INTERA’s Dr. Alison Adams, PE, Principal Engineer, will be speaking at an upcoming webinar held by Antioch University New England, in partnership with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on October 31, 2019 from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EDT. The session, entitled Strategies for 21st Century Risk Management and Climate Change Communication, is part of a webinar series, Weathering Change: Local Solutions for Strong Communities, and will focus on how to effectively engage stakeholders in conversations about climate change and how to mainstream that information using an Enterprise Risk Management framework. Dr. Adams will discuss her work as a consultant to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for incorporating climate change information into their existing programs and processes to reduce enterprise-wide risks. For more information visit: http://www.communityresilience-center.org/education-and-training/weathering-change-webinar-series/
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Dr. Alison Adams to Join the External Advisory Committe for a Texas A&M University X-Grant Project
INTERA’s Dr. Alison Adams, PE, Principal Water Resources Engineer, recently joined the External Advisory Committee for the Texas A&M University X-Grant Project Pathways to Sustainable Urban Water Security: Desalination and Water Reuse in the 21st Century. The three-year project examines desalination and water reuse globally and across case study sites in Texas, California, Australia, and Israel. A key challenge is to identify how new technological interventions can be channeled into pathways towards sustainable water security and, in particular, to consider how anticipatory governance can be fostered to support that process. The interdisciplinary research team will examine several aspects of desalination and wastewater reuse to better understand the complex water governance regimes that promote and challenge the transformation of water-stressed urban regions. The project is one of eight interdisciplinary research projects that will share $7 million in funding from Texas A&M University’s X-Grants program, an initiative of the 10-year, $100 million President’s Excellence Fund. The goal of the program is to unlock creative and imaginative ideas that will address issues that significantly impact the most important challenges facing global society.
Dr. Adams will advise the committee on project aspects related to the latest technological developments in the water reuse and desalination industries and governance challenges faced in supplying unconventional water to urban populations. Dr. Adams has over 30 years of experience focused on large-scale water supply and management issues, including serving as the Chief Technical Officer for Tampa Bay Water and as the Chair of the Water Utility Climate Alliance. She has directed research into climate variability and its effects on supply reliability for the Tampa Bay region, and management strategies to mitigate these effects.
INTERA Wins Contract with French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management
INTERA was recently awarded a 4-year contract with the French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (Andra) to support characterization activities at the Bure Underground Research Lab (URL), in the North-East of France. The Bure URL, located some 500 meters underground in the Paris Basin, is being used to study the feasibility of storing high- and medium-level radioactive waste in a claystone host rock. INTERA is analyzing hydraulic tests and performing 1- and 2-phase flow modeling, which includes examining thermal and mechanical effects. This work further positions INTERA as a worldwide leader in supporting the characterization of deep geologic repositories for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes.
Continue ReadingDr. Bryn Kimball and Patrick Williamson to Present at the Tailings and Mine Waste Conference
INTERA’s Dr. Bryn Kimball, Geochemist, and Patrick Williamson, PG, Principal Hydrogeologist, will be presenting their respective papers at the Tailings and Mine Waste (T&MW) Conference in Vancouver BC, held on November 17-20, 2019. Dr. Kimball’s paper, entitled Micrometer-Scale Characterization of Solid Mine Waste Aids in Closure Due Diligence, focuses on a case study that compares the use of both traditional and nontraditional techniques to identify and quantify metal hosts in sediments downstream of the abandoned mine waste piles at the Ely Copper Mine Superfund site in Vermont. Mr. Williamson’s paper, entitled Baseline Investigations and Preliminary Design for an In-Pit Tailings Storage Facility, El Gallo Mine, Sinaloa, covers details of the recent feasibility study for an in-pit tailing storage facility at the El Gallo gold mine, located in the foothills of the Cordillera Sierra Madre. To learn more, visit: https://tailingsandminewaste.com/
Continue ReadingJoe Galemore to Speak at the EPA and NMED’s Community Meeting
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), will be holding an Open House and Community Meeting at the Finley Gym, located at 202 McCutcheon Ave in Socorro, NM, to discuss the current status of the Eagle Picher Carefree Battery Superfund Site. The Open House session will be held Wednesday Oct. 2 and will give citizens the opportunity to meet and speak directly with agency officials and their contractors. The Community Meeting will be held the following day on Thursday Oct. 3, during which time Mr. Joe Galemore, PG, of INTERA will present results of recent groundwater sampling events and discuss the status of future site activities in support of NMED.
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