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Education Ph.D., Hydrology, 1986. University of California, Berkeley M.S., Hydrology, 1981. University of California, Berkeley B.S., Petroleum Engineering, 1978. University of Tokyo Current LBNL Position Staff Scientist, Earth Sciences Division Research in the area of fracture hydrology. Field testing, numerical modeling, and theoretical development of flow and transport in fractures. Has been a principal investigator of projects concerning high-level radioactive waste isolation and environmental remediation funded by DOE and EPA. Have worked on numerous multi-institutional and multi-national cooperative projects. Developed a dedicated field site for R&D in fracture characterization and performance prediction technology. Other Activities, Awards, Interests Japan Scholarship, University of Tokyo. Jane Lewis Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. J. F. Bradley Mining Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. Invited Lecturer, New Energy and Technology Development Organization, Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan, 1990 and 1992. Invited Lecturer, Distinguished International Researcher Program, Geological Survey of Japan, 2000. Selected Publications and Presentations Karasaki, K, Long, J.C.S., and Witherspoon, P.A., A New Model for Well Test Analysis in Fracture Dominated Reservoirs, SPE Formation Evaluation, vol.3, no. 1, 1988. Karasaki, K, Long, J.C.S., and Witherspoon, P.A., Analytical Models of Slug Tests, Water Resour. Res., vol. 24, no. 1, 115-126, 1988. Karasaki, K., A Systematized Drillstem Test, Water Resour. Res., vol. 26, no.12, 2913-2919, 1990. Karasaki, K., "Fluid Flow Simulation in Fractured Reservoirs," Geothermal Energy, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp36-45, 1993. Mauldon, A.D., Karasaki, K., S.J. Martel, J.C.S. Long, M. Landsfeld, A. Mensch, and S. Vomvorus, "An Inverse Technique for Developing Models for Fluid Flow In Fracture Systems Using Simulated Annealing," Water Resour. Res, vol. 29, No. 11, pp3775-3789, 1993. Karasaki, K., Flow and Transport in Hierarchical Systems," in Proceedings, High Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, 1993. Karasaki, K., S. Segan, K. Pruess, and S. Vomvoris, "A Study of Two-Phase Flow in Fracture Networks," LBL-34706, also in the Proceedings of 5th International High Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, 1994. Karasaki, K., B. Freifeld, and C. Davison, "A Fractured Rock Characterization Study," LBL-34707, also in the Proceedings of 5th International High Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, 1994. Ijiri, Y, and Karasaki, K., "A Lagrangian-Eulerian Finite Element Method with Adaptive Gridding for Advection-Dispersion Problems," to be presented at X International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, Heidelberg, Germany, 1994. Karasaki, K., Clyde, J., Cook, P., Cohen, A., Freifeld, B., and Becker, M., ``Fracture Flow and Transport Characterization at Raymond Field Site, CA.,'' in Trans., American Geophysical Union, v. 76, n. 46, 1995. Grossenbacher, K., D. Bahat, and K. Karasaki, "TRIANGULATOR: excel spreadsheets for converting relative bearings to XYZ coordinates, with applications to scaling photographs and orienting surfaces," Computers and Geosciences, vol. 22, no. 10, pp1053-1059, 1996. Thapa, B., P. Hughett, and K. Karasaki, "Semi-Automatic Analysis of Rock Fracture Orientations from Borehole Wall Images," Geophysics, vol. 62, no. 1, pp129-137, 1997. Grossenbacher, K., K. Karasaki, and D. Bahat, "Curved Scanline Theory," Mathematical Geology, vol. 29, no. 5, 1997. Vasco, D.W., Karasaki, K., and Myer, L., "Monitoring of Fluid Injection and Soil Consolidation using Surface Tilt Measurements, v124, n1, Jour. of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 1998. Bahat, D., Grossenbacher, K., and Karasaki, K., Mechanism of exfoliation joint formation in granitic rocks, Yosemite National Park, Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 21 (1) pp. 85-96, 1999. Hestir, K. and K. Karasaki, Analytical Expressions for Permeability of Random Two-Dimensional Poisson Fracture Networks, LBNL-27625, submitted to Water Resources Research, 1999. Nakao, S., J. Najita, J., and K. Karasaki, Sensitivity Study on Hydraulic Well Testing Inversion Using Simulated Annealing, LBNL-41131, Ground Water, Vol. 37, No. 5, 736-746, September-October 1999. Karasaki, K., B. Freifeld, A. Cohen, K. Grossenbacher, P. Cook, and D. Vasco, A Multidisciplinary Fractured Rock Characterization Study at Raymond Field Site, Raymond, California, LBNL-44577, Journal of Hydrology, 236(1-2), 17-34, 2000. Shvidler, M. and K. Karasaki, Multi-Continuum Description of Flow and Transport and Splitting the Fields in Composite Heterogeneous Media, LBNL-44563, in press, Water Resour. Res., 2000. Vasco D., K. Karasaki, and C. Doughty, Using surface deformation to image reservoir dynamics, LBNL-43324, Geophysics, Vol. 65, No. 1, 132-147, 2000.
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