T140 Complexity in Modeling: How Much Is Too Much?

Monday, 10 October 2011
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 101DE

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  MODEL COMPLEXITY: A PERSONAL ODYSSEY
  Chunmiao Zheng, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  195792 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  TO WHAT EXTENT DOES THE DEGREE OF MEANINGFUL MODEL COMPLEXITY DEPEND ON OBSERVATION DATA?
  Philip Brunner, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, N/A and John Doherty, National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Adelaide, N/A and Steen Christensen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, N/A and Craig T. Simmons, Flinders University, Adelaide
  191148 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  GEOSTATISTICALLY TUNED HYDROGEOLOGICAL 3D MODELLING OF COMPLEX GEOLOGY - BASED ON AEM, SEISMICS AND BOREHOLES
  Anne-Sophie Høyer, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS, Højbjerg, N/A and Flemming Jørgensen, Geological survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS, Højbjerg, N/A and Rasmus Rønde Møller, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS, Højbjerg, N/A and Anders Vest Christiansen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS, Højbjerg, N/A
  197360 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  MANUAL AND SEMI AUTOMATED 3D VOXEL MODELING OF COMPLEX GEOLOGY USING GEOSCENE3D
  Lars Nebel, I-GIS, Risskov, N/A and Niels-Peter Jensen, I-GIS, Risskov, N/A and Flemming Jørgensen, Geological survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS, Højbjerg, N/A and Rasmus Rønde Møller, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, N/A
  191996 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  GROUNDWATER TRANSIT TIME DISTRIBUTIONS IN WATERSHEDS WITH RECHARGE CONTROLLED OR TOPOGRAPHY CONTROLLED WATER TABLES
  Daniel B. Abrams, Prairie Research Institute, Champaign, IL and Henk Haitjema, Bloomington, IN
  193561 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  MATHEMATICAL MODELS, COMPUTER-AIDED THINKING AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
  Fred Molz, Clemson University, Anderson, SC and Deniz Demirkanli, The Cadmus Group, Inc, Arlington, VA and Shannon Thompson, Canoga Park, CA and Daniel I. Kaplan, Aiken, SC
  192897 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  MODEL COMPLEXITY AND SIMPLICITY: COMBINING THE STRENGTHS OF BOTH
  John Doherty, National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Adelaide, N/A
  192309 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  TOWARDS HOLISTIC BASIN SCALE INTEGRATED MODELLING: A CASE STUDY USING THE THAMES BASIN, UK
  Andrew Hughes, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, N/A and Denis Peach, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, N/A and Chris Jackson, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, N/A and Stephanie Bricker, Keyworth and Majdi Mansour, British Geological Survey, Wallingford, N/A and Jon Ford, British Geological Survey, Nottingham and Holger Kessler, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, N/A
  196216 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  THE BIG HAMMER: COMPLEXITY, COUPLING, AND CALIBRATION OF GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATER SYSTEMS
  Randall J. Hunt, U.S. Geological Survey, Middleton, WI and John F. Walker, U.S. Geological Survey, Middleton, WI
  197264 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  SIMPLIFYING COMPLEXITY--COMPARISON OF PARTICLE AND GRID METHODS WITH COARSE GRIDS
  Jeff Starn, 101 Pitkin Street, East Hartford, CT and Christopher T. Green, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  196255 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  MODEL COMPLEXITY: A COST – BENEFIT ISSUE
  Henk Haitjema, Bloomington, IN
  197453 (Technical Sessions)