KSTAT Standards Committee

Purpose: To develop nonmandatory standard guidelines and/or standard practice document(s) for statistical, spatial estimation and/or by spatial averaging of hydraulic conductivity using geostatistical theory. The KSTAT Committee products will advance the practice of civil engineering and benefit the public at large by (a) providing an optimized method with which to quantify the inherent statistical variability of hydraulic conductivity; (b) facilitating the probabilistic analysis of groundwater flow and other dependent phenomena, such as contaminant transport, by providing a robust statistical model for hydraulic conductivity; (c) providing a robust method to fit hydraulic conductivity that can be used in the parameterization of numerical models with which to simulate the behavior of groundwater phenomena, and, therefore, improve our understanding and management of aquifer systems; and (d) providing a succinct method for the statistical spatial estimation and spatial averaging of hydraulic conductivity for use in the analysis, simulation, and assessment of groundwater systems.

Committee Members

William W-G Yeh, Ph.D.,NAE,Hon.D.WRE,Dist.M.ASCE
Secretary

Stewart W. Taylor, Ph.D., P.E., F.EWRI, F.ASCE
Chair

Nazeer Ahmed, P.E., M.ASCE
Member

Omid Bozorg-Haddad
Member

Xuefeng Chu, F.EWRI, A.M.ASCE
Secretary Staff

Macan Doroudian, P.E., M.ASCE
Member

Paul Hudak
Member

Hugo A Loaiciga, Ph.D.,P.E.,D.WRE,Dist.M.ASCE
Past-Chair

Laurent M. Meillier
Member

Chin Man W Mok, Ph.D., G.E., P.E., P.G., D.GE, D.WRE, F.ASCE
Member

James M Neckel, Aff.M.ASCE
ASCE Staff Contact

Kok-Kwang Phoon, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Member

George Francis Pinder, Ph.D., NAE, Hon.D.WRE, Dist.M.ASCE
Member

Mostafa Razzaghmanesh, Ph.D.
Member

Mark Henry Rubarenzya, Ph.D.,P.E.,R.Eng,D.WRE,F.EWRI,M.ASCE
Member

K. Majid Sadeghi, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, M.ASCE
Treasurer Staff

Zhuping Sheng, Ph.D., HG, P.E., F.ASCE
Member

Parmeshwar L Shrestha, P.E., D.CE, D.WRE, M.ASCE
Member