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Newsletter of the October 2003 GSA 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 develop a session number of abstract submissions and of Hydraulics” as a part of the ASCE commemorating M. King Hubbert to make predictions of future growth. meeting earlier this summer, and has was initiated by Nari over three years The attached figure shows the an extensive web page devoted to ago, and we are glad to see it come Darcy at http:// to fruition with co-organization by Please see Abstracts on biosystems.okstate.edu/darcy/. We Alan Fryar. Accordingly, our page 6 are grateful to Vicki Kretsinger and Division has long planned to expand 3 Ingebritsen Named 2003 O.E. Meinzer Award Recipient

The 2003 O.E. Meinzer Award will be presented Meinzer Award Papers to Dr. Steven E. Ingebritsen at the Hydrogeology luncheon on Monday, November 3 at the GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle. Hayba, D.O., and Ingebritsen, S.E., 1997, Steve received a BA degree in from Multiphase flow near cooling Carleton College (1978) and MS (1983) and PhD (1986) plutons: Journal of Geophysical Research, degrees in v. 102, p. 12,235-12,252. Hydrogeology from Stanford Ingebritsen, S.E., and Jones, D.R., 1999, University. He Santa Clara Valley, California - A case of has been a member arrested subsidence in Galloway, D. L., of the USGS since Jones, D. R., and Ingebritsen, S. E., eds., 1980 and currently Land subsidence in the United States: U.S. serves as Branch Geological Survey Circular 1182, p. 15-22. Chief for the Water Resources Division research Ingebritsen, S.E., and Manning, C.E., 1999, group in the Geological implications of a permeability- western US. Steve depth curve for the continental crust: received the John Geology, v. 27, p. 1,107-1,110. Hem Excellence in Science and Steven E. Ingebritsen Ingebritsen, S.E., and Manning, C.E., 2002, Engineering Diffuse fluid flux through orogenic belts: Award from the Implications for the world ocean: NGWA in 2000 and served as the Birdsall-Dreiss Proceedings of the National Academy of Distinguished Lecturer in 2001. He and Ward Sanford Sciences, USA, v. 99, p. 9,113-9,116. are co-authors of the textbook “Groundwater in Geologic Processes” (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His research interests include volcanic and hydrothermal Ingebritsen S.E., and Sanford, W.E., 1998, systems, crustal permeability, and land subsidence. Groundwater in Geologic Processes: New The Meinzer award was established in 1965 to York, Cambridge University Press, 341 p. recognize significant contributions that an individual has made in hydrogeology or some closely related field Manning, C.E., and Ingebritsen, S.E., 1999, during the past five years. The award is given annually Permeability of the continental crust: by the Division to the author or authors of a published Implications of geothermal data and paper or body of papers of distinction that have (1) metamorphic systems: Reviews of advanced the science of hydrogeology or a closely related , v. 37, 127-150. field, and (2) was published during the five calendar years prior to the year of its selection. In addition to Dr. Ingebritsen’s outstanding contributions to hydrogeology, the 2003 O.E. Meinzer Committee, chaired by Ed Congratulations Steve from your Hydrogeology Sudicky, recommended the award be based on six of Division friends and colleagues! his more recent papers (see inset). 4 Bredehoeft to Recieve 2003 Distinguished Service Award

The award on diverse topics such as ground-water depletion, conjunctive use, artificial recharge, and nuclear waste for Distinguished storage. These contributions attest to his stature as a Service is presented leader on water resources issues of national and to John D. Bredehoeft international importance. in recognition of his This award is given in honor of Burke Maxey. outstanding service to Bredehoeft is a disciple of Burke Maxey; Maxey was the hydrogeology his advisor for both his Masters and PhD degrees at the community and of his University of Illinois. In 1995 John Bredehoeft groundbreaking established the consulting firm, The HydroDynamics contributions to the Group; he has been a consultant since then. He devoted science of the previous 32 years to public service at the U.S. hydrogeology. John Geological Survey (USGS). In the tradition of the USGS, has served the Bredehoeft held positions in both research and high level hydrogeology management. For five years in the 1970s, he managed community through a the USGS National Water Research Program. In the early diverse range of John D. Bredehoeft 1980s, he was the Regional Hydrologist, Western activities. He has Region, where he supervised the Survey’s water activities chaired the Hydrogeology Division of GSA. As editor- in the eight western states—Alaska, Arizona, California, in-chief of Ground Water, he provided visionary Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. In leadership that made Ground Water the journal of choice 1994, Bredehoeft retired as a senior research geologist not only in North America, but worldwide. He from the Water Resources Division of the USGS. contributed his expertise and wisdom to scientific Bredehoeft taught one year as a visiting professor advisory committees for the National Research Council, at the University of Illinois. He was a consulting for the national laboratories, and for various other federal professor at Stanford for 8 years, and at the University agencies. As a senior manager in the Water Resources of California—Santa Cruz, and San Francisco State Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, he implemented University for several years. He served on numerous far-sighted decisions to hire new talents and to increase national advisory committees for the National Research the amount of scientific research. He mentored many Council, the National Science Foundation, and the graduate students who have gone on to become leaders Department of Energy. in the field of hydrogeology. He received numerous awards, among them: John and his co-authors published numerous member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering; papers that are widely recognized as seminal Editor of Ground Water (1991-95); the Horton Award contributions to the science. His quantitative analyses and the Horton Medal of the American Geophysical of fluid flow established the crucial role of fluids in Union; the Meinzer Award and the Penrose Medal of geologic processes such as sediment compaction, GSA; life-member of the National Ground Water earthquake, tectonism, and heat flow. His studies of Association; foreign associate of the Russian Academy regional flow in sedimentary basins showed the of Natural Sciences. importance of confining layers in the development of For his tireless effort to serve the community and anomalous fluid pressure. He was a pioneer in computer his extraordinary achievements in advancing the science, modeling; the fact that groundwater modeling is now an the Hydrogeology Division presents John Bredehoeft everyday tool owes a great deal to John’s advocacy. His with the Distinguished Service Award for 2003. work to couple economic management models with groundwater models was another pioneering contribution Congratulations John from your Hydrogeology that crossed traditional discipline boundaries. John wrote Division friends and colleagues! 5 Abstracts from page 3 had a trend of about 20 abstracts to join with us and make a added per year. contribution. In other division number of abstracts per meeting over In the spring Chair’s Corner business, the proposed amendments the last 13 years. GSA counts the I discussed a number of financial to our bylaws were approved by our number of abstracts that designate issues and the ways our Management division membership by a vote of hydrogeology as the primary Board proposed to address them. 160 yes, 2 no, and 17 abstentions. discipline and those numbers are Council has approved the proposed In closing, I hope the division plotted with squares for each year. (small) increase in our division dues. is serving you well this year. Please Our TPC Chairs handle a greater The list of our members who have feel free to communicate with me. number of abstracts because our contributed to the Birdsall-Dreiss I’m looking forward to seeing you sessions attract other abstracts as campaign has grown over the in Seattle. well. I have plotted those numbers summer months. Thanks to all those with circles for the three years that I who have contributed (please see Best Regards, have them. However, I do not offer related information within this Bob Ritzi, Chair predictions. I will only say that a newsletter). We are still short of our Hydrogeology Division linear regression, which I have goals. If you have not yet superimposed, suggests that we have participated, we are counting on you

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Paul Seaber Passes Away

Contributed by Joe Rosenshein & Bill Back, Paul’s colleagues, co-editors, and friends

Paul Seaber died on August 21, 2003 at the age Research when Iraqi forces invaded the country, and he of seventy. Paul spent his entire professional career in was trapped in Kuwait during the early part of the Gulf hydrogeology. He began his career with the U.S. War. Paul was consistently very active in the affairs of Geological Survey in 1955 and worked there until his the Hydrogeology Division of GSA. Over the years, he retirement in 1986. He held numerous assignments that served on the Management Board as well as a number took him domestically from Alaska to New Jersey and of committees. His tenure as Chair of the Hydrogeology Reston to Florida and internationally from Pakistan to Division was briefly interrupted, but upon escape from Oman. He published numerous notable USGS reports Kuwait he resumed his responsibilities. He also played and co-edited the GSA’s Geology of North America a principal role in revising the bylaws of the Division. Volume on Hydrogeology along with us. After retirement Paul was recipient of the Division’s Distinguished from the USGS, he worked for the Illinois State Service Award in 1993. Paul was a bright individual, a Geological Survey, the Kuwait government, and the fountain of ideas – sometimes controversial – and, as is Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas. Paul was Senior typical of hydrogeologists, an outspoken scientist. The Hydrologist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific profession will miss his presence.

6 2003 GSA Annual Meeting Program Schedule Hydrogeology Division Saturday Sunday Monday Tusday Wednesday November 1 November 2 November 3 November 4 November 5 8:00 a.m. - noon 8:00 a.m. - noon 8:00 a.m. - noon8:00 a.m. - noon 8:00 a.m. - noon

K-16 Workshops Technical Sessions Technical Sessions Technical Sessions Technical Sessions 8:00 am - 5:00 pm 8:00 am - 12:00 pm 8:00 am - 12:00 pm 8:00 am - 12:00 pm 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Exhibits Open Exhibits Open Exhibits Open 9:00 am - 5:30 pm 9:00 am - 5:30 pm 9 am - 5:30 pm

Hydrogeology Hydrogeology Division Division Management Board Management Board Meeting Meeting 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (208 WSCTC) (208 WSCTC)

Luncheons: Hydrogeology Division Luncheon, Awards, Business Meeting noon - 3:00 pm (Metropolitan Ballroom, Sheraton) 1:30 - 5:30 p.m 1:30 - 5:30 p.m 1:30 - 5:30 p.m 1:30 - 5:30 p.m 1:30 - 5:30 p.m

Technical Sessions Technical Sessions Technical Sessions Technical Sessions 1:00 - 3:30 pm 1:30 - 5:30 pm 1:30 - 5:30 pm 1:30 - 5:30 pm

Hydrogeology Division Luncheon, Awards, Business Meeting noon - 3:00 pm (Metropolitan Ballroom, Sheraton)

Birdsall-Dreiss NGWA Darcy Presidential Address Distinguished Distinguished & Awards Ceremony Lecture Lecture 4:00 - 6:00 pm 4:30 - 5:30 pm 4:00 - 5:00 pm (602/603/604 (602/603/604 WSCTC) WSCTC)

Welcoming Party & Alumni Night: GSA Annual Exhibit Hall Opening Group Alumni Party Meeting Ends at 6:00 - 8:30 pm 5:30 - 7:30 pm 5:30 pm Receptions: Hydrogeology Division Student Reception 5:30 - 7:00 pm (605/610 WSCTC)

7 Hydrogeology Division Sponsored Technical Program Schedule for the 2003 Seattle Meeting

Syession Title Dea Tmim Roo 8:00 AM - QUuaternary Geology/Geomorphology I: Streams and Slopes S 618-620 12:00 PM T4. Mathematical Modeling of Earth Surface Processes: The 8:00 AM - SU 4C-3 Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 12:00 PM T15. Characterizing Complexity in Geomechanics, Engineering 8:00 AM - SU 3B Geology, and Hydrogeology 12:00 PM T54. Geochemical Modeling of Arsenic Speciation, 8:00 AM - SU 609 Transformation, and Reactive Transport in Groundwater 12:00 PM T62. Flow and Biogeochemical Processes at the Interface 8:00 AM - SU 608 Between Surface Water and Groundwater 12:00 PM T66. Karst and Geomorphology in North America Over 8:00 AM - SU 607 the Past Half Century I: In Honor of Derek Ford and William White 12:00 PM T70. Heterogeneity in Sedimentary : Challenges for 8:00 AM - SU 606 Characterization and Flow Modeling 12:00 PM T102. Geological Mapping: Key to Successful Management of 8:00 AM - SU Hall 4-F Water and Land Resources (Posters) 12:00 PM T103. Comprehensive Landscape Analysis - A Predictive Tool for 8:00 AM - SU 602-604 Mapping Surficial Deposits and Their Environmental Attributes 12:00 PM Geochemistry, Aqueous I: Low Temperature Processes and 1:00 PM - SU 307/308 Mechanisms 3:45 PM T56. Recent Advances in Outcrop- Analog Studies: Insights 1:00 PM - SU 607 from Geophysical, Geostatistical, and Modeling Techniques 3:45 PM 1:00 PM - TU67. Hydrogeologic Analysis of Glaciated Terrains S 608 3:45 PM 1:00 PM - TU116 Sabkha Environments, Recent Insights S 602-604 3:45 PM 8:00 AM - EOnvironmental Geoscience (Posters) I M Hall 4-F 12:00 PM 8:00 AM - GOeochemistry, Other I: From Hydrothermal Fluids to Hot Rocks M 204 12:00 PM Geomicrobiology: Microbes, Minerals, and the Natural 8:00 AM - MO Hall 4-F Environment II (Posters) 12:00 PM 8:00 AM - HOydrogeology I: Hydrology and Water Resources M 613/614 12:00 PM 8 Syession Title Dea Tmim Roo T51. M. King Hubbert at 100: The Enduring Contributions of 8:00 AM - MO 602-604 Twentieth-Century Geology's Renaissance Man 12:00 PM T55. Groundwater and Watershed Analysis Across Political 8:00 AM - MO 609 Boundaries 12:00 PM T61. Springs: Interactions of Physical, Chemical, Biological, and 8:00 AM - MO 606 Cultural Systems 12:00 PM 8:00 AM - TO65. Evolution and Migration of Brines in Sedimentary Basins M 608 12:00 PM 1:30 PM - EOnvironmental Geoscience (Posters) II M Hall 4-F 5:30 PM 1:30 PM - GOeochemistry, Aqueous (Posters) M Hall 4-F 5:30 PM Geomicrobiology: Microbes, Minerals, and the Natural 1:30 PM - MO 3A Environment I 5:30 PM 1:30 PM - HOydrogeology II: Physical Hydrogeology M 602-604 5:30 PM 1:30 PM - TO19. Biogeochemical and Physical Processes in Mine Pit Lakes M 3B 5:30 PM T66. Karst Hydrology and Geomorphology in North America Over 1:30 PM - MO 607 the Past Half Century II: In Honor of Derek Ford and William White 5:30 PM 8:00 AM - EUnvironmental Geoscience I T 3A 12:00 PM 8:00 AM - HUydrogeology (Posters) I: Hydrology T Hall 4-F 12:00 PM T9. The Proposed Deep Geologic Repository for High-Level 8:00 AM - Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada: Attributes of the TU 307/308 12:00 PM Natural System I T59. Pharmaceuticals and Emerging Organic Contaminants in the 8:00 AM - Hydrologic Environment: Progressing from Occurrence to Fate TU 609 12:00 PM and Effects T60. Transport and Remediation of Organic Compounts in the 8:00 AM - TU 606 Saturated Zone 12:00 PM T61. Springs: Interactions of Physical, Chemical, Biological and 8:00 AM - TU Hall 4-F Cultural Systems (Posters) 12:00 PM T62. Flow and Biogeochemical Processes at the Interface 8:00 AM - TU Hall 4-F Between Surface Water and Groundwater (Posters) 12:00 PM T63. Exploring the Linkages Between the Geochemistry, Biology, 8:00 AM - TU Hall 4-F and Hydrology of the Hyporheic Zone (Posters) 12:00 PM

9 Syession Title Dea Tmim Roo T64. How Subsurface Properties Determine Microbial Habitats: 8:00 AM - The Role of Groundwater Flow and Subsurface Chemistry in TU 602-604 12:00 PM Supplying Energy and Nutrients to the Subsurface Biosphere T50. Henry Darcy's 200th Birthday: Fundamental Advancements 1:00 PM - TU 602-604 Through Observation and Analysis 5:30 PM 1:30 PM - EUnvironmental Geoscience (Posters) III T Hall 4-F 5:30 PM 1:30 PM - GUeochemistry, Other II: A Geochemical Potpourri T 204 5:30 PM 1:30 PM - HUydrogeology III: Mass Transport and Hydrogeochemistry T 608 5:30 PM Tl9. The Proposed Deep Geologic Repository for High-Leve 1:30 PM - Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada: Attributes of the TU 307/308 5:30 PM Natural System II T58. Saturated and Vadose Zone Hydrogeology, Environmental 1:30 PM - Geology, and Biogeochemistry of the Department of Energy TU Hall 4-F 5:30 PM Hanford Site in Southeastern Washington State (Posters) T66. Karst Hydrology and Geomorphology in North America Over 1:30 PM - the Past Half Century (Posters): In Honor of Derek Ford and TU Hall 4-F 5:30 PM William White 8:00 AM - EEnvironmental Geoscience II W 3B 12:00 PM 8:00 AM - HEydrogeology IV: Western U.S. Hydrogeology W 607 12:00 PM T52. Twenty Years of Exploration and Innovation in Quantitative 8:00 AM - WE 606 Hydrogeology: In Honor of Ed Sudicky I 12:00 PM T53. Watershed-Based Research and Education: The State of the 8:00 AM - WE 608 Science 12:00 PM T58. Saturated and Vadose Zone Hydrogeology, Environmental 8:00 AM - Geology, and Biogeochemistry of the Department of Energy WE 609 12:00 PM Hanford Site in Southeastern Washington State Geochemistry, Aqueous II: Geochemistry of Water, Sediment, and 1:30 PM - WE 3A Soils 5:30 PM 1:30 PM - HEydrogeology (Posters) II: Physical Hydrogeology W Hall 4-F 5:30 PM Hydrogeology (Posters) III: Mass Transport and 1:30 PM - WE Hall 4-F Hydrogeochemistry 5:30 PM

10 Syession Title Dea Tmim Roo T52. Twenty Years of Exploration and Innovation in Quantitative 1:30 PM - WE 606 Hydrogeology: In Honor of Ed Sudicky II 5:30 PM T53. Watershed-Based Research and Education: The State of the 1:30 PM - WE Hall 4-F Science (Posters) 5:30 PM T72. A Century of Hydrogeologic Investigations and Groundwater 1:30 PM - WE 607 Modeling in the Great Basin: What Have We Learned? 5:30 PM T100. Wetland Science: Intersection of Hydrogeology, 1:30 PM - WE 609 Geomorphology, Ecology, and Computer Modeling 5:30 PM Hydrogeology Division Sponsored Short Course

Syhort Course Dea Tmim Roo 1. Applications of Environmental Isotopes for Tracing 8:00 AM - Convention SA Anthropogenic Contaminants in and Surface Waters 5:00 PM Center Hydrogeology Division Sponsored Field Trips

Mount Rainier (Photo by Steve Ingebritsen)

Fyield Trips Da 18. Geohydrology of the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in the South-Central WE-FR, Nov 5-7 Columbia Plateau 20. Hydrogeology of Cascade Range Volcanoes: Mount St. Helens, Mount TH-SA, Nov 6-8 Hood, and Central Oregon 11 Student Reception Is a Very Popular GSA Event

Story by Jean Bahr & Bill Simpkins

The Hydrogeology Division Student Reception at the Annual Meeting in Denver continued the successful tradition of past years with over 100 students and a large number of professional members attending. Students and professionals were engaged in lively conversation throughout the event. Thanks to the generosity of a variety of publishers, software developers and distributors, and individuals, there were 108 prizes available for distribution during the raffle. This meant that each of the student attendees, with the exception of a few who arrived near the end of the reception and a few who left before their raffle numbers were called, went home with a prize. The raffle was coordinated by Past Chair Jean, Jean...the prize machine? (Photy by Ed Harvey). Jean Bahr, with able assistance during the event from Ken Belitz, USGS San Diego, as well as Management Board members and volunteers who handed out the raffle and drink tickets Please see Reception on page 13 at the door. A summary of donors and prizes is listed in the inset of this article on page 13.

“Hey You! Over Here!”... Have a new research idea to try out on a captive audience? Want to get everyone working on your particular research topic in one room and go “nose to nose” with them? Like to visit magnificent geologic locales? If your answer is yes to all three questions, then the Division needs your ideas for a Penrose Conference. We have not sponsored one since 1994. Contact your Division officers about their experiences with past Penrose Conferences. The Penrose Conferences, named in honor of R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., a benefactor of the Geological Society of America, were established in l969 by the Society as a further step in its service to the science of geology. The conferences provide the opportunity for exchange of current information and exciting ideas pertaining to the science of geology and related fields. They are intended to stimulate and enhance individual and collaborative research and to accelerate the advance of the science by the interactions and development of new ideas.

For Guidelines Contact GSA Headquarters via e-mail at: [email protected] or by phone or fax at: (303) 357-1034 • fax 303-357-1070

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This year’s Past Chair, Bill Simpkins, plans to Allen-King. Professionals - please come and introduce continue the festive tone of the event at the Seattle yourselves to the next generation of hydrogeologists. GSA 2002 Student Reception Prize List Donor Prize

Environmental Simulations Inc. Groundwater Vistas and Aquifer Win32 software (3 copies each) Environmental Modeling Systems Inc. GMS software (2 1-year licenses) Haitjema Software GFLOW software (3 copies) Rockworks Rockware software (1 copy) Int. Ground Water Modeling Center/USDA Stanmod, Hydrus 1D and Hydrus 2D software (1 copy each) Natl. Research Council/Natl. Acad. Press Books Prentice Hall Books Steve Ingebritsen/USGS Books Academic Press, an Elsevier Sci. Imprint Books John Wiley & Sons Books McGraw Hill Books National Ground Water Association Books Cambridge University Press Books SEMP Books Jim Butler/Kansas Geol. Survey Books GSA Fleece vests GSA Sets of Hydrogeology Journal Kristina Clebsch/estate of Alfred Clebsch Darcy and Theis mugs Hydrogeology Division members Mugs meeting and even promises a few surprises. Students - Encourage the students to become active members of get the word out that this is the place to be on Tuesday the Division at the beginning of their professional career. afternoon following the Darcy Lecture by Dr. Richelle

Bekins Named 2004 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer

Barbara Bekins of the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been selected as the 2004 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, sponsored by the GSA Hydrogeology Division and funded by the GSA Foundation. Bekins will present either, or both of the lectures: (1) Hydrogeology and the Weak Nature of Plate Boundary Faults, or (2) The Influence of Hydrogeology on 25 Years of Natural Attenuation at a Crude Oil Spill Site. Abstracts of these talks were published in the August, 2003, issue of GSA Today. To request a visit to your institution, contact Barbara Bekins, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, 650-329-4691, [email protected]. The division will pay transportation expenses and the host institution will provide local accommodations. 13 The Birdsall-Driess Lectureship Fund Needs You

Story by Robert Ritzi

As discussed in the spring newsletter, we need amount are appreciated and can be made through the GSA Foundation at: https://rock.geosociety.org/donate/ to improve the travel budget for the Birdsall-Dreiss donate.asp or by calling Joan Bell, GSA Foundation, Distinguished Lectureship. To do so, we have launched (303) 357-1067. a fundraising campaign. The goal of the campaign is to When making a contribution, please clarify that increase the principal invested in the interest-bearing you are contributing to the Birdsall-Dreiss Lectureship accounts which support the lectureship (the Birdsall and Funds. In reality there are two separate accounts (the the Dreiss Funds within the GSA Foundation). Your Birdsall Fund and the Dreiss Fund), but in practice they tax-deductible contribution to the B-D Funds will help are treated as one. They are listed separately on the to increase the interest income and will support the Foundation’s web page pull-down menu, but not in lectureship in-perpetuity. Our deep appreciation goes alphabetical order so you may have to hunt a bit for them. to those individuals who have responded (see inset box You may make your full pledge to one or the other of below). these funds, or split it between them. Any of these If you have not yet contributed, please join with approaches will have the identical, positive effect in us and share in the sense of pride for having helped to supporting the lectureship. Thank you for your support! bolster one of the assets of the Division, our “professional home.” In the spring newsletter we suggested pledges of $25/year over the next four years. Pledges in any

Contributions to the B-D Campaign So Far This Year

Mary P. Anderson Graham E. Fogg John J. Quinn Mary J. Baedecker Alan E. Fryar Peter E. Riemersma Jean M. Bahr Jeffrey S. Hanor Robert W. Ritzi Barbara A. Bekins F. Edwin Harvey David B. Rogers Philip C. Bennett Janet S. Herman Ira Daniel Sasowsky Kevin M. Bohacs Beverly L. Herzog Madeline E. Schreiber John Van Brahana John W. Hess Donald I. Siegel Michael E. Campana Steven E. Ingebritsen Abraham E. Springer Anne E. Carey Miriam Kastner Robert J. Sterrett Richard L. Cooley Leonard F. Konikow Mary Wilder Stoertz Claire B. Davidson Larry D. McKay Michael R. Talbot George H. Davis Judith A. McKenzie Stephen J. Urbanik J. Matthew Davis Fred John Molz Carol M. Wicks Ralph K. Davis Shlomo P. Neuman John L. Wilson Carolyn S. DeVine Christopher E. Neuzil Paul A. Witherspoon Joseph J. Donovan Darrell Kirk Nordstrom William W. Woessner Timothy T. Eaton Stavros S. Papadopulos Warren W. Wood Grover H. Emrich Darryll T. Pederson Chunmiao Zheng Steven P. Esling Fred M. Phillips Vitaly A. Zlotnik Robert H. Fakundiny

14 Denver 2004 GSA Annual Meeting Plans Underway

Story by Jim Hendry

The start of our annual cycle 1034, [email protected]). The deadline for field trip to prepare for next years Geological proposals was October 01. Field trip co-chairs may, Society of America Annual Meeting however, still be taking proposals (contact Eric Erslev is now underway. The meeting will at [email protected] or Eric Nelson at take place in Denver Colorado from [email protected]). November 7-10, 2004. We need your assistance to ensure that this program will be a successful one. If you have any ideas for Pardee Keynote symposia or topical sessions, please contact me, Jim Hendry (306-966-5720, [email protected]). Topical session proposal forms will be available at www.geosociety.org from November 01 until January 15 (see GSA Today or contact me at [email protected] for details). Proposals must be submitted electronically and are due by midnight, Eastern Standard Time, January 15. Short course proposal information will appear in the November issue of GSA Today. Proposals must be received by January 01. Selection of Denver Pavilions - a two-square block entertainment courses for 2004 will be made by March complex in the heart of Denver. Photo by Randy Brown. 01. For proposal guidelines or information, Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau. contact Edna Collis (1-800-472-1988, ext.

Don’t Be Fooled By “Fill” on top of that waste, having to resort to the use of intermediate pile foundations because of its character. Story by Allen W. Hatheway Seasonally-high ground water occurs at about 4-5 feet below present grade. Here is another example of land This is my 42nd year of practice in Engineering euphemistically referred to as “fill,” when, in fact, the Geology and last year I did one of my “Perspectives” material is all or largely toxic or hazardous material. It columns in the AEG “News” on ‘“Fill” vs. “Dump:” Both has been my finding that most (if not all) former are Four-Lettered Words’ v. 44, no. 6, Dec. 2001, p. 29- industrial properties had at least one plant dump and that 30. My own advice came to roost this week on a case in nearly all cases; this was either unreported or on the Florida Atlantic coast in which a prime piece of previously declared as “fill.” It’s time for us to be land, bought for redevelopment, has been encumbered doubly-wise as to the environmental-hydrogeologic by the presence of manufactured gas plant wastes impacts of “fill.” dumped across its extent. Our explorations have shown that the dumping is time contemporaneous with A. W. Hatheway is a retired Professor of Geological termination of gas manufacturing at the nearest gas works Engineering, Rolla, Missouri & Big Arm, Montana and that the previous land owner built a factory building ([email protected]) 15 GSA 2003 from page 1 Abdulrahman Alsharhan Larry Mastin Barbara Bekins John McCray Wayne Belcher Brian McGlynn and the short course on environmental isotopic tracers, Phillip Bennett Andrew Muller also promise to be worthwhile. Thomas Boving Christopher Murray Our program includes a rich diversity of topics Kenneth Bradbury T.N. Narasimhan (as listed on p. x) and participants. One common theme Tom Bullen Rachel O’Brien is that of legacies, with topical sessions recognizing the Toby Dogwiler Eric Peterson th th 200 birthday of Henry Darcy, the 100 birthday of King Timothy Eaton John Quinn Hubbert, and the careers of Ed Sudicky, Derek Ford, Karl Fecht Steve Reidel and Will White. Another common theme is interfaces, Graham Fogg Donald Rosenberry both between subsurface and surface processes and Robert Ford Benjamin Rostron between hydrogeology and other disciplines, such as Edward Furlong Dave Rudolph geochemistry and biology. The disparity between the Roy Gephart Timothy Scheibe number of abstracts listing hydrogeology as the primary Stephen Gingerich Richard Sojda review category and the total number of abstracts in our Russell Harmon Frank Spane sessions appears to be a measure of how interdisciplinary Masaki Hayashi Abe Springer our offerings are becoming. Jim Hendry Susan Swanson Several changes in programming are noteworthy. Barry Hibbs Donald Sweetkind This year, for the first time, the National Ground Water Steve Ingebritsen Andy Ward Association’s Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture will Terry Keith Stephen Wheatcraft be presented at the GSA Annual Meeting, as the closing Carol Kendall Carol Wicks presentation in the Darcy topical session on Tuesday Peter Kolesar Alicia Wilson afternoon. The Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture Dana Kolpin Christopher Woltemade will be the closing presentation in the oral discipline Vicki Kretsinger Grabert Warren Wood session on Monday afternoon, but will still occur after Michael Manga Chen Zhu the division awards ceremony. All of the hydrogeology oral sessions will be scheduled on the same floor (6th) of the convention center. As always, the technical program would not be Hubbert Mugged in Seattle! a success without the dedicated efforts of many people. (but for a good cause) These begin with the topical session conveners and co- Story by Alan Fryar conveners, the field-trip organizers, and the short course instructors, who are listed on p. x. Jim Hendry, the On the centenary of M. division’s technical program co-chair (and next year’s King Hubbert’s birth, the chair), oversaw the organization of 10 topical sessions Hydrogeology Division will be and arranged the discipline poster sessions. Dave Bush, offering a handsome ceramic mug the Joint Technical Program Committee chair, and Nancy with Hubbert’s image in Carlson, GSA’s Technical Program Officer, were appreciation of donations to the amazingly helpful in accommodating last-minute Division’s student research fund. requests for program changes. As Division Chair, Bob This Hubbert mug is the eighth of a series honoring Ritzi was proactive in making sure that planning for this eminent hydrogeologists and the first new mug in three year’s program stayed on track. Finally, thanks go to years. Only 144 Hubbert mugs will be made. They can everyone who submitted an abstract. See you in Seattle! be obtained at the Division luncheon and business The Hydrogeology Division thanks everyone (see inset meeting in Seattle on Monday, November 3. An average on right) who is convening or co-convening a topical donation of $25.00 will generate more than $3,000 for session, organizing a field trip, or teaching a short course student research. Don’t miss this opportunity to help the at the 2003 Annual Meeting. Division strengthen a wonderful program that benefits future hydrogeologists across North America! 16 NGWA and GSA - Communication, Collaboration & Cooperation in Action

Story By Vicki Kretsinger AGWSE Division Secretary/Treasurer

The National Ground Water Association (NGWA), an Associated Society of GSA, are renowned for their contributions to ground water is pleased to be an active science and engineering. NGWA has recognized their participant at this year’s lasting contributions through NGWA’s award of high Annual GSA Meeting. scientific esteem, the M. King Hubbert award, that NGWA’s participation in this honors individuals who have contributed to ground water year’s meeting is one example science with the same revolutionary spirit as M. King of the mutual benefit to the Hubbert, and annual selection of a Distinguished Darcy collective members of NGWA Lecturer. The Distinguished Darcy Lecturer is sponsored and the Hydrogeology Division of GSA, many of whom through funding provided by the National Ground Water share a dual membership because of their support of the Educational Foundation and travels during their year- common goals and objectives of these organizations. long lecture circuit to educate students, faculty, and other One of the broad benefits of recognizing the cooperative ground water professionals across the globe. Through arrangement through the formal designation of the enthusiasm and dedication of 17 Darcy Lecturers Associated Societies is to highlight the strength and value

“Ultimately, geoscience organizations working together holds long-term value by more effectively promoting the geosciences and geoscience education, collaborating to expand programs for the exchange and dissemination of scientific information and new developments, providing science-based review and input on policy and regulatory issues pertaining to the geosciences, and promoting goodwill between scientists worldwide.” that can be derived by linking the focus and character of since the inception of this distinguished lectureship in varied geoscience-oriented organizations. Ultimately, 1986, the Lecturers have reached out to over 50,000 geoscience organizations working together holds long- individuals. term value by more effectively promoting the Through the forethought and suggestion of Alan geosciences and geoscience education, collaborating to Fryar, and agreement and follow through by NGWA staff expand programs for the exchange and dissemination of to coordinate a new addition to this year’s GSA Annual scientific information and new developments, providing Meeting, the Distinguished Darcy Lecturer for 2003, science-based review and input on policy and regulatory Richelle Allen-King, will speak immediately following issues pertaining to the geosciences, and promoting the Darcy topical session on Tuesday afternoon goodwill between scientists worldwide. November 4. It is particularly fitting that NGWA is co- Until this fall, Richelle was an Associate Professor sponsoring, along with the Hydrogeology Division and at Washington State University; she has recently taken a others, two commemorative topical sessions at the 2003 position at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Annual GSA Meeting, one to celebrate Henry Darcy’s At this year’s GSA Annual Meeting, Richelle will present 200th Birthday and the other celebrating the 100th “A Hydrogeochemist’s Perspective on Organic Birthday of M. King Hubbert. Both Darcy and Hubbert Contaminant Transport in Groundwater.” 17 Richelle’s talk will describe the sediment encouragement by Warren Wood to explore a like geochemical (and physical) heterogeneity that can cause arrangement for the Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer to present “nonideal” contaminant transport. Richelle has framed at the NGWA/AGWSE Annual Meeting and Conference, problem by using the contrasting transport behavior of active communications and collaboration between the perchloroethene (PCE) in two Hydrogeology Division of GSA and NGWA successfully natural gradient field mark 2003 as the kickoff of both distinguished lecturers experiments conducted near speaking at both Annual Meetings. On December 12, one another in the well- 2003, incoming 2004 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer, Barbara studied Borden aquifer. Study Bekins, will provide her lecture at the NGWA/AGWSE findings show: “The PCE Annual Meeting and Conference on “Ground Water in retardation factor increased Coastal Zones: Availability, Sustainability and Protection”. from ~ 3 to 6 with time/ Barbara will speak on “The Influence of Hydrogeology distance of travel in the on 25 Years of Natural Attenuation at a Crude Oil Spill Stanford-Waterloo Site.” experiment (conducted in the NGWA’s co-sponsorship of the M. King Hubbert and early 1980s by others) while Darcy sessions includes not only support and promotion it was uniform and <2 in the Richelle Allen-King of these two celebratory sessions, including partial travel subsequently conducted support for Professor Ghislain de Marsily of the Emplaced Source experiment. Laboratory measurements University of Paris for his participation in the Darcy show that contaminant sorption is nonlinear and session. Other co-sponsors of one or both of these competitive, indicating grain scale chemical sessions include: the GSA Hydrogeology Division, the heterogeneity. Retardation factor (R) predictions of U.S. National Chapter of the International Association plume-scale behavior that account for solute and co- of Hydrogeologists, the History of Society, solute concentrations using the laboratory-derived and the History of Geology, Geophysics, Sedimentary sorption parameters are consistent with the behavior of Geology, and Structural Geology and Tectonics both field plumes. This approach suggests that different Divisions. The active promotion of the sessions by these R values for the two plumes are a consequence of source organizations is gratefully acknowledged. conditions combined with nonlinear/competitive Many thanks are extended to the Joint Technical sorption effects. Further, identified lenses of relatively Program Committee and GSA planners for working with higher sorption coefficient may contribute to the such complicated scheduling logistics! The challenges apparently enhanced dispersion exhibited by the created by a successful response to the overall meeting retarded, compared to the nonreactive, solutes.” venue and planning were welcomed head-on and quickly As a result of positive responses to the Darcy Lecturer addition to the 2003 GSA event, and Please see NGWA on page 20

Foundation Scholarship Honors Noted Canadian Hydrogeologist Story by Brian Hitchon

The National Ground Water Educational of hydrogeology in Canada after establishing the Foundation has named a scholarship in honor of the late Groundwater Division of the Alberta Research Council Robert Farvolden, Ph.D., a former faculty member of in 1960. He served as dean to the University of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and past senior Waterloo’s Earth Sciences Department from 1977 to science counsel to NGWA. Farvolden died in 1995. The 1982 and was a central figure in the founding and growth Robert Farvolden International Scholarship will be of the Waterloo Centre for Groundwater Research. granted in 2004 through the Len Assante Scholarship Farvolden served as senior science counsel of NGWA Fund of the Educational Foundation. Applications for from 1992 to 1995. For more information on the National the scholarship will be available later this year. Ground Water Educational Foundation, go to http:// Farvolden, a hydrogeologist and native of Forestburg, www.ngwa.org/ngwef/ngwef.html. Alberta, Canada, is said to have begun the modern era 18 Report From the Southeast Section Reps

Story by SE Representatives Joe Donovan ([email protected]) & Brian Katz

The 2004 Joint GSA Northeastern/Southeastern section meeting will be held in the Hilton McLean- Tysons Corner, Tysons Corner, Virginia on March 25- 27 2004. The Thursday to Saturday meeting will feature a number of theme sessions of note to Hydrogeology

Hydrogeology Related Theme Sessions The Hilton McLean Tysons Corner

Session 1. Fractured Rock Hydrology. Bill Burton and Earl A. Greene, U.S. Geological Survey. Division members, and two 1-day post-meeting field trips on Sunday, March 28. Session 7. Architecture of Triassic Basins: Influence on Later Faulting and Post-Meeting Field Trips Hydrogeology. Allen Dennis, University of South Carolina- Aiken. Fracture Flow and Compartmentalization of Crustal Fluids Session 8. Geological Carbon in Mesozoic Rift Zone Basins: The Sequestration: Analogs, Opportunities, Culpeper and Barboursville Basins of and Risks. Virginia and Maryland. Julio Friedmann, University of Maryland; Mike Ryan, Herb Pierce and Joe Bob Burruss, USGS. Smoot, USGS.

Session 9. The Role of Geology in Transect of Fractured Rock and Contaminated Mine Drainage in the Hydrogeology, Northern Virginia. Eastern United States (ORAL AND Bill Burton, Randy Orndorff, Dave POSTER). Weary, George Harlow, Dave Nelms, Sue Tewalt and Nora Foley, USGS. Scott Southworth, Larry Drew, and Dave Sutphin, USGS. Session 29. Hydrogeologic Investigations in Carbonate Rock Aquifer/Landscape Systems. The abstract deadline is December 16, 2003 and Chris Groves, Western Kentucky the registration deadline is February 16. For information about the meeting please visit the following web page: University; Art Palmer, State University http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/northe/ College, NY. 04nesemtg.htm.

19 NGWA from page 18 Shapiro Selected As 2004 addressed. The M. King Hubbert session, convened Darcy Lecturer by Alan Fryar and T. N. Narasimhan on Monday November 3, will commemorate Hubbert through a Dr. Allen M. Shapiro, a research hydrologist historical retrospective of his accomplishments and his with the U.S. Geological enduring legacy. The Darcy session, convened by Vicki Survey (USGS), in Reston, VA Kretsinger and Graham Fogg, will follow on November has been selected by the 4 and will begin with some historical information National Ground Water provided by the remarkable efforts of Pat Bobeck to Association (NGWA) to be the translate Henry Darcy’s book “Les Fontaines Publiques Distinguished Darcy Lecturer de la Ville de Dijon”, and now also her translation of for 2004. The NGWA the authoritative biography of Henry by his great- established the Darcy Lecture nephew, Paul Darcy. An outstanding collection of Series in 1986 to foster interest invited and volunteered papers follows that will bring and excellence in ground water us full circle as we revisit and reflect on the approach science and technology. Dr. and character of these and other legendary scientists Shapiro will offer a lecturer and recognize their attributes as the basis for the from his research in characterizing ground-water flow evolution of traditionally understood hydrologic and chemical transport in fractured rock environments. phenomena and exploration of new frontiers in the Dr. Shapiro’s research has included hydrologic sciences. investigations in various geologic settings, including This will be a commemorative year for many fractured and dissolution-enhanced limestone, bedded reasons. It is hoped that the Distinguished Lecturer sedimentary formations, and igneous and metamorphic exchange can continue at future annual meetings as rock. He has authored papers on equipment design and Lecturer schedules and other logistics allow. GSA has field techniques, the interpretation of hydraulic and proactively invited contributions from its Associated geochemical data, and theories of ground-water flow Society members, and recently there have been and chemical transport. Dr. Shapiro’s research has discussions about a mutual exchange of news items, application to issues of societal importance, including i.e., liaisons of GSA and AGWSE would periodically water supply, ground-water contamination and exchange news and information that strengthens restoration, waste isolation, and ground-water flow in collaborative efforts and provides a benefit to members the vicinity of engineered structures. Dr. Shapiro earned of both organizations. Dave Rudolph, Associate a BS in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College in Professor at the University of Waterloo and AGWSE Easton, Pennsylvania, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Director, is the liaison for AGWSE. It is hoped that Civil and Geological Engineering from Princeton the liaisons, current and incoming officers, and other University. For more information visit http:// volunteers can actively explore collaborative www.ngwa.org/ngwef/darcy.html. opportunities for annual and other events.

Do you have an interesting idea for a short scientific article? Perhaps an opinion on a new policy or technique? Any exciting news in your professional life? Upcoming conference? An announcement of interest to the hydrogeological community? If so, why not publish it in The Hydrogeologist? Send your submission ideas to [email protected].

20 BULLETIN BOARD

2003 NGWA Ground AGU Fall Meeting Stephen M. Testa was nominated to Water Expo in the Draws Near President-Elect/ Sunshine State President of the The AGU 2003 Fall American Geological This year’s National Meeting will be held Institute (AGI). Mr. Ground Water Assoc- December 8-12, in San Testa, who is President iation’s Ground Water Francisco, California. of Testa Environmental Corporation, Expo will take place in For information on Mokelumne Hill, Orlando, Florida, sessions see the AGU California, and serve as December 9-12. For web site at: [http:// a consultant and mine more information about www.agu.org/meetings/ inspector for the the Expo, visit the NGWA fm03/ California State Mining webpage at and Geology Board as Mine Inspector, will [www.ngwa.org] serve as President of AGI in 2004-2005. XXXIII IAH - 7º ALHSUD Congress will be held from Joint Assembly - 2004 October 11 - 15, 2004 24th Biennial Ground- in Zacatecas, Mexico. water Conference in A partnership between Ontario, California, the Canadian Geo- Professionals and October 28-29, 2003. physical Union (CGU), students are invited to Keynote Speaker - Chip the American Geop- submit abstracts of Groat, director of the hysical Union (AGU), recent work related to USGS. Also speaking and the Society of groundwater and are Bill Alley, Chief, Exploration related sciences as well Office of Ground Water, Geophysicists (SEG), is as those engaged in the USGS, and Ward being held in Montreal, social, economic and Sanford who will give a Canada, on May 17-21. political aspects related talk entitled “The For program infor- to groundwater. For Groundwater Model— mation visit the meeting information visit-http:// Past, Present and website at www.igeograf.unam.mx/ Future.” For more [http://www.agu.org/ aih/ or contact the information please visit: meetings/sm04/ Congress Secretariat at httpp://www.grac.org/ #session_proposals]. [email protected]. conference.html

21 From The Editor...

This installment of the newsletter marks the end of my second year as editor and reminds me to thank the Hydrogeology Division Board and the Division membership for allowing me this opportunity to serve my society, my Division, and my hydrogeology colleagues in this manner. I love this job! and I have greatly enjoyed getting to know everyone who contributed an article, note, announcement, photo, graphic, reports, schedule, etc. Our newsletter would not be possible without you, and I want to thank you all for making my job and easy one.

This issue contains the Hydrogeology Division Chair’s column, updates on the Seattle GSA meeting sessions and schedule, the Birdsall-Dreiss Tour, articles about the Meinzer and Distinguished Service Award winners, an interesting article about “dirt”, and numerous meeting and conference announcements. I hope you find it informative and interesting reading.

See you in Seattle!

F. Edwin (Ed) Harvey, Editor The Hydrogeologist

Hydrogeology Division Contacts 2003 Management Board Ad Hoc Committees Chair: Robert W. Ritzi ([email protected]) Historical Committee: First Vice-Chair: Chris Neuzil ([email protected]) Steve Wheatcraft (Chair; [email protected]) Second Vice-Chair: Janet Herman (jherman@)viginia.edu ) Secretary-Treasurer: Ralph K. Davis ([email protected]) Past Chair: Bill Simpkins ([email protected]) Section Representatives Cordilleran - Jim Thomas Northeastern - Grover Emrich Standing Committees North Central - Maureen Muldoon Technical Program Committee: South Central - Todd Halihan Alan Fryar (Chair; [email protected]), Jim Hendry Rocky Mountain - Robert Sterrett Southeastern - Joe Donovan & Brian Katz Nominating Committee: Mary Jo Baedecker (Chair; [email protected]), Steven Representatives to Other Societies Wheatcraft, Ira Sasowsky American Geophysical Union - Dave Diodato American Geological Institute - Dave Stephenson Meinzer Award Committee: National Ground Water Association - Dave Rudolph Ed Sudicky (Chair; [email protected]), Laura Toran, International Assoc. of Hydrogeologists - Colin Booth Fred Phillips, Scott Tyler, Fred Phillips, Tom Winter Water Science Policy Liaison - Dave Diodato Society for Sedimentary Geology - Gary Weissmann Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer Committee: Stephen Ingebritsen (Chair; [email protected]), Graham Fogg, Jean Bahr (Lecturer) Newsletter Editor / Webmaster: F. Edwin Harvey ([email protected]) Distinguished Service Award Committee: Abe Springer (Chair; [email protected]), Berry Lyons, Ken Bradbury GSA Council: Don Siegel ([email protected])

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