Conference Abstracts

Caldwell, T.G. E.V. McDonald, M.H. Young, E.P. Hamerlynck and S.N. Bacon, 2007. Soil Development and Hydrology of an Arid Soil Chronosequence in the Sonoran Desert. Presented at the Unsaturated Zone Interest Group meetings, Los Alamos, NM. August 27-29, 2007.

Caldwell, T.G., M.H. Young, J. Zhu, L. Fenstermaker, and E.V. McDonald, 2007. Scaling Heterogeneous Soil Hydraulic Properties Using Canopy/Interspace Distributions in a Mojave Desert Ecosystem. Presented at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Caldwell, T.G., M.H. Young, J. Zhu, and E.V. McDonald, 2007. Small-Scale Heterogeneity of Soil Hydraulic Properties on Large-Scale Water Balance Simulations. Presented at the Am. Soc. Agron. Meetings, New Orleans, LA.

Carroll, R.W.H., G.M. Pohll, S. Earman, and R.L. Hershey, 2007. A comparison of groundwater fluxes computed with MODFLOW and a stable isotope mixing model: Application to the eastern Nevada Test Site and vicinity, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 88(52), H41E-0829).

Chen, L. and M.C. Stone, 2007. Analysis of Unsteady Sediment Transport Modeling Approaches. Environmental Water Resources Institute-ASCE. , Tampa, FL.

Chen, L., J. Zhu, and M.H. Young, 2007. Polyacrylamide Transport in Water Delivery Canals. Presented at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Coming, D. and O. Staadt, 2007. Stride Scheduling for Time- Critical Collision Detection. Presented at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology in Newport Beach, CA, November 5-7, 2007.

Conrad, B., D.A. Devitt, M.H. Young, and L. Fenstermaker, 2007. Estimating Sensible Heat in the Great Basin, NV using a Large Aperture Scintillometer. Presented at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Decker, D.L., S. Earman, R.L. Hershey, J.-H Ryu, E. Garcia, and P. Reimus, 2007. Reactive transport of 14C through a carbonate aquifer: Implications for contaminant migration, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39(6), 596).

Dettinger, M. and S. Earman, 2007. Options for monitoring climate-driven recharge changes in Western Mountains, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 88(52), H14E-01).

Devitt, D.A., M. Baghzouz, and B. Bird, M.H, 2007. Surface Temperature, Heat Loading and Spectral Reflectance of Artificial Turfgrass. Presented at the Am. Soc. Agron. Meetings, New Orleans, LA.

Devitt, D.A., B. Bird, and M.H. Young, 2007. Spatial and Temporal Assessment of Soil Moisture Redistribution, Evaporation, and Transpiration. Presented at the Am. Soc. Agron. Meetings, New Orleans, LA.

Earman, S. and M.D. Dettinger, 2007. Possible impacts of climate change on groundwater and surface water resources in the western U.S.A., Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39(6), 524).

Earman, S., and M. Dettinger, 2007. Climate influences on groundwater recharge: Implications for Western groundwater and surface water resources in the face of climate change, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 88(52), H14E-04).

Huntington, J., T. Caldwell, R. Naranjo, S. Burak, and S. Tyler, 2007. Trends in Pan Evaporation and Application of the Complementary Relationship of Evaporation in the Great Basin, USA. AGU Fall Conference.

Labahn, S., D. Moser, T. Arrowood, and M.H. Young, 2007. Fate of Acrylamide in Soil and Groundwater Systems: Microbial Degradation. Presented at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Makowski, A., Schumer, R., and D. Boyle, 2007. Volume and flood frequency characteristics of ephemeral streams in the semi-arid U.S. Presented at American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco, December, 2007.

McDonald, E.V. M. H. Young, T.G. Caldwell, S.G. Benner, and D.G. Meadows, 2007. Hydraulic Properties of a Desert Soil Chronosequence in the Mojave Desert, USA. Presented at the Unsaturated Zone Interest Group meetings, Los Alamos, NM. August 27-29, 2007.

Reeves, D.M., 2007. Application of Fractional-Order Governing Equations to Solute Transport in Fractured Rock, Stochastic Transport and Emergent Scaling in Earth-surface Processes Meeting, Incline Village, CA, November 4-7, 2007.

Reeves, D.M., 2007. Stochastic Simulation of Fracture Networks for Ground Water Flow and Transport Models, Department of Mathematics, Probability and Statistics Seminar, University of Nevada, Reno, November 30, 2007.

Reeves, D.M., R. Schultz, C. Bingham, K. Pohlmann, C. Russell, and J. Chapman, 2007. Characterization of preferential flowpaths at the T-Tunnel Complex, Rainier Mesa, Nevada, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, December 12, 2007.

Schultz, R., R. Soliva, H. Fossen, C. Okubo, and D. Reeves, 2007. Displacement-length scaling realtions for geologic structural discontinuities and implications for near-tip processes, poster at AGU Fall Meeting, December 10, 2007.

Yin, J., M.H. Young, and Z. Yu, 2007. Effects of Paleoclimate and Time-Varying Canopy Structures on Paleo-Water Fluxes. Presented at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Young, M.H., 2007. Measuring Water Content in Near-surface Soils With Large Changes In Ambient Temperature. Presented at the Environmental Sensors Symposium. Boise State University, Boise ID, Oct 26-27, 2007 (Invited).

Young, M.H, 2007. Groundwater Characterization and Monitoring Strategies II, Presented at the American Nuclear Society Meetings, Washington, DC, Nov 11-15, 2007 (Invited).

Young, M.H., T.G. Caldwell, J.J. Miller, and G. Dalldorf, 2007. Combining Pedotransfer Functions and Detailed Geomorphic Mapping to Characterize Runoff Potential on an Arid Alluvial Fan Complex. Presented at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Young, M.H., T.G. Caldwell, and J. Zhu, 2007. Spatial Variability of Soil Hydraulic Properties at Interspace/Canopy Microsites. Presented at the Am. Soc. Agron. Meetings, New Orleans, LA. (Invited)

Zhang, Y., D.A. Benson, and D.M. Reeves, 2007. Nonlocal transport captured by spatiotemporal fractional derivative models: Modeling approach and field-scale applications, AGU Fall Meeting, December 10, 2007.