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会议将于2015年10月5日至8日在瓦伦西亚理工大学举行，主题是高度非均质多孔介质中的输运，特别关注MADE现场（MS，美国）。地下水系统中污染物和其他化合物的运移仍然是一个严肃的研究问题，也是一个紧迫的社会问题。本次会议将召集高非均质含水层运移的研究人员，以及对含水层表征和溶质运移建模感兴趣的研究人员：1)讨论地下表征和建模研究的最新进展，2)确定高非均质含水层表征和建模的未解决问题，3)确定这些领域未来研究的有希望的途径。处理非均质性，特别是高多尺度非均质性，是地下水水文学的重大挑战之一。在宏观色散实验（MADE）现场进行的实验和建模已经取得了重大进展。然而，在高度非均质介质中的输运、表征地下非均质性的尺度以及预测这种系统中输运的各种模型的有效性方面，仍然存在许多问题和挑战。本次会议将综合已经学到的知识，确定并优先考虑该领域未来的关键挑战，确定改善含水层表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，促进协作和协同研究，专注于共同目标。

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.