2008 Events
We will participate in the following professional meetings in 2008

  • March 2-5  Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, Annual Conference,
    Toronto, ON


  • March 27-29  Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section Meeting, Buffalo,
    NY
    Presentations:

    "The significance of vegetation kills and efflorescent mineral blooms from transient ground water
    plumes during and from highway construction"

    "Road bed and building heave from alteration of sulfide and sulfate minerals"


  • April 7-10  National Ground Water Association Short Course:

    Fracture Trace and Lineament Analysis: Application to GW Characterization and Protection

            David (Duff) P. Gold and Richard R. Parizek, Instructors


  • May 7  Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists Symposium on Water and
    the Environment, Camp Hill, PA

    "Remediation stages at the Skytop section of Route I-99, Centre County, Pennsylvania"    


  • May 21  Pittsburgh Geological Society, Pittsburgh, PA

    "Pandora's Box: The Sky Top section of Route I-99, Centre County, Pennsylvania"


  • May 28-30   23rd Central Pennsylvania Geotechnical Conference, American Society of
    Civil Engineers, Central Pennsylvania Section, Hershey, PA

    "The need for interdisciplinary interaction in route planning and site characterization"


  • July 28-31   First International Hydropedology Conference, Penn State University,
    University Park, PA

           Field trip to the Sky Top section of Interstate I-99 Highway, central Pennsylvania


  • September 25-27  Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Gettysburg, PA

      Link to 2008 Field Conference


  • October 11-15  American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Society of Petroleum
    Engineers, Eastern Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA


  • November 6-13  GMRE, Inc. Short Course, State College, PA:   
          
          Carbonate Reservoir Geology

           Instructors: Christopher D. Laughrey, David (Duff) P. Gold, Robert J. Altamura, Gary Mitchell,
                                    and Terry Engelder