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Toward More Effective Use of Ground Water Modeling V: Accounting for Uncertainty

Wednesday, April 22, 2009: 1:20 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Coronado I (Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort )
Moderator:
Eileen P. Poeter
1:20 p.m.
How Important Is Uncertainty Quantification to Ground Water Modeling Practitioners: Which Tools Do They Use, and Why (or why not) ?
Timothy R. Ginn*, University of California-Davis; Timothy D. Scheibe, Pacific Northwest Laboratory; Laura Foglia, University of California-Davis; Hanieh Haeri, University of California-Davis; Cynthia N. McClain, University of California-Davis
1:40 p.m.
Numerical Modeling of a Salt Intrusion Problem Inverting Vertical Electrical Soundings Via Global Optimization Methods and Kernel Learning Algorithms
Juan Luis Fernández Martínez, University of Berkeley; Heidi A. Kuzma, University of Berkeley; Esperanza García Gonzalo, University of Oviedo; José Paulino Fernández Álvarez, University of Oviedo; C. Omar Menéndez Pérez, University of Oviedo
2:00 p.m.
Evaluation of Concentration Data and Prior Information on Uncertainty in Simulations of Ground Water Flow in Four Hydrogeologic Settings
Jeff Starn, USGS
2:20 p.m.
Ground Water Modeling: A Dangerously Uninformed Tool for Complex Decisions Under Uncertainty?
Gregory J. Ruskauff, Intera Inc.; Nicole M. DeNovio, Golder Associates Inc.; Srikanta Mishra, Intera Inc.; Bruce Crowe, Battelle Memorial Institute
2:40 p.m.
Break
3:00 p.m.
Discussion
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