Proceedings of the Canadian/American Conference on Hydrogeology (5th). Held inCalgary, Alberta, Canada, on September 18-20, 1990

摘要

The volume contains the Proceedings of the Fifth Canadian/American Conference onHydrogeology, held in Calgary, Alberta, September 18-20, 1990, on the subject of 'Parameter Identification and Estimation for Aquifer and Reservoir Characterization'. The subject of the conference was chosen because of the increasing importance of proper aquifer and reservoir characterization in the use of exploration, exploitation and protection methods and techniques for water and energy resources. It became widely accepted that natural earth materials are intrinsically heterogeneous in terms of their properties, and that the issue of homogeneity is rather a question of scale. Aquifer and reservoir characterization is the process of identifying and quantitatively assigning properties, recognizing both hard and soft information and at the same time taking into account uncertainties related to the data capture, distribution and representativeness. This is an area of currently active research in both the hydrogeological and reservoir engineering communities, and one of the goals of this conference was to bridge the communication gap between the two. This goal was attained, as attested by the subject of the papers and the interests of the participants at the conference. The wide spectrum of subjects, and the theoretical and more applied papers presented, indicate also the timeliness of the conference.