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IGWA Spring 2025 Conference

Date and Time

Wednesday, April 02, 2025, 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM

Location

Indian Creek Nature Center
5300 Otis Road SE
Cedar Rapids, IA  52403
USA

Event Contact(s)

Bob Libra

Category

Spring Meeting

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About this event

Spring 2025 IGWA Conference Agenda

 


Schedule:
8am: Registration and Refreshments

8:30: Welcome! 

8:45: Investigating the Prevalence of Microplastics and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Agricultural Streams Affected by Varying Land Uses and Inputs - Kendra Markland and Shannon Meppelink, USGS

9:30: Maximizing Wellfield Yield in a Shallow and Variable Alluvial Aquifer - Lindsey Wanderscheid, DMWW and Jeff Henson, Black and Veatch 

10:15: Break

10:30: Data Centers and Water: Hydropolitics of the Cloud - Lauren Bridges, University of Virginia and Sustaining the Silicon Prairie: Data Centers and Groundwater Impacts in Iowa - Chad Fields, IDNR

11:30: Who Took the Water? - Building Drought Resiliency - Steve Beck, City of Belle Plaine

Noon: Lunch

1:00: Court Decisions and Groundwater: Chevron and Supreme Beef - Shannon Roesler and Nina Marquardt, UI College of Law

2:00: Iowa's Hydrogen Potential - Ryan Clark, IGS

2:30: Break

2:45: An Enhanced Risk-Based Aquifer Vulnerability Index Applied to Black Hawk County, Iowa - Keith Schilling, IGS

3:15: Water Woes: Uncovering the True Costs of Summit's Carbon Capture Project - Wally Taylor, Attorney and Sierra Club

4:00: Meeting Discussion and Wrap-up


CEUs:

TBD