Team Santa Fe Adventure Racing, Subaru Primal Quest, Telluride CO	Team Santa Fe Adventure Racing, Eco-Challenge, New Zealand
LaGriT Mesh Generation for Geological Applications	MC3D, Mantle Convection Modeling Study of the Interaction of Tectonic Plates with Convection

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Unstructured Finite Element Mesh Generation (LaGriT) for Geological Applications
Porous Flow Modeling
Mantle Convection (MC3D), Plate Tectonics Effect on Mantle Convection, Plume Ridge Interaction
Hydrothermal System Heat and Mass Transfer (MOR3D)
Geodynamics/Geophysics (Currently collaborating with LANL Postdoctoral Fellow Ben Phillips )

EDUCATION

B.A. (Geophysics) University of California, Berkeley, 1983
M. S. (Applied Physics) Harvard University, 1988
Ph.D. (Geophysics) Harvard University, 1989

CURRENT POSITION

Technical Staff Member, EES-6, Hydrology, Geochemistry, Geology

OUTSIDE INTEREST

Skiing
Climbing
Cycling
Atalaya Search and Rescue Team
Good Food
Adventure Racing,Team Santa Fe

Gore-Tex TransRockies Run, 9th place, Beaver Cr - Aspen CO, 2007
24 Hours of Sunlight Ski Race, 2007 24,000 vertical ft., 2006 22,000 vertical ft.
Subaru Primal Quest, Team Santa Fe, 38th place, Lake Tahoe CA, 2003
Eco-Challenge NAC, Team Santa Fe, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canada 2003
Subaru Primal Quest, Team Santa Fe, 28th place, Telluride, Colorado 2002
Eco-Challenge, Team REI/Salomon, 32nd place, South Island, New Zealand 2001
4Winds Adventure Race, Team Santa Fe, 1st place open division, Page AZ
Eco-Challenge, Team New Mexico, 11th Place, British Columbia, Canada 1996
Eco-Challenge, Team New Mexico, 21th Place, Utah, USA 1995

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Lowman, J.P., King, S.D., and C.W. Gable, Steady plumes in viscously stratified, vigorously convecting, 3D numerical mantle convection models with mobile plates, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-cubed), Vol. 5, Q01L01, doi:10.1029/2003GC000583, 2004. (PDF)
• Guest, A. G. Schubert, C.W. Gable, Stresses along the metastable wedge of olivine in a subducting slab: possible explanation for the Tonga double seismic layer, PEPI, 141(4), 253-267, 2004. (PDF)
• Guest, A., G. Schubert, C.W. Gable, Stress field in the subducting lithosphere and comparison with deep earthquakes in Tonga, J. Geophy. Res., 108(B6), 2288, 2003. (PDF)
  
• Lowman, J.P., King, S.D., and C.W. Gable, The role of the heating mode of the mantle in intermittent reorganisation of the plate velocity field, Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 152, 455-467, 2003. (PDF)
• Viswanathan H.S., B.A. Robinson, C.W. Gable, J.W. Carey, A geostatistical modeling study of the effect of heterogeneity on radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone, Yucca Mountain, J. Contaminant Hydrology, 62-63, 319-336, 2003, LA-UR-02-2085, doi:10.1016/S0169-7722(02)00162-6. (PDF)
• Tseng, P.-H., W.E. Soll, C.W. Gable, H.J. Turin, G.Y. Bussod, Modeling unsaturated flow and transport processes at the Busted Butte Field Test Site, Nevada, J. Contaminant Hydrology, 62-63, 303-318, 2003, LA-UR-01-4954, doi:10.1016/S0169-7722(02)00163-8. (PDF)
• Bower, K.M., C.W. Gable, G.A. Zyvoloski, Grid resolution study of ground water flow and transport, Yucca Mountain, Ground Water, in press 2003.
• Dutrow, B.L., B.J. Travis, C.W. Gable, D.J. Henry, Coupled heat and silica transport associated with dike intrusion into sedimentary rock: Effects on isotherm location and permeability evolution, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65(21), 3749-3767, 2001. (PDF)
• King, S.D, J.P. Lowman, C.W. Gable, Episodic tectonic plate reorganisations driven by mantle convection, Earth & Planetary Sci. Let., 203, 83-91, 2002, LA-UR-01-55. (PDF)
• Lowman, J.P., S.D. King, C.W. Gable, The Influence of Tectonic Plates on Mantle Convection Patterns, Temperature and Heat Flow, Geophysical Journal International, 146(3), 619-636, 2001, LA-UR-01-2228. (PDF)
• Gable, C.W., J.P. Lowman, S.D. King, Plate Reorganization Events Triggered by Radiogenic Mantle Heating, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, 2000, abstract, poster, LA-UR-00-5791
• Garimella, R.V, C.W. Gable, Interfacing Mesh Generators and Geometric Modelers in Geological Modeling - Progress Report for LANL/ER Program, LA-UR-00-2956. (PDF)
  
• Gable, C.W., Integrated Geological Interpretation for Computational Modeling, Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions, Brian B. Looney, Ronald W. Falta, Battelle Press, 2000.
• Murphy, M., D.M. Mount, C.W. Gable, A Point-Placement Strategy for Conforming Delaunay Tetrahedralization, Proc. of Eleventh Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 67-74, 2000, LA-UR-99-3868
• Julian P. Lowman, Carl W. Gable "Thermal Evolution of the Mantle Following Continental Aggregation in 3D Convection Models", Geophysical Research Letters, vol 26, 2649-2652, 1999.
• Michael Murphy, Carl W. Gable, "Strategies for Nonobtuse Boundary Delaunay Triangulations", Transactions, 7th International Meshing Roundtable '98, Dearborn Michigan, 309-320, 1998, LAUR-98-3949.
• B. L. Dutrow, D. Henry, C. Christensen, C. W. Gable, B. Travis, E. Heydari, "Blackened Smackover: Thermal evolution and mass transfer adjacent to a subsurface alkalic igneous dike in Northern, Louisiana", Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, 47, 131-139, 1997.
• Garrett Ito, J Lin, Carl W Gable, "Interaction between mantle plumes and migrating midocean ridges: Implications for the Galapagos plume-ridge system", Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 15403-15417, 1997.
• Carl W. Gable, Harold Trease and Terry Cherry, "Geological Applications of Automatic Grid Generation Tools for Finite Elements Applied to Porous Flow Modeling," in Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields, edited by B. K. Soni, J. F. Thompson, H. Hausser and P. R. Eiseman, Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State Univ. Press, 1996
• Carl W. Gable, Harold Trease and Terry Cherry, "Automated Grid Generation From Models of Complex Geologic Structure and Stratigraphy," Santa Barbara: National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, proceedings paper LA-UR-96-1083, 1996
• Terry Cherry, C. W. Gable and Harold Trease , "3-Dimensional Wells and Tunnels for Finite Element Grids," in Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields, edited by B. K. Soni, J. F. Thompson, H. Hausser and P. R. Eiseman, Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State Univ. Press, 1996 .
• Chris Kincaid, Garrett Ito and Carl W. Gable, "Laboratory Investigation of the Interaction of Off-Axis Mantle Plumes and Spreading Centers," NATURE, vol 376, pp758-761, 1995
• Zyvoloski, G. and C. W. Gable, "Site Scale Modeling of Radionuclide Transport At Yucca Mountain, NV: Grid Generation and Reactive Tracers," Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR-94-1041, 1994.
• Buffett, B., C. W. Gable and R. J. O'Connell, "Marginal Stability of a Layered Fluid with Mobile Surface Plates," J. Geophys. Res., 99, 19,885-19,900, 1994
• King, S. D., C. W. Gable, S. A. Weinstein, "Models of convection driven tectonic plates: A comparison of methods and results," Geophys. J. Int., 109, 481-487, 1992
• Gable, C. W., R. J. O'Connell and B. J. Travis, "Convection in three dimensions with surface plates: Generation of toroidal flow," J. Geophys. Res., 96, 8391-8405, 1991