Invited Speakers:

George Hirasaki, Rice University, Texas: Estimation of Rock and Fluid Properties by NMR Well Logging: Standard Interpretations and Research for Exceptional Cases

Natalya Hunter-Williams, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland: Letting the data tell their geo-story: Wavelet-based assessment of structure and organization

Session Chair:

Scott Tyler, University of Nevada:

Invited Speakers:

Jaime Gomez-Hernandez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain: Inverse stochastic simulation of heterogeneous conductivity fields

Jim Yeh, University of Arizona: An integrated approach for characterizing and monitoring the vadose zone and aquifer: theory, laboratory and field experiments

Roger Beckie, University of British Columbia, Canada: Scale problems in characterization and modeling of groundwater flow and reactive transport

Session Chair:

Yoram Rubin, University of California at Berkeley:

Monday Evening:

III. Numerical Simulation of Reservoir Flow

Invited Speakers:

Hamdi Tchelepi, Chevron Petroleum Technology Company: Stochastic Formulation for Uncertainty Assessment of Multi-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Reservoirs

Lou Durlofsky, Stanford University, California: Upscaling of geometrically complex reservoir descriptions for flow simulation

Session Chair:

John Trangenstein, Duke University, North Carolina:

Invited Speakers:

Georg Teutsch, University of Tübingen, Germany: Lessons to learn from reactive transport modelling using high-resolution aquifer analogue data

Brian Berkowitz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel: The role of probabilistic approaches to transport theory in heterogeneous media

Chris White, Louisiana State University: Appropriate statistics for outcrop data analysis

Session Chair:

Pierre Adler, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France:

Invited Speakers:

Grant Garven, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland: Structural Controls on Subsurface Hydrothermal Flows in Ancient Sedimentary Basins

Carl Renshaw, Dartmouth University, New Hampshire: Structural controls on conceptual models for flow and transport in fractured systems

Session Chair:

T.B.A., , :

Wednesday Morning:

VI. Wettability Phenomena

Invited Speakers:

Susan Powers, Clarkson University, New York: Mechanisms affecting the wetting conditions in environmental systems contaminated by nonaqueous phase liquids

Coen Ritsema, DLO Winand Staring Centre, The Netherlands: Flow and transport in hydrophobic soils: principles and modeling approaches

Gary Jerauld, ARCO E&P Techology: Wettability and Three-Phase Flow

Session Chair:

Mukul Sharma, University of Texas:

Invited Speakers:

Kurt Pennell, Georgia Institute of Technology: Development of Efficient Flushing Strategies for Remediation of DNAPL-Contaminated Aquifers

Craig Criddle, Stanford University, California: Chemical and organism delivery for full-scale bioremediation

Session Chair:

Lew Semprini, Oregon State University:

Invited Speakers:

A. Ted Watson, Texas A&M: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Probes of Fluids and Flow in Permeable Media

M. Sahimi, University of Southern California: Pore Network Simulation of Fractional Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media

Dani Or, Utah State University: Hydraulic functions for unsaturated media from equilibrium liquid configurations in angular pore space

Session Chair:

John Chatzis, University of Waterloo, Canada:

Invited Speakers:

Hubert Dupin, Gaz de France: Biological and hydrodynamic factors affecting aquifer clogging during in situ bioremediation

Majid Hassanizadeh, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands: Removal of bacteriophages by soil passage; theory, laboratory and field experiments

Session Chair:

Roseanne Ford, University of Virginia: