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FY2002 Presentations
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FY2002 EMSP Vadose Zone Principal Investigator Workshop
November 5-6, 2000
Agenda and Presentations
http://www.pnl.gov/emsp/
Introduction
Welcome from the Groundwater Vadose Zone Integration Team
"Hanford Site Integration Project - Fiscal Year 2001 Accomplishments"
- John Morse, DOE-RL; Michael Graham, Bechtel Hanford Inc.; Mark Freshley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Status and Directions of the EMSP program
"DOE Weapons Complex and R&D to Meet Cleanup Requirements"
- Mark Gilbertson, DOE-HQ
Objectives of Workshop
"Needs and Opportunities for Subsurface Contamination and Vadose Zone Research"
- Chet Miller, DOE-HQ
Update on Hanford Vadose Zone Activities
Tank Farm Characterization Studies
"Tank Farm Vadose Zone Project"
- Tony Knepp, CH2M Hill Hanford Group
- Mary Todd, Bechtel Hanford Inc.
Hanford Site Science Issues (DOE-RL) -- Scientific Program GEOCHEMISTRY
- Andrew R. Felmy, Herman Cho, David A. Dixon, James R. Rustad, Zheming Wang, PNNL; and Gregory R. Choppin, FSU
Project 70070 -- "Reactivity of Primary Soil Minerals and Secondary Precipitates Beneath Leaking Hanford Waste Tanks"
- Kathryn Nagy, University of Colorado; and Steve Yabusaki and R. Jeff Serne, PNNL
Project 70081 -- "Immobilization of Radionuclides in the Hanford Vadose Zone by Incorporation in Solid Phases"
- Samuel J. Traina, Philip Grandinetti, Isao Yamakawa, Subramanian Prasad, and Yongtian He, Ohio State University; Gordon E. Brown, Jr., Leland Stanford Junior University and SSRL; Jeffrey G. Catalano and Jeffrey A. Warner, Leland Stanford Junior University; Calvain C. Ainsworth, Nikolla P. Qafokku, and Jim E. Szecsody, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Project 70126 -- "Collaboration: Interfacial Soil Chemistry of Radionuclides in the Unsaturated Zone"
- Jon Chorover, Univ. of Arizona; Karl Mueller, Penn State; K.G. Karthikeyan, Univ. of Wisconsin; A. Vairavamurthy, Brookhaven National Laboratory; R. Jeff Serne, PNNL; Mary Kay Amistadi and Sunkyung Choi, Univ. of Arizona; Garry Crosson and Paula Rotenberg, Penn State; and Soh-Joung Yoon, University of Washington
Project 73758 -- "Fixation Mechanisms and Desorption Rates of Sorbed Cs in High Level Waste Contaminated Subsurface Sediments: Implications to Future Behavior and In-Ground Stability"
- John Zachara, Chongxuan Liu, James McKinley, and Calvin Ainsworth, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Susan Carroll, Carl Steefel, Sarah Roberts, and Pihong Zhao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Project 70146 -- "Spectroscopic and Microscopic Characterization of Contaminant Uptake and Retention by Carbonates in Soils and Vadose Zone Sediments"
- Richard J. Reeder and Nicholas S. Fisher, SUNY-Stony Book; Wayne P. Hess and Kenneth M. Beck, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Project 70121 -- "The Influence of Calcium Carbonate Grain Coatings on Contaminant Reactivity in Vadose Zone Sediments"
- John M. Zachara, Scott Chambers, and Tim Droubay, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Gordon Brown, Stanford University; Carrick Eggleston, University of Wyoming
Project 70177 -- "Technetium Attenuation in the Vadose Zone: Role of Mineral Interactions"
- N. Hess, J. Szecsody, Y. Xia, J. McKinley, D, Rai, K. Krupa, R. Wildung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; S. Conradson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Project 70176 -- "Transuranic Interfacial Reaction Studies on Manganese Oxide Hydroxide Mineral Surfaces"
- Dawn A. Shaughnessy, David K. Shuh, and Corwin H. Booth, The Glenn T. Seaborg Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Heino Nitsche, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California; R. Jeffrey Serne and Kirk J. Cantrell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Glenn A. Waychunas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
WATER AND WASTE MIGRATION
Project 70193 -- "Influence of Clastic Dikes on Vertical Migration of Contaminants in the Vadose Zone at Hanford"
- Chris Murray, Andy Ward, Phil Long, Yi-Ju Chien, Fred Zhang, Peter Kannberg, Randy Kirkham, Glendon Gee, Duane Horton, and Mike Fayer - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; John Wilson and BJ Lechler, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Bill Clement - Boise State University
Project 70135 -- "Colloid-Facilitated Transport of Radionuclides Through the Vadose Zone"
- Markus Flury and James Harsh, Washington State University; John Zachara, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and Yan Jin, University of Delaware
Project 70108 -- "Effects of Fluid Distribution on Measured Geophysical Properties for Partially Saturated, Shallow Subsurface Conditions"
- Patricia Berge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Project 70219 -- "Fate and Transport of Radionuclides Beneath the Hanford Tank-Farms: Unraveling Coupled Geochemical and Hydrological Processes in the Vadose Zone"
- P.M. Jardine, M.A. Mayes and M.N. Pace, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; C.C. Ainsworth, B.N. Bjornstad, and J.M. Zachara, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; S.E. Fendorf, Stanford University
Project 73773 -- "Isotopic Tracers for Waste Fluid Tracking and Fluid-Soil Interactions: Hanford, Washington"
- Donald J. DePaolo, Mark Conrad, Kath Maher, Kate Woods, and John Christensen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and U.C. Berkeley
Project 70149 -- "The Dynamics of Vadose Zone Transport: A Field and Modeling Study Using the Vadose Zone Observatory"
- C.R. Carrigan, S. Martins, W. Daily, A. Ramirez, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Project 70187 - "Quantifying Vadose Zone Flow and Transport Uncertainties Using a Unified, Hierarchical Approach"
- P D. Meyer, M.L. Rockhold, and C.J. Murray, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Project 70220 -- "High Frequency Electromagnetic Impedance Imaging for Vadose Zone and Groundwater Characterization"
- G.S. Newman, Sandia National Laboratories; G.M. Hoversten, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; D.L. Alumbaugh, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Edward Nichols, Electromagnetic Instruments, Inc.
Project 70267 -- "A Hydrologic-Geophysical Method for Characterizing Flow and Transport Processes within the Vadose Zone"
- Douglas LaBrecque, Multi-Phase Tehcnologies LLC; David Alumbaugh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison; James Brainard, Geohydrology Department, Sandia National Laboratories; and T.C. Jim Yeh, University of Arizona
Project 70115 -- "The Use of Radar Methods to Determine Moisture Content in the Vadose Zone"
- Rosemary Knight, James Irving, Stephen Moysey, Jonathan Franklin, Stanford University; Paulette Tercier, University of British Columbia