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Pan’s Research Focuses on Yucca Mountain FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2009RENO — Feng Pan has been selected as 2009 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Numerical evaluation of uncertainty in water retention parameters and effect on predictive uncertainty". Pan’s article was accepted to the Vandose Zone Journal last September. Pan will receive this award at a ceremony, Monday, May 11, in the Stout Conference Center at DRI’s Reno campus at 4 p.m. The event will also be broadcast to DRI’s Las Vegas Campus. Pan, who worked in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences, on DRI’s Las Vegas campus submitted a study in this year’s competition focused on the numerical modeling in the unsaturated zone of Yucca Mountain. “The research examines the flow and radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone of Yucca Mountain providing a better understanding of the radionuclide released from potential repository area that may affect the groundwater and environmental systems around the area,” Pan said. The Colin Warden Memorial Endowment makes an annual award of approximately $1,500 to a graduate student at University of Nevada, Reno or the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Applicants must be involved with a DRI research project or have a DRI faculty member direct his or her graduate research. The endowment was established by the family and friends of Colin Warden after his death in 1991 to honor his longstanding commitment to the environment. Warden was an electrician at Washoe Medical Center at the time of his death. |
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