WaterTech 2010 Presentations
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Thursday Keynote

• Water Management and the Lake Mead Third Straw Project - Presentation
  Patricia Mulroy General Manager, Southern Nevada Water Authority

Groundwater

• Geophysical Exploration for Water Resources in Buried Valleys in Western Canada - Presentation
  Paul Bauman, WorleyParsons
  
  
• Wetlands - Development of a Functional Matrix - Presentation
  Andrea Borkenhagen, WorleyParsons
  
  
• Different Approaches in Assessing Background Groundwater Quality - Presentation
  Ken Lyon, WorleyParsons
  
  
• Multi Disciplinary Approach to Assess and Manage Risk of Chloride Rich Groundwater Discharging to Elkwater - Presentation
  A.Aziz Shaikh, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
  
  
• Groundwater Quality Results - Is it natural or not? - Presentation
  Frans Hettinga, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
  

Hot Topics

• Groundwater and Underground Coal Gasification in Alberta - Presentation
  Alex Haluszka, Matrix Solutions Inc.
  
  
• Regional Groundwater Quality Study and Monitoring Network Development: Athabasca Oil Sands (AOS) Region - Presentation
  Jon Fennell, WorleyParsons
  
  
• Surface Water Quality Studies and Effects Assessment in Mining: Methods and Applications - Presentation
  Sergei G. Touchinski, AMEC Earth & Environmental
  
  
• Key Facets of Regional Groundwater Resources and their Relation to Possible Cumulative Effects, Ft Mc Murray, Alberta - Presentation
  Geetha Ramesh, WorleyParsons
  
  
• Geological Storage of CO2 by Hubbert’s Force Potential and Gravitational Groundwater Flow Systems - Presentation
  K. Udo Weyer, WDA Consultants Inc.

Wastewater

• Energy Production from Waste Using the Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor Process - Presentation
  Peter McCarthy, ADI Systems Inc.
  
  
• Human Health Risk Assessment - An Emerging Issue in Municipal Wastewater - Presentation
  Karen Phillipps, Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc.
  
  
• Compact Wastewater Treatment System fo Domestic and Commercial Operations System Design and Field Experience - Presentation
  Jan Korzeniowski, J.K. Engineering Ltd.
  
  
• Cytotoxic Drugs in Drinking Water: A Prediction and Risk Assessment Exercise for the Thames Catchment in the UK - Presentation
  Nicole Rowney, Fossil Water
  
  
• Feasibility of Using Reverse Osmosis to Remove Heavy Metals and Coliforms from Water - Presentation
  Roger Saint-Fort, Infinity Water Solutions Inc.

Regulatory Update

• Groundwater Policy Update - Presentation
  Petri Nieminen, Alberta Environment
  
  
• The Use of Groundwater Vulnerability Mapping for Regional Risk-Screening of Confined Feeding Operations in Alberta - Presentation
  Walter Ceroici, Natural Resources Conservation Board
  
  
• Groundwater and Surface Water Regulation and Management in Western Canada’s Emerging Shale Gas Regions - Presentation
  Jamie Wills, Waterline Resources Inc.
  
  
• Water Quality and Quantity in the Oil Sands: The Goals, Regulatory Response and the Conundrum of Remaining Flexible - Presentation
  Preston McEachern, Alberta Environment
  Notice of Correction: The presentation originally posted on this site on April 28, 2010 contained errors on pages 30 - 36, inclusive. These pages were removed by the author and the original presentation
  removed from this site on June 11, 2010. The updated presentation, without the identified errors, was posted on June 15, 2010 at the request of the author.
  
  
• Alberta’s Evolving Non-Saline and Saline Water Use Regulatory Requirements for Oil Sands Projects - Presentation
  Jamie Wills, Waterline Resources Inc.

Edmonton Waste Management Centre of Excellence (EWMCE)

• Demonstration and Verification of Leading-Edge Wastewater Treatment Technologies - Presentation
  Jerry Leonard, Edmonton Waste Management
  
  
• The effect of Naphthenic Acids and Oil Sands Process Water on the Immune Gene Expression of Mice - Presentation
  Erick García García, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
  
  
• Carbon Nanotubes as a Novel Filter Media - Presentation
  Seoktae Kang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
  
  
• Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes in Water and Wastewater Treatment - Presentation
  Pamela Chelme-Ayala, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Alberta

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

• Issues and Challenges of Sustaining Clean and Healthy Water Under Changing Climate and Landuse Scenarios - Presentation
  Asit Mazumder, University of Victoria
  
  
• Longnose Dace Responses to Contaminants Identify Emerging Challenges in Southern Alberta Rivers; Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets Provides an Innovative Collaboration and Exciting Research Opportunities - Presentation
  Leland Jackson, University of Calgary
  
  
• Live Liquid Micro-Organisms (LLMO) for Pond Restoration - Presentation
  Phyllis Day Chief, Advanced Water Technologies (AWT)
  
  
• Water Innovation Initiative - Presentation
  Frank Nolan, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Twyla Legault, National Research Council - Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP)

Produced Water

• Global Lessons on Water Reuse for Industrial Applications in Alberta - Presentation
  Stephen Stanley, EPCOR
  
  
• Beneficial Reuse of Treated Produced Water - Presentation
  Scott Hillier, Conoco Phillips
  
  
• Process Water Reuse Made Possible Through Electro Pure Technology (EPT) - Presentation
  Sean Frisky, Ground Effects Environmental Services Inc.

Modelling

• Numerical Modeling of a Permeable Reactive Barrier for a PCE WQARF Site in Arizona - Presentation
  Morley Weitzman, Thurber Engineering
  
  
• Incorporating Geologic Models into Groundwater Flow Models for Basal McMurray Aquifer Depressurization - Presentation
  Roudrajit Maji, Golder Associates Ltd.
  
  
• Okanagan Basin Water Supply and Demand Study: Hydrology Investigations and Modelling for Water Resource Planning - Presentation
  Hugh Hamilton, Summit Environmental Consultants Ltd.

Miscellaneous

• Water Management Strategy during the Solidification/Stabilization of Contaminated Sediments at the Sydney Tar Ponds Remediation Project - Presentation
  Stephen Pinto, AECOM
  
  
• Combined Ex situ and In Situ Remediation of Soil and Groundwater Impacts to Meet Site Closure Requirements - Presentation
  Robert W. Tossell, Pinchin Environmental
  
  
• Tidal Implications for Contaminant Delineation in a Foreshore Environment - Presentation
  Erin Robson, SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd .
  
  
• Innovating for a Greener World with Mineral-Based Anti-Microbials - Presentation
  Frank R. Varseveld, EnvirEau Technologies Inc.
  
  
• Surfactant Enhanced High Vacuum Dual Phase Extraction (HVDPE) Remediation of Petroleum Contaminated Bedrock Aquifer (In-situ Case Study) - Presentation
  Leonard Chan, Canada Colors
  
  
• Pulp Mill Landfill Leachate Treatment -- Chemistry and Regulatory Challenges - Presentation
  Francisco Perello, Keystone Environmental
  
  
• Economic Treatment of Frac Flow-Back Water to Recyclable Condition Using Physical Chemical Processes - Presentation
  David Manz, Oasis Filter International Ltd.