Michael Kowalsky

Publications

Journal articles and book chapters

Lehikoinen, A., J.M.J. Huttunen, S. Finsterle, M.B. Kowalsky and J.P.
Kaipio, Dynamic inversion for Hydrological Process Monitoring under Model Uncertainties, Water Resour. Res. (submitted).

Lehikoinen, A., S. Finsterle, A. Voutilainen, M.B. Kowalsky and J.P.
Kaipio, Dynamical inversion of geophysical ERT data: state estimation in the vadoze zone, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (in press).

Kowalsky, M.B., J. Birkholzer, J. Peterson, S. Finsterle, S. Mukhopadhyay, and Y. Tsang, 2008. Sensitivity analysis for joint inversion of GPR and thermal-hydrological data from a large-scale underground heater test, Nuclear Technology, 164(2), 196-206.

Salve, R., N.Y. Krakauer, M.B. Kowalsky, and S. Finsterle, 2008. A qualitative assessment of microclimatic perturbations in a tunnel, International J. of Climatology, 28(15), 2081–2087, doi: 10.1002/joc.1697.

Finsterle, S., C. Doughty, M.B. Kowalsky, G.J. Moridis, L. Pan, T. Xu, Y. Zhang, and K. Pruess, 2008. Advanced vadose zone simulation using TOUGH, Vadose Zone Journal, 7, 601-609, doi:10.2136/vzj2007.0059.

Finsterle, S.A., and M.B. Kowalsky, 2008. Joint hydrological-geophysical inversion for soil structure identification, Vadose Zone Journal, 7, 287–293, doi:10.2136/vzj2006.0078.

Kowalsky, M.B., and G. J. Moridis, 2007. Comparison of kinetic and equilibrium reactions in simulating the behavior of gas hydrates, Energy Conversion and Management, 48, 1850-1863, doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2007.01.017. PDF

Moridis, G., M.B. Kowalsky, and K. Pruess, 2007. Depressurization-induced gas production from class 1 hydrate deposits, SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, 10(5), 458-481.

Moridis, G., and M.B. Kowalsky, 2007. Response of Oceanic Hydrate-Bearing Sediments to Thermal Stresses, SPE Journal, 12(2), 253-268, doi:10.2118/111572-PA.

Linde, N., J. Chen, M.B. Kowalsky, and S. Hubbard, 2006. Hydrogeophysical parameter estimation approaches for field scale characterization, in Applied Hydrogeophysics, edited by H. Vereecken et al., Chap. 2, pp. 9-44, Springer.

Kowalsky, M.B., J. Chen, and S.S. Hubbard, 2006. Joint inversion of geophysical and hydrological data for improved subsurface characterization, The Leading Edge, 25(6), 730-734.

Gupta, A., T.J. Kneafsey, G.J. Moridis, Y. Seol, M.B. Kowalsky, and E.D. Sloan, 2006. Composite Thermal Conductivity in a Large Heterogeneous Porous Methane Hydrate Sample, J. Phys. Chem. B. , 110, 16384-16392.

Moridis, G.J. and M.B. Kowalsky, 2006. Gas Production from Unconfined Class 2 Hydrate Accumulations in the Oceanic Subsurface, in Economic Geology of Natural Gas Hydrates, M. Max, A.H. Johnson, W.P. Dillon and T. Collett, Eds., Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Report LBNL-57299).

Kowalsky, M.B., S. Finsterle, J. Peterson, S. Hubbard, Y. Rubin, E. Majer, A. Ward, and G. Gee, 2005. Estimation of field-scale soil hydraulic and dielectric parameters through joint inversion of GPR and hydrological data, Water Resour. Res., 41, W11425, doi:10.1029/2005WR004237. PDF

Kowalsky, M.B., S. Finsterle, and Y. Rubin, 2004. Estimating flow parameter distributions using ground-penetrating radar and hydrological measurements during transient flow in the vadose zone, Adv. in Water Res., 27(6), 583-599. PDF

Kowalsky, M.B., Y. Rubin, and P. Dietrich, 2004. The use of ground-penetrating radar for characterizing sediments under transient flow conditions, in Aquifer characterization, SEPM Special Publication 80, edited by: Bridge, J.S. and Hyndman, D.W., ISBN: 1-56576-107-3, 176 pages.

Kowalsky, M.B., P. Dietrich, G. Teutsch, and Y. Rubin, 2001. Forward modeling of ground-penetrating radar data using digitized outcrop images and multiple scenarios of water saturation, Water Resour. Res., 37(6), 1615-1625 (2001WR900015). PDF

Geller, J.T., M.B. Kowalsky, P.K. Seifert, and K. Nihei, 2000. Acoustic detection of immiscible liquids in sand, Geophys. Res. Letters. , Vol. 27, No. 3, 417-420 (1999GL010483). PDF

Reports and conference proceedings (longer than 1 page)

Kowalsky, M.B., and G. Moridis. Comparison of kinetic and equilibrium reactions in the simulation of the behavior of gas hydrates, Proceedings of TOUGH Symposium 2006, Berkeley, Calif. (LBNL-60361).

Gupta, A., T. Kneafsey, G.J. Moridis, Y. Seol, M.B. Kowalsky, and E.D. Sloan, Jr., 2006. Estimation of composite thermal-conductivity of a heterogeneous methane hydrate sample using iTOUGH2, Proceedings of TOUGH Symposium 2006, Berkeley, Calif. (LBNL-60619).

Moridis, G. M.B. Kowalsky, S. Finsterle, K. Pruess, 2006. TOUGH+: The New Generation of Object-Oriented Family of Codes for the Solution of Problems of Flow and Transport in the Subsurface, Proc. of TOUGH Symp. 2006, Berkeley, CA.

Finsterle, S.A., and M.B. Kowalsky, 2006. Joint Hydrological-Geophysical Inversion for Soil Structure Identification, Proc. of TOUGH Symp. 2006, Berkeley, Calif. (LBNL-60088).

Moridis, G., and M.B. Kowalsky, 2006. Depressurization-induced gas production from Class 1 and Class 2 hydrate deposits, Proc. of TOUGH Symp. 2006, Berkeley, Calif. (LBNL-60366).

Moridis, G., and M.B. Kowalsky, Response of oceanic hydrate-bearing sediments to thermal stresses, Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, May 1-4, 2006 (LBNL-60150).

Moridis, G.J., M. Kowalsky and K. Pruess, 2005. TOUGH-Fx/HYDRATE v1.0 User’s Manual: A code for the Simulation of System Behavior in Hydrate-Bearing Geologic Media, LBNL/PUB 3185.

Linde, N., J. Chen, M.B. Kowalsky, S. Finsterle, Y. Rubin, and S.S. Hubbard, 2004. Improved characterization through joint hydrogeophysical inversion: Examples of three different approaches, NATO ASI Hydrogeophysics 2, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 20-27, LBNL-55782.

Kowalsky, M.B., S. Finsterle, and Y. Rubin, 2003. Estimating Flow Parameters Using Ground-Penetrating Radar and Hydrological Data during Transient Flow in the Vadose Zone, Proc. of TOUGH Symp. 2003 , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2003, Report LBNL-52504, 10 pages.

Williams, K.H.; M.B. Kowalsky, and J.E. Peterson, 2002. High resolution imaging of vadose zone transport using surface and crosswell ground penetrating radar methods, Report LBNL-53151, 42 pages.

Kowalsky, M.B., and Y. Rubin, 2002. Suitability of GPR for characterizing variably saturated sediments during transient flow, Proc. of the Ground Penetrating Radar conference (GPR 2002) , Santa Barbara, CA, April 28-May 2, 2002, 4 pages.

Kowalsky, M.B., Y. Rubin and P. Dietrich, 2002. Effects of fluid distribution and subsurface structural heterogeneity on ground-penetrating radar, Proc. of 2002 International Groundwater Symposium, Berkeley, CA, March, 2002, 6 pages.

Hubbard, S.S., K. Grote, M.B. Kowalsky, and Y. Rubin, 2002. High-Resolution Estimation of Near Subsurface Water Content using GPR Ground-Wave Information, Proc. of 2002 International Groundwater Symposium, Berkeley, CA, March, 2002, 8 pages.

Dietrich, P., M.B. Kowalsky, T. Fechner, and J. Whittaker, 2000. Aquifer analogs: a possibility to evaluate hydrogeophysical approaches. Proc. of the 6th Meeting of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, Sep. 2000, Bochum, Germany, 4 pages.

Kowalsky, M.B., J.T. Geller, P.K. Seifert, K.T. Nihei, R., Gritto, J.E. Peterson, Jr. and L.R. Myer, 1998. Acoustic visibility of immiscible liquids in poorly consolidated sand, Proc. Soc. Exploration Geophysics, 1041-1044.

Kowalsky, M.B., J.T. Geller, P.K. Seifert, K.T. Nihei, and L.R. Myer, 1997. Acoustic Visibility of Immiscible Liquids in Poorly Consolidated Sand, in Earth Sciences Division, LBNL, Annual Report, 2 pages.

Conference abstracts and proceedings (shorter than 1 page)

Kowalsky, M.B., S. Finsterle, and S. Hubbard, 2008. Use of Coupled Hydrological-Geophysical Modeling Framework for Exploring the Impact of Recharge on TDS, 2008 CMWR International Conference, July 6-10, 2008, San Francisco, California.

Englert, A., M.B. Kowalsky, K. Williams, J. Peterson, J. Chen, F. Spane, D. Newcomer, P. Long and S. Hubbard, 2008. Estimation of a three dimensional hydraulic conductivity field at the Rifle, CO Integrated Field Challenge site using a sequential Bayesian-Inverse Approach, 2008 CMWR International Conference, July 6-10, 2008, San Francisco, California.

Zhang, Y., S. Finsterle, M.B. Kowalsky, and S. Hubbard, 2008. Impact of groundwater pumping on near-river hydrology, 2008 CMWR International Conference, July 6-10, 2008, San Francisco, California.

Kowalsky, M.B., S.S. Hubbard, J. Chen, J.E. Peterson, G.P. Flach, 2007. Multiscale Hydrogeophysical Data Integration for Parameterization of Transport Model at Savannah River Site, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abs.  H14C-01 INVITED.

Hubbard, S., A. Englert, M. Kowalsky, J. Chen, J. Peterson, K.H. Williams, 2007. Exploring Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes Associated With Remedial Treatments Using Geophysical Methods, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abs.  NS13A-08 INVITED.

Englert, A., M. Kowalsky, L. Li, P. Long, and S. Hubbard, 2007. Characterization of Transient Transport Behavior During Biostimulation Field Experiments Using Novel Breakthrough Analysis Approaches, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abs. H21C-0707.

Finsterle, S., M.B. Kowalsky, C. Oberdoerster, A. Lehikoinen, 2007. Joint Inversion of Hydrological and Geophysical Data: Too Much Information?, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abs. NS43A-04 INVITED.

Li, L., C.I. Steefel, M.B. Kowalsky, 2007. Biogeochemical Reaction Kinetics Associated With Uranium Bioremediation at Multiple Scales, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abs. H32D-03.

Kowalsky, M.B., E. Majer, J.E. Peterson, S. Finsterle and A. Mazzella, 2006. Coupled geophysical-hydrological modeling of controlled NAPL spill, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11-15.

Lehikoinen, A., S. Finsterle, A. Voutilainen, M.B. Kowalsky, and J.P. Kaipio, 2006. A nonstationary geophysical inversion approach with modeling-error correction for imaging fluid flow, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11-15.

Kowalsky, M.B., and S.A. Finsterle, 2006. Joint inversion of ground-penetrating radar and thermal-hydrological measurements: overview and recent progress, 2006. European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2006, Vienna, Austria, April 2-7.

Kowalsky, M.B., and G. Moridis, 2006. Comparison of kinetic and equilibrium reactions in the simulation of gas hydrates in porous media, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Convention 2006, April 9-12, 2006.

Moridis, G., and M.B. Kowalsky, 2005. Numerical study of hydrate preservation during core recovery, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2005.

Kowalsky, M.B., J. Peterson, J. Birkholzer, S. Finsterle, S. Mukhopadhyay, and Y. Tsang, 2005. Joint inversion of ground-penetrating radar and thermal-hydrological data collected during a large-scale heater test, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17.

Finsterle, S., and M.B. Kowalsky, 2005. Model Structure Identification through Joint Inversion of Hydrological and Geophysical Data, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17.

Kowalsky, M.B., S.A. Finsterle, J.E. Peterson, S.S. Hubbard, Y. Rubin, E. Majer, A. Ward, and G. Gee, 2004. Estimating field-scale soil hydraulic properties and petrophysical models through joint GPR/hydrological measurement inversion, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17.

Kowalsky, M.B., S.A. Finsterle, J.E. Peterson, S.S. Hubbard, Y. Rubin, E. Majer, A. Ward, and G. Gee, 2004. Estimating field-scale soil hydraulic properties through joint inversion of cross-borehole GPR travel times and hydrological measurements, 2004 Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America (GSA), Denver, Colorado, November 7-10.

Linde, N., J. Chen, M.B. Kowalsky, S. Finsterle, Y. Rubin, S.S. Hubbard, 2004. Improved characterization through joint hydrogeophysical inversion: Examples of three different approaches, NATO ASI Hydrogeophysics 2, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 20-27, LBNL-55782 Ext. Abs.

Kowalsky, M.B., Y. Rubin, J. Peterson, and S. Finsterle, 2003. Estimation of Flow Parameters Using Crosshole GPR Travel Times and Hydrological Data Collected During Transient Flow Experiments, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 8-12, 2003, San Francisco, CA.

Kowalsky, M.B., S. Finsterle, and Y. Rubin, 2002. Inversion of Hydrogeological and Time-lapsed GPR Data for Flow Parameters, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 6-10, 2002, San Francisco, CA.

Kowalsky, M.B., Y. Rubin, 2002, Monitoring Subsurface Moisture Distributions with GPR, Presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Trest, Czech Republic, July 17-27, 2002.

Kowalsky, M.B., and Y. Rubin, 2001. Improved characterization of the Vadose zone with time-lapsed ground-penetrating radar, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 10-14, 2001, San Francisco, CA.

Kowalsky, M.B., P. Dietrich, G. Teutsch, and Y. Rubin, 2000. Effect of Soil Heterogeneity on GPR Data and its Impact on Hydrogeologic Characterization: a Study Based on a Gravel-Quarry Outcrop in Herten, Germany, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 15-19, 2000, San Francisco, CA.

Kowalsky, M.B., P. Dietrich, G. Teutsch, and Y. Rubin, 2000. GPR Modeling of Outcrop, Summer meeting of German Geophysical Society (DGG) in Munich, Germany, 2000.

Kowalsky, M.B., S. Nakagawa, K. Nihei, and L. Myer, 1997. Acoustic properties of poorly consolidated sediments during saturation, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 8-12, 1997, San Francisco, CA.

Pyrak-Nolte, L.J. and M.B. Kowalsky, 1997. Compressional wave anisotropy in fractured rock, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dec. 8-12, San Francisco, CA.

Pyrak-Nolte, L.J. and M.B. Kowalsky, 1997. Compressional wave anisotropy in fractured rock, Proc. of the 36th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, June 29 - July 2, Columbia University, NY.