Bedrock Bioremediation Center researchers participated
in the NGWA EPA Fractured Rock Conference in Portland,
ME in September 2004. Dr. Nancy Kinner (BBC Director)
served on the conference advisory board and chaired
three sessions of talks (Field Studies, Geochemical
Characterization, and Bioremediation). Dr. Kinner
is helping NGWA write a summary document about the
conference.
Conference Presentations:
Large Drawdown
Slug Tests
Pulido, Ballestero and Kinner
Gas Injection
Test
Pulido and Ballestero
Effectiveness
of Monitored Natural Attenuation at Predicting In
Situ Biodegradation in a TCE Contaminated Metasedimentary
Bedrock
Kinner, Mills, Eighmy, Ballestero, Coulburn, Tisa,
and Druschel
Microfracture
Geochemistry as an Indicator of Terminal Electron
Accepting Processes in TCE-Contaminated Bedrock
Eighmy, Spear, Bothner, Coulburn, Tisa, Sullivan,
Majko, and Kinner
Fracture Characterization
at a Bedrock Bioremediation Site in New Hampshire
Sadkowski, Bothner, Benoit, Birch, and Escamilla-Casas
Multipurpose
Packer System
Pulido, Ballestero, and Kinner
The BBC hosted
the conference field trip on September 16. Eighty
people visited the BBC's TCE-contaminated bedrock
field site at the former Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth,
NH. After an introduction to the field site by Drs.
Kinner and Bothner, the visitors toured seven demonstration
stations. Topics covered included drilling techniques
and drilling parameter recorders (hosted by the BBC),
bedrock microbiology and microcosms (BBC), hydraulic
studies (BBC), multipurpose discrete interval sampling
(BBC), geophysical techniques and equipment (Mt. Sopris
Instrument Co. and Century Geophysical Corp.), and
geophysical interpretation (USGS). Slides and posters
from the field trip are available on the BBC website:
