Learn and Preserve:
Jefferson County Regional Water Symposium Agenda
Jefferson County Regional Water Symposium Agenda
8:30 am Registration Opens – Coffee, tea and light breakfast refreshments
9:00 am Session 1 – Our Changing Climate and Local Watershed
Speaker – Dr. Nicholas Zegre Ph.D, Associate Professor of Forest Hydrology, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources & Design, West Virginia University. Director of the West Virginia University Mountain Hydrology Laboratory
10:00 am Session 2 – Jefferson County Groundwater, with a special focus on Karst.
Speaker – Mark D. Kozar, Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
11:00 am Session 3 – Case Study – Groundwater Quality of Domestic Wells in Bradford County and Other Select Counties in Northern Pennsylvania
Speaker – John W. Clune, Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Water Science Center
12:00 pm -1:00 pm Lunch – Taco Buffet
1:00 pm Session 4 – Water Sampling 101
Speakers – Liz Chudoba, Water Quality Program Manager, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative.
Emily Bialowas, Chesapeake Monitoring Outreach Coordinator, Izaak Walton League of America, Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative
2:00 pm Session 5 – Taking the Next Steps to Action
Panel – Emily Bialowas, Izaak Walton League of America; O. Colin Stine, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Tanner Haid, Eastern Panhandle Field Coordinator, West Virginia Rivers Coalition
Please consider a donation to support the symposium! Admission is free but the symposium is not, every little bit helps!