H11J:
Advances and Breakthroughs in Hydrogeology I


Session ID#: 10532

Session Description:
The field of subsurface hydrology is relevant to both quantity and quality of groundwater supplies, maintenance of ecosystems, and geologic processes including heat flow, faulting, and geochemical cycles. Despite advances in modeling tools, inverse techniques and geophysical methods, complete understanding of hydrogeological processes remains elusive, and fundamental subsurface flow and transport problems remain extremely difficult due to spatial heterogeneity of geological structures, temporal variability and nonlinearity of fluid dynamics, and coupling between chemical, physical, and biological processes as well as data limitations and uncertainties. We seek contributions on modeling approaches and field methods that improve our understanding of the complex hydrogeological systems. Contributions may include or span innovations in hydrogeological modeling, inverse methodologies, sparse representation and imaging methods, computational techniques, hydrogeophysics, and lab and field testing methods. Submissions discussing the philosophical underpinnings and fundamental physics of past and present methodologies are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Phoolendra K Mishra, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States
Conveners:  Kenneth C Carroll, New Mexico State University, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States, Bwalya Malama, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States and Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States
Chairs:  Phoolendra K Mishra, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States and Kenneth C Carroll, New Mexico State University, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Phoolendra K Mishra, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

1828 Groundwater hydraulics [HYDROLOGY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
4494 Instruments and techniques [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Development, Application, and Validation of Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory Models of Porous Medium Systems (Invited) (64849)
Cass T Miller1, William G Gray2, James E McClure3, Amanda L Dye4, Timothy M Weigand1, Scott Hauswirth5 and Pamela B Schultz1, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (5)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
Can the Maximum Power Principle predict Effective Conductivities of a Confined Aquifer? A Lab Experiment (71713)
Martijn Westhoff1, Sébastien Erpicum1, Pierre Archambeau1, Michel Pirotton1, Erwin Zehe2 and Benjamin Dewals1, (1)University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Water and Environment, Karlsruhe, Germany
Conditioning geostatistical simulations of a bedrock fluvial aquifer using single well pumping tests (75959)
Amir Niazi1, Laurence R Bentley1, Masaki Hayashi2 and University of Calgary, Hydrogeology research group, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada
Incorporating geological structures into hydraulic tomography based on geostatistical model (64026)
Yuanyuan Zha, Wuhan University, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan, China and Tian-Chyi J Yeh, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
In-situ 3D high-spatial resolution aquifer characterization with hydraulic parameter distribution at decameter scale (69014)
Rui Hu, Hohai University, Nanjing, China, Ralf Brauchler, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; AF consult, Zurich, Switzerland, Linwei Hu, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Pengxiang Qiu, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Applied Geology, Goettingen, Germany
A Hydraulic Tomography Experiment in Fractured Sedimentary Rocks, Newark Basin, New Jersey, USA (75800)
Claire R Tiedeman, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Warren Barrash, Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Colby Joseph Thrash, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States and Carole D Johnson, USGS Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Storrs, United States
Frequency Dependent Hydraulic Properties Estimated from Oscillatory Pumping Tests in an Unconfined Aquifer (71002)
Avinoam Rabinovich1, Warren Barrash2, Michael A Cardiff3, David L Hochstetler4, Tania Bakhos4, Gedeon Dagan5 and Peter K Kitanidis6, (1)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, (6)Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Emerging Challenges and “Weird” Models in Hydrogeology (Invited) (72106)
Jesus Carrera, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

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