Multi-Scale Monitoring and Prediction of System Responses to Biostimulation

Conference · Wed Apr 05 04:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:894498

Hubbard, Susan; Williams, Ken; Steefel, Carl; Long, Phil; Banfield, Jill

To advance solutions needed for remediation of DOE contaminated sites, approaches are needed that can elucidate and predict reactions associated with coupled biological, geochemical, and hydrological processes over a variety of spatial scales and in heterogeneous environments. Our laboratory experimental experiments, which were conducted under controlled conditions, suggest that geophysical methods have the potential for elucidating system transformations that often occur during remediation, such as the generation of gases and precipitates. In this new ERSP project, we will Integrate hydrological, biogeochemical, and geophysical expertise and approaches to: (1) Explore the potential of geophysical methods for detecting changes in physical, chemical, and biological properties at the field scale; and (2) Explore the joint use of reactive transport modeling and geophysical monitoring information for improvements in both methods. A brief review of our previously-conducted laboratory results are given in Section II. Section III describes the approach for our new project, which will have both laboratory and field-scale components. The field scale component will be conducted at the Rifle, CO. site, which is described in Section IV.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Science (SC)
• OSTI ID: 894498
• Report Number(s): CONF-ERSP2006-27
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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TRANSFORMATIONS
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