2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
Session No. 75 Wednesday, 8 October 2008
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, George R. Brown Convention Center: 351BE

J24. Variably Saturated Flow in Soil and Rock: What's the Same, What's Different? (S01 Soil Physics; S05 Pedology; GSA Hydrogeology Division)

John Nimmo, Boris A. Faybishenko and Henry Lin, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
75-18:15 AM Transport of Gas across Interfaces: Cracked Soils and Fractured Rocks: WEISBROD, Noam1, DRAGILA, Maria2, NACHSHON, Uri1, GRAHAM, Chris3, PILLERSDORF, Modi1, and KAMAI, Tamir1, (1) Department of Environmental Hydrology & Microbiology, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 84990, Israel, weisbrod@bgu.ac.il, (2) Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Crop & Soil Science,3135 Ag Life Sciences Bldg, Corvallis, OR 97331, (3) Departement of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University, 004 Peavy Hall, Corvallis, 97331
75-28:30 AM Unstable flows in Soil and Fractured Rock – Similarities and Differences: OR, Dani, Department of Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich 8092 Switzerland, dani.or@epfl.ch
75-38:45 AM Gravity-driven viscous infiltration - common to flow in unsaturated rocks and soils: GERMANN, Peter F., Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, Bern 3012 Switzerland, germann@giub.unibe.ch
75-49:00 AM Imbibition into Soil and Rock: What's the Same, What's Different?: EWING, Robert P., 2101 Agronomy Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, ewing@iastate.edu and HU, Qinhong, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019
75-59:15 AM Simultaneous Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Unsaturated Rock: HU, Qinhong, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, huqinhong@yahoo.com and EWING, Robert P., Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
75-69:30 AM Relationship Between Radionuclide Transport, Water Content, and Flowpaths in Anisotropic Layered Unsaturated Sands: MAYES, M.A.1, YIN, Xiangping1, TANG, Guoping1, PARKER, Jack C.2, and HINKEL, Kelly3, (1) Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, MS 6038, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, mayesma@ornl.gov, (2) Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, (3) University of Kentucky, Lexington, KS 40506
 9:45 AM Break
75-710:00 AM Mind the gap: Variably-saturated lateral flow at the soil-bedrock interface: MCDONNELL, Jeffrey J. and GRAHAM, Chris, Department of Forest Engineering, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR 97331-5706, Jeff.McDonnell@orst.edu
75-810:15 AM Contaminant Travel Time Estimates through a Thick Unsaturated Zone at Rainier Mesa and Shoshone Mountain, Nevada: EBEL, Brian A., U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd, MS 420, Menlo Park, CA 94025, bebel@usgs.gov and NIMMO, John R., Water Resources, USGS, 345 Middlefield Road, MS-421, Menlo Park, CA 94025
75-910:30 AM Subsurface Initiation of Film Flow In Rock Fractures and Soil Macropores: NIMMO, John R., U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 421, Menlo Park, CA 94025, jrnimmo@usgs.gov
75-1010:45 AM Multiphase Inverse Modeling In Structured Soils and Fractured Rocks: FINSTERLE, Stefan, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, One Cyclotron Road, MS 90-1116, Berkeley, CA 94720, SAFinsterle@lbl.gov
75-1111:00 AM Comparative Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics of Water Flow through Variably Saturated Soil and Rocks: FAYBISHENKO, Boris, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 90-1116, Berkeley, CA 94720, bafaybishenko@lbl.gov
75-1211:15 AM Unsaturated Hydraulic Properties of Rocks: How to Measure Them In the Laboratory and In the Field?: CAPUTO, Maria Clementina, Water Research Institute, National Research Council (CNR), via F. De Blasio, 5, Bari, 70123, Italy, maria.caputo@ba.irsa.cnr.it and NIMMO, John Robert, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 421, Menlo Park, CA 94025
75-1311:30 AM Modelling Unsaturated Flow and Transport of Pollutant in a Fractured Limestone Affected by Industrial Sludge Deposits at the Altamura Site (South Italy): MASCIOPINTO, Costantino1, CAPUTO, Maria Clementina1, DE CARLO, Lorenzo1, and NIMMO, John Robert2, (1) Earth and Environment of the National Research Council, Water Research Institute, via Francesco De Blasio, 5, Bari, 70123, Italy, costantino.masciopinto@ba.irsa.cnr.it, (2) U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 421, Menlo Park, CA 94025
 11:45 AM Discussion

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