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PANEL REPORT: MODELING AND SIMULATION OF GEOLOGIC SYSTEMSFigure 20. Integrated constraint-based model of E. coli. Modeling frameworks for metabolism, regulation,transcription, and translation have been developed; connectivity between these models is shown. The model can beused to reconcile diverse “omics” data. (Reed and Palsson 2003; Copyright © 2003, the American Society forMicrobiology. All rights reserved.)Experimental investigations of the mechanisms and rates of energy/electron-transfer across themicrobe-mineral interface have been initiated. These processes can be implemented in numericalmodels to simulate biofilm dynamics in porous media coupled to extracellular geochemicalreactions such as sorption, precipitation, and redox alterations. Other microbial communityresponses such as signaling and motility can be implemented numerically as well to capture thefunctioning of the biofilm as a whole as it interacts with its pore environment. In this way,metabolic activities that take place at the cellular level can be extended via modeling to thebiofilm scale.In silico methods are being developed that allow for the incorporation of “omics” data (seeFigure 20), including genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics (Allen andPalsson 2003; Palsson 2002; Reed and Palsson 2003). The coupled in silico biogeochemicalmodel developed in this research effort will be linked with next-generation pore-scale models forhydrodynamic flow, transport, and geochemical reactions (see Figure 21). Combined withpetascale computing, it will be possible, and increasingly useful, to simulate the interactionsbetween the biotic and abiotic geochemical cycles at increasingly larger spatial scales.62 Basic Research Needs for Geosciences: Facilitating 21 st Century Energy Systems
PANEL REPORT: MODELING AND SIMULATION OF GEOLOGIC SYSTEMSFigure 21. Coupling of in silico models with biogeochemical processes (Fe(III) reductive dissolution, carbonateprecipitation, transport and sorption) at the pore scale, with upscaling to the continuum (cm to meter) scale. (Mergedfigures from Reed and Palsson 2003, copyright © 2003, the American Society for Microbiology, all rights reserved(left); Steefel et al. 2005 (middle); and Steefel 2007 (right).)CONCLUSIONUnderground storage of carbon and geologic disposal of nuclear waste involve processes on timescales of hundreds to hundreds of thousands of years, and spatial scales up to tens of kilometers.The large time and space scales involved make modeling and simulation essential tools fordesign, performance assessment, operation, and monitoring of such facilities. The complexityand multiscale nature of the physical and chemical processes that would be induced by thesesystems place demands on modeling capabilities that go far beyond the current state of the art inoil and gas reservoir engineering and groundwater hydrology.There is a need and an opportunity for developing modeling capabilities that, by establishing afundamental understanding of the response of complex geologic systems to strong anthropogenicperturbations, can provide a sound scientific basis for engineered storage and disposal facilities.The key to such understanding is representing interacting processes on the scales on which theyactually occur, using parameters derived from first principles that are appropriate for the scale onwhich they are used. Much research is needed to establish mathematical descriptions formultiscale physical and chemical processes, and to derive needed thermophysical, chemical andconstitutive properties from first principles. Numerical implementation of such multiscaleprocess descriptions for field systems constrained by diverse sets of hard and soft data willrequire revolutionary advances in scaleable algorithms to be able to take advantage of futurepetascale computing facilities. A basic science program driven by these objectives will yieldbroad technical and economic benefits for utilizing and protecting subsurface resources andunderground space.In addition, the geoscience community needs the capability to incorporate and quantify theinteractions between microbial populations and their geochemical environments in models ofnatural and perturbed geologic systems. These biogeochemical interactions may impact theevaluation of CO 2 storage, and the fate and transport of metals and radioactive elements.Basic Research Needs for Geosciences: Facilitating 21 st Century Energy Systems 63
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INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTIONWorldwide e
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REFERENCESBenner, S.G., Hansel, C.M
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