Instructors and Course Topics

Monday, June 11, 2012
Course Offerings:
	Overview of Contaminated and Hazardous Waste Site Management
	Principles of Contaminant Hydrogeology
	Soil Chemistry of Hazardous Materials
	Practical Model Applications for Risk Assessment and Site Remediation
Evening:
	Groundwater Modelling Workshop

Gareth Owen is the President of GOwen Environmental Limited and has spent the last ten years training other environmental professionals in the discipline of contaminated and hazardous waste site management. Mr. Owen has managed more than 600 contaminated sites including site and risk assessments, remedial plan development and expedited site closures for sites contaminated with hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, heavy metals, and radioactive waste. He has provided technical and/or managerial support to clients on over 3,400 sites worldwide. He has managed and provided program and project support on contaminated site investigations and remediation for soil, water, and sediment in every jurisdiction and at every level of government in the provinces and territories of Canada, and advised private and public sector clients on similar issues worldwide. He has worked with and instructed most regulatory agencies in Canada responsible for contaminated and hazardous waste site management. His decision in 2001 to no longer participate in the investigation or the remediation of contaminated sites as a consultant or contractor, ensures the provision of sound and unbiased technical and managerial support to all his clients. It also ensures no conflict of interest with any environmental consulting or contracting firm providing contaminated site management services. Mr. Owen's principal responsibilities have included providing support to government agencies and multinational corporations in managing large and complex environmental programs and projects. His principal experience relates to contaminated site project management and closure as well as environmental program management. Mr. Owen will provide a detailed overview of Contaminated and Hazardous Waste Site Management.

Dr. Ken Howard, University of Toronto, is a certified and chartered hydrogeologist, with broad experience in all aspects of groundwater resource evaluation, management and protection. As Director of the Groundwater Research Group at the University of Toronto, he has worked on numerous applied projects in Canada, U.K., the West Indies, equatorial Africa and Australia. He has published over 50 articles on topics that range from numerical flow modeling and contaminant migration to environmental isotopes and borehole geophysics. Dr. Howard will cover the Principles of Hydrogeology and will provide an overview of scientific principles Monday evening. After attending this lecture, the attendee will have an increased understanding of the physical and chemical processes that determine how contaminants are transported in the subsurface.

Dr. Jim Dragun is a soil chemist who founded and is president of Dragun Advantage LLC. For 17 years, he has led a team of chemical engineers, civil engineers, environmental engineers, geotechnical engineers, mechanical engineers, environmental specialists, geologists, hydrogeologists, chemists, toxicologists, and biologists. Dr. Dragun and his associates have solved environmental issues for major companies and governments in six continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Soil & Sediment Contamination for over 15 years. Also, he is a full professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Dragun has authored or co-authored nine books and over 70 technical publications. His accomplishments are listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and American Men and Women of Science. Dr. Dragun will lecture on the principles that govern the proper estimation of migration and degradation potential of chemicals in topsoil, and in the saturated and unsaturated zones. These principles apply to chemical behavior in solid and hazardous waste treatment and disposal units employing or impacting soil and other geologic materials-- landfarms, landfills, deep well injection systems, compost piles, and sites affected by leaks, spills, and other types of accidental or deliberate chemical releases with a focus on why site remediation and site characterization programs fail to meet desired clean-up milestones through a lack of understanding of the fundamental principles of soil chemistry of hazardous materials.

Miln Harvey, Ph.D., P.Eng. is a Senior Hydrogeologist with Schlumberger Water Services in Waterloo, and the Manager of the Training Division. He is a specialist in finite difference and finite element groundwater modeling using MODFLOW and FEFLOW, and in the integration of GIS data for conceptual and numerical groundwater model development and the visualization of model results. Dr. Harvey has more than 18 years experience as a hydrogeologist and environmental engineer, of which the past 10 years have been spent at Schlumberger Water Services developing groundwater models to assess regional groundwater protection strategies through WHPA delineation and groundwater contamination impacts through fate and transport modeling. Over this period, he has delivered more than 80 professional groundwater short courses in North America and abroad. They have included open enrolment courses for groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling using Visual MODFLOW and FEFLOW, GIS data management and analysis, aquifer performance test analysis, groundwater modeling for mining applications and water quality data management and modeling, as well as specialized on-site custom courses using a variety of software tailored to specific client training needs. Dr. Harvey will lecture on Practical Model Application for Risk Assessment and Site Remediation. Participants of this lecture will have increased knowledge of model applications, model selection, and model development and evaluation.