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Conference Program

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Time

Title Room
Sunday, July 6, 2008

4:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Registration Opens Metropolitan Foyer – 2nd Level
Monday, July 7, 2008
7:45 AM – 8:00 AM Opening Remarks Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Keynote Speaker:  Jesús Carrera Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Climate Change and Water Resources: Tools for Assessments and Planning (Oral Block 1 of 2)

Convener: Michael Dettinger, US Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Hydrogeophysics: Parameter Estimation and Evaluation of Flow and Transport Models (Oral Block 1 of 2)

Convener: Niklas Linde, ETH Zurich
Stanford Room – 3rd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Numerical Modeling of Interactions between Surface, Vadose Zone, and Groundwater (Oral Block 1 of 2)

Convener: Jirka Simunek, UC Riverside
City room – 3rd Leve
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Beyond the Black Box: Integrating Advanced Microbial Characterization Data with Subsurface Reactive Transport Models

Convener: Tim Scheibe, Paicific Northwest Laboratory and Eoin Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Laboratory
Olympic Room – 2nd Level
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Lunch Metropolitan 1 & 2 – 2nd Level
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Keynote Speaker – Andrea Rinaldo Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Climate Change and Water Resources: Tools for Assessments and Planning (Oral Block 2 of 2)

Convener: Michael Dettinger, US Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Hydrogeophysics: Parameter Estimation and Evaluation of Flow and Transport Models (Oral Block 2 of 2)

Convener: Niklas Linde, ETH Zurich
Stanford Room – 3rd Level

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Numerical Modeling of Interactions between Surface, Vadose Zone, and Groundwater (Oral Block 2 of 2)

Convener: Jirka Simunek, UC Riverside
City room – 3rd Level

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Pore Scale Reactive Transport Modeling and Upscaling To the Continuum Scale (Oral Block 1 of 3)

Conveners: Peter Lichtner and Qinjun Kang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Olympic Room – 2nd Level
5:00 PM Break  
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Conference Icebreaker and Poster Session sponsored by Microsoft Metropolitan 1 & 2 – 2nd Level

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Time

Title Room
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Keynote Speaker:  Mary Wheeler Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Coupled Surface-Subsurface Modeling across a Range of Temporal and Spatial Scales

Conveners:  Reed Maxwell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Mario Putti, University of Padua
Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Simulation and Management of Regional Scale Groundwater Flow Systems

Convener: Ken Belitz, US Geological Survey
Stanford Room – 3rd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Optimization Problems in Hydrology (Oral Block 1 of 2)

Convener: Stefan Finsterle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
City room – 3rd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Pore Scale Reactive Transport Modeling and Upscaling To the Continuum Scale (Oral Block 2 of 3)

Conveners: Peter Lichtner and Qinjun Kang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Olympic Room – 2nd Lev
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

Lunch

Metropolitan 1 & 2 – 2nd Level
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Keynote Speaker – To Be Named

Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Root-Soil Interactions

Convener: Jan Hopmans, UC Davis
Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Ecoinformatics for Water Resource Modeling

Convener: Deb Agarwal, LBNL
Stanford Room – 3rd Level

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Optimization Problems in Hydrology (Oral Block 2 of 2)

Convener: Stefan Finsterle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
City room – 3rd Level

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Pore Scale Reactive Transport Modeling and Upscaling To the Continuum Scale (Oral Block 2 of 3)

Conveners: Peter Lichtner and Qinjun Kang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Olympic Room – 2nd Level

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Time

Title Room
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Keynote Speaker:  Ulrich Mayer Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

New Approaches to Models for the Hydrologic Community

Conveners: Larry Murdock, Clemson University;Venkat Lakshmi, University of South Carolina; Jay Famiglietti, UC Irvine
Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Subsurface Biogeochemistry and Reactive Transport (Oral Block 1 of 2)

Convener: Carl Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Pierre Regnier, Utrecht University
Stanford Room – 3rd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

High-resolution Numerical Approaches for Subsurface Flow Simulation (Oral Block 1 of 2)

Convener: John Bell, LBNL
City room – 3rd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Intelligent Analysis of Prediction Uncertainty

Convener: Mary Hill, US Geological Survey
Olympic Room – 2nd Lev
11:45 AM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

Metropolitan 1 & 2 – 2nd Level

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Multiphase Flow and Transport Modeling on Different Scales (Oral Block 1 of 3)

Conveners: Majid Hassanizadeh, Utrecht University; Rainer Helmig, University of Stuttgart
Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

Subsurface Biogeochemistry and Reactive Transport (Oral Block 2 of 2)

Convener: Carl Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Pierre Regnier, Utrecht University
Stanford Room – 3rd Level

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

High-resolution Numerical Approaches for Subsurface Flow Simulation (Oral Block 2 of 2)

Convener: John Bell, LBNL
City room – 3rd Level

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

(3:45 – 4:00 Break)

General Session

Convener: Susan Hubbard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Jim Hunt, Berkeley Water Center
Olympic Room – 2nd Lev
6:00 PM – 10:00 PM EVENING DINNER SOCIAL – TEATRO ZINZANNI Pier 29 along Embarcadero

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Time

Title Room
- 1L
Thursday, July 10, 2008

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Keynote Speaker: – Efi Foufoula Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Multiphase Flow and Transport Modeling on Different Scales (Oral Block 2 of 3)

Conveners: Majid Hassanizadeh, Utrecht University; Rainer Helmig, University of Stuttgart
Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Mass and Heat Transport in Geothermal Systems

Conveners: Karsten Pruess and Marcelo Lippmann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stanford Room – 3rd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

Ensemble Forecasting in Environmental Modeling

Conveners: Jasper Vrugt, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Souheil Ezzedine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
City room – 3rd Level
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM
(10:30 – 10:45 Break)

CO2 Sequestration (Oral Block 1 of 2)

Convener: Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University
Olympic Room – 2nd Lev
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM

Lunch

Metropolitan 1 & 2 – 2nd Level
12:45 PM - 1:00 PMClosing Remarks Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM

Keynote Speaker: Hamdi Tchelepi

Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Level

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

(3:30 – 3:45 Break)

Multiphase Flow and Transport Modeling on Different Scales (Oral Block 3 of 3)

Conveners: Majid Hassanizadeh, Utrecht University; Rainer Helmig, University of Stuttgart
Metropolitan 3 – 2nd Levell

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

(3:30 – 3:45 Break)

Fate and Transport of Radionuclides in the Environment: Unique Simulation Challenges

Convener: Andy Tompson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Stanford Room – 3rd Level

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

(3:30 – 3:45 Break)

Modeling of Chemical, Thermal, Hydrological, and Mechanical Effects on Geomaterial Performance

Convener: Jan Van der Lee, Ecole des Mines de Paris
City room – 3rd Level

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

(3:30 – 3:45 Break)

CO2 Sequestration (Oral Block 2 of 2)

Convener: Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University
Olympic Room – 2nd Level
4:30 PM Conference Adjourns  

 

 

Sponsors: DOE, UC Berkeley Water Center, , Environmental Remediation Sciences Program, Berkeley Lab Earth Sciences Division, CUASHI Berkeley Water CenterMicrosoft Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Environmental Remediation Sciences Division University of California U.S. Department of Energy CUAHSI

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