Conference overview
2013 NGWA Summit — The National and International Conference on Groundwater
San Antonio, Texas • April 28-May 2, 2013
Groundwater is a resource to be protected. It ignores political boundaries, transports contaminants, floods mine and construction sites, spins communities into an uproar, and can’t be found when you need it. Model, explore, characterize, bank, inject, extract, treat, and predict all your subsurface needs with everything groundwater at the 2013 NGWA Summit.
Sessions on these topics will be scheduled in San Antonio:
- Groundwater and hydraulic fracturing
- Gulf Coast groundwater issues including Texas focus
- Politics of irrigation.
Call for session proposals
A call for additional session topic proposals will open May 21, 2012. Proposals must be submitted online and are due by 11:59 p.m. ET July 31, 2012 on topics, such as, but not limited to:
- Brackish groundwater production and desalinization
- Business development in the groundwater industry
- Coal beds — from lignite to anthracite, methane to water
- Finite difference vs. finite element — numerical methods to “best fit”
- Flood, fire, and drought — impact to groundwater resources
- Geothermal systems
- Hydraulic fracturing — increasing oil, gas, potash, and water production
- International groundwater and transboundary issues
- Karst aquifer characterization and management
- Politics of groundwater — when your aquifer is in the news
- Pump and treat — after 20 Years, where are we?
- Strip mines and open pits — resource extraction and groundwater management
- International hydrogeology
- The naturals — radionuclides, arsenic, manganese, and TDS
- Theory and practice — innovations in the science
- Water banking and aquifer storage and recovery
- Field methods
- Vadose zone challenges
- Enhancing recharge with stormwater management.
The lineup of accepted session proposals will be posted in August, at which time a call for abstracts will be issued with a due date of October 22, 2012.
Bookmark this page and be sure to check back for updates on the 2013 NGWA Summit.
In the meantime, take a look at some of what took place at the 2012 Summit.
