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Lance Vail

Lance Vail

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352

Biography

Since joining Battelle in 1981, Mr. Vail has been involved in projects covering a diverse set of water related issues. His professional experience includes basic and applied research, and regulatory compliance assessments. His areas of expertise cover a broad spectrum of areas related to water resources.

Research Interests

  • Water resource management
  • Multiple objective tradeoff analysis in water resources
  • Uncertainty analysis in water resources
  • Advanced hydrologic process modeling
  • Impacts of climate on water resources
  • Neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms applied to water resource issues
  • Linking simulation models with optimization methods to water resource problems
  • Linkage of physical and biological models in fisheries management

Education and Credentials

  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Montana State University, 1982
  • B.S., Environmental Resources Engineering, Humbolt State University, 1979

Affiliations and Professional Service

Selected Publications

2007

  • Wigmosta MS, MK Gill, AM Coleman, R Prasad, and LW Vail. 2007. "A Distributed Modeling System for Short-Term to Seasonal Ensemble Streamflow Forecasting in Snowmelt Dominated Basins." In Proceedings of the 75th Annual Western Snow Conference, April 16-19, 2007, Kona, HI, ed. R Julander, pp. 187-194.  Western Snow Conference, Soda Springs, CA. 

2005

2004

  • Scott MJ, LW Vail, CO Stockle, and A Kemanian. 2004. "Climate Change and Adaptation in Irrigated Agriculture-A Case Study of the Yakima River." In UCOWR/NIWR Conference. Water Allocation: Economics and the Environment, p. 7 pages.  Universities Council on Water Resources, Carbondale, IL. 
  • Scott MJ, LW Vail, JA Jaksch, CO Stockle, and A Kemanian. 2004. "Water Exchanges: Tools to Beat El Nino Climate Variability in Irrigated Agriculture." Journal of the American Water Resources Association 40(1):15-31. 

2002

  • Vail LW, and R Skaggs. 2002. Adaptive Management Platform for Natural Resources in the Columbia River Basin. PNNL-13875, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Burke JS, GR Danielson, DA Schulz, and LW Vail. 2002. "Parallel computing for automated model calibration." In SCI 2002 : ISAS : the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics : July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA : proceedings , vol. XVIII, pp. 424-429.  International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, Orlando, FL. 
  • Scott MJ, LW Vail, and A Kemanian. 2002. "Integrated Impact Of Climate Warming on Yakima Valley Water Demand and Availability." In Research & Extension Regional Water Quality Conference 2002.  State of Washington Water Research Center, Pullman , WA. 
  • Skaggs R, LW Vail, and SA Shankle. 2002. "Adaptive Management for Water Supply Planning: Sustaining Mexico City's Water Supply ." Chapter 15 in Urban Water Supply Handbook, ed. Larry W. Mays, pp. 15.3 - 15.24.  McGraw Hill, New York, NY. 

2001

  • Skaggs R, LW Mays, and LW Vail. 2001. "Application of Enhanced Annealing to Ground Water Remediation Design." Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37(4):867-875. 
  • Skaggs R, LW Mays, and LW Vail. 2001. "Simulated Annealing With Memory and Directional Search for Ground Water Remediation Design." Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37(4):853-866. 

2000

  • Kincaid CT, MP Bergeron, CR Cole, MD Freshley, VG Johnson, DI Kaplan, RJ Serne, GP Streile, DL Strenge, PD Thorne, LW Vail, GA Whyatt, and SK Wurstner. 2000. "Composite Analysis for Low-Level Waste Disposal in the 200 Area Plateau of the Hanford Site, Southeast Washington." In Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Recent Achievements in Environmental Fate and Transport Vol. 9; STP 1381, ed. Fred T. Price, Kevin V Brix, and Nancy K. Lane, pp. 104 - 117.  Am. Soc. For Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA. 

1999

  • Rosenberg NJ, DJ Epstein, D Wang, LW Vail, R Srinivasan, and JG Arnold. 1999. "Possible Impacts of Global Warming on Hydrology of the Ogallala Aquifer Region." Climatic Change 42(4):677-692. 

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