Publications, Gary S. Weissmann:

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Bennett, G.L, Weissmann, G.S., Baker, G.S., and Hyndman, D.W., 2006, Regional-scale assessment of a sequence-bounding paleosol on fluvial fans using ground-penetrating radar, eastern San Joaquin Valley, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v 118, no. 5/6, p. 724-732, doi: 10.1130/B25774.1..

Weissmann, G.S., Bennett, G.L., and Lansdale, A.L., 2005, Factors controlling sequence development on Quaternary fluvial fans, San Joaquin Basin, California, U.S.A., in Harvey, a., Mather, A., and Stokes, M., Alluvial Fans: Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Dynamics, Geological Society of London Special Publication 251, p. 169-186.
**** This is an electronic version of an article published in Harvey, a., Mather, A., and Stokes, M., Alluvial Fans: Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Dynamics, Geological Society of London Special Publication 251.  Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Geological Society of London.******

Harter, T., Onsoy, Y., Heeren, K., Denton, M., Weissmann, G., Hopmans, J., and Horwath, W.R., 2005, Deep vadose zone hydrology and the fate of nitrate in the eastern San Joaquin Valley, California Agriculture, KREC Anniversary Issue, v. 59(2), p. 125-132.

Burow, K.R., Shelton, J.L., Hevesi, J.A., and Weissmann, G.S., 2004, Hydrogeologic characterization of the Modesto area, San Joaquin Basin, California:  US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5232, 54p.

Weissmann, G.S., Zhang, Y., Fogg, G.E., and Mount, J.F., 2004, Influence of incised valley fill deposits on hydrogeology of a glacially-influenced, stream-dominated alluvial fan, in Bridge, J., and Hyndman, D.W., Aquifer Characterization, SEPM Special Publication 80, p. 15-28.

Biteman, S., Hyndman, D.W., Phanikumar, M.S., and Weissmann, G.S., 2004, Integration of sedimetologic and hydrologic properties for improved transport simulations:  detailed characterization of a glacial outwash aquifer at the Schoolcraft Bioremediation Site, Michigan, in Bridge, J., and Hyndman, D.W., Aquifer Characterization, SEPM Special Publication 80, p. 3-13.

Weissmann, G.S.,
Zhang, Y., LaBolle, E.M., and Fogg, G.E., 2002, Modeling environmental tracer-based groundwater ages in heterogeneous aquifers . Water Resources Research, v. 38(10).

Weissmann, G.S.,
Mount, J.F., and Fogg, G.E., 2002, Glacially-driven cycles in accumulation space and sequence stratigraphy of a stream-dominated alluvial fan, San Joaquin Valley, California, U.S.A. , Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, p. 240-251.

Shellito, C., Shea, K., Weissmann, G.S.,Mueller-Solger, A., and Davis, W.E., 2001, Successful mentoring of undergraduate researchers:  Tips for creating positive student research experiences, Journal of College Science Teaching, v. 30, p. 460-464.

Weissmann, Gary S., and Fogg, Graham E., 1999, Multi-scale alluvial fan heterogeneity modeled with transition probability geostatistics in a sequence stratigraphic framework. Journal of Hydrology, v. 226(1-2), p. 48-65.

Weissmann, Gary S., Carle, Steven A., and Fogg, Graham E., 1999, Three-dimensional hydrofacies modeling based on soil survey analysis and transition probability geostatistics , Water Resources Research, v. 35(6), p. 1761-1770.

Fogg, Graham E., LaBolle, Eric M., and Weissmann, Gary S., 1999, Groundwater vulnerability assessment:  hydrogeologic perspective and example from Salinas Valley, California . in, Corwin, D.L, Loague, K., and Ellsworth, T.R. (eds.), Assessment of non-point source pollution in the vadose zone, Geophysical Monograph 108, 45-61.

Carle, S.F., E.M. LaBolle, G.S. Weissmann, D. VanBrocklin, and G.E. Fogg, 1998, Conditional simulation of hydrofacies architecture: a transition probability / Markov approach , in Fraser, G.S., and J.M. Davis, Hydrogeologic Models of Sedimentary Aquifers, Concepts in Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology No. 1, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication, p. 147-170.

Burow, K.R., G.S. Weissmann, R.D. Miller, and G. Placzek, 1997, Hydrogeologic facies characterization of an alluvial fan near Fresno, California, using geophysical techniques, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-46, 15p.

Waid, C.C., S.A. Easton, G.S. Weissmann, 1988, A new algorithm for determining stratigraphic dips, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v. 1, p. 301-314.

Waid, C.C., S.A. Easton, G.S. Weissmann, 1986, Advances in diplog data processing for stratigraphic analysis, Transactions of the Malaysian Geological Society Symposium, November, 1986, v. 22, p. 85-99.

Other Manuscripts:
Weissmann, G.S., Bennett, G.L., V., and Fogg, G.E., 2003, Appendix 2:  Stratigraphic sequences of the Kings River alluvial fan formed in response to Sierra Nevada glacial cyclicity, in Stock, G. (ed.), Tectonics, Climate Change, and Landscape Evolution in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, Friends of the Pleistocene Pacific Cell, 2003 Fall Field Trip, October 3-5, p. 41-50, invited contribution

McNab, W.W., Jr., Karachewski, J., Weissmann, G.S. , 2001, Field measurements of electro-osmotic transport of ground water contaminants in a lithologically heterogeneous alluvial-fan setting, DOE LLNL Report UCRL-ID-144879, 11p. (pdf available upon request)
Submitted Manuscripts:
Bennett, G., Weissmann, G.S., Baker, G.S., and Hyndman, D.W., submitted, Regional-scale assessment of sequence bounding paleosols on fluvial fans using ground penetrationg radar, Eastern San Joaquin Valley, California.  Submitted to Geological Society of America Bulletin..
Manuscripts in Preparation:
Noyes, C. M., Maley, M.P., Blake, R.G., and Weissmann, G.S., Identification of thin confining layers in alluvial sediments and their impact on groundwater remediation, for submission to GroundWater.

Zhang, Y., LaBolle, E.M., Weissmann, G.S., Williamson, R.J., and Fogg, G.E., Stratigraphic controls on groundwater sensitivity to non-point source contaminants in alluvial sediments, for submission to Water Resources Research.

Zhang, Y., LaBolle, E.M, Weissmann, G.S., and Fogg, G.E., Upscaling porosity to simulate the transport of a point-source contaminant in bimodal heterogeneous media by using single-continuum and dual continua porous media, for submission to Water Resources Research.

Trahan, R., Weissmann, G.S., and others, Influence of heterogeneity on pumping tests:  are we correctly interpreting these data? for submission to Groundwater.
Proceedings Publications:
Weissmann, G.S., Yong, Z., Fogg, G.E., Blake, R.G., Noyes, C.D., and Maley, M., Modeling alluvial fan aquifer heterogeneity at multiple scales through stratigraphic assessment , in Findikakis, A.N. (ed.), Bridging the gap between measurement and modeling in heterogeneous media, Proceedings of the INternational Groundwater Symposium, Lawrence Brekeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, March 25-28, 2002. p. 184-186 (and electronic).

Weissmann, G.S.,
LaBolle, E.M., and Fogg, G.E., 2000, Modeling environmental tracer-based groundwater ages in heterogeneous aquifers .  In, Bentley, L.R., Sykes, J.F., Brebbia, C.A., Gray, W.G., and Pinder, G.F. (eds.), Computational Methods in Water Resources, Volume 2: Computational Methods, Surface Water Systems and Hydrology, Proceedings of the XIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 25-29, 2000, A.A.Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 805-811.

Refereed Abstracts: (*presentor)

Rust, G.L.*, Weissmann, G.S., and Mikesell, L.R., 2005, Strategies for reconstructing depositional sequences in an alluvial fan for aquifer analysis and modeling:  GSA Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19.

Weissmann, G.S.*, Application of transition
probability geostatistics in a detailed stratigraphic framework, Workshop for GSA Annual Meeting, Three-dimensional geologic mapping for groundwater applications, October 15, 2005.

Weissmann, G.S.*,
Zhang, Y., LaBolle, E.M., Fogg, G.E., and Lansdale, A.L., 2005, A geologic approach to understanding groundwater age distributions, Theis conference on ground water age dating, Lake Tahoe, California, September 23-26, 2005.

Weissmann, G.S.*, Burow, K.R., and Lansdale, A.L., 2005, Coarse-grained incised valley fill deposits in Eastern San Joaquin Valley fluvial fans: implications for artificial recharge, Ground Water Resources Association, Workshop on Artificial Recharge: Nexus of Quantity and Quality in California, March 16-17, 2005, Sacramento, California.
Landsale, A.*, Weissmann, G.S., and Burow, K.R., 2004, Influence of coarse-grained incised valley fill on groundwater flow in fluvial fan deposits, Stanislaus County, California, USA:  AGU Fall Meeting, December.

Mikesell, L.R.*, and Weissmann, G.S., 2004, Identifying results of stream capture and piracy in the stratigraphy of the tectonically-active Livermore Basin, California, USA:  GSA National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 7-10.

Weissmann, G.S.*, Trahan, R., Phanikumar, M.S., and Hyndman, D.W., 2004, What do pumping tests mean?  Evaluation of a heterogeneous alluvial aquifer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, GSA National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 7-10.

Burow, K.B., Bennett, G., Dalgish, B., Hevesi, J., Jurgens, B., Philips, S., Shelton, J., and Weissmann, G.S., 2004, Maximizing the use of existing data in characterizing ground-water flow in a fluvially-dominated alluvial fan system, eastern San Joaquin Valley, California, US Geological Survey National Ground Water Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 21-24.

Martell, S.B.*, Weissmann, G.S., Phanikumar, M.S., Hyndman, D.W., and Khire, M.V., 2004, Geologically-based modeling of unsaturated flow through heterogeneous alluvial sediments, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, EOS Trans. AGU, 85(17), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract H21B-03 (Joint Assembly of CGU, AGU, SEG, and EEGS).

Zhang, H.*, Harter, T., and Weissmann, G.S., 2003, The effect of heterogeneity on salinization in the Western San Joaquin Valley, AGU National Meeting, December.

Mikesell, L.R.*, Patino, L.C., and Weissmann, G.S., 2003, Comparison of physical and geochemical characteristics in two paleosols in Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory alluvial deposits, GSA National Meeting, November 2-6.

Auer, S.L., Dankenbring, K.A., Mikesell, L.R., and Weissmann, G.S., 2003, Stratigraphic evaluation of the alluvial deposits at Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, U.S.A., GSA National Meeting, November 2-6.

Weissmann, G.S.*,
2003, Application of transition probability geostatistics in a detailed stratigraphic framework:  Markov chain model development approaches.  Invited lecture to GEOIDE Workshop, 3-D Mapping:  Geostatistical Analysis and Visualization Workshop, Geological Survey of Canada, February 26, 2003.

Trahan, R.S.*, Phanikumar, M.S., Hyndman, D.W., and Weissmann, G.S., 2002, Evaluating pumping tests with geologically-constrained models in a heterogeneous alluvial aquifer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California.  AGU National Meeting, December 6-10, 2002
 
Bennett, G.L.,V*, Weissmann, G.S., and Hyndman, D.W., 2002, Evaluating paleosol continuity using ground penetrating radar for more accurate regional-scale groundwater modeling on the Kings River Alluvial Fan, GSA National Meeting, October 27-30.

Weissmann, G.S.*, Fogg, G.E., and Mount, J.F., 2001, Glacially influenced sequence development on basinal stream-dominated alluvial fans, San Joaquin Valley, California, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 8-14.

Biteman, S.E.*, Hoard, C.J.,Weissmann, G.S., and Hyndman, D.W., 2001, Small scale aquifer characterization based on outcrop analog and core data:  GSA Annual Meeting, Boston, November, 2001..

Weissmann, G.S., Yong, Z., Fogg, G.E., and Mount, J.F., 2001, Hydrogeologic influence of coarse-grained incised valley-fill deposits on a glacially-influenced stream-dominated alluvial fan, 7th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Lincoln, Nebraska, August, 2001.

Bennett, G.*, and Weissmann, G.S., 2001, Geostatistical and deterministic modeling of alluvial fan hydrostratigraphy at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:  North Central GSA Meeting, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.

Weissmann, G.S., Blake, R.G., Noyes, C., Karachewski, J., Maley, M., and Bennett, G., 2000, Detailed hydrostratigraphy of medial fine-grained alluvial fan deposits:  preliminary core and hydrogeologic assessment from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2000 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco

Karachewski, J.A.*, McNab, W.W., Jr., Blake, R.G., Noyes, C.D., Maley, M.P., Demir, Z., and Weissmann, G.S., 2000, High-resolution characterization of fine-grained alluvial-fan deposits for an electro-osmosis pilot test at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California.  2000 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

Weissmann, G.S.*, Yong, Z., Williamson, R.J., Fogg, G.E., 2000, Modeling groundwater age dates based on environmental tracers in heterogeneous aquifer systems, 2000 GSA Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada.

Rudd, N., Harter, T.*, Fogg, G.E., and Weissmann, G.S ., 2000, Stratigraphic control of nonpoint source pllution in deep alluvial aquifer systems, 2000 GSA Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada.

Weissmann, G.S.*, 2000, Geologically-based modeling of heterogeneity using geostatistics, SEPM/IAS Research Conference, Environmental Sedimentology, Hydrogeology of Sedimentary Aquifers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 24-27, 2000, Invited Keynote Address.

Harter, T.*, Ruud, N., Fogg, G., and Weissmann, G. , 2000, Risk analysis of deep groundwater salinization in the alluvial aquifer system of the western San Joaquin Valley, California, SEPM/IAS Research Conference, Environmental Sedimentology, Hydrogeology of Sedimentary Aquifers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 24-27, 2000.

Weissmann, G.S.*, and Fogg, G.E., 2000, Correlation of sequence boundaries between continental and marine strata, 2000 AAPG Annual Convention, New Orleans, April 16-19, p. A155.

Weissmann, G.S.*, Williamson, R., and Fogg, G.E., 1999, Modeling heterogeneity of stream dominated alluvial fan aquifer systems:  implications for contaminant transport, 1999 GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.

Weissmann, G.S.*, and Fogg, G.E., 1999, Sequence stratigraphy of the Kings River Alluvial Fan:  Hydrostratigraphic implications for groundwater contaminant transport, GSA Cordilleran Section Centennial, June 2-4, 1999.

Weissmann, G.S.*, E.M. LaBolle, and G.E. Fogg, 1998, Sequence stratigraphy and hydrogeology of a stream dominated alluvial fan, Central Valley, California (abst.), Abstracts with Program - Geological Society of America, 1998 Meeting, Toronto.

Weissmann, G.S.*, E.M. LaBolle, and G.E. Fogg, 1998, Sequence stratigraphy of the Kings River alluvial fan:  hydrostratigraphic implications (abst.), AAPG-SEPM-SEG-SPWLA Pacific Section Meeting, Ventura 1998, invited abstract, AAPG Bulletin, v. 82(5a), p. 861.

Verosub, K.*, G.S. Weissmann, T. Harter, and G.E. Fogg, 1998, Magnetic Signature Variability of Paleosols within Stream-Dominated Alluvial Fan Deposits, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 1998 Spring Meeting, Boston.

Weissmann, G.S.*, and G.E. Fogg, 1997, Hydrostratigraphy of a fluvially-dominated alluvial fan in a sequence  stratigraphic context (abst.), Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 29(6), p. A331.

Fogg, G.E.*, S.F. Carle, G.S. Weissmann, E.M. LaBolle, 1997, New Markov/geostatistical approach for modeling sedimentary heterogeneity:  implications for transport phenomena  (abst), 18th IAS Regional European Meeting of Sedimentology, Heidelberg, Germany, Sept. 2-4, 1997, p. 132-133.

Harter, T.*, K. Heeren, G.S. Weissmann, W. Horwath, and J. Hopmans, 1997, Field scale characterization of a heterogeneous, moderately deep vadose zone:  the Kearney research site (abst.), International Workshop on Characterization and Measurement of the Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Porous Media, Riverside California, Oct. 22-24, 1997.

Harter, T.*, K. Heeren, G. Weissmann, W. Horwath, and J. Hopmans, 1997, Field scale characterization of nitrate transport in a heterogeneous, moderately deep vadose zone, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 1997 Fall Meeting.

Weissmann, G.S.,* and G.E. Fogg, 1996, Continental sequence stratigraphic relationships in a fluvially-dominated alluvial fan, California (abst.), Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 28, p. A525.

Weissmann, G.S.*, and G.E. Fogg, 1995, The soils map as an analog for modeling subsurface heterogeneity (abst.), EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 1995 Fall Meeting, v. 76, no. 46, p. F180.

Weissmann, G.S.*, S. Carle, D. VanBrocklin, and G.E. Fogg, 1995, Geostatistical simulation of three-dimensional facies architecture in alluvial fan/plain deposits (abst.), Alluvial Fans:  Processes, Forms, Controls, Facies Models, and Use in Basin Analysis, Proceedings and Abstracts, SEPM International Research Conference, Death Valley, California.

Weissmann, G.S.*, 1988, Depositional subenvironments within a fluvial sheet sandstone as determined by alluvial architecture analysis (abst), GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Program, v. 20, p. A263.