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69
Citations
17058
World Ranking
1057
National Ranking
490

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Carl I. Steefel is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Engineering, with specialized work in Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

Their scholarly output addresses various scientific topics, including:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow

Carl I. Steefel has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequently appearing journals and conferences such as:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Water Resources Research
  • Frontiers in Water
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Computational Geosciences

Their collaborations include repeated coauthorship with several researchers, including:

  • Dipankar Dwivedi
  • Bhavna Arora
  • Sergi Molins
  • Michelle Newcomer
  • Kenneth H. Williams

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Carl I. Steefel cover a range of topics in computational and environmental geosciences. These include:

  • "Simulation of mineral dissolution at the pore scale with evolving fluid-solid interfaces: review of approaches and benchmark problem set" (2020) in Computational Geosciences
  • "Exascale applications: skin in the game" (2020) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Sequential Imputation of Missing Spatio-Temporal Precipitation Data Using Random Forests" (2020) in Frontiers in Water
  • "Wavelet-based local mesh refinement for rainfall-runoff simulations" (2020) in Journal of Hydroinformatics
  • "Hysteresis Patterns of Watershed Nitrogen Retention and Loss Over the Past 50 years in United States Hydrological Basins" (2021) in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

In recognition of their contributions, Carl I. Steefel was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • A coupled model for transport of multiple chemical species and kinetic precipitation/dissolution reactions with application to reactive flow in single phase hydrothermal systems

    Carl I. Steefel;Antonio C. Lasaga

  • Reactive transport codes for subsurface environmental simulation

    C. I. Steefel;C. A. J. Appelo;B. Arora;D. Jacques

  • Reactive transport modeling: An essential tool and a new research approach for the Earth sciences

    Carl I. Steefel;Donald J. DePaolo;Donald J. DePaolo;Peter C. Lichtner

  • A new kinetic approach to modeling water-rock interaction: The role of nucleation, precursors, and Ostwald ripening

    Carl I. Steefel;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • An international initiative on long-term behavior of high-level nuclear waste glass

    Stephane Gin;Abdessalam Abdelouas;Louise J. Criscenti;W. L. Ebert

  • Approaches to modeling of reactive transport in porous media

    Carl I. Steefel;Kerry T. B. MacQuarrie

  • Evaluation of the impact of CO2, co-contaminant gas, aqueous fluid and reservoir rock interactions on the geologic sequestration of CO2

    Kevin G. Knauss;James W. Johnson;Carl I. Steefel

  • An investigation of the effect of pore scale flow on average geochemical reaction rates using direct numerical simulation

    Sergi Molins;David Trebotich;Carl I. Steefel;Chaopeng Shen

  • The role of reaction affinity and secondary minerals in regulating chemical weathering rates at the Santa Cruz Soil Chronosequence, California

    Kate Maher;Carl I. Steefel;Art F. White;Dave A. Stonestrom

  • Code intercomparison builds confidence in numerical simulation models for geologic disposal of CO2

    Karsten Pruess;Julio García;Tony Kovscek;Curt Oldenburg

  • The mineral dissolution rate conundrum: Insights from reactive transport modeling of U isotopes and pore fluid chemistry in marine sediments

    Kate Maher;Carl I. Steefel;Donald J. DePaolo;Donald J. DePaolo;Brian E. Viani

  • Acetate Availability and its Influence on Sustainable Bioremediation of Uranium-Contaminated Groundwater

    Kenneth H. Williams;Philip E. Long;James A. Davis;Michael J. Wilkins

  • Expanding the role of reactive transport models in critical zone processes

    Li Li;Kate Maher;Alexis Navarre-Sitchler;Jennifer Druhan

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of water structure and diffusion in silica nanopores

    Ian C. Bourg;Carl I. Steefel

  • Fluid-Rock Interaction: A Reactive Transport Approach

    Carl I. Steefel;Kate Maher

  • Scale dependence of mineral dissolution rates within single pores and fractures

    Li Li;Carl I. Steefel;Li Yang

  • Multicomponent reactive transport in an in situ zero-valent iron cell

    Steven B. Yabusaki;Kirk J. Cantrell;Bruce Sass;Carl Steefel

  • Diffusion and reaction in rock matrix bordering a hyperalkaline fluid-filled fracture

    Carl I. Steefel;Peter C. Lichtner

  • The East River, Colorado, watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological–biogeochemical dynamics

    Susan S. Hubbard;Kenneth Hurst Williams;Deb Agarwal;Jillian Banfield

  • Evolution of dissolution patterns : permeability change due to coupled flow and reaction

    C. I. Steefel;A. C. Lasaga

  • Multicomponent reactive transport in discrete fractures: I. Controls on reaction front geometry

    Carl I. Steefel;Peter C. Lichtner

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth H. Williams
Kenneth H. Williams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Susan S. Hubbard
Susan S. Hubbard Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter S. Nico
Peter S. Nico Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ian C. Bourg
Ian C. Bourg Princeton University
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
Nicolas Spycher
Nicolas Spycher Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark E. Conrad
Mark E. Conrad Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tetsu K. Tokunaga
Tetsu K. Tokunaga Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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