H51S:
Interdisciplinary Advances in Subsurface Contaminant Transport and Remediation IV


Session ID#: 10525

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 and Jason Gerhard, University of Western Ontario, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Geoffrey R Tick, University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Jason Gerhard, University of Western Ontario, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Geoffrey R Tick, University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, 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:

Interdisciplinary Research to Elucidate Mechanisms Governing Silver Nanoparticle Fate and Transport in Porous Media (Invited) (62620)
Kurt D Pennell1, Anjuliee Mittleman2, Amir Taghavy3, John Fortner4, Daniele Lantagne2 and Linda M Abriola5, (1)Brown University, School of Engineering, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dartmouth, MA, United States, (4)Washington University in St Louis, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, MO, United States, (5)Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, MA, United States
Detecting and Quantifying Organic Contaminants in Sediments with NMR (59334)
Emily L Fay, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Rosemary J Knight, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
Characterization of Anomalous Contaminant Transport via Push-Pull Tracer Tests (65767)
Scott K Hansen1, Dr. Velimir monty V Vesselinov1 and Brian Berkowitz2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel
Actinide Sorption in a Brine/Dolomite Rock System: Evaluating the Degree of Conservatism in Kd Ranges used in Performance Assessment Modeling for the WIPP Nuclear Waste Repository (69916)
Timothy M Dittrich, Wayne State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Detroit, United States and Donald T Reed, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM, United States
Controls on radium transport by adsorption to iron minerals (75665)
Michael Chen1, Tiffany Wang1 and Benjamin David Kocar2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Effects of heterogeneity on active spreading strategies to remediate contaminated groundwater (66466)
Amy N Piscopo, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Roseanna Neupauer, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States and Joseph R Kasprzyk, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States
Examination of Technetium Transport Through Soils Under Contrasting Redox Conditions: Batch and Column Work (78634)
Rebecca Dozier1, Dawn Montgomery1, Ernest M Wylie1, Mine Dogan2, Stephen M Moysey3, Brian A Powell3 and Nicole E Martinez1, (1)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)Clemson University, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, United States
Transport and Reactivity of Engineered Nanoparticles in Partially Saturated Porous Media (62508)
Ishai Dror1, Yinon Yecheskel2 and Brian Berkowitz1, (1)Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel, (2)Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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