantley, S.L., and Tien, M., 2006, In Vitro Enzymatic Reduction Kinetics of Mineral Oxides by Membrane Fractions from Shewanella Oneidensis MR1: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70: p. 56-70.
2005 Icopini, G.A., Brantley, S.L., and Heaney, P.J., 2005, Kinetics of Silica Oligomerization and Nanocolloid Formation as a Function of pH and Ionic Strength at 25oC. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69(2): p. 293-303.
2005 Neu, M.P., Icopini, G.A., and Boukhalfa, H., 2005, Plutonium Speciation Affected by Environmental Bacteria: Radiochimica Acta, v. 93(11): p. 705 - 714.
2004 Brantley, S.L., Liermann, L.J., Guynn, R.L., Anbar, A., Icopini, G.A., and Barling, J., 2004, Fe Isotopic Fractionation During Mineral Dissolution with and without Bacteria: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(15): p. 3189 - 3204.
2004 Icopini, G.A., Anbar, A.D., Ruebush, S.R., Tien, M., and Brantley, S.L., 2004, Iron Isotope Fractionation During Microbial Reduction of Iron: The Importance of Adsorption: Geology, 32(3): p. 205-208.
2002 Icopini, G. A., and Long, D. T., January 01, 2002, Speciation of Aqueous Chromium by Use of Solid-Phase Extractions in the Field: Environmental Science and Technology, 36, 13, p. 2994.
2001 Long, D.T., Icopini, G., Ganev, V., Petropoulos, E., Havezov, I., Voice, T., Chou, K., Spassov, A., and Stein, A., 2001, Geochemistry of Bulgarian Soils in Villages Affected and Not Affected by Balkan Endemic Nephropathy: A Pilot Study, International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, v. 14, p. 193-196.
1995 Pohlmann, K.F., lcopini, G.A., and Rosal, C.G., 1995, Evaluation of Field-Filtration Variables for Representative Samples of Trace Metals is Ground Water in Ground Water Sampling - A Workshop Summary: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA/600/R-94 1205, p. 39-42.
1994 Pohlmann, K.F., lcopini, G.A., Rosal, C.G., and McArthur, R.D., 1994, Evaluation of Samolinq and Field-Filtration Methods for the Analvsis of Trace Metals in Groundwater: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA/600/R-94 11 1 9, 79 p.