Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 342BE
189: Innovative Methods for Investigating Flow and Transport in Karst Systems I
Sponsor:Topical Sessions
JTPC Reps:F. Edwin Harvey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ward E. Sanford, United States Geological Survey
Conveners/Advocates:Barbara Mahler,
Pierre-Yves Jeannin,
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:05 AMKarstic Carbonate Aquifers: Are the Conceptual Models Adequate for Quantitative Hydrology?
William B. White, The Pennsylvania State Univ
8:25 AMKarst Conduit Location Detection Using Innovative Technologies
Ronald T. Green, Southwest Research Institute
8:40 AMCharacterizing Karst Conduits. A Major Aspect for Understanding Karst Hydrology
Pierre-Yves Jeannin
8:55 AMDepth of Greatest Dissolution in Carbonate Aquifers
Stephen R.H. Worthington, Worthington Groundwater
9:10 AMNumerical Aspects In Modeling Coupled Conduit-Matrix Flow In Karst Aquifers Under Variably Saturated Conditions
Rob De Rooij, Institute of geology and hydrogeology, Pierre Perrochet, Institute of geology and hydrogeology
9:25 AMNuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Groundwater Flow within Centimeter-Scale Macroporosity of the Biscayne Aquifer of Southeast Florida
Lee J. Florea, Western Kentucky University, Kevin J. Cunningham, U.S. Geological Survey, Stephen A. Altobelli, New Mexico Resonance
9:40 AMBreak
9:55 AMSolute Transport In Solution Conduits and the Problems of Persistent Breakthrough-Curve Skewness and Multiple Peaks: Experiments and Analyses
Malcolm S. Field, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
10:15 AMParameter Extraction from Tracer Breakthrough Curves: An Empirical Test of Analytical, Statistical and Analogue Methods
Chris Smart, University of Western Ontario, Ryan Adams, University of Western Ontario, Melissa Hendrickson, University of Western Ontario
10:30 AMDo Solids Travel Faster Than Solutes along Karst Routes?
Michael Sinreich, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Raymond Flynn, Queens University Belfast
10:45 AMCatchment Scale Contamination In the Chalk Aquifer of SE England: Investigations of Karst Control
Simon J. Cook, University College London, Ciara M. Fitzpatrick, University College London, William G. Burgess, University College London
11:00 AMUSGS Releases Conduit Flow Process (CFP) for MODFLOW-2005
Eve L. Kuniansky, U.S. Geological Survey, W. Barclay Shoemaker, U.S. Geological Survey
11:15 AMModeling Heat Transport In Two-Domain Karst Ground-Water Flow
Andrew J. Long, U.S. Geological Survey, Patrick C. Gilcrease, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
11:30 AMInvestigating Conduit-Matrix Exchange Processes in Karst Aquifers
Martin Sauter, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tobias Geyer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Thomas Graf, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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