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April 14, 2004
Ground Water Hydrologist To Lecture At Boise State May 4
With ground water issues near the top of Idaho�s resource concerns, a presentation by the Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture Series hydrologist Allen M. Shapiro will be particularly timely and relevant. Shapiro, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va., will present a lecture at noon on Tuesday, May 4, in the Boise State Engineering Technology Building at 1375 University Dr. The program, presented by the College of Engineering Seminar Series at Boise State, is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the visitor lot behind the Student Union. Shapiro�s lecture is titled �Recent Advances in Characterizing Ground Water Flow and Chemical Transport in Fractured Rock: From Cores to Kilometers.� The National Ground Water Association Darcy Lecture Series is named in honor of Henry Darcy, whose investigations in 1856 established the physical basis upon which ground water hydrogeology has been studied ever since. The series was established in 1986 to foster interest and excellence in groundwater science and technology.
Shapiro�s lecture will discuss fractured rock aquifers, which provide water for domestic use, locations for isolating hazardous and toxic waste, and sites for building foundations and civil infrastructure. He will describe the dimensions over which the characterization of ground water flow and chemical transport needs to be conducted, and the challenges that structural complexity and extreme variability in the hydraulic properties of bedrock environments presents in modeling these environments. He will explain laboratory studies related to these issues, controlled field-scale experiments, and the interpretation of ground water flow and contaminant transport using numerical modeling techniques.
This will be a brown bag presentation, so please feel free to bring your lunch. For more information about this program, contact the civil engineering department at 208 426-5707.
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