Environmental Geostatistics Bibliography

Environmental Geostatistics Bibliography
by Subject

Data Worth:

Freeze, R.A., B.R. James, J. Massman, T. Sperling and L. Smith, 1992, Hydrogeological Decision Analysis: 4, The Concept of Data Worth and its use in the Development of Site Investigation Strategies, Ground Water, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 574-588.
James, B.R. and R.A. Freeze, 1993, The Worth of Data in Predicting Aquitard Continuity in Hydrogeological Design, Water Resources Research, 29 (7), pp. 2049-2065.
James, B.R. and S.M. Gorelick, When enough is enough: The worth of monitoring data in aquifer remediation design, Water Resources Research, 30 (12) pp. 3499-3513.

Decision Analysis/Objective Functions:

Christakos, G. and D.T. Hristopulos, Stochastic indicators for waste site characterization, Water Resources Research, 32 (8), pp. 2563-2578.
Rautman, C.A., 1997, Geostatistics and cost-effective environmental remediation, in Geostatistics Wollongong 96, E.Y. Baafi and N.A. Schofield, eds., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol. 2, p. 941–950.
Srivastava, R.M., 1987, Minimum variance or maximum profitability?, CIM Bulletin, 80 (901), pp. 63-68.

Sample Design:

Barnes, R.J., 1989, Sample design for geologic site characterization, in: Geostatistics, Vol. 2, pp. 809-822.
Boswell, M.T., S.D. Gore, G. Lovison and G.P. Patil, 1996, Annotated bibliography of composite sampling, Part A:, 1936-1992, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 3, pp. 1-50.
Burgess, T.M., R. Webster and A.B. McBratney, 1981, Optimal imterpolation and isarithmic mapping of soil properties. IV Sampling strategy, Journal of Soil Science, 32, pp. 643-659.
Christakos, G. and B.R. Killam, 1993, Sampling design for classifying contaminant level using annealing search algorithms, Water Resources Research, 29 (12), pp. 4063-4076.
Englund, E.J. and N. Heravi, 1994, Multi-phase sampling for soil remediation, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 1 (4), pp. 247-263.
Istok, J.D. and C.A. Rautman, 1996, , Probabilistic assessment of ground-water contamination : 2. Results of case study, Ground Water, 34 (6), pp. 1050-1064.
Olea, R. A., 1984, Sampling design optimization for spatial functions, Mathematical Geology, 16 (4), pp. 369-392.
Rautman, C.A. and J.D. Istok, 1996, Probabilistic assessment of ground-water contamination : 1. Geostatistical framework, Ground Water, 34 (5), pp. 899-909.
Rendu, J-M. M., 1980, Optimization of sampling policies: A geostatistical approach, 4th Joint Meeting of Mining and Metal, Institute of Japan and AIME, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 27-48.

Assessment of Accuracy and Uncertainty:

Deutsch, C.V., 1996, Direct assessment of local accuracy and precision, in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Geostatistcs Congress, Wollongong, Australia, 9-22 to 9-27, 1996, E.Y. Baafi and N.A. Schofield, eds., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Goovaerts, P., 1996, Accounting for local uncertainty in environmental decision making processes, in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Geostatistcs Congress, Wollongong, Australia, 9-22 to 9-27, 1996, E.Y. Baafi and N.A. Schofield, eds., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Phillip, G.M. and Watson, D.F., 1986, A method for assessing local variation among scattered measurements, Mathematical Geology, 18(8), pp. 759-764.

Remediation:

Glacken, I. M., 1996, Change of support and use of economic parameters for block selection, in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Geostatistcs Congress, Wollongong, Australia, 9-22 to 9-27, 1996, E.Y. Baafi and N.A. Schofield, eds., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Kyriakidis, P.C., 1996, Selecting panels for remediation in contaminated soils via stochastic imaging, in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Geostatistcs Congress, Wollongong, Australia, 9-22 to 9-27, 1996, E.Y. Baafi and N.A. Schofield, eds., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Example Applications:

Ginevan, M.E. and D.E. Splitstone, 1997, Risk-based geostatistical analysis and data visualization: improving remediation decisions for hazardous waste sites, Environmental Science and Technology, February, 1997
McKenna, S.A., 1998, Geostatistical Approach for Managing Uncertainty in Environmental Remediation of Contaminated Soils: Case Study, Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, Vol. IV, No. 2, Summer, pp. 175-184.
McKenna, S.A., 1997,Geostatistical Analysis of Pu-238 Contamination in Release Block D, Mound Plant, Miamisburg, Ohio, SAND97-0270, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 23 pp.
Rautman, C.A. and J.D. Istok, 1996, Probabilistic assessment of ground-water contamination : 1. Geostatistical framework, Ground Water, 34 (5), pp. 899-909.
Istok, J.D. and C.A. Rautman, 1996, Probabilistic assessment of ground-water contamination : 2. Results of case study, Ground Water, 34 (6), pp. 1050-1064.
Rautman, C.A., M.A. McGraw, J.D. Istok, J.M. Sigda, and P.G. Kaplan, 1994, Probabilistic Comparison of Alternative Characterization Technologies at the Fernald Uranium-in-Soils Integrated Demonstration Project, Proceedings of Waste Management 94, Tucson, AZ, February 27-March 3, p. 2117-2124.

Books:

Bras, R.L. and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, 1993, Random Functions and Hydrology, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 559 pp.
Cressie, N., 1993, Statistics for Spatial Data, Revised Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 900 pp.
Davis, J.C., 1986, Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology, 2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 646 pp.
Deutsch, C.V. and A.G. Journel, 1998, GSLIB: Geostatistical Software Library and User’s Guide, Oxford University Press, New York, 380 pp.
Goovaerts, P., 1997, Geostatistics for Natural Resources Evaluation, Oxford University Press, New York, 467 pp.
Isaaks and R.M. Srivastava, 1989, An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics, Oxford University Press, New York, 561 pp.
Journel, A.G. and Ch.J. Huijbregts, 1978, Mining Geostatistics, Academic Press, London, 600 pp.
Kitanidis, P.K., 1997, Introduction to Geostatisitcs: Applications in Hydrogeology, Cambridge University Press, 249 pp.
Olea, R., 1999, Geostatistics for Engineers and Earth Scientists, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Holland, 328 pp.
Pannatier, Y., 1996, Variowin: Software for Spatial Data Analysis in 2D, Springer-Verlag, New York, 91 pp.
Wackernagel, H., 1998, Multivariate Geostatistics. An Introduction with Applications, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, 291 pp.
Yarus, J.M. and R. L. Chambers, 1995, Stochastic Modeling and Geostatistics Principles, Methods, and Case Studies, AAPG Computer Applications in Geology; No. 3, AAPG, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 380 pp.

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