Peter Kitanidis
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Papers in Refereed Journals

Kitanidis, P. K. and Bras, R. L., Collinearity and Stability in the Estimation of Rainfall-Runoff Model Parameters, Journal of Hydrology, 42(1-2), 91-108, 1979. Click here for pdf file.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Bras, R. L., Adaptive Filtering through Detection of Isolated Transient Errors in Rainfall-Runoff Models, Water Resources Research, 16(4), 740-748, 1980. Click here for pdf file.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Bras, R. L., Real-Time Forecasting with a Conceptual Hydrologic Model. Part I: Analysis of Uncertainty, Water Resources Research, 16(6), 1025-1033, 1980.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Bras, R. L., Real-Time Forecasting with a Conceptual Hydrologic Model. Part II: Applications and Results, Water Resources Research, 16(6), 1034-1044, 1980.

Veneziano, D. and Kitanidis, P. K., Sequential Sampling to Contour an Uncertain Function, Journal of Int. Assoc. for Mathematical Geology, 14(5), 387-404, 1982. Click here for pdf file.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Vomvoris, E. G., A Geostatistical Approach to the Inverse Problem in Groundwater Modeling (Steady State) and One- Dimensional Simulations, Water Resources Research, 19(3), 677-690, 1983.

Kitanidis, P. K., Statistical Estimation of Polynomial Generalized Covariance Functions and Hydrologic Applications, Water Resources Research, 19(4), 909-921, 1983. Click here for pdf file.

Kitanidis, P. K., Lara, O. G. and Lane, R. W., Evaluation of the Efficiency of Streamflow Data Collection Strategies for Alluvial Rivers, Journal of Hydrology, 72, 85-103, 1984. Click here for pdf file.

Wasimi, S. A. and Kitanidis, P. K., Real-Time Forecasting and Daily Operation of a Multireservoir System During Floods by Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control, Water Resources Research, 19(6), 1511-1522, 1983. Click here for pdf copy.

Hoeksema, R. J. and Kitanidis, P. K., An Application of the Geostatistical Approach to the Inverse Problem in Two-Dimensional Groundwater Modeling, Water Resources Research, 20(7), 1003-1020, 1984. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Lara, O. G. and Lane, R. W., Effects of Visitation Frequency and Instrument Reliability on the Accuracy of Estimation of River Discharges, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 29(3), 255-267, 1984. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., and Kennedy, J. F., Secondary Current and River-Meander Formation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 144, 217-229, 1984. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Minimum-Variance Unbiased Quadratic Estimation of Covariances of Regionalized Variables, Mathematical Geology, 17(2), 195-208, 1985. Click here for pdf copy.

Hoeksema, R. J. and Kitanidis, P. K., Analysis of Spatial Variability of Properties of Selected Aquifers, Water Resources Research, 21(4), 563- 572, 1985. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Lane, R. W., Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimation of Hydrologic Spatial Processes by the Gauss-Newton Method, Journal of Hydrology, 79, 53-71, 1985. Click here for pdf copy.

Hoeksema, R. J. and Kitanidis, P. K., Comparison of Gaussian Conditional Mean and Kriging Estimation in the Geostatistical Approach to the Inverse Problem, Water Resources Research, 21(6), 825-836, 1985. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Comment on Stochastic Modeling of Groundwater Flow by Unconditional and Conditional Probabilities: The Inverse Problem, by G. Dagan, Water Resources Research, 22(6), 984-986, 1986.

Kitanidis, P. K., Parameter Uncertainty in Estimation of Spatial Functions: Bayesian Analysis, Water Resources Research, 22(4), 499-507, 1986. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Parametric Estimation of Covariances of Regionalized Variables, invited paper in a special issue of Water Resources Bulletin, 23(4), 557-567, 1987. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Unbiased Minimum-Variance Linear State Estimation, Automatica, 23(6), 775-778, 1987. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Error analysis of conventional Discrete and Gradient Dynamic Programming, Water Resources Research, 23(5), 845-858, 1987. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Prediction by the Method of Moments of Transport in a Heterogeneous Formation, Journal of Hydrology, 102 (1-4), 453-473, 1988. Click here for pdf copy.

Hoeksema, R. J. and Kitanidis, P. K., Reply to a comment by H. A. Loaiciga, Water Resources Research, 23(5), 975, 1987.

Kitanidis, P. K., A first-order approximation to stochastic optimal control of reservoirs, Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 1(3), 169-184, 1987. Click here for pdf copy.

Foufoula-Georgiou, E. and Kitanidis, P. K., Gradient Dynamic Programming for Stochastic Optimal Control of Multidimensional Water Resources Systems, Water Resources Research, 24(8), 1345-1359, 1988. Click here for pdf copy.

Hoeksema, R. J. and Kitanidis, P. K., Reply to a Comment by R. E. Williams, Water Resources Research, 24(7), 1204-1205, 1988.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Reply to a Comment by Ponnambalam and Adams, Water Resources Research, 24, (12) 2105-2106, 1988.

Philip, R. D. and Kitanidis, P. K., Geostatistical Estimation of Hydraulic Head Gradients, Ground Water, 27(6), 855-865, 1989.

Hoeksema, R. J. and Kitanidis, P. K., Prediction of Transmissivities, Heads, and Seepage Velocities using Mathematical Modeling and Geostatistics, Advances in Water Resources, 12(2), 90-102, 1989. Click here for pdf copy.

Van Lent, T., and Kitanidis, P. K., A Numerical Spectral Approach for the Derivation of Piezometric Head Covariance Functions, Water Resources Research, 25(11), 2287-2298, 1989. Click here for pdf copy.

Chrysikopoulos, C.V., Kitanidis, P. K., and Roberts, P. V., Analysis of One-Dimensional Solute Transport Through Porous Media with Spatially Variable Retardation Factor, Water Resources Research, 26(3), 437-446, 1990. Click here for PDF copy.

Andricevic, R., and Kitanidis, P. K., Optimization of the Pumping Schedule in Aquifer Remediation under Uncertainty, Water Resources Research, 26(5), 875-885, 1990. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Effective Hydraulic Conductivity for Gradually Varying Flow, Water Resources Research, 26(6), 1197-1208, 1990. Click here for PDF copy.

Chrysikopoulos, C. V., Roberts, P. V., and Kitanidis, P. K., One Dimensional Solute Transport in Porous Media with Partial Well-to-Well Recirculation:Ê Application to Field Experiments, Water Resources Research, 26(6), 1189-1195, 1990. Click here for PDF copy.

Rouhani, S., Georgakakos, A. P., Kitanidis, P. K., Loaiciga, H. A., Olea, R. A. and Yates, S. R., Geostatistics in Geohydrology: Part I. Basic Concepts, ASCE J. of Hydraulic Engineering, 116(5), 612-632, 1990.

Rouhani, S., Georgakakos, A. P., Kitanidis, P. K., Loaiciga, H. A., Olea, R. A. and Yates, S. R., Geostatistics in Geohydrology: Part II. Applications, ASCE J. of Hydraulic Engineering, 116(5), 633-658, 1990.

Kitanidis, P. K., Orthonormal Residuals in Geostatistics: Model Criticism and Parameter Estimation, Mathematical Geology, 23(5), 741-758, 1991.

Lee, S. -I., and Kitanidis, P. K., Optimal Estimation and Scheduling in Aquifer Remediation with Incomplete Information, in Water Resources Research, 27(9), 2203-2217, 1991. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Analysis of Macrodispersion through Volume-Averaging: Moment Equations, Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 6, 5-25, 1992. Click here for PDF copy.

Chrysikopoulos, C. V., Kitanidis, P. K., and Roberts, P. V., Generalized Taylor-Aris Moment Analysis of the Transport of Sorbing Solutes through Porous Media with Spatially Periodic Retardation Factors, Transport in Porous Media, 7, 163-185, 1992. Click here for PDF copy.

Chrysikopoulos, C. V., Kitanidis, P. K., and Roberts, P. V., Macrodispersion of Sorbing Solutes in Heterogeneous Porous Formations with Spatially Periodic Retardation Factor and Velocity, Water Resources Research, 28(6), 1517-1529, 1992. Click here for PDF copy.

Dykaar, B. B., and Kitanidis, P. K., Determination of the Effective Hydraulic Conductivity for Heterogeneous Porous Media Using a Numerical Spectral Approach 1. Method, Water Resources Research, 28(4), 1155-1166, 1992. Click here for PDF copy.

Dykaar, B. B., and Kitanidis, P. K., Determination of the Effective Hydraulic Conductivity for Heterogeneous Porous Media Using a Numerical Spectral Approach 2. Results, Water Resources Research, 28(4), 1167-1178, 1992. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K. Generalized Covariance Functions in Estimation, Mathematical Geology, 25(5), 525-540, 1993. Click here for PDF copy.

MacDonald, T. R., and Kitanidis, P. K., Modeling the Free Surface of an Unconfined Aquifer Near a Recirculation Well, Ground Water, 31(5), 774-788, 1993. Click here for PDF copy.

Dykaar, B. B., and Kitanidis, P. K., Transmissivity of a Heterogeneous Formation, Water Resources Research, 29(4), 985-1001, 1993. Click here for PDF copy.

Lee, S.-I., and P.K. Kitanidis, Analysis of groundwater flow and travel times for a landfill in an arid region with a thick vadose zone, Hydrological Processes, 7, 373-383, 1993. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., The concept of the dilution index, Water Resources Research, 30(7), 2011-2026, 1994. Click here for PDF copy.

Thierrin, J., and Kitanidis, P. K. , Solute dilution at the Borden and Cape-Cod groundwater tracer tests, Water Resources Research, 30(11), 2883-2890, 1994. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Particle-tracking equations for the solution of the advection-dispersion equation with variable coefficients, Water Resources Research, 30(11), 3225-3227, 1994. Click here for PDF copy.

Semprini, L., Kitanidis, P. K., Kampbell, D., and Wilson, J. T., Anaerobic transformation of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons in a sand aquifer, Water Resources Research, 31(4), 1051-1062, 1995. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Recent advances in geostatistical inference on hydrogeological variables. Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement, U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994, 1103-1109, 1995. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Quasilinear geostatistical theory for inversing, Water Resources Research, 31(10), 2411-2419, 1995. Click here for PDF copy.

Keller, A.A., P.V. Roberts, and P.K. Kitanidis, Prediction of single phase transport parameters in a variable aperture fracture, Geophysical Research Letters, 22 (11), 1425-1428, 1995.

Kapoor, V., and P. K. Kitanidis, Concentration fluctuations and dilution in two-dimensionally periodic heterogeneous porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 22(1), 91-119, 1996. Click here for pdf copy.

Dykaar, B.B., and P.K. Kitanidis, Macrotransport of a biologically reacting solute through porous media, Water Resources Research, 32(2), 307-320, 1996. Click here for PDF copy.

Van Lent, T., and P.K. Kitanidis, Effects of first-order approximations on head and specific discharge covariances in high contrast log-conductivity, Water Resources Research, 32 (5), 1197-1207, 1996. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., On the geostatistical approach to the inverse problem, Advances in Water Resources, 19(6), 333-342, 1996. Click here for pdf copy.

Kitanidis, P.K., Analytical expressions of conditional mean, covariance, and sample functions in geostatistics, J. Stoch. Hydrol. Hydraulics, 10(4), 279-294, 1996.

Kitanidis, P.K., and K.-F. Shen, Geostatistical interpolation of chemical concentration, Advanced Water Resources, 19(6), 369-378, 1996. Click here for pdf copy.

Lee, S.-I., and P. K. Kitanidis, Optimization of monitoring well installation time and location during aquifer decontamination, Water Resource Management, 10, 439-462, 1996.

Kitanidis, P. K., and B. B. Dykaar, Stokes flow in slowly varying two-dimensional periodic pore, Transport in Porous Media, 26(1), 89-98, 1997. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., A variance-ratio test for supporting a variable mean in Kriging, Math. Geology, 29(3), 335-348, 1997. Click here for pdf copy.

Reinhard, M., S. Shang, P.K. Kitanidis, E. Orwin, G.D. Hopkins, and C.A. Lebron, In situ BTEX Biotransformation Under Enhanced Nitrate- and Sulfate-Reducing Conditions, Environmental Science and Technology, 31(1), 28-36, 1997. Click here for pdf copy.

Smith, L. H., P. K. Kitanidis, and P. L. McCarty, Numerical modeling and uncertainties in rate coefficients for methane utilization and TCE cometabolism by a methane-oxidizing mixed culture, Biotechnol. and Bioeng., 53(3), 320-331, 1997. Click here for pdf copy.

Snodgrass, M. F., and P. K. Kitanidis, A geostatistical approach to contaminant source identification, Water Resources Research, 33(4), 537-546, 1997. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., The minimum-structure solution to the inverse problem, Water Resources Research, 33(10), 2263-2272, 1997. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Comment on "A reassessment of the groundwater inverse problem" by D. McLaughlin and L. R. Townley, Water Resources Research, 33(9), 2199-2202, 1997. Click here for PDF copy.

Philbrick, C. R., and P. K. Kitanidis, Efficient operational control of conjunctive-use systems, Water Resources Update, (Special Issue on Integrated Water Management), Issue Number 106, 92-101, (published by Universities Council on Water Resources, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), 1997.

Kapoor, V., and P. K. Kitanidis, Advection-diffusion in spatially random flows: formulation for the concentration covariance, Stoch. Hydrol. Hydraul., 11(5), 397-422, 1997.

Philbrick, C. R., and P. K. Kitanidis, Optimal Conjunctive-Use Operations and Plans, Water Resour. Res., 34(5), 1307-1316, 1998. Click here for PDF copy.

Kapoor, V., and P. K. Kitanidis, Concentration fluctuations and dilution in aquifers, Water Resour. Res., 34(5), 1181-1193, 1998. Click here for PDF copy.

Snodgrass, M. F., and P. K. Kitanidis, A method to infer in-situ reaction rates from push-pull experiments, Ground Water, 36(4), 645-650, 1998.

Kitanidis, P. K., How observations and structure affect the geostatistical solution to the steady-state inverse problem, Ground Water, 36(5), 754-763, 1998.

Cao, J., and P. K. Kitanidis, Pore-scale dilution of conservative solutes: An example, Water Resour. Res., 34(8), 1941-1949, 1998. Click here for PDF copy.

Smith, L. H., P. L. McCarty, and P. K. Kitanidis, Spreadsheet method for evaluation of biochemical reaction rate coefficients and their uncertainties by weighted nonlinear least-squares analysis of the integrated monod equation, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 64(6), 2044-2050, 1998.

Snodgrass, M. F., and P. K. Kitanidis, Transmissivity identification through multi-directional aquifer simulation, Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 12(5), 299-316, 1998. Click here for PDF copy.

Cao, J., and P. K. Kitanidis, Adaptive finite-element simulation of Stokes flow in porous media, Adv. in Water Resour., 22(1), 17-31, 1999.

Pannone, M., and P. K. Kitanidis, Large-time behavior of concentration variance and dilution in heterogeneous formations, Water Resour. Res., 35(3), 623-634, 1999. Click here for PDF copy.

Philbrick, C. R., and P. K. Kitanidis, Limitations of deterministic optimization applied to reservoir operations, J. Water Resources Planning and Management, 125(3), 135-142, 1999. Click here for pdf copy.

Cao, J., and P. K. Kitanidis, Adaptive-grid simulation of groundwater flow in heterogeneous aquifers, Adv. in Water Resour., 22(7), 681-696, 1999.

Kitanidis, P. K., Generalized covariance functions associated with the Laplace equation and their use in interpolation and inverse problems, Water Resour. Res., 35(5), 1361-1367, 1999. Click here for pdf copy.

Wang, J., and P. K. Kitanidis, Analysis of macrodispersion through volume averaging: Comparison with stochastic theory, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 13(1/2), 66-84, 1999. Click here for pdf copy.

MacDonald, T. R., P. K. Kitanidis, P. L. McCarty, and P. V. Roberts, Effects of shear detachment on biomass growth and in situ bioremediation, Ground Water, 37(4), 555-563, 1999.

MacDonald, T. R., P. K. Kitanidis, P. L. McCarty, and P. V. Roberts, Mass-transfer limitations for macroscale bioremediation modeling and implications on aquifer clogging, Ground Water, 37(4), 523-531, 1999.

Cirpka, O.A., and P.K. Kitanidis, Impact of biomass-decay terms on the simulation of pulsed bioremediation, Ground Water, 38 (2), 254-263, 2000.

Cirpka, O.A., and P.K. Kitanidis, An advective-dispersive streamtube approach for the transfer of conservative tracer data to reactive transport, Water Resour. Res., 36 (5), 1209-1220, 2000. Click here for PDF copy

Cirpka, O.A., and P.K. Kitanidis, Characterization of mixing and dilution in heterogeneous aquifers by means of local temporal moments, Water Resour. Res., 36 (5), 1221-1236, 2000. Click here for PDF copy

Michalak, A.M., and P.K. Kitanidis, Macroscopic behavior and random-walk particle tracking of kinetically sorbing solutes, Water Resour. Res., 36 (8), 2133-2146, 2000. Click here for PDF copy

Cirpka, O. A., and P.K. Kitanidis, Sensitivities of temporal moments calculated by the adjoint-state method and joint inversing of head and tracer data, Adv. Water Resour., 24 (1), 89-103, 2000, 2000.

Perigault, J. G., J. O. Leckie, and P. K. Kitanidis, Modeling particle transport and aggregation in a quiescent aqueous environment using a residence scheme, Water Resour. Res., 36(8), 2249-2261, 2000. Click here for PDF copy

Philbrick, C. R., and P. K. Kitanidis, Improved Dynamic Programming Methods for Optimal Control of Lumped Parameter Stochastic Systems, Operations Research, 49(3), 398-412, 2001. Click here for pdf copy.

Cirpka, O.A., and P.K. Kitanidis, Theoretical basis for the measurement of local transverse dispersion in isotropic porous media, Water Resour. Res., 37 (2), 243-252, 2001. Click here for PDF copy.

Cirpka, O. A., and P.K. Kitanidis: Transport of volatile compounds in porous media in the presence of a trapped gas phase. J. Contam. Hydrol., 49(3-4), 263-285, 2001. Click here for pdf copy.

Cirpka, O.A., and P.K. Kitanidis, Travel-time based model of bioremediation using circulation wells, Ground Water, 39 (3), 422-432, 2001.

Pannone, M., and P.K. Kitanidis, Large-time spatial covariance of concentration of conservative solute and application to the Cape Cod tracer test, Transport in Porous Media, 42, 109-132, 2001. Click here for PDF copy.

Dupin, H. J., P. K. Kitanidis, and P. L. McCarty, Pore-scale modeling of biological clogging due to aggregate expansion: A material mechanics approach, Water Resour. Res., 37(12), 2965-2979, 2001. Click here for PDF copy.

Dupin, H. J., P. K. Kitanidis, and P. L. McCarty, Simulations of two-dimensional modeling of biomass aggregate growth in network models, Water Resour. Res., 37(12), 2981-2994, 2001. Click here for PDF copy.

Cirpka, O.A., and P.K. Kitanidis: Numerical evaluation of solute dispersion and dilution in unsaturated heterogeneous media, Water Resour. Res., 38(11), doi:10.1029/2001WR001262, 2002. Click here for PDF copy.

Michalak, A.M., and P.K. Kitanidis, A method for enforcing parameter non-negativity in Bayesian inverse problems with an application to contaminant source identification, Water Resour. Res., 39(2), doi: 10.1029/2002WR001480, 2003. Click here for PDF copy.

Chu, M.Y., P.K. Kitanidis, and P.L. McCarty, Effects of biomass accumulation on microbially enhanced dissolution of a PCE pool: a numerical simulation, Contaminant Hydrology, 65, 79-100, doi:10.1016/S0169-7722(02)00232-2, 2003.

Fienen, M.N., P.K. Kitanidis, D. Watson, and P. Jardine, An application of Bayesian inverse methods to vertical deconvolution of hydraulic conductivity in a heterogeneous aquifer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mathematical Geology, 36 (1), 101-126, 2004. Click here for PDF copy.

Findikakis, A.N., R. Helmig, P. Kitanidis, J. Nimmo, K. Pruess, Y. Rubin, F. Stauffer, and C.F. Tsang, Summary of a Panel Discussion at the International Groundwater Symposium held on March 25-28, 2002 in Berkeley, California, USA, Journal of Hydraulic Research, 42, III-IV, 2004.

Pannone, M., and P.K. Kitanidis, On the asymptotic behavior of dilution parameters for Gaussian and Hole-Gaussian log-conductivity covariance functions, Transport in Porous Media, 56, 257-281, 2004. Click here for PDF copy.

Luo, J., and P.K. Kitanidis, Fluid residence times within a recirculation zone created by an extraction-injection well pair, Journal of Hydrology, 295, 149-162, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.03.006, 2004. Click here for pdf copy.

Michalak, A.M., and P.K. Kitanidis, Estimation of historical groundwater contaminant distribution using the adjoint state method applied to geostatistical inverse modeling, Water Resour. Res., 40 (8), W08302, doi:10.1029/2004WR003214, 2004. Click here for PDF copy.

Chu, M., P.K. Kitanidis, and P.L. McCarty, Possible factors controlling the effectiveness of bioenhanced dissolution of non-aqueous phase tetrachloroethene, Advances in Water Resources, 27, 601-615 (doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2004.03.002), 2004.

Michalak, A.M., and P.K. Kitanidis, Application of Geostatistical Inverse Modeling to Contaminant Source Identification at Dover AFB, Delaware, IAHR Journal of Hydraulic Research, 42 (extra issue), 9-18, 2004. Click here for PDF copy.

Cao, J. and P. K. Kitanidis, An algorithm for solving reactive advection-dispersionproblems, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, in press, 2005.

Michalak, A.M., and P.K. Kitanidis, A Method for the Interpolation of Nonnegative Functions with an Application to Contaminant Load Estimation, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 19, 8-23, DOI: 10.1007/s00477-004-0189-1, 2005. Click here for PDF copy.

Luo, J., W. Wu, M.N. Fienen, P.M. Jardine, T.L. Melhorn, D.B. Watson, O.A. Cirpka, C.S. Criddle, and P.K. Kitanidis, Hydraulic analysis of in-situ reactors created by extraction-injection wells: A nested cell and its application to Oak Ridge, TN, Ground Water, in press, 2005.

Fienen, M.N., J. Luo, and P.K. Kitanidis, Semi-Analytical Homogeneous Anisotropic Capture Zone Delineation, Journal of Hydrology, 312(1-4): 39-50, 2005. Click here for PDF copy

Chu, M., P.K. Kitanidis, and P.L. McCarty, Modeling microbial reactions at the plume fringe subject to transverse mixing in porous media: When can the rates of microbial reaction be assumed to be instantaneous? Water Resour. Res., 41, W06002, doi:10.1029/2004WR003495.

Luo, J., Cirpka, O.A., Wu, W-M., Fienen, M.N., Jardine, P.M., Mehlhorn, T.L., Watson, D.B., Criddle, C.S., Kitanidis, P.K. Mass-transfer limitations for nitrate removal in a uranium-contaminated aquifer. Environ. Sci. Technol. 39(21), 8453-8459, 2005

Luo, J., W. Wu, M.N. Fienen, P.M. Jardine, T.L. Melhorn, D.B. Watson, O.A. Cirpka, C.S. Criddle, and P.K. Kitanidis, A nested-cell approach for in situ remediation. Ground Water 44(2), 266-274, 2006.

Luo, J., O.A. Cirpka, and P.K. Kitanidis, Temporal-moment matching for truncated breakthrough curves for step and step-pulse injection, Adv. Water Resour., 29, 1306-1313, 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.10.005, 2006. 

Saenger, N., P. K. Kitanidis, and R. L. Street (2005), A numerical study of surface-subsurface exchange processes at a riffle-pool pair in the Lahn River, Germany, Water Resour. Res., 41, W12424, doi:10.1029/2004WR003875. Click here for pdf copy.

Luo, J., O. A. Cirpka, M. N. Fienen, W. Wu, T. L. Mehlhorn, J. Carley, P. M. Jardine, C. S. Criddle, and P. K. Kitanidis. "A Parametric Transfer Function Methodology for Analyzing Reactive Transport in Nonuniform Flow." J. Contaminant Hydrology 83, no. 1-2 (2006): 27-41.

Wu, W., J. Carley, M. Fienen, T. Mehlhorn, K. Lowe, J. Nyman, J. Luo, M. E. Gentile, R. Rajan, D. Wagner, R. F. Hickey, B. Gu, D.  Watson, O. A. Cirpka, P. K. Kitanidis, P. M. Jardine, and C. S. Criddle. 2006. Pilot-scale bioremedation of uranium in a highly contaminated aquifer I: Conditioning of a treatment zone.  Environ. Sci. Technol, 40, 3978-3985,10.1021/es051954y, 2006. 

Wu, W., J. Carley, T. Gentry, M. A. Ginder-Vogel, M. Fienen, T. Mehlhorn, H. Yan, S. Carroll, J. Nyman, J. Luo, M. E. Gentile, M. W. Fields, R. F. Hickey, D. Watson, O. A. Cirpka, S. Fendorf, J. Zhou, P. Kitanidis, P. M. Jardine, and C. S. Criddle.  2006. Pilot-scale bioremediation of uranium in a highly contaminated aquifer II:  Reduction of U(VI) and geochemical control of U(VI) bioavailability.  Environ. Sci. Technol., 40, 3986-3995, 10.1021/es051960u, 2006. 

Fienen, M.N., J. Luo, and P. K. Kitanidis, A Bayesian Geostatistical Transfer Function Approach to Tracer Test Analysis. Water Resour. Res., 42, W07426, doi:10.1029/2005WR004576, 2006.

Benekos, I. D., O. A. Cirpka, and P. K. Kitanidis, Experimental determination of transverse dispersivity in a helix and a cochlea, Water Resour. Res., 42, W07406, doi:10.1029/2005WR004712, 2006.

MacWilliams, M. L., J. M. Wheaton, G. B. Pasternack, R. L. Street, P. K. Kitanidis, , Flow convergence routing hypothesis for pool-riffle maintenance in alluvial rivers, Water Resour. Res., 42, W10427, doi:10.1029/2005WR004391, 2006. Click here for pdf copy.

Cao, J. and P. K. Kitanidis, An algorithm for solving reactive advection-dispersion problems, International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Sciences and Mechanics, 8, 89-102, 10.1080/15502280601149593, 2007.

Luo, J., Cirpka, O.A., Kitanidis, P.K. The tailing of integrated breakthrough curves, Water Resour. Res. In press, 2007. 

Luo, J., Weber, F.-A., Cirpka, O.A., Wu, W-M., Carley, J., Nyman, J., Jardine, P., Criddle, C.S., Kitanidis, P.K. Modeling in-situ U(VI) bioreduction by sulfate-reducing bacteria in the presence of nitrate. J. Contam. Hydrol. In press, 2007.

Cirpka, O. A., M. N. Fienen, M. Hofer, E. Hoehn, A. Tessarini, R. Kipfer and  P.K. Kitanidis, Analyzing bank filtration by deconvoluting times series of electric conductivity, Ground Water, 45, 318-328, 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2006.00293.x, 2007.

Luo, J., Wu, W.-M., Carley, J., Ruan, C., Gu, B., Jardine, P.M., Criddle, C.S., Kitanidis, P.K., Hydraulic performance analysis of a multiple injection-extraction well system,  J. Hydrol.,  336, 294-302, 2007. 

Wu, W., J. Carley, J. Luo,  M. A. Ginder-Vogel,  E. Cardenas, M. B. Leigh, C. Hwang, S. D. Kelly, C. Ruan,  L. Wu, J. Van Nostrand, T. Gentry, K. Lowe, T. Mehlhorn,  Sue Carroll,  M. W. Fields,  B. Gu,  D.  Watson,  K. M. Kemner, T. Marsh, J. Tiedje, J.  Zhou, S. Fendorf, P. K.  Kitanidis, P. M. Jardine, and C. S. Criddle, In Situ Bioreduction Of Uranium (Vi) To Submicromolar Levels And Reoxidation By Dissolved Oxygen, Environ. Sci. Technol., In Press, 2007.

Chu, M., P. K. Kitanidis, and P. L. McCarty, Dependence of lumped mass transfer coefficient on scale and reactions kinetics for biologically enhanced NAPL dissolution, Advances in Water Resources, 30, 1618-1629, 10.1016/j.advwatres.2006.05.016, 2007.

McCarty, P. L., M. Chu, and P. K. Kitanidis, Electron donor and pH relationships for biologically enhanced dissolution of chlorinated solvent DNAPL in groundwater, Eur. J. Soil Biol., 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2007.03.004, 2007.

Luo, J., Weber, F.-A., Cirpka, O.A., Wu, W-M., Carley, J., Nyman, J., Jardine, P., Criddle, C.S., Kitanidis, P.K., Modeling in-situ U(VI) bioreduction by sulfate-reducing bacteria,/J.Contam. Hydrol./,92, 129-148, 2007. Click here for pdf copy.

Books

National Research Council, In Situ Bioremediation: When does it Work? Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1993.

Kitanidis, P. K., Introduction to Geostatistics, Cambridge University Press, 249pp., 1997.

National Research Council, Contaminants in the Subsurface: Source Zone Assessment and Remediation, Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 2005.

Kitanidis, P. K., Applied Stochastic Inverse Problems, draft of book.

Kitanidis, P.K. and P.L. McCarty, eds., Chemical Delivery and Mixing, in preparation.

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Patent

Semprini, L., Kitanidis, P. K., McCarty, P. L., and Bae, J.-H., Method and Apparatus for In-Situ Groundwater Remediation, U. S. Patent No 5,302,286, April 12, 1994.

Papers in Conference Proceedings and Chapters in Books (Selected)

Wilson, J. L., Kitanidis, P. K. and Dettinger, H., State and Parameter Estimation in Groundwater Models, Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Applications of Kalman Filter to Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Resources, Pittsburgh, pp. 657-679, 1978.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Bras, R. L., A Study of Collinearity and Parameter Stability in Rainfall-Runoff Models: Ridge Regression and Kalman Filtering, Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Applications of Kalman Filter to Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Resources, Pittsburgh, pp. 295-323, 1978.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Bras, R. L., Error Identification in Conceptual Hydrologic Models, Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Applicaÿtions of Kalman Filtering to Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Resources, Pittsburgh, pp. 325-353, 1978.

Kitanidis, P. K., Queiroz, C. S. and Veneziano, D., Sampling Networks for Violation of Water Quality Standards, Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Application of Kalman Filter to Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Resources, Pittsburgh, pp. 213-229, 1978.

Kitanidis, P. K., An Application of Linear Minimum-Variance Unbiased Estimation in the Presence of Unknown Inputs, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual American Geophysical Union Front Range Branch "Hydrology Days," April 16-20, Colorado State University, pp. 115-126, 1985 (invited).

Kitanidis, P. K., Use of Prior Information in the Geostatistical Approach to the Inverse Problem, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers "Computer Applications in Water Resources" Conference, Buffalo, New York, pp. 897-906, June 10-12, 1985 (invited).

Kitanidis, P. K., Transport in a Porous Medium with Randomly Varying Parameters, Proceedings of Advancements in Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Hydraulics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 3-6, pp. 855-862, 1986 (invited).

Kitanidis, P. K. and Andricevic, R., Accuracy of the First-Order Approximation to the Stochastic Optimal Control of Reservoirs, in Dynamic Programming for Optimal Water Resources Systems Analysis , edited by A. O. Esogbue, Prentice-Hall, pp. 373-388, 1988 (invited).

Kitanidis, P. K., The Concept of Predictive Probability and a Simple Test for Geostatisÿtical Model Validation, in Consequences of Spatial Variability in Aquifer Properties and Data Limitations for Groundwater Modelling Practice, edited by A. Peck et al., IAHS Publication No. No. 175, 178-189, 1988. Click here for PDF copy.

Kitanidis, P. K., Statistical Analysis of Heterogeneities in Subsurface Transport, in Summary Papers from the First Scope Workshop on Groundwater Contamination, Stanford University, Stanford, CA., July 27-28, 1989¤ Groundwater Modeling, Paper No. 5, 1989.

Kitanidis, P. K., Prediction using Geostatistics and Mathematical Models, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers National Conference on Hydraulic Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, Aug 14-18, 1989, pp. 687-692. Click here for PDF copy.

Apps, J. A., Zhu, M., Kitanidis, P. K., Freyberg, D. L., Dudek-Ronan, A., and Itagaki, S., Modeling of Reactive Chemical Transport of Leachates from a Utility Fly-Ash Disposal Site, Proceedings of the Int. Symp. on Groundwater, G.P. Lennon (ed.), ASCE, pp. 52-57, 1991. Click here for PDF copy.

VanLent, T., and Kitanidis, P. K., Analysis of Spatial Variability using a Numerical Spectral Approach, in Transport Processes in Porous Media, edited by J. Bear and Y. Corapcioglu, Kluwer Academic Publ., 1991.

Kuhns, J., and Kitanidis, P. K., Case Study on Site Characterization at the TCE Plume: St. Joseph, Michigan, NPL Site, in Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Bioremediation of Hazardous Wastes: U.S. EPA's Biosystems Technology Development Program, Chicago, IL, 1992, pp. 15-19.

Semprini, L., McCarty, P., Dolan, M., Lang, M., MacDonald, T., Bae, J., and Kitanidis, P., Design and Treatability Study of In Situ Bioremediation of Chlorinated Aliphatics by Methanotrophs at St. Joseph, Michigan, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Bioremediation of Hazardous Wastes: U.S. EPA's Biosystems Technology Development Program, Chicago, IL, 1992, pp. 43-45.

Kitanidis, P. K., and S.-I. Lee, Joint optimization of groundwater remediation and monitoring costs, Proceeding of 21st Annual Conference of the Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE, Denver, CO, May 1994. Click here for PDF copy.

MacDonald, T.R., and P.K. Kitanidis, Biofouling effects on in-situ TCE bioremediation by phenol utilizers, in Bioremediation of Chlorinated Solvents, edited by R.E. Hinchee, A. Leeson, andÊ L. Semprini, pp. 213-219, Battelle Press, Columbus, OH., 1995.

Kitanidis, P. K., Recent advances in geostatistical inference on hydrogeological variables, Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement, U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994, 1103-1109, 1995.

Philbrick, C. R., and P. K. Kitanidis, Efficient Operational Control of Conjunctive-Use Systems, UCOWR '96 Proceedings, Integrated Management of Surface and Ground Water, pp. 86-95, July 30 - August 2, 1996, San Antonio, Texas.

Kitanidis, P.K., Groundwater flow in heterogeneous formations, in Subsurface Flow and Transport: The Stochastic Approach, edited by G. Dagan, andÊ S.P. Neuman, pp. 83-91, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997.

Reinhard, M., S. Shang, P.K. Kitanidis, E. Orwin, G.D. Hopkins, and C.A. Lebron, In Situ BTEX Biotransformation under Enhanced Nitrate- and Sulfate-Reducing Conditions, Environ. Sci. Technol., 1997, 31, 28-36. Click here for PDF copy.

Kapoor, V., P. K. Kitanidis, Dilution of nonreactive solutes in heterogeneous porous media, in Scale Dependence and Scale Invariance in Hydrology, G. Sposito (ed.), pp. 291-313, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Kitanidis, P. K., Stochastic approaches to inverse problems, in Computational Methods in Water Resources XII, vol. 2, edited by V. N. Burganos, G. P. Karatzas, A. C. Payatakes, C. A. Brebbia, W. G. Gray and G. F. Pinder, pp. 281-288, Computational Mechanics, Southampton, UK, 1998.

Michalak, A.M., and P.K. Kitanidis, Numerical Investigations of Mixing in Physically Heterogeneous Porous Media using the One- and Two-Particle Covariance, in Computational Methods in Water Resources XIII, Volume 1, Computational Methods for Subsurface Flow and Transport, pp. 423-429, edited by L.R. Bentley, J.F. Sykes, C.A. Brebbia, W.G. Gray and G.F. Pinders, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2000. Click here for PDF copy.

Kapoor, V., and P. K. Kitanidis, Concentration fluctuations, dilution, and risk assessment: The role of local dispersion and heterogeneity, in Stochastic Methods in Subsurface Contaminant Hydrology, R. S. Govindaraju (ed.), ASCE Press, pp. 63-88, 2002.

Michalak, A.M., and P.K. Kitanidis, Application of Bayesian Inference Methods to Inverse Modeling for Contaminant Source Identification at Gloucester Landfill, Canada, in Computational Methods in Water Resources XIV, edited by S.M. Hassanizadeh, R.J. Schotting, W.G. Gray, andÊ G.F. Pinder, pp. 1259-1266, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002. Click here for PDF copy.

Michalak, A.M. and P.K. Kitanidis, Estimation of historical groundwater contaminant distribution using the adjoint state method applied to geostatistical inverse modeling, Water Resources Research, Vol. 40, W08302, doi:10.1029/2004WR003214, 2004. Click here for PDF copy.

MacWilliams, M., R.L. Street, and P.K. Kitanidis, Modeling floodplain flow on Lower Deer Creek, CA, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, edited by Greco, Carravetta, andÊ Della Morte, pp. 1429-1439, Balkema, Naples, Italy, June, 2004.

Luo, Jian and P.K. Kitanidis, Fluid residence times within a recirculation zone created by an extraction--injection well pair. Journal of Hydrology, 295 (2004), 149-162. Click here for PDF copy.

Saenger, N, P.K. Kitanidis, and R.L. Street, A numerical study of surface-subsurface exchange processes at a riffle-pool pair inthe Lahn River, Germany, 41, W12424, doi: 10.1029/2004WR003875, 2005. Click here for PDF copy.

Cardiff, M. A., and P. K. Kitanidis, Use of COMSOL Multiphysics for Efficient Automatic Inverse Modeling of PDE-based systems: Applications to aquifer characterization, in COMSOL Users Conference 2006, edited J. Hiller, pp. 247-253, Cambridge, MA, Oct 22-24, 2006. 

Chu, M., P. K. Kitanidis, and P. M. McCarty, Inhibition-Related Limitation to Biologically Enhanced Dissolution of Chlorinated Solvents, Paper B-24, in Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds—2006. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, edited by B. M. Sass, Battelle Press, Columbus, OH, Monterey, CA, 2006.

MacWilliams, M.L., J.M. Wheaton, G.P. Pasternack, R.L. Street and P.K. Kitanidis, Flow convergence routing hypothesis for pool-riffle maintenance in alluvial rivers, Water Resources Research, Vol. 42, W10427, doi:10.1029/2005WR004391, 2006. Click here for PDF file

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Editor

Bras, R. L., Hino, M., Kitanidis, P. K. and K. Takeuchi (eds), Hydrologic Research: The U.S. - Japan Experience, Special Issue of J. of Hydrology, 102, (1-4), 518 pp., 1988.

Selected Monographs and Reports

Kitanidis, P. K., A Unified Approach to Parameter Estimation of Groundwater Models, M.Sc. in Civil Engineering Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976.

Kitanidis, P. K., Groundwater Pollution: Technology, Economics and Management, edited by J. L. Wilson, R. L. Lenton and J. Porras. Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydrodynamics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technical Report 208, 312 pp., 1976.

Veneziano, D., Kitanidis, P. K. and Queiroz, C. S., Two Problems of Spatial Sampling, Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Report R77-29, 1977.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Bras, R. L., Real-Time Forecasting of River Flows, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydrodynamics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technical Report No. 235, 324 pp., 1978.

Kitanidis, P. K., Critical Flow and Water Temperature Conditions for the Mississippi River at Quad Cities Nuclear Station, 26 pp., in Quad Cities Nuclear Station 316a Demonstration, prepared for Commonwealth Edison, Chicago, Illinois, 1980.

Wasimi S. and Kitanidis, P. K., Hydrologic Evaluation of the Hydroelectric Potential of the Des Moines River at Red Rock Dam, Iowa, IIHR Limited Distribution Report No. 81, 136 pp., 1981.

Kitanidis, P. K., Application to the Des Moines River of Multiple Reservoir Operating Strategies Incorporating Short- and Long-Term Information in Real Time, IIHR Limited Distribution Report No. 92, The University of Iowa, 18 pp., 1982.

Kitanidis, P. K., Real-Time Forecasting of River Flows and Stochastic Optimal Control of Multireservoir Systems, IIHR Report No. 258, The University of Iowa, 52 pp., 1983.

Wasimi, S. A. and Kitanidis, P. K., Operating of a System of Reservoirs under Flood Conditions using Linear Quadratic Gaussian Stochastic Control, IIHR Report No. 268, The University of Iowa, 173 pp., 1983.

Kitanidis, P. K. and Lane, R. W., Maximum-Likelihood Parameter Estimation of Hydroÿlogic Spatial Processes by the Gauss-Newton Method, IIHR Report No. 275, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 86 pp., 1984.

Hoeksema, R. J and Kitanidis, P. K., The Geostatistical Approach to the Inverse Problem in Two-Dimensional Steady State Groundwater Modeling, IIHR Report No. 282, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 127 pp., 1984.

Quinodoz, H. A. M. and Kitanidis, P. K., Estimation of Transmissivities, Heads, and Velocities in Steady State Groundwater Modeling, Bulletin 126, Water Resources Research Center, University of Minnesota, 109 pp., 1988.

Kitanidis, P. K., Prediction of Groundwater Flow and Mass Transport Using Linear and Nonlinear Estimation Methods, Final Technical Report, Stanford University, Civil Engineering, 191 pp., August 1989. (Available in hard copy or microfiche through NTIS, PB90 119603/AS)

Anderson, J. E., Bae, J., Black, J. N. P., Dolan, M. E., Gorelick, S., Grbic-Galic, D., Haston, Z., Kitanidis, P. K., Lang, M., MacDonald, T. R., Roberts, P. V., Semprini, L., Smith, L. H., Tiedeman, C., McCarty, P. L. (Principal Investigator), Methanotrophic Treatment Processes, prepared for Gas Research Institute, WRHSRC Final Report, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, July 1992.

Kitanidis, P. K., D. L. Freyberg, N. Chan, S. Itagaki, S. -I. Lee, and A. Dudek-Ronan, Applications Handbook for FASTCHEM, Volume 1: Flow Modules, Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI TR-101218, September 1992.

Dykaar, B. B., and P. K. Kitanidis, Derivation of the Equations Governing the Transmissivity of a Three-Dimensional Stationary Heterogeneous Porous Medium, Tech. Rep. No WRC-3, Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center, January 1992.

Reinhard, M., S. Shang, P.K. Kitanidis, E. Orwin, H. Beller, M. Snodgrass, V. Warikoo, and G.D. Hopkins, In situ BTEX Biotransformation Under Unamended and Enhanced Nitrate-Reducing, Sulfate-Reducing, and Methanogenic Conditions, Vol. I: Data Evaluation, Tech. Rep. No WRC-6, Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center, May 1996.

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