Hydrogeologists and groundwater engineers are increasingly applying optimization methods to help address complex groundwater management problems. This event will provide an open forum to facilitate dialog among groundwater professionals about experiences with optimization methods and potential opportunities for new applications. A half-day Short Course and a poster session on October 15th will be followed by a one-day Symposium on October 16th. For the Short Course, the methods employed in optimization analyses will be discussed in detail and illustrated with example applications. The poster session will provide an excellent forum for authors, instructors and Symposium attendees to interact in an informal setting. The Symposium will feature invited speakers from consulting, government, and academia who will focus in the following areas:

1. Plume Capture and Concentration Management
    • Demonstration Project for Department of Defense Sites
    • Optimal Design of a Pump and Treat System for Capture of a TCE Plume
    • A Particle-Tracking Technique for Optimization of Groundwater Containment

2. Water Resources Management Planning I:
    • California’s Link Between Project Approval and Water Supply Availability
    • Optimal Conjunctive Use of Surface Water and Groundwater Resources: A Tale of Two Cities
    • Role of Optimization in Development of Integrated Regional Water Management Plans: A Linear       Programming Approach
    • Applying Global-Local Optimization to a Conjunctive-Use Project

3. Optimizing Groundwater in the Context of Integrated Water Management in California
    (keynote presentation)

4. Water Resources Management Planning II:
    • Example Applications of GWM: A Ground-Water Management Process for MODFLOW
    • Optimal Management of an ASR Program for Control of Land Subsidence, Lancaster, California
    • An Adaptive Reliability-Based Optimization Framework for Managing Water Supply Operation       Under Uncertainty
    • Optimal Integration of Attorneys and Hydrologists in a Water-Management Study

5. California Applications
    • Modeling Ground Water in DWR’s Water Allocation Model CalSim
    • Impact to California Groundwater Levels from Climate Change and Drought Conditions
    • Use of Optimization to Estimate Water Demand and Supply in MODFLOW’s Farm Process

Exhibitors:
ASC Tech | Blaine Tech Services | INTERA Incorporated | RSI Drilling | The Source Group

Sponsors and Exhibitors: GRA is pleased to invite participants to sponsor Symposium functions or to exhibit at the Symposium. Please contact Mary Megarry at mmegarry@nossaman.com or 916-446-3626 for more information.

For other questions on the Course and Symposium, please contact Rob Gailey (rob@rmgailey.com, 415-407-8407) or Chin Man Mok (cmmok@geomatrix.com, 510-663-4290).