hydrogeologist News
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Sponsoring Learning at BCIT
For the second year in a row, Hoskin Scientific’s Environmental division proudly sponsored the Groundwater Sampling Demonstration for students attending the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s (BCIT) Environmental Engineering Field School. Facilitated by Matthew Munn, Principal Hydrogeologist with MDM Groundwater Consulting and part-time Instructor at BCIT, this informative, ...
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Top State Legislators Spend the Day at WRD
The Water Replenishment District hosted two of the state's rising stars in the Assembly, Assembly Member Ricardo Lara (D-South Gate) and Assembly Member Roger Hernandez (D-Baldwin Park). Both legislators had the opportunity to view key District projects throughout WRD's 420-square mile service area.Both Lara and Hernandez, who sit on the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee, touched on the ...
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Solinst Canada Announces 2011 Symposium on Enhanced Monitoring and Remedial Methods for Contaminated Groundwater
Solinst Canada Ltd., manufacturer of high quality groundwater and surface water monitoring instrumentation, is proud to announce the 2011 Symposium on Enhanced Monitoring and Remedial Methods for Contaminated Groundwater. Following the success of their 2009 and 2010 Conferences, this is the third Symposium to be held at their office, located in Georgetown, Ontario Canada. The 2011 Symposium ...
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New hires signal continued expansion of Integral`s geochemistry, hydrogeology, and mining capabilities
National science and engineering company Integral Consulting welcomes Mr. Steven Helgen, Dr. Andrew Nicholson, and Mr. Sean Kosinski to its geochemistry and hydrogeology team. With these hires, Integral further strengthens its offerings and responds to increasing demand for specialized technical expertise to support mine permitting, compliance, and closure projects. “Integral is pleased to have ...
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Geosyntec Consultants Acquires Ford Consulting Group Ltd
Geosyntec Consultants today announced it has acquired Ford Consulting Group Ltd (FCG), one of the leading contaminated land consultancies in the United Kingdom. Effective as of March 31, the firm will operate as Ford Consulting Group, a Geosyntec Company. The FCG team of 14 hydrogeologists, engineers, and environmental scientists based in Delph, U.K., with a satellite location in Dublin, ...
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WRD Hosts 7th Annual Groundwater Quality Workshop
The Water Replenishment District (WRD) today hosted its 7th Annual Groundwater Quality Workshop, featuring water quality experts from WRD and other agencies speaking on various topics of interest to engineers, water system operators and others who manage or operate public water systems. With about 100 participants from throughout WRD's service area, the workshop provided information necessary ...
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Environmental Risk Innovations, LLC Announces Key Hire – Bill McGuinness
Environmental Risk Innovations, LLC (ERI) is pleased to announce the recent hire of Bill McGuinness as a sign of the company's continued commitment to expand its environmental risk management services. Mr. McGuinness possesses over 25 years of experience in the environmental consulting field and will serve as ERI's Hydrogeologist and Environmental Risk Scientist. Prior to joining ERI, Mr. ...
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Technical Announcement: Bacteria No Match for Deep Floridan Aquifer
A first of its kind study has the potential to impact future regulatory decisions on disinfection practices for water prior to its recharge or following its storage in the Floridan Aquifer. The U.S Geological Survey report found that coliform bacteria die off faster in a regional aquifer system than was previously known, though a small percentage survives. One of the state's regulatory criteria ...
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ENR `Top 100` environmental consulting firm, Roux Associates, opens office in San Francisco
ENR 'Top 100' environmental consulting and management firm, Roux Associates, Inc., opened a new office at San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. The office focuses on specialized areas of environmental consulting in which Roux has a strong presence nationwide: environmental site assessment and remediation, particularly brownfields; litigation support/expert testimony; and insurance claim ...
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QED adds Snap Sampler to its ground water sampling range
QED Environmental Systems has added the award-winning Snap Sampler® to its range of innovative environmental products, offering customers a brand-new, efficient and highly accurate way to sample ground water. The Snap Sampler® is a passive ground water sampling system which is designed to provide users with the highest accuracy while also reducing sampling programme costs. It uses an ...
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Global Agencies Call for Urgent Action to Avoid Irreversible Groundwater Depletion
The FAO, UNESCO, World Bank, GEF and International Association of Hydrogeologists this week called for action by the global community to manage the increasingly urgent depletion and degradation of limited groundwater resources. Ahead of the 7th World Water Forum in Daegu and Gyeongbuk next week, the group proposed a set of principles governments can use for better groundwater management. The ...
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Arsenic in groundwater: A world problem
In April this year, the Netherlands National Committee of IAH released their latest publication (No.5) “Arsenic in Groundwater: A World Problem”. During the past two decades it has become apparent that arsenic poisoning from groundwater has become a worldwide problem. Some of the best-documented and most severe cases of arsenic contaminated groundwater have been found in aquifers in Asia (e.g. ...
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Brazilian Groundwater Association celebrates its 30th anniversary
ABAS, the Brazilian Groundwater Association, celebrated its XV Congress & 30th Anniversary from 11-14 November 2008 at a spectacular ocean-front venue amidst the towering sand dunes of the urban coastal park of Natal (Rio Grande do Norte) in the extreme northeast of Brazil, report Stephen Foster and Ricardo Hirata. The Congress, on the theme ‘Agua Subterranea para Hoje e Sempre’ (Groundwater ...
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Integrating groundwater science and human wellbeing
The thirty-sixth Congress of IAH has just drawn to a successful conclusion at Toyama in Japan. Some four hundred delegates, drawn more or less equally from within and outside Japan were warmly welcomed to the city by Takakazu Ishii, the Governor of Toyama Prefecture. After two days of technical sessions of presentations and posters in the excellently-appointed conference centre, the participants ...
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Investigating Groundwater, new in IAH’s book series
We are delighted to announce a new book title Investigating Groundwater by Ian Acworth, Emeritus Professor at University of New South Wales. It is the latest in IAH’s International Contributions to Hydrogeology (ICH/blue book) series. Investigating Groundwater provides an integrated approach to the challenges associated with locating groundwater. It provides a review of the wide range of ...
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Successful conference on groundwater and climate change
From 24-28 June more than 300 participants met at the Speke Hotel and Resort, Kampala to hear presentations on some of the latest science related to climate change and the potential impacts on groundwater in Africa, and to consider and debate the policy implications. Remarkably the audience and discussion panel members included several members of the Ugandan Parliament who, throughout the ...
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First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
Mars Express has revealed the first geological evidence of a system of ancient interconnected lakes that once lay deep beneath the Red Planet’s surface, five of which may contain minerals crucial to life.”Early Mars was a watery world, but as the planet’s climate changed this water retreated below the surface to form pools and groundwater” says researcher Francesco Salese. ...
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IAH-BGID Book Call 2019 – Groundwater, resilient livelihoods and equitable growth
With this book, IAH aims to provide a comprehensive evidence base for how groundwater has contributed to reducing poverty, increasing resilience to climate and environmental change and helping to develop equitable growth. Groundwater plays a fundamental, although often underestimated, role in poverty alleviation, but case studies and examples are lacking in the academic literature, particularly ...
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Enviro-Equipment, Inc. (EEI) and OxyGreen Corporation Announce Completion of an Electrolysis Cell Prototype Designed to Completely Remediate Petroleum
Enviro-Equipment, Inc, a provider of environmental monitoring instruments, and remediation rental equipment, and OxyGreen Corporation, an engineering technology company, announced today the completion of the next generation of OxyGreen Corporation’s patented oxygen generating cell prototype. Charlotte, NC and Cape Coral FL, January 05, 2011 Enviro-Equipment, Inc, a provider of ...
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Lab Testing of Bioremediation Process for Clean Up of Petroleum Contaminated Groundwater is Huge Success for Enviro-Equipment, Inc. and OxyGreen Corp.
OxyGreen Corporation, an engineering technology company and Enviro-Equipment, Inc (EEI), a provider of environmental monitoring instruments and remediation rental equipment, announced today the completion of laboratory testing of OxyGreen Corporation’s patented oxygen generating cell. Enviro-Equipment, Inc. (EEI), a provider of water quality monitoring instruments and remediation rental ...
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