
Educational Offerings
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| Tuesday, December 4, 2007 | ||
8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. | ||
| Cargo Securement: All Tied up—and Down, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
| Fleet Safety: Preventing Common Water Well Driller Fleet Accidents, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
| How to Select the Best Activated Carbon Adsorption Systems for Your Application, Workshop, Water Quality and Treatment | ||
| Techniques for Longer Pump Life, Workshop, Water Systems | ||
8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. | ||
| Achieving Your Personal Best in the Water Systems Field, Workshop, Professional Development | ||
8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | ||
| Real-World Geothermal Heat Pump Installations, Topical Session, Geothermal Operations | ||
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | ||
| How to Sell to Difficult Customers, Workshop, Professional Development | ||
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | ||
| Borehole Geophysics Introductory Short Course, Workshop, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | ||
| Implementing a Good Risk Management Program, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
| Modern Activated Carbon Characterization Methods, Workshop, Water Quality and Treatment | ||
| Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Improving Job Efficiency by Slowing Down, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | ||
| Supervisor's Drug and Alcohol Testing Course, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | ||
| Drilling Cost Calculator, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
| Horizontal Bioventing Wells Installed for Reuse of Midwestern Downtown Brownfield, Workshop, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
| Keys to Winning State and National Legislative Campaigns, Panel, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
| Understand Your Water and Well Problems: Coliform, Slime/Iron Bacteria, Odors, and Corrosion, Workshop, Professional Development | ||
| Water Systems 101, Workshop, Water Systems | ||
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | ||
| Aquifer Protection: Technical, Policy, and Regulatory Strategies, Topical Session, Water Quality and Treatment | ||
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. | ||
| Explaining Ground Water/Surface Water Interaction to Those That Don't Understand: NGWA's Video Tool, Workshop, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | ||
| Introduction to Hydrogeology, Workshop, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | ||
| Pow! Zap! Sell! How to Sell Like a Super Hero and Close More Sales, Workshop, Professional Development | ||
| The Sustainable and Sanitary Well, Topical Session, Professional Development | ||
1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | ||
| Forklift Training for Ground Water Professionals, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | ||
| Ground Water Policy and Regional Management in Florida: A Changing World, Topical Session, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | ||
| Update on the Development of Well Construction Practice Standard, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | ||
| Louisiana's Ground Water: Securing Our Economic Future with Public Ground Water Policy, Workshop, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | ||
| Marketing Your Professional Certification, Workshop, Professional Development | ||
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | ||
| Digging Trenches and Laying Wire No More, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
| Hurricane Charley: A Lesson in Regional Cooperation, Workshop, Water Quality and Treatment | ||
| Microbial Effects of Wells and What to Do about Them, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | ||
| Nice Guys Can Put You out of Business: Complying with DOT's Driver Qualifications, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
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| Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | ||
10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | ||
| New Technology to Enhance your Career and Business Part I, Workshop | ||
10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m. | ||
| Optimizing Well Design with Borehole Logging Technologies, Topical Session, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | ||
| Applications of Dual Rotary Drilling, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
| McEllhiney Lecture: How Much Is Enough? Making Decisions in the Water Well Industry, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | ||
| Ground Water Resource Evaluation and Allocation Through Applied Numerical Modeling, Topical Session, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
| Ground Water and Competing Water Rights within Watersheds, Topical Session, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
| Soil Vapor Extraction: Understanding Physical, Chemical, Design, and Technology Limitations, Workshop, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
| Using the Environmental Remediation Drilling Safety Guideline to Enhance Industry Safe Practice, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. | ||
| Common Water Well Contractor Accidents and How to Prevent Them, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
| Progress Toward a Nationwide Ground Water Monitoring Network, Panel, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
| Pump Installation Cost Calculator, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
| Repair a Hand Pump—Save a Life, Workshop, Water Systems | ||
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | ||
| Cost-Effective Tools for Investigations and Remedial Applications: Direct-Push Technology, Workshop, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | ||
| Pump Smarter with VFDs and Pump Cards, Workshop, Water Systems | ||
| Safety Success Through Leadership, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
| The Right Stuff: Tools for Raising Public Awareness about Ground Water, Workshop, Professional Development | ||
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| Thursday, December 6, 2007 | ||
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | ||
| New Technology to Enhance your Career and Business Part II, Workshop | ||
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | ||
| Pump Installation Calculator - 2nd Offering, Workshop | ||
| Regulators Panel Discussion, Panel, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | ||
| Advances in the Water Well Industry Over the Past 20 Years, Topical Session, Drilling Operations/Well Construction | ||
1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | ||
| Geophysical Technology for Ground Water Resource Evaluation, Topical Session, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | ||
| Darcy Lecture: Getting the Information Ground Water Modelers Need: A Report from the Field, Workshop, Ground Water Availability/Sustainability | ||
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| Friday, December 7, 2007 | ||
8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. | ||
| Planning for Disaster, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
| Pump Installer Licensing: What's New on the State Level, Workshop, Safety/Regulatory/Compliance | ||
| Transportation Management Options for the Ground Water Industry, Workshop, Business Management | ||
| Water Work in Developing Countries: Tips for a Safe and Productive Trip, Workshop, Professional Development | ||
8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. | ||
| Be a Part of the Future! NGWA's Director Candidates School, Workshop, Professional Development | ||