H41J:
Interdisciplinary Advances in Subsurface Contaminant Transport and Remediation I


Session ID#: 10523

Session Description:
The behavior of contaminants in natural and engineered subsurface systems is an area of interdisciplinary research with important implications for academics, practitioners, and policy makers. The types of contaminants under investigation continue to increase, including inorganics, nonaqueous-phase liquids, radionuclides, nutrients, pathogens, industrial solvents, and pharmaceuticals. Innovative methods to extract, attenuate, transform, degrade, detoxify, or destroy these subsurface contaminants are currently being explored. We welcome theoretical, laboratory, field, and modeling research that advances our understanding of the processes controlling the transport, fate, and remediation of contaminants in saturated and variably saturated porous media. Contributions on related topics, such as the coupling of physical, chemical, and biological (biogeochemical) processes, the influence of heterogeneity in soil/contaminant properties, and risk prediction are also welcome. This session intends to support broad interaction across the hydrogeology community. Participation bridging traditional research areas, including groundwater, vadose-zone, groundwater-surface water interface, biology, chemistry, soil-physics, and remediation engineering is encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Geoffrey R Tick, University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Thomas J Phelan, United States Air Force Academ, U S A F Academy, CO, United States, Jason Gerhard, University of Western Ontario, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada and Geoffrey R Tick, University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Chairs:  Thomas J Phelan, United States Air Force Academ, U S A F Academy, CO, United States and Jason Gerhard, University of Western Ontario, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Thomas J Phelan, United States Air Force Academ, U S A F Academy, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Nature’s Helpers: Using Microorganisms to Remove Trichloroethene (TCE) from Groundwater (Invited) (70995)
Rosa Krajmlanik-Brown, Anca Georgiana Delgado, Devyn Fajardo-Williams and Ibrahim Halloum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Examining the Secondary Impacts of Biostimulation on Water Quality and Sustained Bioremediation (80854)
Natalie L Capiro1, Tyler F. Marcet2, Yi Yang3, Samuel P. Gaeth2, Frank E. Loeffler4,5 and Kurt D Pennell6, (1)Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, MA, United States, (2)Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, (3)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Knoxville, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-ORNL) Joint Institute for Biological Sciences (JIBS) and Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)Brown University, School of Engineering, Providence, RI, United States
Optimal Well Placement for Enhanced Degradation during In Situ Groundwater Remediation (71265)
John Arthur Greene, Jacobs, Denver, CO, United States, Roseanna Neupauer, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, Amy N Piscopo, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States
A scrutiny of heterogeneity at the TCE Source Area BioREmediation (SABRE) test site (80310)
Michael Rivett, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Gary P Wealthall, Geosyntec Consultants, Guelph, ON, Canada, Lindsay A Mcmillan, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Peter Zeeb, Geosyntec Consultants, Acton, MA, United States
Fate of Methane and Ethanol-Blended Fuels in Soil: Laboratory and Field Experiments (Invited) (85974)
Douglas M Mackay, Nicholas R de Sieyes, Juan Peng, Radomir Schmidt, Maya C Buelow and Mark Felice, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Chemostat Studies of TCE-Dehalogenating Anaerobic Consortia under Excess and Limited Electron Donor Addition (76996)
Lewis Semprini1, Mohammad Azizian2, Jennifer Green3, Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell4 and Alfred M Spormann4, (1)Oregon State University, School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Corvallis, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Mississippi State University, Northern Gulf Institute, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Affiliate, Stennis Space Center, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Indications of Coupled Carbon and Iron Cycling at a Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Site from Time-Lapse Magnetic Susceptibility (MS) Profiles (85343)
Lee D Slater, Rutgers University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States, Anders Lund, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Rutgers Univ, Newark, NJ, United States, Estella A Atekwana, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, Silvia Rossbach, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis, Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States and Barbara A Bekins, U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Hydro-Ecological Interactions, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Self Potential as an indicator of biogeochemical transformations during active hydrocarbon biodegradation processes (86458)
Jeffrey W Heenan1, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis2, Lee D Slater2, Estella A Atekwana3, Silvia Rossbach4, Carol Lynn Beaver4, Andre Revil5 and Barbara A Bekins6, (1)Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, (4)Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (5)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Hydro-Ecological Interactions, Menlo Park, CA, United States

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