Wellntel Is Emerging as a Powerful Tool for Groundwater Monitoring Supporting Informed Management
Monday, June 6, 2016: 2:10 p.m.
Joseph Fillingham, Ph.D.
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Wellntel Inc., Silver Spring, MD
Marian Singer, CEO
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Wellntel Inc., Milwaukee, WI
Nick Hayes, CTO
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Wellntel Inc., Milwaukee, WI
Growing and deepening groundwater information networks to improve understanding and management has always been challenged by the high cost of adding the next monitoring point. Wellntel completely changes that dynamic by introducing simple, accurate, consumer-priced groundwater level monitoring sensors and a cloud-based information system providing new insight at fractions of a cent per reading. This new system provides stakeholders such as well owners, well contractors, municipalities, and communities the ability to view graphical representations of their groundwater resource in a common access interface fostering a collaborative environment which builds understanding and new insights into groundwater change. By developing a clear baseline of groundwater dynamics, stakeholders are able to make informed and influential management decisions. Recognizing the opportunity to increase the density of data in local networks for model validation, early warning systems, and for guiding and enriching costly groundwater sampling projects, agencies, consultants, and other research organizations are adding Wellntel to their monitoring infrastructure. The utility of Wellntel for both stakeholder and research applications opens the door to new engagement between these groups, which is leading to powerful new opportunities for collaborative understanding and management. Wellntel is transforming the way groundwater monitoring can support both stakeholder management and academic research by expanding the geographic reach and temporal frequency of groundwater level measurements with a purpose-built, telemetry enabled system, and by maintaining data quality assurance and quality control using the cloud.
Joseph Fillingham, Ph.D., Wellntel Inc., Silver Spring, MD
Joseph Fillingham is the Science Lead at Wellntel Inc. where he works to improve the usefulness and power of groundwater information collected with the Wellntel system focusing on water and environmental dynamics. He also supports the Wellntel technical team in the development of new ways to sense important properties of groundwater. Fillingham received his Ph.D. in freshwater ecosystem dynamics from the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Marian Singer, CEO, Wellntel Inc., Milwaukee, WI
Marian Singer is the CEO and co-founder of Wellntel Inc. As an equal partner in the firm FiveTwelve Group, conducting research for Fortune 250 companies including GE, Schneider Electric, ITT, Bucyrus, and Johnson Controls, she spent many years studying the global water business. Most recently, her focus has been on groundwater exploration, access, contracting, financing, regulation, costs, operations, and the global and local conditions that drive its use and threaten its sustainability. Singer founded Wellntel in 2013 with co-founder Nick Hayes.
Nick Hayes, CTO, Wellntel Inc., Milwaukee, WI
Nick Hayes is the CTO and co-founder of Wellntel Inc. As an equal partner in the firm FiveTwelve Group, conducting research for Fortune 250 companies including GE, Schneider Electric, ITT, Bucyrus, and Johnson Controls, he spent many years studying the global water business. Most recently, his focus has been on groundwater exploration, access, contracting, financing, regulation, costs, operations, and the global and local conditions that drive its use and threaten its sustainability. Hayes founded Wellntel in 2013 with co-founder Marian Singer.