Complete Curriculum Vitae and Publication List

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Students in My Group

• Xingyuan Chen

  Thesis submitted, reviewed and accepted, May 2009

• Gretchen Miller

  Thesis submitted, reviewed and accepted, May 2009

• Felipe Barros

  Thesis submitted, reviewed and accepted, May 2009

• Hang Bai

• Haruko Murakami

News and Announcements

2009

• Rubin's Group Presents Preliminary Results from Its Work on the Hanford Site 300

• True identity of dream team finally revealed

2008

• Rubin's group starts a collaborative effort with PNNL Lab to investigate Uranium transport in the subsurface

2007

• A Final Report on the Salinity in the Central Valley was published by a group headed by Prof. Rubin 

  Volume I

  Volume II

  Volume III

• A team of researchers embarks on a project to develop Environmental Information Management System (EIMS)

• USDA documents Rubin's group work in the vineyards, to be presented at the Smithsonian, 2007 (text version, low-speed real player, high-speed real player) 

• Yoram Rubin to present environmental impact analysis of salinity from the food processing industry at the Central Valley, California, at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings, New Orleans, November 4-8, 2007

• Yoram Rubin Nominated 2007 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

• Xingyuan Chen, Rubin's PHD student,  receives 2006 Horton (Hydrology) Research Grant (EOS, 88(11), 13 March, 2007)

2006

• Rubin's Group research on Ground Penetrating Radar to Guide Precision Agriculture Highlighted by USDA 

• Rubin's Group starts data acquisition at the Tonzi AmeriFlux site

• Hubbard, Rubin and Freese present initial field study results in Terroir 2006

• Rubin's group publish preliminary results from their work on Natural Gas Exploration

2005

• EOS article about Yoram Rubin receiving the AGU Hydrology Section Award

• 2005 AGU Hydrology Section Award Citation (by Andrea Rinaldo) and Response (By Yoram Rubin), December 2004 (photos: one two three)

2004

• Yoram Rubin's Invited Lecture in the Geological Society of America's Annual Conference, Denver, November 2004   (PPT / PDF)
  

• RPSEA awards a major research grant to Rubin's research group

2003

• A sample of our work to be presented at the AGU-EGS conference, April, 2003, Nice, France

2002

• Dagan opines on Stochastic Modeling (EOS, 83(53), 31 December, 2002)

• Hubbard and Rubin opine on Hydrogeophysics (EOS, 83(51), December 17, 2002)

Reports from our work:

• On determining wood thermal diffusivity and probe geometry using in-situ heat response curves from sap flow measurements (Presented by Xingyuan Chen at AGU fall meeting,  Dec. 2008, San Francisco)

• Estimating the contribution of plant groundwater uptake to total evapotranspiration in a semi-arid oak savanna (Presented by Gretchen Miller at AGU fall meeting,  Dec. 2008, San Francisco)

• Evaluating the role of flow data on concentration fluctuations through the use of the comparative information yield curves (Presented by Felipe Barros at AGU fall meeting,  Dec. 2008, San Francisco)

• Modeling land application of food-processing wastewater in the central valley, CA (Presented by Gretchen Miller at AGU fall meeting,  Dec. 2007, San Francisco)

• A new technique for upscaling sap flow transpiration measurements to stand or landscape scale fluxes (Presented by Gretchen Miller at AGU fall meeting, Dec. 2007, San Francisco)

• Modeling plant-scale root zone water dynamics in an oak savanna (Presented by Xingyuan Chen at AGU fall meeting, Dec. 2007, San Francisco) 

• On the use of block-effective macrodispersion for numerical simulations of transport in heterogeneous formations (Jan. 2004)
  
  
• Field-scale estimation of volumetric water content using ground penetrating radar ground wave techniques (Jan. 2004)
  
  
• Review of permeability in buried-valley aquifers: Centimeter to kilometer scales
  
  
• Kowalsky, Finsterle and Rubin publish in Proceedings, TOUGH Symposium, 2003
  
  
• Water Resources Research accepts a paper by Rubin, Bellin and Lawrence on macrodispersion coefficients for numerical modeling

Books

• William Herkelrath reviews recently-published Hydrogeophysics (May, 2006)

• Hydrogeophysics by Rubin and Hubbard is published by Springer (April 2005)

• Hydrogeophysics to be published by Kluwer in 2004

• EOS publishes Review of Applied Stochastic Hydrogeology (10/28/03)
  

• Applied Stochastic Hydrogeology published by Oxford University Press in March, 2003
  http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/019513804X.html
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Research & Publications

Recent research interests include Hydrogeology, contaminant transport in porous media, environmental performance and risk assessment , and geostatistics. Ongoing research projects include hydrogeological-geophysical methods for contaminated site characterization, modeling of contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media, contaminant transport for environmental risk assessment, and performance assessment of nuclear repository sites.

Hydrogeophysics in Vineyards

• Near Surface Water Content Estimation Using GPR Data: Investigations within California Vineyards
• A penetrating result (December 2003)
• Radar in the Vineyard (Decemeber 2003)
• Radar für die Reben (Dezember 2003)
• New ground radar for wineries could help produce a more exquisite vino (November 2003)
  
• Il buon vino? Lo sceglie il radar (9 novembre, 2003)
• Radar y Buen Vino (Octubre 2003)
• Viticultura : Proponen uso del radar para medir la humedad en el viñedo (21 octubre, 2003)
• Radar and Fine Wine: Innovative research uses radar to map soil moisture, create better wine grapes (UC Press Release, October 16, 2003)
• A High-tech toast to better wines (Berkeley Engineering Lab Notes, October 2003)
• Prof. Rubin's Research Group hard at work in the Mondavi Vineyards
  
  

Other Research

• Modeling of Solute Transport in Porous Media
• Geostatistical Methods for Site Characterization
• Geophysical Imaging for Contaminated Site Characterization
• Breakthroughs in Field-Scale Bacterial Transport

Papers submitted by Prof. Rubin's group to the Berkeley Symposium "Bridging the Gap Between Measurements and Modeling in Heterogeneous Media", Berkeley, March 25-28, 2002

• Effects of fluid distribution and subsurface structural heterogeneity on ground-penetrating radar


• Bayesian Integration of Hydrogeological and Geophysical Data for Site Characterization: Theory and Application to the LLNL Superfund Site
• On the use of the concept of block-scale macrodispersion for numerical simulation of flow and transport in heterogeneous formations


• Characterizing Lithofacies from Geophysical Data Using the Bayesian Model coupled with a Fuzzy Neural Network


• High-Resolution Estimation of Near-Subsurface Water Contentusing Surface GPR Ground Wave Information


• Conditional Moments of the Breakthrough Curves of Kinetically Sorbing Solutes

Recent Publications

1. Ritzi, R.W., Z. Dai, D. Dominic, and Y. Rubin, Spatial correlation of permeability in cross-stratified sediment with hierarchical architecture, Water Res. Research, 40(3), 2004.
   
2. Bellin, A., A. Lawrence, Y. Rubin, Models of sub-grid variability in numerical simulations of solute transport in heterogeneous porous formations: Three-dimensional flow and effect of pore-scale dispersion, Stoch. Env. Risk and Rel. Assessment, 18(1), 2004.
   
3. Kowalsky, M., S. Finsterle, Y. Rubin, Estimating flow parameters distributions using ground-penetrating radar and hydrologic measurements during transient flow in the vadose zone, Adv. Water Resour., 27(6), 585-599, 2004.
   
4. Bellin, A., and Y. Rubin, On the use of peak concentration arrival times for the inference of hydrogeologic parameters, Water Resour. Res., 40, W07401, doi:10.1029/2003WR002179, 2004.
   
5. Lunt, I., S. Hubbard, and Y. Rubin, Soil moisture content estimation using ground penetrating radar reflection profiles, Accepted for publication, J. of Hydrology, 2004.
   
6. Rubin, Y., Stochastic Hydrogeology – Challenges and misconceptions, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 18:1-2, DOI 10.1007/s00477-004-0193-5, 2004.
   
7. Grote, K., S. Hubbard , John Harvey and Y. Rubin, Evaluation of infiltration in layered pavements using surface GPR reflection techniques, J. Applied Geophysics, 57(2), 129-153, 2005
   
8. Chen, J., S. Hubbard, Y. Rubin, C. Murray, E. Roden, and E. Majer, Geochemical characterization using geophysical data and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods: a case study at the Bacterial Transport Site in Virginia, Water Resour. Res., Vol. 40, W12412, doi:10.1029/2003WR002883, 2004.
   
9. Grote, K., S. Hubbard, J. Harvey, Y. Rubin, Evaluation of infiltration in layered pavements using surface GPR reflection technique, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 57(2), 129-153, 2005.
   
10. Kowalsky, Michael B., Stefan Finsterle and Yoram Rubin, Estimating flow parameter distributions using ground-penetrating radar and hydrological measurements during transient flow in the vadose zone, Advances in Water Resources, Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 583-599, 2004
    
11. Hou, Z., and Y. Rubin, On minimum relative entropy concepts and prior compatibility issues in vadose zone inverse and forward modeling, Water Resour. Res., 41, W12425, doi:10.1029/2005WR004082, 2005
    
12. Lunt, I.A, S.S. Hubbard and Y. Rubin, Soil moisture content estimation using ground-penetrating radar reflection data, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 307, Issues 1-4, 9, Pages 254-269, 2005
    
13. Kowalsky, M.B., S. Finsterle, J. Peterson, S. Hubbard, Y. Rubin, E. Majer, A. Ward, G.W. Gee, Estimation of field-scale soil hydraulic and dielectric parameters through joint inversion of GPR and hydrological data, Water Resources Research, 41, W11425, doi:10.1029/2005WR004237, 2005
    
14. Grote, K., S. Hubbard, J. Harvey, and Y. Rubin, Evaluation of infiltration in layered pavements using surface GPR reflection techniques, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 57(2), 129-153, 2005.
    
15. G.M. Hoversten, F. Cassassuce, E. Gasperikova, G. A. Newman, Y. Rubin, Z. Hou, and D. Vasco, Direct reservoir parameter estimation using joint inversion of marine seismic AVA & CSEM data, Geophysics, 71(3), P.C1-C13, 2005.
    
16. Hou, Z., Y. Rubin, G.M. Hoversten, D. Vasco, J. Chen, Reservoir Parameter Identification Using Minimum Relative Entropy-Based Bayesian Inversion of Seismic AVA and Marine CSEM Data, Geophysics, 71(6), P.O77-O88, 2006.
    
17. Rubin, Y., I. Lunt, J. Bridge, Spatial variability in river sediments and its link with river channel geometry,Water Resour. Res., 42, W06D16, doi:10.1029/2005WR004853, 2006.
18. Weiss, M., Y. Rubin, E. Adar and R. Nativ, Fracture and bedding plane control on groundwater flow in a chalk aquitard, J. of Hydrogeology,2006.
19.  Lawrence, A., Y. Rubin, Block-effective macrodispersion for numerical simulations of sorbing solute transport in heterogeneous porousformations, Advances in Water Resources, 30, 1272-1285, 2007.
20.  Chen, J., G. M. Hoversten, D. Vasco, Z. Hou, and Y. Rubin, A sampling-based Bayesian model for gas saturation estimation usinggeophysical data, Geophysics, 72(6), P. WA85-WA95, 2007.
21. Barros, F., and Y. Rubin, A risk-driven approach for subsurface site characterization, Water Resources Research, 44, W01414,
    doi:10.1029/2007WR006081, 2008.
22. Miller, G., Y. Rubin, U. Mayer, Modeling land application of food-processing wastewater in California's Central Valley, Journalof Environmental Quality, 37(5), S-43 to S-57, 2008.
23. Chen, X., Y. Rubin, S. Ma and D. Baldocchi, Observations and stochastic modeling of soil moisture control on evapotranspiration in a California Oak Savanna, Water Resources Research, 44, W08409,doi:10.1029/2007WR006646, 2008.
24. Pirjo Isosaari, Slawomir W. Hermanowicz, and Yoram Rubin, Sustainable natural systems for treatment and disposal of food processingwastewater, accepted for Publication in Critical Reviews, 2008.

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