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Vadose Zone Research Group

Welcome to the Vadose Zone Research group at Texas A&M University.

             The Vadose Zone Research Group at Texas A&M carries out research on a wide spectrum of topics related to the unsaturated zone. We handle projects in:

· Water, heat, and chemical transport measurement and modeling in  variably-saturated porous media  ranging from core-scale to regional-scale

· Measurement, scaling, and estimation of soil hydraulic properties

· Preferential water flow and chemical transport through macroporous and fractured media

· Spatial variability of soil hydraulic and transport properties in the context of deterministic/stochastic modeling

· Watershed scale flow and transport modeling

· Adaptive geostatistical and exploratory data analysis techniques

· Soil moisture remote sensing, scaling, and ground validation   

· Geo-hydrological and geo-environmental applications

· Surface water—groundwater interactions

· Bio-geo-chemical cycling of contaminants

· Addressing non-point-source resource management problems

· Development and application of the state-of-the-art expert systems

· Neural Network (NN) based pedo-topo-vegetation transfer functions (PTVTFs)

· Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

· Numerical forward and inverse models

 

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