Summary
PEST Conference
In March of 2023, INTERA hosted the “2nd PEST Conference – The Path from Data to Decisions” in La Jolla, California. The conference featured speakers, presentations and discussions around modeling and decision-support solutions. See below for additional information from the conference.
Conference Presentations
Invited Presentations
Decision-Support Modelling. What Happens Next?
Why Are We Here? Reflections and Murmurings from an Industry Perspective
Uncertainty Quantification for Subsurface Petroleum Reservoirs
Utilizing Structured Decision-Making to Integrate Data, Modeling, and Science Into Policy Formulation and Implementation
Are Decisions Better with PEST? A Consultant’s Perspective from the Trenches.
The Subjective Nature of Priors and Some Repercussions of This.
Contributed Presentations
Making Something Out of Nothing. The Art of Prior Building with Imprecise Data and Imperfect Models.
Revisiting Zimmerman et al. (1998) Twenty-Five Years Later: What lessons did we learn?
Smoothed Frequency Map of Technetium-99 Concentration Plumes Used as Target for Calibration of Fate and Transport Model
An Empirical Evaluation of Sequential and Batch Data Assimilation Approaches to Cope with Groundwater Model Error
Computationally Efficient Hypothesis Testing Using an Iterative Ensemble Smoother and Reproducible Workflows
Using Management Optimization Under Uncertainty to Support Groundwater Management in Island Aquifers: An Application in the Magdalen Islands (Canada)
Combining Weather Forecast and Groundwater Modeling Ensembles to Quantify Predictive Uncertainty Under Climate Change
Calibrating and Quantifying Uncertainty Using Multiple Lines of Evidence
A Bayesian Statistical Perspective on Calibrating Physics-based Groundwater Models
Capture Zone Analysis for Deep Groundwater Plumes: Addressing Uncertainty Using Multiple Lines of Evidence