GRA is excited to host the second 101 Week - a training week with a menu of options for introducing practitioners and the groundwater-curious to various aspects of the industry! Join us for two 120 minute sessions per day the week of July 11th. If you are onboarding new staff in water resources related fields, anticipating a change in careers, or need a tune up on getting groundwater projects funded – join one class or many!
MONDAY, JULY 11, 2022
9:00AM
Groundwater Modeling , A Primer
Graham Fogg, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Hydrogeology, UCD Director, UC Water Security and Sustainability Research Initiative, University of California, Davis
1:00PM
Geophysics for Groundwater 101: How to Find What You are Looking For
Peter Fahringer, PGp, PMP, LG, WSP Golder
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2022
9:00AM
Banking on Sustainability: Funding for Groundwater Projects!
John Bliss, P.E. and Ryan Aston, SCI Consulting Group
1:00PM
Contouring and Interpolating Groundwater Levels: Best and Worst Practices
Igor Pavlovskii, PhD, WSP Golder
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2022
9:00AM
Principles of Efficient Water Well Design and Well Maintenance
Kevin McGillicuddy, PG, Roscoe Moss Company
1:00PM
Aquifer Pumping Tests: Application of Practical Methodologies for Extracting Relevant and Useful Characteristics about an Aquifer and a Well Installation
Steven Young, Ph.D., PE, PG, INTERA Incorporated
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2022
9:00AM
Advanced Analysis/Excel/Access: Excelerating Access to Data
Alyssa Seal, WSP Golder
1:00PM
California Groundwater Law and SGMA Law
Jena Acos, Laura Yraceburu and Rob Saperstein, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2022
9:00AM
What Makes Something an Emerging Contaminant and Why Not All Emerging Contaminants are Treated Equally: PFAS
Kenia Whitehead, PhD and Jake Willhelm, GSI Environmental, and Dan Bryant, PhD, Woodard & Curran
1:00PM
Python 101
Katie Elich and Zachory Roy, Woodard & Curran