Groundwater Spreadsheets: Efficient and Practical Resource for Solving Simple and Complex Flow, Pollution, and Environmental Problems

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Groundwater Spreadsheets: Efficient and Practical Resource for Solving Simple and Complex Flow, Pollution, and Environmental Problems


2014 NGWA McEllhiney Lecture – Groundwater Spreadsheets: Efficient and Practical Resource for Solving Simple and Complex Flow, Pollution, and Environmental Problems.

McEllhineyAttend Professor Carlos E. Molano’s lecture and discover how you can use spreadsheets—in simple form without any programming or complex mathematics—to solve a wide range of groundwater problems.

Whether you’re a water well contractor, groundwater scientist, administrator, consultant, ecologist, environmental engineer, water resource planner, or student, you will benefit from learning how to apply “classic” hydrogeology concepts to “modern” hydrogeology concepts such as climate change, global warming, ecohydrology, sustainability, environmental risk assessment, and remediation, through the use of the spreadsheets presented. While various groundwater applications are presented mainly for Latin America (from pre-Columbus and pre-Inca times to current times where very often there is a lack of data and other resources), they can also be used all over the world to learn how some cost-effective solutions may be applied for many other situations.

Groundwater spreadsheet topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Pumping and slug tests, step drawdown and intermittent tests
  • Analytical and numerical solutions for groundwater flow and pollution problems
  • Delineation of capture zones, forward and inverse particle tracking for groundwater contamination
  • Hydro-geochemical analysis
  • Earth resistivity soundings interpretation
  • Land subsidence
  • Flow system analysis and impact of climate change in groundwater resources.

This event is free but registration is required.  Tis event is presented by the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT)