Title:	Contaminant Fate and Transport in Fractured Rock With PFAS Workshop
Date:	October 1-2, 2024 (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Location:	Training and Conference Room Matrix Solutions Calgary, Alberta
Instructors:	• Matt Reeves, PhD, Hydrogeologist,    Presidential Innovation Professor and Associate Professor,    Director of the Hydrogeology Field Course,    Western Michigan University • Martin Helmke, PG, PhD, Hydrogeologist, and    Professor, West Chester University
Continuing Education Information:	16.0 Professional Development Hours 1.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) Administered by Midwest GeoSciences Group NY Professionals receive a special NY SED-approved CE certificate from Midwest GeoSciences Group (Approved Provider #213).
Who should attend:	Everyone who performs subsurface work. Especially professional groundwater scientists, engineers, project managers, compliance-program managers and remedial-design managers who work at site with fractured bedrock.
How to Prepare:	Prepare for the course by having a mindset to learn. The instructors have created a 2-day learning experience that builds on step-wise procedures to measure, monitor and calculate fate and transport of different contaminants in different types of bedrock formations. We start at the beginning and boldly address the challenges we all face in our profession...and then move into principles of contaminant fate and transport. A pre-requisite in hydrogeology is more than helpful.

Premise:

The hydrogeologic complexity of fractured rock aquifers has often led to frustration and significant expenditure of resources in characterizing groundwater and predicting contamination. It is not uncommon to experience persistent contamination at fractured rock sites subjected to long-term pump and treat remedial technologies.

Fluid flow and contaminant transport in fractured rock fundamentally differs from granular porous media as fractures serve as interconnected and spatially discontinuous preferential pathways. Given the high degree of heterogeneity, fractured rock hydrogeology is very challenging but not impossible if site-specific data on physical and hydraulic fracture properties are used to properly develop conceptual models of fluid flow and contaminant transport.

In this course, participants will learn step-wise procedures to develop professional level conceptualizations of fracture networks for a variety of rock types, fracture patterns, and tectonic settings for application to field-scale transport problems and the assessment and design of remedial strategies.

PFAS are a problematic group of anthropogenic contaminants wreaking havoc for scientists, engineers, and regulators. The challenge partly originates because PFAS are recalcitrant in the environment and pervasively cycle through air, water, and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, while containing over 10,000 individual compounds, many of which go undetected. We've added a 3-hr workshop dedicated to PFAS into this 2-day CE course that introduces categorization and physiochemical properties of the most commonly detected compounds, precursors and chemical transformations, US EPA 1633 draft analytes, fate, transport, and cycling in the natural and engineered environment, and removal and treatment. Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS)

This course includes a special session dedicated
to applying fracture properties for acquiring
reliable contaminant migration and retention data.

Be prepared for exercises designed to teach (and challenge your) conceptualization skills in applying the information learned towards common applications of contaminant fate and transport in fractured rock. Although lithologic and hydrologic conditions of each fractured rock site are unique, this course highlights the common attributes that are to be anticipated in all fractured rock sites. These techniques are the same ones that Matt Reeves have applied successfully in his research at the Nevada Test Site.

Course Elements

• Understand how fluid flow and contaminant transport in fractured rock fundamentally differs from granular porous media.
• Conceptualize fracture flow and contaminant transport at the field-scale for a variety of rock types, fracture patterns, and tectonic settings.
• Distinguish between discrete fracture network and equivalent continuum representations, including simplifying assumptions and suitable applications.
• Link fracture attributes such as orientation, density, length, spacing and clustering to fluid flow and contaminant transport behavior.
• Apply site-specific fracture information to develop transport predictions and remedial strategies.
• Plus the New PFAS Workshop added this year.

Take the Time to Sharpen Your Skills

Register for this course because it is a meaningful training experience. The CEUs are great, but we trust you'll attend because it's designed for professional skill development.

If you've been to previous Midwest GeoSciences Group courses and workshops, you already know that we design uniquely powerful training experiences. CEUs are important and they are part of this course, but we trust you register because technical excellence is the priority.

Regional Geologic Formations

The sessions in this course can be applied to nearly every geologic bedrock type. This 2-day session is completely in the classroom.

There is no field trip associated with this course.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

Seating is Limited

Advanced registration is necessary for participation in this limited-enrollment short course. Pre-registration is required to reserve space and receive course materials. If you require special arrangements for diet, equipment, or handicap facilities, please indicate when registering for the course.

Register online for this course.


WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE:

Participants receive 16.0 hours of instruction, light breakfast, lunch, printed course notebook, a FIELD GUIDE FOR ROCK CORE LOGGING AND FRACTURE ANALYSIS, course completion certificate for qualifying participants.

This course is uniquely designed with lectures and exercises that create a meaningful learning experience to decipher the complexities of contaminant fate and transport in fractured rock.


REGISTRATION:

ONLY $599*

Early Registration Rate: $699.00 (USD)
*Two or more People for $599.00 (USD) each

Available through September 20, 2024

After September 20, 2024: $999.00 (USD)

Govt Discounts Available, please call 763.607.0092

[Currency in US Dollars]

Terms and Conditions



FREE
FIELD GUIDE FOR ROCK CORE LOGGING
AND FRACTURE ANALYSIS
with each course registration








OPTIONAL ITEMS:
The online registration allows registrants to add items to their course registration.

Item No 1:
Full-Color Printed Notebook for $89.00.


EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT:
Early registration discounts may be applied when payment is received by September 20, 2024.

Terms and Conditions apply.

CANCELLATIONS:
Cancellations may be made up to September 1, 2024, however, 50 percent of the course fee will be charged or a credit will be issued. No refunds after September 20, 2024. Refunds are issued at the time when the course is conducted.

SUBSTITUTIONS:
One substitute is allowed for each registrant who is unable to attend.

QUESTIONS:
For registration and technical questions about the course, contact Dan Kelleher at either 763.607.0092 or dan@midwestgeo.com

MATT REEVES, PhD

Matt Reeves is an internationally recognized hydrogeologist with over 20 years of research, teaching, and consulting experience. He is a Presidential Innovation professor and associate professor of hydrogeology at Western Michigan University, and is the director of WMU's nationally-recognized Hydrogeology Field Course. Dr. Reeves' research involves applied and theoretical investigations of fluid flow, heat and contaminant fate and transport in various types of porous media, with a specialty in fractured rock systems and emerging contaminants. Much of his work studying contaminant fate and transport in fractured rock is based on landmark research on radionuclides released from underground nuclear tests in fractured rock on the Nevada National Security Site. He has also applied his fractured rock expertise to related challenges in climate change impacts on water resources, geologic waste disposal, geothermal energy, hydraulic fracturing, and mining. More recently, Dr. Reeves has focused on emerging contaminants such as PFAS and microplastics. His interest in the fate and transport of PFAS has evolved to include field-based investigations into sampling and characterizing PFAS for a diverse set of environmental, solid waste, and wastewater media, and quantifying the interactions and cycling between engineered systems (landfills, landfill leachate, stormwater, and wastewater treatment plants) and the natural environment. Matt promotes organized thinking according to the scientific process of Multiple Working Hypothesis during fractured rock projects. His flexible mindset combines innovative approaches in analyzing and interpreting field data with an ability to understand how fracture properties relate to contaminant migration and retention. Course participants will benefit from not only the step-wise techniques for learning fate and transport of contaminants in fractured rock from Matt, but also the paradigm for a new mindset that promotes innovation for analyzing field data. The 3-hr PFAS segment will provide unique insights into the PFAS group of contaminants and their fate and transport.

MARTIN H. HELMKE, PG, PhD

Martin Helmke is an internationally-recognized hydrogeologist with over 30 years experience as an educator and environmental consultant. He is a Full Professor of Hydrogeology at West Chester University where he teaches Hydrogeology, Field Geology, Soils, Engineering Geology, Environmental Geology, Geophysics, Physical Geology, and Science of Natural Disasters. Before joining West Chester University, he taught at Dickinson College, Iowa State University, Antioch College, and Directed the Geology Field Camp for Iowa State University and University of Nebraska in Shell, Wyoming. He has worked for the U.S. Geological Survey (Reston, VA), Versar (Springfield, VA), HydroLog (Yellow Springs, OH), Aquadrill (Coralville, IA), BAI, Inc. (Royersford, PA), Tetra Tech EGS (King of Prussia, PA), Groundwater and Environmental Services, Inc. (Exton, PA). He is currently President of Helmke Hydrogeologic, LLC. Dr. Helmke's academic and professional expertise includes contaminant fate, transport, and remediation in fractured rock and soils; groundwater flow modeling; environmental geochemistry; PFAS fate and transport through saturated, unsaturated, and fractured media; hazardous materials response; geologic and UXO applications of UAVs; environmental geophysics; wastewater and stormwater infiltration; karst hydrogeology and subsidence; and stochastic risk assessment. Martin is actively engaged with the professional geologist community. He is currently a member of the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists and is a Subject Matter Expert for the Association of State Boards of Geology (ASBOG). He is a past Department Chair and past President of the Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists. He has also served his community as a firefighter/EMT, Hazardous Materials Specialist, Technical Rescue Specialist, and officer with the Chester County Department of Emergency Services and Chester County Rescue Task Force in Southeast Pennsylvania.

VENUE:
Training and Conference Room
Matrix Solutions
214 11 Ave SW
#200
Calgary, AB T2R 0K1
Canada



ACCOMMODATIONS:

Fairfield Inn
239 12 Ave SW
Calgary, AB T2R 1H7
Canada

Room rate per night: TBD +

Reserve either by phone or online.