Commemorating Dr. Gudmundur “Bo” Bodvarsson (1951–2006), a Leader of the Deep Unsaturated Flow and Transport Investigations

Chin‐Fu Tsang ,Karsten Pruess,Boris Faybishenko,Stefan Finsterle,Yvonne Tsang,Eric Sonnenthal,Joseph Wang,Maryann Villavert,Patrick Dobson,Curtis M Oldenburg ,Marcelo J Lippmann ,Jens Birkhölzer ,Daniel S Hawkes ,Hui‐Hai Liu ,Sally M Benson ,Yu‐Shu Wu ,Susan S Hubbard ,Timothy J Kneafsey ,Robert W Zimmerman

doi:10.3390/w10010018

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The Special Issue “Water and Solute Transport in Vadose Zone” in the journal Water is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Gudmundur “Bo” Bodvarsson, the former director of the Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (http://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/gudmundur-bo-sbodvarsson/).[...]

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Chin-Fu Tsang 1, Marcelo Lippmann 1, Patrick Dobson 1, Yvonne Tsang 1, Boris Faybishenko 1,*, Sally Benson 2, Jens Birkholzer 1, Stefan Finsterle 1, Daniel Hawkes 1, Susan Hubbard 1, Timothy Kneafsey 1, Hui-Hai Liu 3, Curtis M
The Special Issue “Water and Solute Transport in Vadose Zone” in the journal Water is dedicated to the memory of Dr Gudmundur “Bo” Bodvarsson, the former director of the Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The main barrier to potential radionuclide leakage from such a repository is the unsaturated zone, or the vadose zone, consisting mainly of fractured tuff, which separates the repository from the saturated zone. This was the area that Bo decided to direct his considerable research energy and skills. He and his group at Berkeley Lab studied various key issues related to field investigations and modeling of flow and transport in the vadose zone, such as the active fracture model for unsaturated flow and transport, subsurface pneumatic responses, heating experiments, perched water phenomena, and upscaling and parameterization of flow and transport models

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Chin-Fu Tsang 1, Marcelo Lippmann 1, Patrick Dobson 1, Yvonne Tsang 1, Boris Faybishenko 1,*, Sally Benson 2, Jens Birkholzer 1, Stefan Finsterle 1, Daniel Hawkes 1, Susan Hubbard 1, Timothy Kneafsey 1, Hui-Hai Liu 3, Curtis M. 3 Aramco Research Center, 16300 Park Row, Houston, TX 77084, USA; Hui-Hai.Liu@aramcoservices.com 4 Department of Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401, USA; ywu@mines.edu 5 Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BP, UK; r.w.zimmerman@imperial.ac.uk * Correspondence: bafaybishenko@lbl.gov

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