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March 9-10, 2004
Panel on the Natural System
Las Vegas, NV


Presentations

March 9

Eric McDonald, Desert Research Institute; Geological evidence of past climatic and hydrologic regimes of the Great Basin

Saxon Sharpe, Desert Research Institute; Past, present, and future climate of Yucca Mountain

James Paces, USGS/Yucca Mountain Project; Climate change and Yucca Mountain unsaturated zone hydrology

Alan Flint, USGS; Conceptual models of Yucca Mountain unsaturated zone flow

Stephanie Kuzio, BSC/Sandia National Laboratory; Sorption, matrix diffusion, and colloid-facilitated transport in saturated zone radionuclide transport models

Bill Arnold, BSC/Sandia National Laboratory; Saturated zone radionuclide transport predictions and abstractions for Total System Performance Assessment



March 10

Claudia Faunt, U.S. Geological Survey/Yucca Mountain Project; Ground-water flow system of the Death Valley region

John Bredehoeft, The Hydrodynamics Group; Inyo County investigations of flow in fault zones south of Yucca Mountain

James Winterle, Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analysis, Southwest Research Institute; Ground-water flow system of the Yucca Mountain area

Ken Rehfeldt, BSC/Los Alamos National Laboratory; Conceptual model of saturated zone flow and transport and independent lines of evidence for evaluation DOE saturated zone model predictions

Gary Patterson, U.S. Geological Survey/Yucca Mountain Project; Geochemical mapping of the ground-water system

William Murphy, California State University, Chico role of secondary minerals in unsaturated zone radionuclide transport at the Pena Blanca analog site

Ardyth Simmons, BSC/Los Alamos National Laboratory; Science and Technology program work at the Pena Blanca analog site

James Houseworth, BSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Conceptual models and independent lines of evidence for evaluating DOE unsaturted zone model calculations

George Moridis,BSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;Sorption, matrix diffusion, and colloid-facilitated transport in unsaturated zone radionuclide transport models

Bruce Robinson, BSC/Los Alamos National Laboratory; Unsaturated zone radionuclide transport predictions and abstractions for Total System Performance Assessment