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

CONTACT INFO

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 (movies1, movies2)
Hydrothermal System Heat and Mass Transfer (MOR3D)
Geodynamics/Geophysics

EDUCATION

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

CURRENT POSITION

Team Leader: Subsurface Flow and Transport Team, EES-16, Computational Earth Science

OUTSIDE INTEREST

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

Adventure Extreme, Buena Vista CO, May 2008
 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

• Stepwise inversion of a groundwater flow model with multi-scale observation data
  Dai, ZX; Keating, E; Gable, C, Levitt, D, Heikoop, J, Simmons, A,
  HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL   Volume: 18   Issue: 3   Pages: 607-624 Published: 2010(PDF)
• Origin and Extent of Fresh Paleowaters on the Atlantic Continental Shelf, USA
  Cohen, D; Person, M; Wang, P, et al.
  GROUND WATER   Volume: 48   Issue: 1   Pages: 143-158 Published: 2010(PDF)

• Numerical Simulation of CO2 Leakage through Abandoned Wells: Model for an Abandoned Site with Observed Gas Migration in Alberta, Canada
  Pawar, RJ; Watson, TL; Gable, CW
  Conference Information: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, NOV 16-20, 2008 Washington DC
  GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES 9   Volume: 1   Issue: 1 Pages: 3625-3632   Published: 2009 (PDF)
  
• Hydrogeochemistry and gas compositions of the Uinta Basin: A regional-scale overview
  Zhang, Y; Gable, CW; Zyvoloski, GA, et al.
  AAPG BULLETIN   Volume: 93   Issue: 8   Pages: 1087-1118 Published: 2009
• Untangling Diffusion from Advection in Unsaturated Porous Media: Experimental Data, Modeling, and Parameter Uncertainty
  Stauffer, PH; Vrugt, JA; Turin, HJ, et al.
  VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL   Volume: 8   Issue: 2   Pages: 510-522 Published: 2009(PDF)

• Plumes anchored by a high viscosity lower mantle in a 3D mantle convection model featuring dynamically evolving plates
  Lowman, J.P.; Gait, A.D.; Gable, C.W., Kukreja, H,
  Geophysical Research Letters   Pages: L19309 (5 pp.) Published: 10 2008 9 Oct. 2008 (PDF)
  
• Time dependence in 3-D mantle convection models featuring evolving plates: effect of lower mantle viscosity
  Gait, A.D.; Lowman, J.P.; Gable, C.W.
  Journal of Geophysical Research - Part B - Solid Earth   Pages: B08409 (16 pp.)   Published: 08 2008 Aug. 2008 (PDF)
  
• Zhang, Y; Gable, CW, Two-scale modeling of solute transport in an experimental stratigraphy, Journal of Hydrology; Jan 15 2008; v.348, no.3-4, p.395-411.(PDF)

• Zhang, Y; Person, M; Gable, CW, Representative hydraulic conductivity of hydrogeologic units: Insights from an experimental stratigraphy, Journal of Hydrology; Jun 10 2007; v.339, no.1-2, p.65-78. (PDF)
  
• Miller, T.A., Gable, C.W., Vesselinov, V.V., Stauffer, P.H., Birdsell, K.H., Integration of Hydrogeologic Frameworks in Mesh Generation and Setup of Computational Porous Flow and Transport Models, Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, 58th Fall Field Conference, New Mexico Geological Society, 2007.
• Phillips, B.R., Baldridge W.S., Gable, C.W., Sicilian, J.M., Duration of the Banco Bonito Rhyolite Eruption, Valles Caldera, New Mexico Based on Magma Transport Modeling, 58th Fall Field Conference, New Mexico Geological Society, 2007.

• Zhang, Y; Gable, CW; Person, M, Equivalent hydraulic conductivity of an experimental stratigraphy: Implications for basin-scale flow simulations, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH; MAY 3 2006; v.42, no.5, p.W05404. (PDF)
  
• Hutnak, M; Fisher, AT; Zuhlsdorff, L; Spiess, V; Stauffer, PH; Gable, CW, Hydrothermal recharge and discharge guided by basement outcrops on 0.7-3.6 Ma seafloor east of the Juan de Fuca Ridge: Observations and numerical models, GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS; JUL 12 2006; v.7, p.Q07O02. (PDF)
  

• Robinson, BA; Cole, G; Carey, JW; Witkowski, M; Gable, CW; Lu, ZM; Gray, R, A vadose zone flow and transport model for Los Alamos Canyon, Los Alamos, New Mexico VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL; AUG 2005; v.4, no.3, p.729-743.
• Zhang, Y; Person, M; Paola, C; Gable, CW; Wen, XH; Davis, JM, Geostatistical analysis of an
  experimental stratigraphy, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH; NOV 16 2005; v.41, no.11, p.W11416.(PDF)
• Bower, KM; Gable, CW; Zyvoloski, GA, Grid resolution study of ground water flow and transport, Ground Water; 2005; v.43, no.1, p.122-132. (PDF)
  

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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
• 1992
  
• 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