77 A Celebration of Soil Science, Solute Transport, and National-Scale Water-Quality Research: In Honor of Jacob Rubin

Wednesday, 8 October 2008
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  Jacob Rubin and Evapotranspiration Research in the U.S. Geological Survey
  Edwin P. Weeks, U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO
  148118 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 1:45 PM
  Jake Rubin's Continuing Influence on ET Research In the U.S. Geological Survey
  David I. Stannard, U. S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO
  146921 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 2:00 PM
  Recharge Analyses In a Desert Groundwater Basin
  Daniel B. Stephens, Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc, Albuquerque, NM and Todd Umstot, Daniel B Stephens & Associates, Inc, Albuquerque, NM
  145551 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 2:15 PM
  Reactive Transport of Hexavalent Uranium in Ground Water with Variable Geochemical Conditions
  Gary P. Curtis, U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and James A. Davis, U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Matthias Kohler, University of Maine, Orono, ME
  150256 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 2:30 PM
  Quantifying Subsurface Reactive Transport of Arsenic Using a Combination of Hydrogeologic, Geochemical, and Biological Approaches
  Madeline Schreiber, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  148567 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 2:45 PM
  Conceptual Model of Potential Radionuclide Transport in the Saturated Zone at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
  Bill W. Arnold, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Sharad Kelkar, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM
  148099 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 3:00 PM
  Soil-Plant Interactions Explaining Long-Term Plutonium Transport Experiments at the Savannah River Site
  Fred J. Molz, Clemson University, Anderson, SC and Deniz I. Demirkanli, Clemson University, Anderson, SC and Daniel I. Kaplan, Aiken, SC and Robert A. Fjeld, Clemson University, Anderson, SC
  144704 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 3:15 PM
  Scientifically Based, National-Scale Water-Quality Assessment—Jacob Rubin's Vision
  Robert M. Hirsch, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA
  144831 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 3:30 PM
  Estimates of Watershed-Scale Nitrate Fate In Agricultural Settings: An Example of National Water Quality Studies First Envisioned In 1985
  Hedeff I. Essaid, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Kathleen A. McCarthy, U.S. Geological Survey, Portland, OR and Nancy T. Baker, U.S. Geological Survey, Indianapolis, IN
  144661 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 3:45 PM
  Nitrate Contamination of Shallow Agricultural Ground Waters at the Local and National Scale
  Barbara A. Bekins, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Christopher T. Green, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  144932 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 4:00 PM
  Nitrate in Ground Water of the San Joaquin Valley, California: Evolution of Understanding
  Joseph Domagalski, U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA and Karen R. Burow, US Geological Survey, WRD, Sacramento, CA and Neil M. Dubrovsky, US Geological Survey, WRD, Sacramento, CA
  150969 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 4:15 PM
  Source and Transport Controls on the Movement of Nitrate to Public Supply Wells in Selected Principal Aquifers of the United States
  Peter B. McMahon, U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO and J.K. Böhlke, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Leon J. Kauffman, New Jersey Water Science Center, West Trenton, NJ and Kenneth L. Kipp, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Matthew Landon, U.S. Geological Survey, San Diego, CA and Christy A. Crandall, U.S. Geological Survey, Tallahassee, FL and Karen R. Burow, US Geological Survey, WRD, Sacramento, CA and Craig J. Brown, US Geological Survey, WRD, East Hartford, CT
  150750 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 4:30 PM
  Volatile Organic Compounds in Ground Water – 15 Years of Research by the U.S. Geological Survey
  Michael James Moran, U.S. Geological Survey, Henderson, NV and John S. Zogorski, U.S. Geological Survey, Rapid City, SD
  148342 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 4:45 PM
  California's Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program: Reflecting the Legacy and Contributions of Jacob Rubin
  Kenneth Belitz, Earth System Processes Division, Carlisle, MA
  149216 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 5:00 PM
  Designing Ground-Water Sampling Strategies for Water Quality Assessment: Evaluating the Trade-off Between Status and Trend Assessment
  Brian J. Wagner, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  148605 (JOINT SESSIONS)
• 5:15 PM
  Factors Controlling Ground-Water Quality across the United States - New Contributions from the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program
  Jack E. Barbash, USGS, Tacoma, WA
  143974 (JOINT SESSIONS)