Field-Scale, Laboratory-Scale, and Pore-Scale Studies in Subsurface Hydrology and Hydrogeology
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 4406
Special Issue Editor
Interests: groundwater; contaminant transport; aquifer characterization; pore-scale phenomena
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Dear Colleagues,
There are 1322 Superfund sites on the National Priorities List (and 53 new sites proposed) still awaiting the completion (or beginning) of environmental remediation in the USA. The time necessary to clean up a typical site will likely exceed 100 years. The national Superfund Cleanup debt continues to grow, and it has been estimated to be well above a trillion dollars. Similarly challenging environmental remediation awaits completion (or beginning) in other industrialized and industrializing countries. Therefore, new approaches to and ideas for soil and aquifer remediation as well as protection are desperately needed.
With this in mind, this Special Issue of IJERPH will focus on novel field-, laboratory-, and pore-scale studies in subsurface hydrology and hydrogeology. We encourage submissions with new insights into the structure of pore/fracture spaces and transport of water, contaminants, and/or nutrients through these spaces in saturated and unsaturated (vadose) zones. Particularly welcome are papers with novel approaches to mapping and visualizing the internal structure of the porous/fractured media and to measuring physical, chemical, and biological properties of subsurface environments that affect modeling of transport processes. We encourage submissions involving experiments that refine or challenge our understanding of these processes. We would like to see a mixture of papers across all scales of the subsurface media, from the pore scale through the laboratory scale to the field scale.
We invite you to consider submitting your paper involving broadly understood field-, laboratory-, or pore-scale experiments related to the transport of water and/or contaminants or nutrients in saturated and unsaturated (vadose) zones.
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Again, please consider submitting your work to this special issue and, if accepted, experience the benefits of publishing in a well-established open-access journal.
Dr. Zbigniew Kabala
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Tracer tests
- Column studies
- Pore-scale physical models
- Tomography
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Single and multiple borehole tests
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