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75 J24. Variably Saturated Flow in Soil and Rock: What's the Same, What's Different?
(S01 Soil Physics; S05 Pedology; GSA Hydrogeology Division)

Wednesday, 8 October 2008: 8:00 AM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 351BE
Presiding:
John Nimmo , Boris A. Faybishenko and Henry Lin
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:15 AM
75-1
Transport of Gas across Interfaces: Cracked Soils and Fractured Rocks
Noam Weisbrod, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Maria Dragila, Oregon State University; Uri Nachshon, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Chris Graham, Oregon State University; Modi Pillersdorf, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Tamir Kamai, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
8:30 AM
75-2
Unstable flows in Soil and Fractured Rock – Similarities and Differences
Dani Or, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
8:45 AM
75-3
Gravity-driven viscous infiltration - common to flow in unsaturated rocks and soils
Peter F. Germann, University of Bern
9:00 AM
75-4
Imbibition into Soil and Rock: What's the Same, What's Different?
Robert P. Ewing; Qinhong Hu
9:15 AM
75-5
Simultaneous Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Unsaturated Rock
Qinhong Hu; Robert P. Ewing
9:30 AM
75-6
Relationship Between Radionuclide Transport, Water Content, and Flowpaths in Anisotropic Layered Unsaturated Sands
M.A. Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Xiangping Yin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Guoping Tang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jack C. Parker, University of Tennessee; Kelly Hinkel, University of Kentucky
9:45 AM
Break
10:00 AM
75-7
Mind the gap: Variably-saturated lateral flow at the soil-bedrock interface
Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Oregon State Univ; Chris Graham, Oregon State Univ
10:15 AM
75-8
Contaminant Travel Time Estimates through a Thick Unsaturated Zone at Rainier Mesa and Shoshone Mountain, Nevada
Brian A. Ebel, U.S. Geological Survey; John R. Nimmo, USGS
10:30 AM
75-9
Subsurface Initiation of Film Flow In Rock Fractures and Soil Macropores
John R. Nimmo, U.S. Geological Survey
10:45 AM
75-10
Multiphase Inverse Modeling In Structured Soils and Fractured Rocks
Stefan Finsterle, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
11:00 AM
75-11
Comparative Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics of Water Flow through Variably Saturated Soil and Rocks
Boris Faybishenko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11:15 AM
75-12
Unsaturated Hydraulic Properties of Rocks: How to Measure Them In the Laboratory and In the Field?
Maria Clementina Caputo, National Research Council (CNR); John Robert Nimmo, U.S. Geological Survey
11:30 AM
75-13
Modelling Unsaturated Flow and Transport of Pollutant in a Fractured Limestone Affected by Industrial Sludge Deposits at the Altamura Site (South Italy)
Costantino Masciopinto, Water Research Institute; Maria Clementina Caputo, Water Research Institute; Lorenzo De Carlo, Water Research Institute; John Robert Nimmo, U.S. Geological Survey
11:45 AM
Discussion
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