Conference Program
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Time |
Title | Room |
Sunday, July 6, 2008 |
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4:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Registration Opens | Metropolitan Foyer – 2nd Level |
Monday,
July 7, 2008 |
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| 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 |
Time |
Title | Room |
Tuesday,
July 8, 2008 |
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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 |
Time |
Title | Room |
Wednesday,
July 9, 2008 |
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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 |
Time |
Title | Room |
Thursday,
July 10, 2008 |
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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 PM | - 1LClosing 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 | |
