Session: Symposium--Application of Soil Physics to Resolving Environmental Problems: Honoring the Impact of Martinus Th. Van Genuchten: II

Monday, November 2, 2009: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Convention Center, Exhibit Hall BC, Second Floor

Presidings:

Peter Shouse , Attila Nemes and Todd Skaggs

Estimating Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Decision Tree Analysis.
Aubrey Shirley, Univ. of Georgia; David Radcliffe, Univ. of Georgia; Attila Nemes, USDA-ARS

Capillary Pressure-Dependent Anisotropy of Unsaturated Layered Soils.
Jianting Zhu, Desert Res. Inst.

Scaling Soil Water Retention Functions Using Particle-Size Distribution.
Paolo Nasta, Univ. of California; Tamir Kamai, Univ. of California; Jan W. Hopmans, Univ. of California; Nunzio Romano, Univ. di Napoli; Giovanni B. Chirico, Univ. di Napoli

Numerical Analysis of Water and Heat Transport in Vegetated Soils Using HYDRUS-1D.
Masaru Sakai, Univ. of California, Riverside; Jirka Simunek, Univ. of California, Riverside

Mobile-Immobile Phase in Different Growing Media for Greenhouse Tomato Production.
Jean Caron, CANADA, Laval Univ.; Guillaume Létourneau, CANADA, Laval Univ.; David Elrick, Retired; Rémi Naasz, Premier Horticulture; Steeve Pépin, CANADA, Laval Univ.

Cotton Root Water Uptake: Experimental Set-up and First Look at Data.
Peter J. Shouse, USDA-ARS; Todd H. Skaggs, USDA-ARS

Hydrological Modeling of the Soils of the Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub Ecosystems of Southern California.
Julie Marie Scanlan, Univ. of California, Riverside

Variability of Physical and Chemical Properties of West Mesa Soils Irrigated by Industrial Effluent.
Pradip Adhikari, New Mexico State Univ.; Manoj K. Shukla, New Mexico State Univ.; John Mexal, New Mexico State Univ.; David Daniel, New Mexico State Univ.

Nitrate-Nitrogen and Chloride Leaching in Onion Under Furrow and Drip Irrigation Systems.
Parmodh Sharma, New Mexico State Univ.; Manoj K. Shukla, New Mexico State Univ.; Ted Sammis, New Mexico State Univ.

Modeling Coupled Water and Heat Transport in a Freezing Soil Using the Modified HYDRUS-1D Code.
Kunio Watanabe, Mie Univ.; Tetsuya kito, Mie Univ.; Nobuo Toride, Mie Univ.; Martinus T. van Genuchten, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ

Solute Transport through An Argiudol of the “Argentinian Humid Pampas”.
Virginia C. Aparicio, INTA; Jose Luis Costa, INTA; Daniel Giménez, Rutgers State Univ.

Environmental Safety Assessment of Natural Radioactive Contaminants in Fertilizers and Phosphogypsum.
Marcia Batalha, COPPE/LTTC, Dep. of Mechanical Engineering; Elizabeth May Pontedeiro, Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission, CNEN; Vanusa F. Jacomino, Centro de Desenvolvimento de Tecnologia Nuclear, CDTN/CNEN; Maria Helena T. Taddei, Laboratory of Poços de Caldas, CNEN; Martinus Th. van Genuchten, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE/LTTC

Application of Soil Physics to Improve Efficiency of Ground-Source Heat Pumps in Fractured Saprolite.
Martin F. Helmke, West Chester Univ.; Russell L. Losco, Lanchester Soil Consultants Inc.; Angela M. Reed, West Chester Univ.

Water Fluxes through the Vadose Zone of An Onion Field.
Sanjit K. Deb, New Mexico State Univ.; Manoj K. Shukla, New Mexico State Univ.; Parmodh Sharma, New Mexico State Univ.; Carlos Ochoa, New Mexico State Univ.

Infiltration Rate Response to Accumulation of Fines in a Stormwater Bioinfiltration Basin.
Bridget Wadzuk, Villanova Univ.; Andrea L. Welker, Villanova Univ.; Jennifer Gilbert, Villanova Univ.

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