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Meetings and Conferences
Upcoming and Recent Conferences:
GeoCongress 2008: The Challenge of Sustainability in the Geoenvironment
03/09/2008 - 03/12/2008
New Orleans, LA
GeoCongress 2008 will present a broad perspective on the role of geoengineers and geoscientists in protecting and preserving our environment. Conference themes include, but are not limited to: Sustainability - including sustainable design and construction, lifecycle assessment and management, brownfield redevelopment, wetland restoration, sustainable water management practices, mitigation of climate change effects, enhancement of community resiliency, geothermal energy solutions, and sustainable use of underground space; Geo-hazard Mitigation - including flood control, landslides, seismic design, tsunamis, soil erosion control and soil sealing by development (hard-cover), drought Management, and expansive and collapsible soils; Waste Management - including management of solid and hazardous wastes, radioactive waste, mine tailings, sludges, and sediments, landfill design and performance, surface impoundments, innovative barrier materials, innovative covers, bioreactor landfills, waste mechanics, and materials reuse and recycling, and sustainable stewardship; and Site Assessment and Remediation - including innovative site characterization and monitoring techniques, remote sensing, geophysical methods, contaminant fate and transport, subsurface barriers, technologies to remediate contaminated soils, groundwater and sediments, and emerging phyto- bio- and nano- technologies.
For more information, please visit http://content.asce.org/conferences/geocongress2008/index.html
MEND Manitoba Workshop: Challenges in Acidic Drainage for Operating, Closed or Abandoned Mines
06/04/2008 - 06/05/2008
Winnipeg, MB
For more information, please view the conference announcement (PDF) (3 pp, 58K). Further details will be posted at http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/canmet-mtb/mmsl-lmsm/mend/default_e.htm.
25th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation
06/14/2008 - 06/19/2008
Richmond, VA
Richmond, Virginia, home of the USA’s first commercial coal mine, will host the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation in mid-June of 2008. In addition to ASMR’s historical concentration on coal and metal mining applications, this meeting’s program and field trips will focus on remediation of other disturbances such as exposure of acid-sulfate materials, mineral sands mining, dredge spoil placement, and wetland impact mitigation. We hope that the timing and location of this meeting will allow meeting attendees and their families to enjoy the wealth of great attractions in and around Richmond.
For more information, please visit http://www.cses.vt.edu/revegetation/ASMR_2008.htmlNGWA/U.S. EPA: Remediation of Abandoned Mine Lands Conference
10/2/2008-10/3/2008
Denver, CO
Call for Abstracts through 11:59 p.m. ET, April 18, 2008. Download the conference flyer for more information (PDF) (3 pp, 58K).
This conference showcases alternative and innovative technologies for remediating abandoned mine lands. For more information, please visit http://www.ngwa.org/development/conferences/NGWAEPARemediationAbandonedMineLandsConference5019.aspxNational Summit of Mining Communities
09/07/2008-09/11/2008
Butte and Anacona, MT
The 3rd Annual National Summit of Mining Communities is scheduled for September 7-11, 2008, in Butte and Anaconda, Montana. The Summit was created in 2006 in recognition of the diverse environmental and economic effects that mining communities experience as a result of the boom and bust cycles of mining. The Summit began in Leadville, Colorado, as a grassroots gathering of people from mining towns with emphasis on “communities talking to communities.” The format allows attendees to share information and learn about how other communities have overcome mining-related challenges and how they have moved forward with their own community planning process.Mine Closure 2008
10/14/2008-10/17/2008
Johannesburg, South Africa
The Objective of Mine Closure 2008 is to provide a forum for industry regulators, academics, practitioners and NGO’s to exchange views on how best to ensure that closure of mine sites is achieved economically, whilst minimizing future environmental and societal impacts. For more information, please visit: http://www.mineclosure2008.org.za/National Association of Abandoned Mine Lands Programs Annual Meeting
October 26-29, 2008
Durango, CO
Thirty-one member states and tribes comprise that National Association of Abandoned Mine Lands Programs (NAAMLP), which was established in 1983. They will be holding their annual meeting in Durango, Colorado in October 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.onenet.net/~naamlp/
Meeting Proceedings:
Mine Closure 2007, October 16-19, 2007, Santiago, Chile.
Proceedings of the Desert Remedial Action Technologies (D-RAT) Workshop, Phoenix, October 2007. This workshop was sponsored by the US EPA and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. Desert environments in the southwestern United States and similar areas present a number of unique challenges to subsurface cleanup. Groundwater can be extremely deep and the presence of clays and fractured rock can reduce the effectiveness of some standard cleanup technologies. The goal of the workshop was to gather practitioners and others with remediation expertise in these desert environments and to present both lecture and poster presentations on their ideas for remediating soil and groundwater. The scope of the workshop was limited to sites with VOCs, perchlorate and chromium, as these contaminants present some of the greatest challenges for cleanup (December 2007, 27 pages). View or download at http://www.epa.gov/osp/presentations/drat/D-RAT_Workshop_Proceedings_(Oct_2-4,_07).pdf (27 pp, 3.6MB)
First International Seminar on Mine Closure, September 13-15, 2006, Perth, Western Australia.
Interactive Pit Lakes 2004 Conference. EPA 625-C-06-002, CD-ROM, 2006. This CD (EPA 625-C-06-002) can be ordered from EPA's National Service Center for Environmental Publications; 800-490-9198; Fax: 301-604-3408.
National Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation (Abstracts Only) (PDF) (152 pp, 572K), April 18-24, 2004, Morgantown WV.
Groundwater Management in Mining Areas: Proceedings of the 2nd IMAGE-TRAIN Advanced Study Course (PDF) (110 pp, 2.3MB), June 23-27, 2003, Pécs, Hungary.
Workshop on Mining Impacted Native American Lands 2003. This CD (EPA 625-C-02-004) can be ordered from EPA's National Service Center for Environmental Publications one or 800-490-9198; Fax: 301-604-3408; E-mail: nscep@bps-lmit.com.
Workshop on the Fate, Transport, and Transformation of Mercury in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments (PDF) (14 pp, 627K), May 8 – 10, 2001, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Industrial Multimedia - Mining Waste Scientist to Scientist Meeting, June 14-15, 2000, Las Vegas, NV.
Seminar Publication: Managing Environmental Problems at Inactive and Abandoned Metals Mine Sites (PDF) (99 pp, 9.1MB), October 1996.