Wednesday, April 2, 2008: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Cotton Row (Memphis Cook Convention Center)
Ground Water in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities II
Moderators:Victor Michael Heilweil, US Geological Survey
David K. Kreamer, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
1:00 p.m.Developments in the Developing Countries Interest Group and Related Items
Michael E. Campana, PhD, Oregon State University
1:20 p.m.Hydrogeological Characterization of the Mancora Aquifer System, Northern Peru
Victor Michael Heilweil, Ph.D., US Geological Survey
1:40 p.m.Clean Water Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa - Challenges and Moving toward Solutions
David Kreamer, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
2:00 p.m.Hydrogeologic Analysis and Evaluation of Sustainable Management Alternatives in the Bengal Basin Aquifer System in the Face of Data Sparsity
Holly A. Michael, Ph.D., Stanford University and Clifford I. Voss, Ph.D., US Geological Survey
2:20 p.m.Evaluation of Riverbank Filtration as Efficient Means for Treating Water from the Zarqa River in Jordan
William Blanford, Louisiana State University and Ziad Al-Ghazawi, Jordan University of Science and Technology
2:40 p.m.Assessing the impact of water harvesting on water resources in rural India
Jennifer Oblinger and Stephen Moysey, Clemson University
3:00 p.m.Sulfur cycling and microbiology in deep, stratified cenotes (karst lakes), Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Bianca Pedersen1, Melissa Lenczewski2 and Eugene Perry2, (1)University of Wisconsin -Eau Claire, (2)Northern Illinois University
3:20 p.m.Discussion
3:40 p.m.Open

2008 Ground Water Summit