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Attention GRA Members and Friends!
Sacramento Branch Meeting
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
at Aviator's Restaurant
The Sacramento Branch is pleased to present the 2010 GSA Birdsall - Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Susan Hubbard
The Presentation:
Toward X-Ray Vision: Geophysical Signatures of Complex Subsurface Processes
Dr. Susan S. Hubbard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Scholastic Sponsor: EQUIPCO Rentals - Sales - Service
RSVP -- http://www.grac.org/rsvp
Developing a predictive understanding of water and contaminant fate and transport is complicated by natural heterogeneity, as well as by the disparity of scales across which hydrological, geochemical, and microbiological processes dominate. Because some geophysical attributes are sensitive to hydrological and biogeochemical properties that govern flow and transport, geophysical methods hold potential for minimally invasive characterization and monitoring of complex subsurface processes.
Included in this presentation will be descriptions of the relatively new fields of hydrogeophysics and biogeophysics, which strive to use geophysical datasets to characterize subsurface hydrogeological and biogeochemical processes, respectively. Several key components are required for such quantitative characterization, including: high quality geophysical datasets, petrophysical models, frameworks to integrate disparate datasets, and attention to scale issues. This presentation will review these key components and present several examples that illustrate how hydrogeophysical and biogeophysical methods can be used to gain significant insights about complex subsurface system processes, such as subsurface bacterial transport and feedbacks between biogeochemical transformations and flow characteristics. A particular emphasis will be placed on processes relevant to environmental remediation; where in-situ treatments (such as bioremediation) significantly disrupt geochemical equilibrium and where developing a predictive understanding of remediation-induced transformations is difficult to develop using wellbore data alone.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Susan S. Hubbard is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she leads the Environmental Remediation and Water Resources Program. She received a BA in geology from UC Santa Barbara, an MS in geophysics at Virginia Tech, and a PhD in Engineering from UC Berkeley. She has previously worked at the U.S. Geological Survey and for the petroleum industry. Her research focuses on advancing the use of geophysical methods for shallow subsurface characterization and monitoring, with a particular emphasis on development of data integration methods and application of those methods to water resource and environmental-remediation problems. She co-edited the first book on hydrogeophysics and has published over 60 papers on this topic. She serves on several scientific advisory boards, as the Associate Director for the Berkeley Water Center, as a Co-Editor for the Vadose Zone Journal, and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydrology. She is the recipient of the 2009 Frank Frischknecht award for leadership and innovation in near-surface geophysics.
Announcing Scholastic Sponsorship Opportunities
All Proceeds to Benefit Science Students
GRA Sacramento branch has a history of supporting university-level science students. Our Scholastic Sponsorship Program is an opportunity to publicize your business while contributing toward a good cause. The cost is minimal; if interested, please contact Julie Friedman at 916-808-7898 or jlfriedman1@yahoo.com or jfriedman@cityofsacramento.org.
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MEETING LOCATION:
Aviator's Restaurant within Sacramento Executive Airport
6151 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento, CA.
Aviator’s Restaurant at Executive Airport is located within the aircraft Terminal Building.
Thomas Bros. Map Book page 317, grid C6.
Plenty of free parking.
AGENDA: Social Hour (6-7 pm); Announcements & Dinner (7-8 pm); Presentations (8-9 pm)
COST and RSVP: This presentation is sure to be well attended. Please get your reservations in early to ensure a spot. Costs and menu are shown below. GRA is unable to assure food and room for you without an RSVP. Therefore, an RSVP for this meeting is mandatory. Using GRA's automated RSVP process is quick and painless!
• If you RSVP by Monday, August 9th the meeting costs are:
| Menu |
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Non-Members |
Students |
Usual great food, including Beef and Chicken, Salad, Rice, Potatoes, Vegetable and Iced Tea.
A No-host beer and wine bar will be available. |
$25.00 |
$30.00 |
$10.00 |
Retired professionals receive a 10% (rounded to the nearest dollar) discount on any meal.
• If you RSVP AFTER Monday, August 9th, or walk-in, a $3.00 surcharge will be added to the meeting costs.
• CANCELLATIONS must be made by Noon on Monday, August 9th.
SUBMIT YOUR RESERVATION -- http://www.grac.org/rsvp
Questions about the meeting or to contact the Sacramento Branch in general, including submittal of your ideas and/or desires for future presentations, please telephone Rodney Fricke at 916-355-5161 or email at Rodney.Fricke@Aerojet.com
UPCOMING GRA Sacramento Branch Meetings/Events:
September 2010 – No Meeting
October 13, 2010 – Randall T. Hanson, Research Hydrologist (rthanson@usgs.gov), California Water Science Center, Water Resources Discipline, U.S. Geological Survey, San Diego, California, Conjunctive Use in the Central Valley with Climate Change using Linked Physically-Based Hydrologic Models
November 10, 2010 – TBD
December 15, 2010 – Joint Holiday Meeting with AEG
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