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HydrogeologistThe Newsletter of the October 2003 GSA Hydrogeology Division Issue No. 59 “Don’t Miss the Boat!”... Join us in Seattle for GSA 2003 Story by Alan Fryar accepted. The number of abstracts listing hydrogeology as the primary review category (GSA’s criterion for counting abstracts by discipline) was 355, second only to the 2000 Annual Meeting. However, the number of abstracts in sessions with the Hydrogeology Division as the primary sponsor was 468, an unofficial record for us. The division was the primary sponsor for 26 topical session proposals, 20 of which actually became sessions, and co-sponsored another three proposals, one of which was successful. Seven of our sessions received enough submissions Photo courtesy of Seattle’s Convention & Visitors to warrant two or more time slots; as a result, six of Bureau these sessions will have both oral and poster presentations. In addition, we have four discipline The theme of this year’s GSA Annual Meeting (general) oral sessions and three discipline poster is “Geoscience Horizons.” If the technical program is sessions. Pre- and post-meeting activities, including the any indication, there is no end in sight for hydrogeology hydrogeology field trips (to the Cascades, and Hanford) as a vibrant discipline. For the second year in a row, a record number of abstracts (more than 3800) were Please see GSA 2003 on page 16 In This Issue: Fooled by Fill .............................................................. 15 Chair’s Corner .............................................................. 2 Hubbert Mugged ........................................................ 16 O.E. Meinzer Award to Ingebritsen ............................... 4 NGWA-GSA Collaboration ......................................... 17 Bredehoeft Awarded Distinguished Service Award ...... 5 Farvolden Scholarship Created .................................. 18 Paul Seaber Dies at Age 70 ......................................... 6 Section Representatives Report ................................. 19 2003 Annual Meeting Program Schedule ..................... 7 Shapiro -2004 Darcy Lecturer .................................... 20 Seattle Hydrogeology Division Technical Program....... 8 Bulletin Board ............................................................. 21 Student Reception Report .......................................... 12 From the Editor .......................................................... 22 Bekins - 2004 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer ....................... 13 Division Contacts........................................................ 22 Birdsall-Dreiss Fund Report ....................................... 14 EDITOR’S NOTE: A color version of this newsletter is Denver 2004 Underway ............................................. 15 available on the web at [http://gsahydrodiv.unl.edu] is suggestive of metric measures and would define with modern satellite I happened to be reading The surveys. After reading this book, I Measure of All Things by Ken Aller. looked back at Darcy’s Les It chronicles the development of the Fontaines Publiques de la Ville de metric system, first instituted in Dijon and for the first time took France in 1801, just two years before notice of the units that are used, Darcy’s birth. The metric system which are indeed metric. However, was created as a part of societal this was not necessarily to be revolution. Before the metric expected. As the metric system was system, villages each had unique imposed upon French society systems of measures with standards (including 100 minute hours, 10 affixed to the walls in public squares. hour days, 10 week months), there Bob Ritzi, Chair The preeminent scientists in French was great resistance to such GSA Hydrogeology society argued for a uniform system sweeping change and by 1811 Division of measure that would free them from (when Darcy would have been 8 this cacophony of different units and years old and not far into his Darcy & the that would free commerce from local schooling) Napoleon had rescinded controls. Not only was the metric it. It was not brought back again Chair’s Corner... Metric System system to provide a universal set of until 1837, when Darcy would have measures, but also it was to be based been well into his career. Though Greetings to the on some aspect of nature and thus the metric system was not used in membership. This year we mark pure and free of aristocratic French society during the the bicentennial of the birth of influences. The meter was to be 1/ intervening years, it was however Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy and 10,000,000 of the distance from the still used in education and in the centennial of the birth of Marion North Pole to the equator. The book building public works. I King Hubbert. We will have special tells a fascinating tale of how two corresponded with Ken Aller and he sessions commemorating each of astronomers, Delambre and assured me that the precocious them at our annual meeting in Mechain, measured the quarter Darcy, with elite appointments at Seattle, among other opportunities meridian that passes through Paris L’Ecole Polytechnique and L’Ecole this year for reflecting on the (and of the intrigue arising from the des Ponts et Chaussées, would have history of our science. fudging of scientific data by one of indeed studied in the metric system Some of my own reflections them). It strikes me as remarkable and would have used it in the public began on my flight home from that the meter which they defined works being done by the Corps des Denver after last year’s annual using 18th century instrumentation is Ponts et Chaussées. meeting. The 100-year separation within the thickness of a couple of of the births of Darcy and Hubbert sheets of paper of the meter we Please see Chair on page 3 The Hydrogeologist The Hydrogeologist is a publication of the Hydrogeology Division of the Geological Society of America. It is issued twice a year, to communicate news of interest to members of the Hydrogeology Division. During 1998, the publication moved from paper-based to electronic media. The electronic version may be accessed at: http:/ /gsahydrodiv.unl.edu. Members of the Hydrogeology Division who have electronic mail will receive notification of all new issues. Other members will continue to receive paper copies. Contributions of material are most welcome, and should be directed to the Editor. Submission as Word or WordPerfect document is most expedient. F. Edwin Harvey, Editor The Hydrogeologist Deadline, Spring Issue 113 NH Voice: (402) 472-8237 University of Nebraska Fax: (402) 472-4608 March 1, 2004 Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0517 Email: [email protected] 2 Chair from page 3 Graham Fogg for organizing a Darcy its Historical Mug Series this year to commemorative session at our commemorate Hubbert. As with past I was reflecting on Darcy’s annual meeting this year. At last mugs, the Hubbert mugs will be generation being the first to be year’s annual meeting, Patricia distributed at the annual meeting in schooled and to do the work of their Bobeck gave a talk on her project of exchange for a donation to our profession in the metric system. My translating the entire Les Fontaines Hydrogeology Student Research generation of U.S. geoscientists is Publiques de la Ville de Dijon to Fund. perhaps the first to begin their work English. At this year’s meeting she The commemorative in the metric system. Though we hopes to have complete translations sessions are just one part of an were schooled in traditional ready for sale. Following our exciting technical program for American units through grade commemoration at GSA there will be Seattle. Please see other information school, most of in Alan Fryar’s article us were within this newsletter. persuaded in One of the greatest college to do our aspects of our division calculations and as a professional eventually our “home” is indeed the thinking in the technical program we metric system. put on. Year after year On undertaking I am impressed with specific projects the diversity, the early in our depth, and the careers, we often timeliness of the started by topics among our converting data sessions. The open from older structure that we have reports into for proposing sessions metric units. facilitates Darcy must have participation by had the same members across all labor. We now ranks, from early do our work in the metric system a third commemorative session titled career to more senior members of the while our society still functions using “Porous Environments and Laws of division and by associated societies other (less practical) units, just as did Flow - Bicentenary of Henry Darcy,” like NGWA. We benefit greatly from Darcy. November 24 - 26, 2003, in Dijon, the risk that all people take in In other activities associated France, organized by GFHN. proposing a session, because it with the Darcy bicentennial, Glenn In my recent reflections on creates a diverse choice of sessions Brown’s article Henry Darcy and the Hubbert, I have greatly enjoyed to which abstracts can be submitted Making of a Law was a nice addition Kenneth Deffeyes’ book Hubbert’s and thus gives rise to a well attended to the scholarship on the history of Peak and Nari Narasimhan’s recent meeting. Darcy’s discoveries (Water editorial M. King Hubbert: A It has become somewhat Resources Research, July, 2002). Centennial Tribute (Ground Water, customary for the fall Chair’s Corner Glenn organized the “Darcy September – October 2003). The article to analyze the trend in the Memorial Symposium on the History idea to