Session: Symposium --Measurements and Modeling of Multiphase Flow and Solute Transport: To Honor the Many Contributions of Jacob Dane: I

Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:55 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 362AB

Presiding:

Jasper A. Vrugt , Mart Oostrom and Jan Hopmans

8:55 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:00 AM

Soil Carbon Emission Modeling and Other Key Papers of Jacob Dane.
Jan Hopmans, University of California-Davis

9:30 AM

Upscaling of Darcy's Law and the Soil Water Characteristic in Media with Variable Porosity.
Gerrit De Rooij, Wageningen University & Research Centre

9:45 AM

Scaling Soil-Water Retention Curves to Field-Measured Maximum and Minimum Moisture Contents to Improve Model Predictions of Infiltration in a Semi-Arid Watershed.
Molly Gribb, Boise State University; Irina Forkutsa, Boise State University; James McNamara, Boise State University; David Chandler, Kansas State University

10:00 AM

Centrifugal Estimation of Capillary Pressure-Saturation Relationship at a Physical Point.
Elmer Van den Berg, University of Tennessee; Edmund Perfect, University of Tennessee; Pinar Turkbey Cihan, University of Tennessee; Melanie Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Break

10:45 AM

Potential Limitations of Tension Lysimeters: Estimation by Simulations Based on In-Situ Matric Head and Water Content Monitoring.
Gerhard Kammerer, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences; Willibald Loiskandl, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences; Sabine Klepsch, Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC

11:00 AM

Gamma Who? Gamma What?.
Robert Lenhard, Southwest Research Inst.

11:15 AM

Unsaturated Zone Soil Water Modeling for Furrow and Drip Irrigated Field for Arid New Mexico.
Manoj Shukla, New Mexico State University; Carlos Ochoa, New Mexico State University; Parmodh Sharma, New Mexico State University

11:30 AM

On the Characterization and Inverse Estimation of the Unsaturated Soil Hydraulic Properties.
Martinus T. Van Genuchten, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ; Jirka Simunek, University of California

11:45 AM

Concluding Remarks

12:00 PM

Adjourn

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