Zbigniew J. Kabala

Research Themes

Environmental Health Engineering, Hydrology & Fluid Dynamics

Education

• M.S. Poznan Polytechnic (Poland), 1980
• M.S. Princeton University, 1982
• Ph.D. Princeton University, 1988

Positions

• Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Earl I. Brown II Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. 2005
• Top 8 Most Downloaded Article. Advances in Water Resources. 2001

Courses Taught

• CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CEE 683: Groundwater Hydrology and Contaminant Transport
• CEE 301L: Fluid Mechanics

Publications

• Young AH, Kabala ZJ. Hydrodynamic Porosity: A New Perspective on Flow through Porous Media, Part II. Water (Switzerland). 2024 Aug 1;16(15).
• Young AH, Kabala ZJ. Hydrodynamic Porosity: A New Perspective on Flow through Porous Media, Part I. Water (Switzerland). 2024 Aug 1;16(15).
• Ma E, Kabala ZJ. Refereeing the Sport of Squash with a Machine Learning System. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. 2024 Mar 1;6(1):506–53.
• Cao E, Kabala ZJ. Impact of Crustacean Morphology on Metachronal Propulsion: A Numerical Study. Fluids. 2024 Jan 1;9(1).
• Young AH, Hotz N, Hawkins BT, Kabala ZJ. Inducing Deep Sweeps and Vortex Ejections on Patterned Membrane Surfaces to Mitigate Surface Fouling. Membranes. 2024 Jan;14(1):21.
• Su Y, Kabala ZJ. Public Perception of ChatGPT and Transfer Learning for Tweets Sentiment Analysis Using Wolfram Mathematica. Data. 2023 Dec 1;8(12).
• Hu AV, Kabala ZJ. Predicting and Reconstructing Aerosol–Cloud–Precipitation Interactions with Physics-Informed Neural Networks. Atmosphere. 2023 Dec 1;14(12).
• Wang AXG, Kabala ZJ. Body Morphology and Drag in Swimming: CFD Analysis of the Effects of Differences in Male and Female Body Types. Fluids. 2022 Oct 1;7(10).
• Kabala ZJ. Comment on “Tu et al., An Analytical Solution of Groundwater Flow in a Confined Aquifer With a Single Well Circulation System, Water Resources Research, First Published: 12 June 2020.”. Water Resources Research. 2021 Apr 1;57(4).
• Kahler DM, Kabala ZJ. Erratum: Acceleration of groundwater remediation by rapidly pulsed pumping: Laboratory column tests (Journal of Environmental Engineering (United States) DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001479). Journal of Environmental Engineering (United States). 2019 Mar 1;145(3).
• Kahler DM, Kabala ZJ. Acceleration of groundwater remediation by deep sweeps and vortex ejections induced by rapidly pulsed pumping. Water Resources Research. 2016 May 1;52(5):3930–40.
• Krug CT, Kabala Z. Vadose zone transport of nitrate in the sierra pelona groundwater basin, Agua Dulce, California. Proceedings of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009 - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers. 2009 Oct 26;342:1814–23.
• Raanan H, Vengosh A, Paytan A, Nishri A, Kabala Z. Quantifying saline groundwater flow into a freshwater lake using the Ra isotope quartet: A case study from the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), Israel. Limnology and Oceanography. 2009 Jan 1;54(1):119–31.
• Kabala ZJ, El-Sayegh HK, Gavin HP. Sensitivity analysis of a no-crossflow model for the transient flowmeter test. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 2002 Jan 1;16(6):399–424.
• Kabala ZJ, El-Sayegh HK. Transient flowmeter test: Simi-analytic crossflow model. Advances in Water Resources. 2002 Jan 1;25(1):103–21.
• Sutton DJ, Kabala ZJ, Francisco A, Vasudevan D. Limitations and potential of commercially available rhodamine WT as a groundwater tracer. Water Resources Research. 2001 Jun 9;37(6):1641–56.
• Kabala ZJ. Sensitiviby analysis of a pumping test on a well with wellbore storage and skin. Advances in Water Resources. 2001 May 1;24(5):483–504.
• Sutton DJ, Kabala ZJ, Vasudevan D. Rhodamine WT as a reactive tracer: Laboratory study and field consequences. IAHS-AISH Publication. 2000 Jan 1;(262):201–5.
• Sutton DJ, Kabala ZJ, Schaad DE, Ruud NC. The dipole-flow test with a tracer: A new single-borehole tracer test for aquifer characterization. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 2000 Jan 1;44(1):71–101.
• Kabala ZJ, Zlotnik VA, Zurbuchen BR. Discussion of papers. Ground Water. 2000 Jan 1;38(2):162–3.
• Alapati S, Kabala ZJ. Recovering the release history of a groundwater contaminant using a non-linear least-squares method. Hydrological Processes. 2000;14(6):1003–16.
• Ruud NC, Kabala ZJ, Molz FJ. Evaluation of flowmeter-head loss effects in the flowmeter test. Journal of Hydrology. 1999 Oct 12;224(1–2):55–63.
• Cassiani G, Kabala ZJ, Medina MA. Flowing partially penetrating well: Solution to a mixed-type boundary value problem. Advances in Water Resources. 1999 Sep 15;23(1):59–68.
• Kabala ZJ. Maximum inclination path for laminar settling of axisymmetric particles in viscous fluids. Journal of Environmental Engineering. 1999;125(1):97–101.
• Cassiani G, Kabala ZJ. Hydraulics of a partially penetrating well: Solution to a mixed-type boundary value problem via dual integral equations. Journal of Hydrology. 1998 Nov 1;211(1–4):100–11.
• Kabala ZJ, Skaggs TH. Comment on "Minimum relative entropy inversion: Theory and application to recovering the release history of a groundwater contaminant" by Allan D. Woodbury and Tadeusz J. Ulrych. Water Resources Research. 1998 Aug 1;34(8):2077–9.
• Skaggs TH, Kabala ZJ, Jury WA. Deconvolution of a nonparametric transfer function for solute transport in soils. Journal of Hydrology. 1998 Jun 25;207(3–4):170–8.
• Kabala ZJ, Sposito G, Kavvas ML, Karakas A. Technical comment on: 'On the stochastic theory of solute transport by unsteady and steady groundwater flow in heterogeneous aquifers', by M.L. Kavvas and A. Karakas (Journal of Hydrology Vol. 179 (1996) 321-351). Journal of Hydrology. 1998 Jun 5;207(1–2):136–8.
• Williams AE, Johnson JA, Lund LJ, Kabala ZJ. Spatial and temporal variations in nitrate contamination of a rural aquifer, California. Journal of Environmental Quality. 1998;27(5):1147–57.
• Skaggs TH, Kabala ZJ. Limitations in recovering the history of a groundwater contaminant plume. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 1998 Jan 1;33(3–4):347–59.
• Williams AE, Lund LJ, Johnson JA, Kabala ZJ. Natural and anthropogenic nitrate contamination of groundwater in a rural community, California. Environmental Science and Technology. 1998;32(1):32–9.
• Ruud NC, Kabala ZJ. Numerical evaluation of the flowmeter test in a layered aquifer with a skin zone. Journal of Hydrology. 1997 Dec 31;203(1–4):101–8.
• Xiang J, Kabala ZJ. Performance of the steady-state dipole flow test in layered aquifers. Hydrological Processes. 1997 Oct 15;11(12):1595–605.
• Ruud NC, Kabala ZJ. Response of a partially penetrating well in a heterogeneous aquifer: Integrated well-face flux vs. uniform well-face flux boundary conditions. Journal of Hydrology. 1997 Jul 1;194(1–4):76–94.
• Katul G, Todd P, Pataki D, Kabala ZJ, Oren R. Soil water depletion by oak trees and the influence of root water uptake on the moisture content spatial statistics. Water Resources Research. 1997 Jan 1;33(4):611–23.
• Kabala ZJ, Thorne B. Hydraulics of one- and two-dimensional flow fields in aquifers. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 1997 Jan 1;42(1):1–14.
• Kabala ZJ, Cassiani G. Well Hydraulics with the Weber-Goldstein Transforms. Transport in Porous Media. 1997 Jan 1;29(2):225–46.
• Kabala ZJ. Analytical solutions for the coefficient of variation of the volume-averaged solute concentration in heterogeneous aquifers. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics. 1997 Jan 1;11(4):331–48.
• Ruud NC, Kabala ZJ. Numerical evaluation of flowmeter test interpretation methodologies. Water Resources Research. 1996 Apr 1;32(4):845–52.
• Skaggs TH, Kabala ZJ. Recovering the History of a Groundwater Contaminant Plume: Method of Quasi‐Reversibility. Water Resources Research. 1995 Jan 1;31(11):2669–73.
• Kabala ZJ. Measuring distributions of hydraulic conductivity and specific storativity by the double flowmeter test. Water Resources Research. 1994 Jan 1;30(3):685–90.
• Skaggs TH, Kabala ZJ. Recovering the release history of a groundwater contaminant. Water Resources Research. 1994 Jan 1;30(1):71–9.
• Kabala ZJ, Sposito G. Statistical moments of reactive solute concentration in a heterogeneous aquifer. Water Resources Research. 1994 Jan 1;30(3):759–68.
• Kabala ZJ, Hunt A. A master equation for reactive solute transport in porous media. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics. 1993 Dec 1;7(4):255–68.
• Hinedi ZR, Kabala ZJ, Skaggs TH, Borchardt DB, Lee RWK, Chang AC. Probing soil and aquifer material porosity with nuclear magnetic resonance. Water Resources Research. 1993 Jan 1;29(12):3861–6.
• Kabala ZJ. The dipole flow test: A new single‐borehole test for aquifer characterization. Water Resources Research. 1993 Jan 1;29(1):99–107.
• Kabala ZJ. Well response in a leaky aquifer and computational interpretation of pumping tests. Proceedings - National Conference on Hydraulic Engineering. 1993 Jan 1;(pt 1):21–8.
• Kabala ZJ, Xiang J. Skin effect and its elimination for single-borehole aquifer tests. Finite Elements in Water Resources, Proceedings of the International Conference. 1992 Dec 1;1:467–74.
• Petrie CL, Hall AE, Kabala ZJ, Simunek J. Water Transport in an Unsaturated Medium to Roots with Differing Local Geometries. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 1992 Nov 1;56(6):1686–94.
• Kabala ZJ, Sposito G. A stochastic model of reactive solute transport with time‐varying velocity in a heterogeneous aquifer. Water Resources Research. 1991 Jan 1;27(3):341–50.
• Kabala ZJ, Milly PCD. Sensitivity Analysis of Infiltration, Exfiltration, and Drainage in Unsaturated Miller‐Similar Porous Media. Water Resources Research. 1991 Jan 1;27(10):2655–66.
• Kabala ZJ, Milly PCD. Sensitivity analysis of partial differential equations: A case for functional sensitivity. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations. 1991 Jan 1;7(2):101–12.
• Sposito G, Barry DA, Kabala ZJ. Stochastic differential equations in the theory of solute transport through inhomogeneous porous media. Advances in porous media Vol 1. 1991 Jan 1;295–309.
• Kabala ZJ, Milly PCD. Sensitivity analysis of flow in unsaturated heterogeneous porous media: Theory, numerical model, and its verification. Water Resources Research. 1990 Jan 1;26(4):593–610.
• Milly PCD, Kabala ZJ. Integrated modeling and remote sensing of soil moisture. Hydrologic applications of space technology Proc workshop, Cocoa Beach, FL, 1985. 1986 Jan 1;331–9.
• Kabala ZJ, Pinder GF, Milly PCD. Analysis of Well‐Aquifer Response to a Slug Test. Water Resources Research. 1985 Jan 1;21(9):1433–6.
• Kabala ZJ. Comment on: An exposition of the distribution function used in proving the averaging theorems for multiphase flow. Advances in Water Resources. 1984 Jan 1;7(3):144–5.