Boise State University scientists and students
will join about 400 colleagues from across the nation at a symposium in Boise on
Oct. 13-16 that will focus on strategies for solving subsurface contamination
problems.
The four-day Subsurface Science Symposium is
presented by the Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA), a consortium of
eight universities in five states including Boise State, and the Department of
Energy’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. A number of
seminars are planned that will bring together top subsurface researchers,
educators and legislative staff to discuss the latest research and how it can
best be applied. Steve Wells, director of the Desert Research Institute in Reno,
Nev., will deliver the keynote address.
"The research in subsurface science is
becoming increasingly multidisciplinary. The symposium provides a great
opportunity to bring together many disciplines together and to share
information," said Jack Pelton, dean of the graduate college at Boise State
and a presenter at the symposium.
Hydrology, geochemistry, subsurface microbiology
and geophysics are just some of the fields that will be represented, Pelton
said. Boise State professors and graduate students in these and other
disciplines will present technical papers or posters at the symposium. In
addition, professors in Boise State’s College of Business will participate in
panel discussions on how to best transfer technology to the commercial sector,
and Pelton will discuss a new subsurface science graduate program for Ph.D.
students at INRA universities.
"We’ll be addressing methods of bringing
subsurface research and development to a more practical level," said Gautam
Pillay, executive director of INRA. "Traditionally, research is done at the
beaker stage; we’re moving up toward the mesoscale level, just short of full
field scale."
More information on the conference, including
links to all presentation abstracts, poster abstracts and speaker biographies,
can be found on the Web at www.inra.org
Contact:
Guatam Pillay
Inland Northwest Research Alliance
gpillay@inra.org
Media contact:
Janelle Brown
communications and marketing
426-1790
To the media: Interviews
with educators, researchers and legislative staff can be arranged. For more
information and for media attendance at the symposium, contact Carol Haas at
(678) 427 7322 or carol@haascom.com
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