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and Hydrogeology 1 INTRODUCTION TO HYDROGEOPHYSICS 12 SUSAN S. HUBBARD and YORAM RUBIN 1 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. sshubbard@lbl. gov 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA In this chapter, we discuss the need for improved hydrogeological characterization and monitoring approaches, and how that need has provided an impetus for the development of an area of research called hydrogeophysics. We briefly describe how this research area has evolved in recent years in response to the need to better understand and manage hydrological systems, provide discussions and tables designed to facilitate navigation through this book, and discuss the current state of the emerging discipline of hydrogeophysics. 1. 1 Evolution of Hydrogeophysics The shallow subsurface of the earth is an extremely important geological zone, one that yields much of our water resources, supports our agriculture and ecosystems, and influences our climate. This zone also serves as the repository for most of our municipal, industrial, and governmental wastes and contaminants, intentional or otherwise. Safe and effective management of our natural resources is a major societal challenge.
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Background and Hydrogeology. 1. Introduction to Hydrogeophysics; Susan Hubbard and Yoram Rubin. 2. Hydrogeological Methods for Estimation of Spatial Variations in Hydraulic Conductivity; James J. Butler, Jr. 3. Geostatistics; J. Jaime G mez-Hern ndez . Fundamentals of Environmental Geophysics. 4. Relationships between the Electrical and Hydrogeological Properties of Rocks and Soils; David P. Lesmes and Shmulik P. Friedman. 5. DC Resistivity and Induced Polarization Methods; Andrew Binley and Andreas Kemna. 6. Near Surface Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Induction; Mark E. Everett and Max A. Meju. 7. GPR Methods for Hydrogeological Studies; A. Peter Annan. 8. Shallow Seismic Methods; Don W. Steeples. 9. Relationships between Seismic and Hydrological Properties; Steven R. Pride. 10. Geophysical Well Logging; Miroslav Kobr, Stanislav Mares, and Frederick Paillet. 11. Airborne Hydrogeophysics; Jeffrey G. Paine and Brian R.S. Minty. Hydrogeophysical Case Studies. 12. Hydrogeophysical Case Studies at the Regional Scale; Mark Goldman, Haim Gvirtzman, Max Meju, and Vladimir Shtivelman. 13. Hydrogeophysical Case Studies at the Local Scale: the Saturated Zone; David Hyndman and Jens Tronicke. 14. Hydrogeophysical Case Studies in the Vadose Zone; Jeffrey J. Daniels, Barry Allred, Andrew Binley, Douglas LaBrecque and David Alumbaugh. 15. Hydrogeophysical Methods at the Laboratory Scale; Ty P.A. Ferr , Andrew Binley, Jil Geller, Ed Hill, Tissa Illangasekare. Hydrogeophysical Frontiers. 16. Emerging Technologies in Hydrogeophysics; Ugur Yaramanci, Andreas Kemna, and Harry Vereecken. 17. Stochastic Forward and Inverse Modeling: the 'Hydrogeophysical Challenge'; Yoram Rubin and Susan Hubbard.
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This ground-breaking work is the first to cover the fundamentals of hydrogeophysics from both the hydrogeological and geophysical perspectives. Authored by leading experts and expert groups, the book starts out by explaining the fundamentals of hydrological characterization, with focus on hydrological data acquisition and measurement analysis as well as geostatistical approaches. The fundamentals of geophysical characterization are then at length, including the geophysical techniques that are often used for hydrogeological characterization. Unlike other books, the geophysical methods and petrophysical discussions presented here emphasize the theory, assumptions, approaches, and interpretations that are particularly important for hydrogeological applications. A series of hydrogeophysical case studies illustrate hydrogeophysical approaches for mapping hydrological units, estimation of hydrogeological parameters, and monitoring of hydrogeological processes. Finally, the book concludes with hydrogeophysical frontiers, i.e. on emerging technologies and stochastic hydrogeophysical inversion approaches.