| Instructors
and Course Topics
| Monday,
June 2, 2008 | | 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: |
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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. Rob
Maric, M.Sc., P.Geo. is a hydrogeologist with Waterloo
Hydrogeologic, A Schlumberger Company, in the Training and Consulting Divisions.
Rob is experienced in the application of Visual MODFLOW, FEFLOW and management
of environmental databases (HydroGeo Analyst) for the evaluation of groundwater
flow and water quality projects. Rob's expertise in training numerous groundwater
professionals is a valuable tool for his teaching experience. He has worked on
many projects related to regional water resources management, capture zone delineation,
contaminant remedial system design, quarry and tunnel dewatering, and salt water
intrusion modeling. Rob has delivered several short courses, and specialized on-site
custom courses, tailored to specific client training needs in North America. These
courses have included open enrollment courses for applied groundwater flow and
transport modeling and aquifer test analysis. He has provided environmental consultation
for sites impacted by chlorinated solvents and petroleum hydrocarbons, mining
sites, natural attenuation evaluation, municipal governments, CERCLA/Superfund
sites, and sites under litigation. Rob 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. |