Professional development program submissions

The National Ground Water Association is seeking professional development offerings for presentation at its 2014 NGWA® Groundwater Expo and Annual Meeting taking place December 9-12 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Submissions for workshops, panels, discussion sessions, skills demonstrations and hands-on activities, and field trips are being sought as well as abstracts for technical sessions. All should reflect practical application and technology transfer. Commercial presentations are inappropriate in any of these settings.

Workshops, panels, roundtable discussion sessions, skills demonstrations and hands-on activities will be allocated one hour for presentation time. (Fifteen minutes will then be scheduled for participants to move from one session to another at the Expo.) Presentations in technical sessions will be allocated 20 minutes each.

Descriptions should be written to address areas of broad universal appeal and must be submitted in sentence form. All workshop proposal submissions are due through NGWA's electronic submission system by 11:59 p.m. ET (8:59 p.m. PT), May 11, 2014.

Abstract submissions for the technical sessions are due through the electronic submission system by 11:59 p.m. ET (8:59 p.m. PT), June 1, 2014.

Proposals are being sought on the following topics:

• Business Management
• Drilling Operations and Well Construction
• Geothermal Operations
• Innovative Approaches
• Professional Development
• Safety/Compliance/Safe Practice
• Sustainable and Available Groundwater
• Water Quality and Treatment
• Water Systems
• Well Maintenance and Rehabilitation

Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated. NGWA reserves the right to expand, consolidate, and combine sessions or reject them. NGWA also reserves the right to limit the presentations by any one speaker at the Expo. NGWA will issue acceptance or rejection e-mails within 35 days of the submission deadline. Incomplete proposals will be returned.

Important submittal information:

• Titles must be 15 words or less and only the first letter of each word should be capitalized unless otherwise necessary.
• Descriptions should be in complete sentences (no bullets please). Each description must be 150 words or less.
• Submittals will not be accepted without complete presenter information including name, employer, complete mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, and a short bio of 100 words or less. A sample bio can be found below. Regulators will not approve an offering for continuing education without a bio.

  Example:

  Eileen Poeter, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor of geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and director of the International Ground Water Modeling Center. Before entering academia, she worked for Golder Associates and then formed Poeter Engineering in 1984. Poeter earned a B.S. in geology from Lehigh University in 1975, and an M.S. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1980 in engineering science from Washington State University. She has taught semester and short courses for 26 years. Her research focuses on parameter estimation and multimodel evaluation. She is the author of UCODE_2005, MMA, and Sim-Adjust, and was the 2006 NGWREF Darcy Lecturer.

• Each accepted presenter will be expected to sign the Speaker's Agreement listed below.