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

Tuesday, November 3, 2009: 9:55 AM-3:00 PM
Convention Center, Room 407, Fourth Floor
Presidings:
Peter Shouse and Todd Skaggs
9:55 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:00 AM
Identifying New Opportunities to Invigorate Soil Science.
Ty Ferre, Univ. of Arizona; Dani Or, ETH Zürich
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:15 AM
Solute Transport in Soil: From Theory to Application.
Nicholas Jarvis, SLU
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:30 AM
Experimental and Modeling Study of Solute Transport and Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Japanese Volcanic Ash Soils.
Nobuo Toride, Mie Univ.; Martinus Th. Van Genuchten, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE/LTTC
Audio File Recorded presentation
10:45 AM
Scale Dependence of Intra-Granular Accessible Porosity, Diffusivity, and Tortuosity.
Robert P. Ewing, Iowa State Univ.; Qinhong Hu, Univ. of Texas, Arlington; Chongxuan Liu, Pacific Northwest National Lab.
Audio File Recorded presentation
11:00 AM
Dual-Permeability Modelling of Preferential Flow in Structured Field Soil.
Horst Gerke, Center-Ag Landscape/Land Use Res.
11:15 AM
Universality of Preferential Flow in Field Soils: Some Theoretical Perspectives.
Henry Lin, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Audio File Recorded presentation
11:30 AM
Cause and Effect Versus False Correlations in Subsurface Hydrochemistry.
Matthew Lenahan, CSIRO Land and Water and CRC for Irrigation Futures; Keith L. Bristow, CSIRO Land and Water and CRC for Irrigation Futures
Audio File Recorded presentation
11:45 AM
Salinity in a Humid, Coastal Region: Examples From the Netherlands.
Peter A. C. Raats, Wageningen Univ. & Res. Centre
12:00 PM
Discussion
12:15 PM
Break
1:15 PM
Perspectives On Modeling Colloid Transport and Retention in Porous Media.
Scott Bradford, USDA-ARS; Saeed Torkzaban, Earth Sciences Division; Nobuo Toride, JAPAN, Saga Univ.; Feike J. Leij, California State Univ.; Jirka Simunek, Univ. of California, Riverside; Martinus T. van Genuchten, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ
Audio File Recorded presentation
1:30 PM
Foam-Delivery of Remedial Amendments Into the Vadose Zone: Foam Transport.
Fred Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Lab.; Lirong Zhong, Pacific Northwest National Lab.
Audio File Recorded presentation
1:45 PM
Reactive Plutonium (Pu) Transport in the Vaodse Zone: Interactions of Experiments, Soil Physics and Computer-Aided Thinking.
Fred Molz, Clemson Univ.; Deniz Demirkanli, Clemson Univ.; Shannon Thompson, Clemson Univ.; Robert Fjeld, Clemson Univ.; Daniel Kaplan, Savannah River Natl. Lab.
Audio File Recorded presentation
2:00 PM
Mobility of Radionuclides in the Smear Zone.
Thomas Nicholson, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Mark J. Fuhrmann, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Audio File Recorded presentation
2:15 PM
Global Change in Soil Hydrology and Rien Van Genuchten.
Yakov Pachepsky, USDA-ARS, BA-ANRI-EMSL
2:30 PM
Discussion
2:45 PM
Adjourn
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