Los Alamos National Laboratory Staff Member
EES-16, Computational Earth Science
" The fight is won or lost far away from witness - behind the lines,
in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under the
lights " - Muhammad Ali
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
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Full List, Peer Reviewed
Publications (PDF)
Full List, Book Chapters,
Abstracts, Reports (PDF)
2010
- 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)
2009
- 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)
2008
- 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)
2007
- 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.
2006
- 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)
2005
- 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)
2004
- 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)
2003
- 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)
2002
- 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)
2001
- 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)
2000
- 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
1999
- 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.
1998
1997
- 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.
1996
- 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 .
1995
- 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
1994
- 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
1991
- 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
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