AGU Chapman Conference - The MADE Challenge for Groundwater Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Aquifers: Modeling and Characterization at the Field Scale and Promising Future Direc

AGU Chapman将于2015年10月5日至8日在巴伦西亚理工大学举行一次关于高度非均质多孔介质中的运输的会议，会议的重点是Made场地(密苏里州，美国)。污染物和其他化合物在地下水系统中的迁移仍然是一个严肃的研究问题，也是一个紧迫的社会问题。这次会议将召集现场尺度上高度非均质含水层运移的研究人员与那些对含水层表征和溶质运移模拟感兴趣的人一起：1)讨论地下表征和模拟研究的最新进展，2)确定关于高度非均质含水层中含水层表征和模拟的悬而未决的问题，3)确定这些领域未来研究的有前途的途径。在宏观弥散实验(MADE)现场进行的实验和建模已经取得了显著的进展，但在高度非均质介质中的传输、表征地下非均质性的尺度以及各种模型在此类系统中预测传输的有效性方面仍然存在许多问题和挑战。迫切需要聚集研究界来综合当前的知识状况，本次会议将综合已学到的知识，确定这一领域未来的关键挑战并确定优先次序，确定改进含水层特征和建模工作的有希望的途径，最重要的是，通过将具有不同专业知识的研究人员聚集在一起专注于共同目标，促进协作和协同研究。

An AGU Chapman conference on transport in highly heterogeneous porous media, with a particular focus on the MADE site (MS, USA), will be held at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia October5-8, 2015. Transport of contaminants and other compounds in groundwater systems remains a serious research question as well as a pressing societal problem. This meeting will convene researchers in transport in highly heterogeneous aquifers at the field scale with those interested in aquifer characterization and solute transport modeling to: 1) discuss the latest advances in subsurface characterization and modeling research, 2) define unresolved questions about aquifer characterization and modeling in highly heterogeneous aquifers, and 3) identify promising avenues for future research in these areas.Dealing with heterogeneity, particularly high multi-scale degrees of heterogeneity, in flowand transport properties is one of the grand challenges in groundwater hydrology. Experimentsand modeling on the Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) site, have yielded significant advances.However, many questions and challenges remain regarding transport in highly heterogeneousmedia, the scale for characterization of subsurface heterogeneity, and the effectiveness ofvarious models to predict transport in such systems. There is an urgent need to gather theresearch community to synthesize the state of current knowledge, This conference will synthesize what has been learned, identify and prioritize key future challenges in this field, determine promising avenues for improved aquifer characterization and modeling efforts, and, most importantly, catalyze collaborativeand synergistic research by bringing together researchers with a diverse range of expertise to focus on common goals.