Conference overview
Explore potential solutions to groundwater problems in fractured media environments — which occur throughout the world and are among the most complex and challenging to characterize and remediate — during this conference.
Discussed will be technological advances; advanced modeling techniques; scalability tools; and regional, national, and international initiatives — all of which provide a variety of options and resources to understand the fate and transport of contaminants, and improve remedial actions and source water protection strategies.
This conference will also explore questions such as:
Conference program
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Conference highlight
presented by Kent S. Novakowski, Ph.D.
Novakowski is a professor and head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, whose research has focused on the development of characterization methods for improving the understanding of fundamental flow and transport processes in discrete fractures at the field scale. Read about his talk. Learn more about him.
Conference committee
Sponsors
For information on how you can become an exhibitor/sponsor for this event, click here to download the information sheet and form, or contact Vickie Wiles at vwiles@ngwa.org.
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On/before August 23:
NGWA member — $415Government employee (ID required)* — $415Nonmember — $565Full-time student (ID required) — NGWA member — $100 Nonmember — $150
Starting August 24:
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