Wednesday, 8 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 351BE

Presiding:

John Nimmo , Boris A. Faybishenko and Henry Lin

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:15 AM

75-1

Transport of Gas across Interfaces: Cracked Soils and Fractured Rocks

Noam Weisbrod, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Maria Dragila, Oregon State University; Uri Nachshon, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Chris Graham, Oregon State University; Modi Pillersdorf, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Tamir Kamai, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

8:30 AM

75-2

Unstable flows in Soil and Fractured Rock – Similarities and Differences

Dani Or, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)

8:45 AM

75-3

Gravity-driven viscous infiltration - common to flow in unsaturated rocks and soils

Peter F. Germann, University of Bern

9:00 AM

75-4

Imbibition into Soil and Rock: What's the Same, What's Different?

Robert P. Ewing; Qinhong Hu

9:15 AM

75-5

Simultaneous Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Unsaturated Rock

Qinhong Hu; Robert P. Ewing

9:30 AM

75-6

Relationship Between Radionuclide Transport, Water Content, and Flowpaths in Anisotropic Layered Unsaturated Sands

M.A. Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Xiangping Yin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Guoping Tang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jack C. Parker, University of Tennessee; Kelly Hinkel, University of Kentucky

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

75-7

Mind the gap: Variably-saturated lateral flow at the soil-bedrock interface

Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Oregon State Univ; Chris Graham, Oregon State Univ

10:15 AM

75-8

Contaminant Travel Time Estimates through a Thick Unsaturated Zone at Rainier Mesa and Shoshone Mountain, Nevada

Brian A. Ebel, U.S. Geological Survey; John R. Nimmo, USGS

10:30 AM

75-9

Subsurface Initiation of Film Flow In Rock Fractures and Soil Macropores

John R. Nimmo, U.S. Geological Survey

10:45 AM

75-10

Multiphase Inverse Modeling In Structured Soils and Fractured Rocks

Stefan Finsterle, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

11:00 AM

75-11

Comparative Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics of Water Flow through Variably Saturated Soil and Rocks

Boris Faybishenko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

11:15 AM

75-12

Unsaturated Hydraulic Properties of Rocks: How to Measure Them In the Laboratory and In the Field?

Maria Clementina Caputo, National Research Council (CNR); John Robert Nimmo, U.S. Geological Survey

11:30 AM

75-13

Modelling Unsaturated Flow and Transport of Pollutant in a Fractured Limestone Affected by Industrial Sludge Deposits at the Altamura Site (South Italy)

Costantino Masciopinto, Water Research Institute; Maria Clementina Caputo, Water Research Institute; Lorenzo De Carlo, Water Research Institute; John Robert Nimmo, U.S. Geological Survey

11:45 AM

Discussion

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