Folks, The Edwards Aquifer Authority is pleased to announce that Dr. Ralph Ewers with Ewers Water Consultants in Richmond, Kentucky will be the 9th Distinguished Lecturer in our series. He will present on Friday, September 17, 2010 at Southwest Research Institute. Dr. Ewers served as Professor of geology and hydrogeology at Eastern Kentucky University, where he is emeritus professor, and the University of Kentucky. For the past 30 years, he has engaged in consulting with 30 of his past and active graduate students. He has consulted for fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, and private citizens. His research interests include the genesis of solution conduits in karst aquifers and their implications for contaminant transport. This work was recognized by the Geological Society of America with its E. B. Burwell Award in 1986. With his graduate students he pioneered the use of digital data loggers and innovative tracing techniques in karst aquifer investigations. Dr. Ewers' research and consulting experience have taken him throughout most of eastern North America, including the Edwards Aquifer, the Canadian Northwest, the Caribbean, the British Isles, and Europe. He has studied karst aquifers that range from alpine terranes to the tropics. In 1968 The National Speleological Society elected him Fellow and awarded its certificate of merit. Dr. Ewers will present a one-day workshop on karst aquifers, discussing the means by which we can understand their characteristics, and the transport and storage of contaminants within them. Discussions will focus on:
* Karst aquifers, a few fundamental ideas * The problem of prediction- Contaminants, Models, Assumptions, and Authority * Wells, Tracers and Electronics, What can they tell us? * The behavior of floating and sinking hydrocarbons in karst aquifers * How not to diagnose contaminant problems in karst To register for the seminar, you may contact Ms. Elida Bocanegra at ebocane...@edwardsaquifer.org<mailto:ebocane...@edwardsaquifer.org>. The cost of the seminar will be $20.00 or $10.00 for students. Additional information will be posted on the Authority's web page in the near future at www.edwardsaquifer.org<http://www.edwardsaquifer.org> Thank you, Geary Schindel
