GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

Session No. 12
Sunday, 25 September 2016: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 502 (Colorado Convention Center)

T100. Approaches to Characterizing Groundwater Flow Systems at the Watershed-Scale for Water Management and Regulation

GSA Hydrogeology Division; International Association of Hydrogeologists; Regional Groundwater Flow Commission; GSA Geology and Society Division
Brian Smerdon and W. Payton Gardner, Advocates
8:00 AM
ESTIMATING TRANSIENT WATER STORAGE FROM PRECIPITATION-DISCHARGE HYSTERESIS
SCHMIDT, Amanda H.1, LÜDTKE, Stefan2 and ANDERMANN, Christoff2, (1)Geology, Oberlin College, Geology Department, Rm. 403, 52 W. Lorain St, Oberlin, OH 44074, (2)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, 14473, Germany, amanda.schmidt@oberlin.edu
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8:30 AM
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8:15 AM
CONCEPTUALIZING GROUNDWATER-FLOW SYSTEMS: USING WATER-LEVEL MODELS TO UNDERSTAND STRESSES AFFECTING WATER LEVELS
JACKSON, Tracie, Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 160 N Stephanie St, Henderson, NV 89074 and FENELON, Joe, US Geological Survey, 160 N Stephanie St, Henderson, NV 89074, tjackson@usgs.gov
8:45 AM
CHARACTERIZING UNCONFINED AQUIFERS USING SEEP- AND STREAM-BASED MEASUREMENTS OF GROUNDWATER AGE (Invited Presentation)
SOLOMON, D. Kip1, GILMORE, Troy E.2, GENEREUX, David P.3, GEORGEK, Jennifer1, HEILWEIL, Victor4 and SOLDER, John E.4, (1)Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Frederick Albert Sutton Building, 115 S. 1460 E. Rm 383, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, (2)Department of Biological Systems Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA–LINCOLN, 107 L.W. Chase Hall, Lincoln: East Campus, Lincoln, NE 68583-0726, (3)Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, (4)Utah Water Science Center, US Geological Survey, 2329 Orton Circle, Salt Lake City, UT 84119, kip.solomon@utah.edu
9:05 AM
CAN RIVER WATER DATA BE LEVERAGED TO UNDERSTAND GROUNDWATER CIRCULATION FOR A LARGE AREA?
SMERDON, Brian, Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, AB T6B 2X3, Canada and GARDNER, W. Payton, Geosciences, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, MT 59812-1296, brian.smerdon@aer.ca
Handouts
  • Smerdon-GSA2016-web.pdf (1.0 MB)
  • 9:20 AM
    USING MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS AND LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS TO CHARACTERIZE FRACTURE FLOW SYSTEMS
    GARDNER IV, William Payton, Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, 32 Campus Dr #1296, Missoula, MT 59812, payton.gardner@mso.umt.edu
    9:35 AM
    YOUNG AND OLD WATER IN GLOBAL RIVERS AND GROUNDWATER WELLS (Invited Presentation)
    JASECHKO, Scott, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada, sjasechk@ucalgary.ca
     
    9:55 AM
    Break
    10:10 AM
    DATA CONSIDERATIONS AND MODELING A MEGA-SYSTEM OF GROUNDWATER-FED LAKES IN THE NEBRASKA SANDHILLS (Invited Presentation)
    ZLOTNIK, Vitaly A., Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, NE 68502, ROSSMAN, Nathan R., Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588; HDR, Inc., 8404 Indian Hills Drive, Omaha, NE 68114 and ROWE, Clinton M., Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588, vzlotnik1@unl.edu
    10:30 AM
    WATERSHED-SCALE STUDY OF GROUNDWATER RECHARGE IN THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES
    HAYASHI, Masaki, PAVLOVSKII, Igor, NOORDUIJN, Saskia L., NIAZI, Amir and BENTLEY, Laurence R., Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada, hayashi@ucalgary.ca
    10:45 AM
    11:00 AM
    DEVELOPING A GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL FOR SLOUGH MANAGEMENT IN SAUK COUNTY
    SCHLAUDT, Elisabeth A., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, BAHR, Jean M., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706 and WADE, Kenneth S., Kenneth Wade Consulting LLC, Blue Mounds, WI 53517, schlaudt@wisc.edu
    11:15 AM
    QUANTIFYING THE TOPOGRAPHY-DRIVEN GROUNDWATER FLOW IN THE DISCHARGE AREA OF AN ENDORHEIC WATERSHED
    JIANG, Xiao-Wei, China University of Geosciences, 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian, Beijing, 100083, China, xiaow.jiang@gmail.com
    11:30 AM
    CRITICAL RIPARIAN BUFFER ROLE IN THE WATER QUALITY OF WATERSHEDS
    SHOWERS, William, Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, 2800 Faucette Dr, Raleigh, NC 27695, wjshower@ncsu.edu
    11:45 AM
    GIS-BASED HYDROLOGIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (HESA) FOR CHARACTERIZING GROUNDWATER FLOW SYSTEMS AT THE WATERSHED SCALE FOR WATER MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION: CASE HISTORY IN DELTA COUNTY, COLORADO, USA
    KOLM, Kenneth E., Hydrologic Systems Analysis, LLC, 128 Burgess Ave, Golden, CO 80401 and VAN DER HEIJDE, Paul K.M., Heath Hydrology, Inc, Boulder, CO, 80305, kkolmhsallc@gmail.com
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