Initiative addresses subsurface energy and environment problems

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES Forest Products and the Environment: A Productive Symbiosis

Symbiosis can be defined as a mutually beneficial relationship. Can there be a symbiotic relationship between forest products and the environment? If there is symbiosis of forest products and the environment, human beings are central to the process. Historically forests have always played a significant role in the human environment. At one end of the relationship, forests help provide the oxyge...

pollution migration study in subsurface environment

the sources of groundwater pollution such as, industrial effluents, sewage and extensive farming have lead to agrochemical pollution. mathematical modeling helps to analyze the existing situation, allows forecasting, and to evaluate the effects of changes in the surrounding water quality. the present research has been focused mainly towards understanding the various processes affecting the tran...

Microplastics Pollution in the Aquatic Environment: Problems and Challenges

Advanced Solver Methods for Subsurface Environmental Problems

The present report outlines recent results relative to the development of new linear and nonlinear approaches for solving groundwater flow problems. Efficient and robust simulation of complex processes in environmental applications is crucial for understanding, forecasting and performing opportune and reliable decisions. This research effort focuses in developing efficient solvers for two main ...

Atmospheric energy for subsurface life on Mars?

The location and density of biologically useful energy sources on Mars will limit the biomass, spatial distribution, and organism size of any biota. Subsurface Martian organisms could be supplied with a large energy flux from the oxidation of photochemically produced atmospheric H(2) and CO diffusing into the regolith. However, surface abundance measurements of these gases demonstrate that no m...