2017 NGWA Summit
NGWA's preeminent technical conference, the Groundwater Summit, is taking place this year alongside NGWA's leading industry event, Groundwater Week. What does that mean for you?
As a registrant of the Summit, you will not only be able to take advantage of all its "usual" offerings — hearing from distinguished lecturers, attending scores of presentations in sessions covering everything from groundwater monitoring and remediation to sustainability, participating in extended in-depth learning sessions — but you can also attend, at no extra cost, Groundwater Week activities such as the:
- Attendee Welcome Reception on Tuesday, where you can join with hundreds of fellow groundwater professionals from every sector of the industry for a relaxing early evening get-together
- NGWA award presentations that honor the best of the best taking place during the keynote session on Wednesday
- Exhibit hall, which is open for a full 12 hours over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, featuring hundreds of exhibitors displaying the latest in technological advancements, products, and services
- Hands-on activity areas in the exhibit hall on Wednesday and Thursday, where you can brush up on your current skills and/or learn new ones
- NGWA Delegates Meeting on Wednesday evening to find out who will be elected to next year's national board of directors.
For more information on the 2017 Groundwater Week, please go to groundwaterweek.com.
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Sunday, December 3, 2017
3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
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Monday, December 4, 2017
7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
7:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.-5:10 p.m.
Groundwater Modeling
William L. Cunningham and Jason R. House, CG, PG
- 10:30 a.m. WITHDRAWN - MODFLOW Validation of FEFLOW Model to Assess Sea Level Rise and Climate Change Drive Effects: Miami Beach Case Study
- 10:50 a.m. Reactive Transport Modeling: A New Paradigm in Design of In Situ Treatment Systems
- 11:10 a.m. Developing a Regional Model of the Coastal Lowlands Aquifer System—Using Uncertainty Quantification as a Guide
- 11:30 a.m. Multiple Tracer Testing Approaches for Improved Groundwater Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling Input Parameters
- 11:50 a.m. Using Machine Learning to Map Redox Conditions in the Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer System
- 12:10 p.m. Lunch (provided)
- 1:30 p.m. The Ozark Plateaus Groundwater Model: Parameter Effects on Forecast Uncertainty
- 1:50 p.m. A Devil of a Site
- 2:10 p.m. Predicting Arsenic in Drinking Water Wells in Glacial Aquifer in Western and Central Minnesota, USA
- 2:30 p.m. Groundwater Modeling for Closure of the Little Blue Run CCR Disposal Area
- 2:50 p.m. WITHDRAWN - Investigating Uncertainty of Groundwater/Surface-water Interactions in the Lower San Antonio River Basin, Texas
- 3:10 p.m. Break
- 3:30 p.m. Groundwater Modeling of a Deep Coastal Aquifer System in Tanzania Guided by Hydrocarbon Exploration Data
- 3:50 p.m. Regional Hydrostratigraphic Unit Modelling Using Directional MCP Simulation
- 4:10 p.m. WITHDRAWN - Quantifying Future Groundwater Depletion, Climate Change and Irrigation Demand
- 4:30 p.m. Groundwater and Nitrogen Modeling to Prioritize Management Strategies for Suffolk County’s Estuaries
- 4:50 p.m. Benchmarking of FEHM Control Volume Finite Element Solver
10:30 a.m.-4:50 p.m.
Groundwater Monitoring
Scott Morie, PG, CGWP, CHMM
- 10:30 a.m. Radium Mobility and the Age of Groundwater in Drinking-Water Supplies from the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer System
- 10:50 a.m. The National Groundwater Monitoring Network - A Progress Report and an Invitation to Participate
- 11:10 a.m. Evaluating Water Levels in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain using National Groundwater Monitoring Network Data
- 11:30 a.m. Gaining Insights Into Risks to Groundwater Using Big Data and Machine Learning
- 11:50 a.m. Improved Monitoring for Remediation Effectiveness with Water Quality Sondes
- 12:10 p.m. Lunch (provided)
- 1:30 p.m. Analytical Study of Groundwater Flow in a Vertical Plane at the Interface Of Permafrost
- 1:50 p.m. Implementation of a Non-Traditional Groundwater Level Monitoring Network in New Mexico
- 2:10 p.m. Tidal Influence on Remediation Sites: Understanding Predominant Gradients and Flow Inversion Effects on Mass Flux
- 2:30 p.m. Application of Environmental Tracers in the Analysis of Flow in Discontinuous Permafrost Aquifers
- 2:50 p.m. Acoustic Technology Provides New Groundwater-Level Monitoring Opportunities
- 3:10 p.m. Break
- 3:30 p.m. Arsenic Concentration Variability in Newly Constructed Drinking Water Wells in Minnesota, USA
- 3:50 p.m. Montana in the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network
- 4:10 p.m. Drilling and Installation of Deep Groundwater Monitoring Wells: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
- 4:30 p.m. A New Methodology to Reduce Cost of Groundwater Monitoring Programs
Groundwater Remediation, including Combined Remedies
Seth Kellogg, PG
- 10:30 a.m. Groundwater and PFAS: State of Knowledge and Practice
- 10:50 a.m. Groundwater Remediation System Capture Analysis: Examples from Multiple Sites
- 11:10 a.m. Impacted Groundwater to Drinking Water: Large Potable End Use Groundwater Remediation System Design & Permitting
- 11:30 a.m. Challenges of Treating PAH Compounds Down to Part Per Trillion Levels on a Remediation Site
- 11:50 a.m. Thinking Outside the Boxcar: Combined Remedies using Single Application of Multi-Functional Amendments
- 12:10 p.m. Lunch (provided)
- 1:30 p.m. Evolving Regulatory Requirements, Health Effects & Cost-Recovery/Affirmative Litigation Options for PFAS
- 1:50 p.m. A Quantitative Approach for Passive Removal of LNAPL from Groundwater
- 2:10 p.m. In Situ Bioremediation Optimization in Fractured Bedrock using 3D Visualization and Analysis
- 2:30 p.m. Heat Enhanced Hydrolysis
- 2:50 p.m. Use of Permeable Reactive Barrier to Bioremediate a Petroleum Hydrocarbon Groundwater Plume
- 3:10 p.m. Break
- 3:30 p.m. Iterative High-Resolution Site Investigation and Remediation
- 3:50 p.m. Extended Release Low Solubility Potassium Persulfate Laboratory and Field Applications
- 4:10 p.m. Development of Klozur SP with a Built in Activator: Safe Storage / Mixing and Maintaining Treatment Effectiveness
- 4:30 p.m. Remediating the Largest Superfund Site in the Country – the Main San Gabriel Basin
Groundwater and Integrated Water Management
Nat Wilson
- 10:30 a.m. Implementing SGMA – An Update on California’s Foray into Groundwater Regulation
- 10:50 a.m. Using High Resolution, High Accuracy Topography Data to Improve Water Management on the High Plains Aquifer
- 11:10 a.m. WITHDRAWN - Opportunities and Challenges for Incorporating Threshold Effects in Linked Surface/Groundwater Management
- 11:30 a.m. Accessible County Level Water Resource Fact Sheets: Experiences from Louisiana
- 11:50 a.m. Ground Water Modeling Analyses to Inform Aquifer Management Decisions in the Nebraska Panhandle
- 12:10 p.m. Lunch (provided)
- 1:30 p.m. Providing Accessibility and Usability of MODFLOW Models for Water Managers
- 1:50 p.m. Maximizing Groundwater Sustainablity in a Highly-Urbanized Southern California Groundwater Basin
- 2:10 p.m. Impact of Awareness-Raising and Citizen Pressure on US Groundwater Governance
- 2:30 p.m. Improving Groundwater Management in Myanmar through Capacity Building
- 2:50 p.m. A Southern California Water Market- Managing in a Time of Scarcity
- 3:10 p.m. Break
- 3:30 p.m. Locating and Monitoring Private Domestic Wells to Improve Public Health
- 3:50 p.m. Toxic Levels of Lead and Copper in Groundwater Can Be Caused by Stray Electrical Current
- 4:10 p.m. Disposal of Produced Water into Depleted Oil Reservoirs: Economic Use and Risk of USDW Pollution
- 4:30 p.m. Groundwater and Global Energy Security
10:30 a.m.-2:10 p.m.
Invited Hydrogeophysics Papers from SAGEEP
John Jansen, Ph.D., PG
- 10:30 a.m. WITHDRAWN - Estimating the Distribution of Hydraulic Properties Using Resistivity Models Derived from Airborne Geophysics
- 10:50 a.m. Seismic Attribute Processing to Find Deep Aquifers
- 11:10 a.m. Characterizing the Spiritwood Valley Aquifer using Helicopter Time-Domain Electromagnetics
- 11:30 a.m. Identification of the Optimal Locations for Artificial Infiltration
- 11:50 a.m. Recommended Basic Borehole Geophysics for Hydrologic Investigations in a Fractured Bedrock Aquifer
- 12:10 p.m. Lunch (provided)
- 1:30 p.m. Applied Geophysics to Create Insight and Reduce Uncertainties
- 1:50 p.m. Combined use of Transient Electromagnetics, Passive Seismic, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Methods to Characterize an Unconsolidated Aquifer on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
2:10 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Karst Hydrology
Benjamin Miller
- 2:10 p.m. Photolinears, Fractures, and Fallacies: What Can We Assume About the Structures of ASR Host Strata?
- 2:30 p.m. Evaluating Best-Practice Capacities for a Carbonate Island Karst Aquifer: Northern Guam Lens Aquifer, Guam, USA
- 2:50 p.m. Development Of A Freshwater Lens Assessment Protocol For Karst Islands
- 3:10 p.m. Break
- 3:30 p.m. Responses of Karst Springs to Precipitation Reflect Land Use, Lithology, and Climate
- 3:50 p.m. Volatilization of Trichloroethene from Groundwater in Karst, Mitigating a Human-Health Concern in a Show Cave
- 4:10 p.m. For a Better Understanding and Management of Karstic Aquifers: Characterization of the Properties of the Big Spring Karstic System (Missouri)
- 4:30 p.m. Hydrogeology of the Finegayan Basin, Northern Guam Lens Aquifer, Guam
- 4:50 p.m. Vadose Hydrology at Jinapsan Cave, Northern Guam
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
5:10 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
- Use of Monte-Carlo Analysis to Estimate Cost to Closure for Environmental Sites
- Development of a New, Direct-Push-Based, Geophysical and Geochemical Approach for Groundwater Tracer Tests
- Groundwater Impacts and a Complete Exposure Pathway: Vapor Intrusion (VI) Case Studies with Mitigation Options
- Assessment of Rainwater Harvesting Potential on Groundwater Recharge in Vellore City, India.
- Using a Groundwater Model To Analyze Depletion Mapping For The Mississippi Alluvial Plain Groundwater Project
- Exposure History Dependence of Microbial Mediated Substrate Transformation in Groundwater
- Fraction of Young Water as an Indicator of Aquifer Vulnerability Along Two Regional Flow Paths in the Memphis Aquifer
- Estimation of Spatial Distribution of Specific Yield by Using Hydraulic Tomography and Gravity Measurements
- Modeling Preferential Fluid Flow through Deep Tropical Soils
- Informatics of Water-Level Measurements for the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, USA
- An Interactive Excel Spreadsheet To Calculate Time-Varying Efficiencies for Pump-and-Treat Wells
- Surface and Downhole Geophysics for Determination of Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Migration in Faulted Dolomite
- After the Dam Comes Down: Groundwater-Stream Interactions & Water Quality of Restored and Unaltered Reaches in Ohio
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
7:00 a.m.-7:45 a.m.
7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Summit Plenary Session
Neven Kresic, Ph.D., PG, Chris Oakes, Janette Courtney and Heather Friedman
- 8:30 a.m. Introduction
- 8:35 a.m. Panel Discussion: Future of Groundwater Remediation from Client’s Perspective; Moderator Neven Kresic, Ph.D.
- 9:35 a.m. MODFLOW 6: Christian Langevin
10:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
10:40 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Groundwater Modeling Advisory Panel: Selected Current Practices in Groundwater Modeling
Charles Job and Yuliya Vanchosovych
10:40 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
Managed Aquifer Recharge
Deborah Leslie, PhD
- 10:40 a.m. 2013 Chino Basin Recharge Master Plan Implementation
- 11:00 a.m. Applying the HPT-GWS System for Evaluation of Managed Recharge in Unconsolidated Aquifers
- 11:20 a.m. On-Farm Storage Reservoir Water as a Potential Water Source in Managed Aquifer Recharge in Eastern Arkansas
- 11:40 a.m. Hexavalent Chromium Concentrations In Urban Runoff, Soil Moisture And Groundwater In The Los Angeles Basin
- 12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
10:40 a.m.-2:40 p.m.
Mississippi Alluvial Plain Groundwater Project
Michael Bradley
- 10:40 a.m. Coupling Modeling with Monitoring to Assess Water Availability in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain
- 11:00 a.m. Quantifying Water Use in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain
- 11:20 a.m. Development of Monthly Water Budget Estimates for the CONUS and Application to the Mississippi Alluvial Plain
- 11:40 a.m. Evaluation of Recharge and Evapotranspiration Estimation Methods in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain
- 12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
- 1:20 p.m. Characterizing Groundwater and Surface-Water Interaction in the Mississippi Delta Using Hydrograph Separation
- 1:40 p.m. Geophysical Surveys to Characterize Geologic Controls on Aquifer Recharge and Surface Water–Groundwater Exchange
- 2:00 p.m. Initial Assessment of Agricultural Water Management Scenarios in the Mississippi Delta
- 2:20 p.m. Using a model’s purpose to guide model updates: The case of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain aquifer
10:40 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Surface Water/Groundwater Interaction
Rory Cowie, Ph.D.
- 10:40 a.m. Hydrogeologic Evaluation of a Radial Collector Well as a Water Supply for the City of Manchester, New Hampshire
- 11:00 a.m. Wintertime Infiltration and Snowmelt Processes of Black Spruce Peatlands in the Boreal Plain
- 11:20 a.m. Impact of Hyporheic Exchange on Stream Temperature in Restored Systems
- 11:40 a.m. Understanding Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions at a Mining District Superfund Site near Silverton, CO
- 12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
- 1:20 p.m. Empirical Linear Model for Base Flow Forecast as a Function of the Rainfall Moving Average
- 1:40 p.m. Groundwater Models to Improve the Ecology of a Saline Floodplain
12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
1:20 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Availability and Sustainability
Steven D. Wilson
- 1:20 p.m. On-Site Direct Potable Reuse: A New Approach to Improving Groundwater Sustainability
- 1:40 p.m. The Private Well Conference - A National Workshop on Private Well Issues
- 2:00 p.m. The Power of Networks: Increasing the Visibility of Local Groundwater Resources
- 2:20 p.m. Unmanaged Aquifer Recharge: Revisiting Sustainable Yield in Northeast Illinois
- 2:40 p.m. Quantifying the Change in Volume of Water in the Sparta Aquifer, Northern Louisiana
1:20 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
Panel: What Lies Beneath: Preventing Groundwater Challenges From Exerting Havoc on Your Projects
Fred Rothauge, John Pitz, CPI, NGWAF and Scott Honeyfield
1:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
2:20 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
3:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
FloPy: Python Package for Creating, Running, and Post-Processing MODFLOW-Based Models
Christian D. Langevin, Ph.D. and Joseph Hughes, PhD
How to Get Your Paper Published - and then Promote Your Research
Fiona Sarne and Hendrik Haitjema, Ph.D.
Tackling Groundwater Data Challenges: Tips for Identifying, Collecting, Processing, and Analyzing Groundwater Data
Jennifer Bauer
4:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017
7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
2:50 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
4:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Thursday, December 7, 2017
7:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m.
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Direct Push Technology - As Useful as Ever...and Cost Effective Too
Bruce Manchon, PG and John Sciacca, PG
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
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