Weingarten , Matthew 1 ; Hsieh , Paul 2 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA Solute transport through fractured porous rocks can be described by advective-dispersive transport through the fractures and diffusive transport through the unfractured matrix. The effect...
Underhill , Vivian R 1 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ With rising global temperatures, a major concern is that fresh water from melting glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet will slow down global oceanic circulation patterns, in particular the North Atlantic Current (NAC). The NAC, an extension of the Gulf Stream,...
Underhill , Vivian R 1 ; Wood , Kevin R 2 ; Mahoney , Andy 3 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Environmental Sciences Department 2 Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean 3 University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute The amount of sea ice remaining in the Chukchi Sea...
Swanner , Elizabeth D 1 ; Templeton , Alexis S 2 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 2 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ It is now established that microbial life inhabits pore spaces and fractures deep within the solid rock of our continents. However, the nutrient and energy sources that support the deep terrestrial...
SanClements , Michael D 1 ; McKnight , Diane M 2 ; Foreman , Christine M 3 1 INSTAAR, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder 2 INSTAAR, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder 3 Montana State University While in Antarctica this year I was afforded the opportunity to create a two minute...
Rudolph , James V 1 ; Friedrich , Katja 2 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) 2 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) A 21st century precipitation forecast for seven Swiss river basins is generated by linking high resolution (2 x...
Rengers , Francis Kevin 1 ; Moody , John 2 ; Ebel , Brian 3 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 2 USGS 3 USGS Recently new work has begun to try to model the sediment deposition and erosion patterns that occurred in the Spring Creek Watershed following the Buffalo Creek Fire...
Pugh , Evan T 1 ; Small , Eric E 2 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 2 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ In western North America, the mountain pine beetle has killed more than 100,000 km 2 of lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta ) forest, causing trees to lose the majority of their...
Piscopo , Amy N 1 ; Mays , David C 2 ; Neupauer , Roseanna M 3 1 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder 2 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Denver 3 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder The lack of mixing in laminar flows is a fundamental problem when addressing groundwater contamination, and...