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Project Calendar

Upcoming Events:

• July 9-13, 2012 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. Tim Scheibe has been invited to give a keynote lecture.
• June 17-21, 2012 2012 Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR) Conference, Champaign-Urbana, IL. Tim Scheibe is co-organizing a special session on "Hybrid Multiscale Models in Subsurface Flow and Transport." Tim Scheibe and Ilenia Battiato will present invited talks as part of that session.
• Late 2011 or Early 2012 Request for proposals for SciDAC-3 Science Applications and Science Application Partnerships expected to be released by DOE-SC (BER/ASCR).

Past Events:

• December 5-9, 2011 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Several project members attended the meeting. Delphine Roubinet (a new post-doc working with Daniel Tartakovsky under this project) gave an oral presentation entitled "A hybrid continuum-scale model with pore-scale refinements for biogeochemical processes," (Abstract H54C-06).
• Nov. 28, 2011 Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling (ISCMEM), Rockville, MD. Tim Scheibe presented results from this project to the committee via teleconference.
• Nov. 12-18, 2011 SuperComputing 2011, Seattle, WA. Project material was displayed at the PNNL exhibit booth. Khushbu Agarwal and Karen Schuchardt presented our current work on the STOMP-SPH hybrid many-parallel system in the co-located workshop: 4th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS).
• Nov. 10, 2011 Guy F. Atkinson Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Utah,Tim Scheibe presented an invited lecture on "Quantifying Flow and Reactive Transport in the Heterogeneous Subsurface Environment: From Pores to Porous Media and Facies to Aquifers."
• September 18-22, 2011 ModelCARE 2011, Leipzig, Germany. Tim Scheibe presented a talk on the visualization of large 3D simulation datasets.
• July 10-14, 2011 SciDAC 2011 Conference in Denver, CO. Tim Scheibe served on the program committee and coordinated the subsurface science portion of the meeting. Bruce Palmer and Karen Schuchardt presented a poster in the "SciDAC Successes" session.
• April 26-28, 2011 MODFLOW and More 2011 conference in Golden, CO. Tim Scheibe served on the program committee and gave an invited featured presentation on hybrid multiscale modeling.
• April 26-28, 2011 Subsurface Biogeochemistry Research (SBR) Annual PI Meeting in Washington DC. Tim Scheibe presented a poster on this project.
• April 26, 2011 8th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium in Tacoma WA. Tim Scheibe gave an invited keynote lecture based on his 2010 Darcy Lectures.
• February 8, 2011 Project meeting with INL at PNNL
• Calendar Year 2010 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture Series was given by Tim Scheibe throughout North America and Europe. One of the two offered lectures was based largely on material from this project.
• July 11-15, 2010 SciDAC 2010 Conference was held in Chattanooga, TN.
• May 17-18 Project meeting in San Diego, CA.
• April 22-23, 2010 CCA Forum Meeting in Washington, DC.
• November 14-20, 2009 SuperComputing 2009 in Portland, OR. Tim Scheibe presented material on "Scalable Applications for Subsurface Science" at the PNNL Exhibit.
• October 13-14, 2009 SDM All-Hands Meeting in Davis, CA. Karen Schuchardt was invited to give a presentation on the SALSSA framework and our experiences using the SDM Kepler product.
• September 24-25, 2009 SciDAC TOPS Center researchers visited PNNL to initiate collaboration on application of adjoint methods to error estimation in hybrid multiscale modeling. Participants: Carol Woodward (LLNL); Don Estep and Simon Tavener (Colorado State Univ.); Victor Ginting (Univ. of Wyoming) and PNNL project staff.
• August 9-14, 2009 33rd IAHR Congress in Vancouver, BC. Alexander Tartakovsky co-chaired a special session on applications of the SPH method in hydrology.
• July 23-24, 2009 2009 CCA Forum Held in Seattle, WA. Bruce Palmer gave a presentation on our recent experiences with the BOCCA platform.
• June 14-18, 2009 SciDAC 2009 Conference was held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA. Tim Scheibe served on the Program Committee and chaired the Geosciences session. Bruce Palmer and Karen Schuchardt gave invited poster presentations at the conference.
• May 24-27, 2009 American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly in Toronto, ON. Tim Scheibe was the Hydrology Section representative on the Program Committee, and co-chaired two special sessions.
• May 7-8, 2009 Workshop: "Large Scale Production Computing Requirements for Biological and Environmental Research" was held in Rockville, MD. Bruce Palmer and Tim Scheibe were invited to serve as co-leads for the environmental science area and gave presentations.
• April 20-23, 2009 BER Environmental Remediation Sciences Program Annual Investigator Meeting in Lansdowne, VA. A mid-term review of our project was conducted during and following the PI meeting; project staff presented four posters and one platform presentation and met with a review panel.
• March 2-6, 2009 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering in Miami, FL. Alexander Tartakovsky gave an invited presentation on "Hybrid Diffusion-Reaction Models."
• February 23, 2009 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '09) in San Francisco, CA.
• January 20-21, 2009 HDF Workshop at NERSC. Bruce Palmer attended.
• December 15-19, 2008 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Several project team members gave presentations:
  • H13A - Mon., Dec. 15: T D Scheibe, A M Tartakovsky, B J Palmer, Y Fang, M C Richmond, B D Wood, I Battiato, D M Tartakovsky, "Linking Pore- and Darcy-scale Models of Reactive and Non-Reactive Transport," INVITED POSTER
  • H24B - Tues., Dec. 16, 4:00 PM: D M Tartakovsky, M Dentz, P C Lichtner, "Probability Density Functions for Reactive Transport in Porous Media," INVITED ORAL
  • H24B - Tues., Dce. 16, 5:45 PM: G D Redden, X Li, H Huang, "Modeling Mineral Precipitation Dynamics Within Reactant Mixing Interfaces Using The Level Set Method," ORAL
  • H31B - Wed., Dec. 17: I Battiato, A M Tartakovsky, D M Tartakovsky, T D Scheibe, "Mixing-Induced Precipitation Phenomena: Range of Applicability of Macroscopic Equations," POSTER
  • H31B - Wed., Dec. 17: Z Xu, P Meakin, "Phase-field modeling of reactive fluid with solute precipitation and dissolution," POSTER
  • H34D - Wed., Dec. 17, 4:45 PM: A M Tartakovsky, D M Tartakovsky, P Meakin,"Meso-Scale Stochastic Model for Flow and Transport in Porous Media," INVITED ORAL
  • H34D - Wed., Dec. 17, 5:45 PM: P Meakin, H Huang, A Malthe-Sorenssen, "Coupling between fluid generation, fluid flow, deformation and fracturing in subsurface porous media: Discrete element, particle and continuum methods," ORAL
  • H41G - Thurs., Dec. 18: J A Daily, "An Extensible Python User Environment for Subsurface Modeling," POSTER
  • H53I - Fri., Dec. 19: X Li, H Huang, P Meakin, "High Performance 3D Volume of Fluid Simulation of Water-air Flow in Complex Fracture Networks," POSTER
• November 15-21, 2008 SuperComputing 2008 in Austin, TX. Tim Scheibe attended and gave a presentation on subsurface simulation at PNNL's exhibit.
• November 10-11, 2008 Tim Scheibe and Alexander Tartakovsky met with co-PI Daniel Tartakovsky and doctoral student Ilenia Battiato at the University of California San Diego to develop project plans for the upcoming year.
• October 28-29, 2008 Tim Scheibe visited Idaho National Laboratory to work with George Redden and other project collaborators. They installed version 2.0 of the SALSSA workflow tool to support INL staff in running STOMP simulations for design of upcoming intermediate-scale laboratory experiments.
• September 7-10, 2008 Delivering Science on Petascale Computers conference in Falls Creek, TN. Tim Scheibe attended and presented a poster.
• June 16 - August 29 UC San Diego PhD candidate Ilenia Battiato visited PNNL as a summer intern to work on SPH simulation and quantifying regions of a simulation in which criteria for continuum mixing and reaction are violated. These regions are candidates for automated algorithm refinement in the hybrid multiscale framework.
• July 28-31, 2008 Vicky Freedman attended the CScADS Summer Workshop on Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization for Petascale Computing in Snowbird, UT.
• July 13-17, 2008 SciDAC 2008 in Seattle. Tutorials Friday, July 18. Tim Scheibe, Bruce Palmer, Karen Schuchardt, and Alexander Tartakovsky attended the conference, and Tim Scheibe presented a poster on Wednesday evening.
• July 8, 2008 Jared Chase attended the IEEE 2008 Second International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF’08) in Hawaii. A short paper was submitted for the conference proceedings.
• July 6-10, 2008 Computational Methods in Water Resources conference in San Francisco, CA. Tim Scheibe will gave an invited talk on "Pore-scale modeling of reactive and non-reactive transport: Upscaling and multiscale hybrid modeling." Yilin Fang presented a poster on "Coupling finite elements and smoothed particle hydrodynamics methods for reactive transport."
• June 3-5, 2008 Bruce Palmer attended the ASCR workshop "Mathematics for Analysis of Petascale Data" in Bethesda, MD.
• May 27-30, 2008 American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly. Alexandre Tartakovsky and Tim Scheibe co-chaired a session (together with Marco Dentz and Dave Benson) on the subject of Anomalous transport and coupled geochemical processes
• May 12-14, 2008 Kepler/CORE Stakeholders Meeting at UC Davis. Karen Schuchardt and Jared Chase attended and presented our use of Kepler within the SALSSA workflow environment.
• April 24-25, 2008 Common Component Architecture (CCA) Forum Meeting. Bruce Palmer attended and gave a presentation.
• March 12-13, 2008 Tim Scheibe attended the joint BES/BER/OASCR/FE workshop on "Basic Research Relevant to CO2 Sequestration" and presented a poster on this SciDAC science application project.
• January 23, 2008 Tim Scheibe gave a web-based presentation on the topic of "Metabolic and multi-scale models" as part of the internet workshop "Developing a Roadmap to Accelerate Deployment of Field-Scale Models to Simulate Microbially-Mediated Remediation Performance of Contaminated Sites."
• January 10-12, 2008 Tim Scheibe and Paul Meakin attended the Scientific Impacts and Opportunities for Computing workshop in Maui, HI. They each gave presentations and served as panelists for the geosciences portion of the workshop. Links to their talks are available on the workshop agenda page.
• December 10-14, 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Tim Scheibe gave an invited presentation in the session "Subsurface Reactions Controlled by Mixing and Mass Transfer: From Pore to Field Scales." Karen Schuchardt gave a poster presentation and computer demonstration of the prototype workflow environment in the session "Recent Advances in Groundwater Hydrology." Alexandre Tartakovsky presented a poster entitled "Mixing-induced precipitation: Experimental study and multi-scale numerical analysis."
• November 28-30, 2007 Scientific Data Management (SDM) All-Hands Meeting in Snoqualmie, WA. Jared Chase presented a demonstration of the workflow and data management system for reactive transport simulation.
• November 12-16, 2007 Supercomputing 2007 (Reno, NV) Tim Scheibe, Karen Schuchardt, and Bruce Palmer attended. The PNNL exhibit included a poster representing this project, and Karen Schuchardt and Tim Scheibe gave a presentation and software demonstration at the exhibit on Wednesday at 2:30 pm.
• August 20-21, 2007 Project meeting in San Diego (T. Scheibe, A. Tartakovsky, D. Tartakovsky, and I. Battiato).
• July 19-20, 2007 Bruce Palmer and Yilin Fang attended the CCA Forum Meeting in Washington, D. C.
• July 23-26, 2007 Tim Scheibe attended the SciDAC CScADS Workshop on Petascale Architectures and Performance Strategies
• June 24-29, 2007 SciDAC 2007 Conference in Boston, MA. Paul Meakin gave an invited oral presentation in the Groundwater application area. Posters were presented on the Science Application and SAPs by Tim Scheibe, Bruce Palmer, and Karen Schuhardt. Conference proceedings papers were submitted for publication in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
• May 21-25, 2007 American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly (see conference website). Tim Scheibe presented a poster in a topical session entitled "Multiscale Multiphysics Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media."
• April 4, 2007 Tim Scheibe visited SUNY Stony Brook (SciDAC/ITAPS investigators Dr. Xiaolin Li and Dr. James Glimm) for a collaborative meeting and presentation of a noon seminar.
• March 19-22, 2007 SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences (see conference website) Tim Scheibe and Daniel Tartakovsky co-convened a mini-symposium on the subject of "Hybrid and Multiscale Modeling of Subsurface Flow and Transport Processes" (see program listing)
• March 13, 2007 PNNL hosted a visit by Dr. Carol Woodward of LLNL (SciDAC/TOPS investigator) for collaborative discussions and a noon seminar.
• February 4-6, 2007 SciDAC program investigators meeting in Atlanta, Georgia (see website). Tim Scheibe attended.
• January 31, 2007 VACET all-hands meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah (see website). Karen Schuchardt attended.
• January 25-26, 2007 CCA Working Group meeting in Snoqualmie, WA. Bruce Palmer attended.
• January 9-12, 2007 ASCR Subsurface Sciences Workshop, Bethesda MD. Attended by Tim Scheibe, Alexandre Tartakovsky, Daniel Tartakovsky, George Redden, and Paul Meakin.
• December 13, 2006 Project Kickoff Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Held in conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.