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8 am - 5 pm
2026 WGF
Conference Program & Schedule
May 27 - 29, 2026
May 27 - 29, 2026
2026 WGF
Conference Program
& Schedule
WEDNESDAY - May 27
THURSDAY - May 28
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Networking Reception
Eagle Robe Room
Perils of Misunderstanding
Contamination in Dual Porosity
Groundwater Systems
Daniel Pollard / Alex Haluszka
Montrose Environmental Group
9 - 9:30 am
Big Plume Room
9 - 9:30 am
Water Sourcing for a Small
Community in Hythe, AB
Everett Nemeth
ISL Engineering and Land Services Inc.
9 - 9:30 am
Crow Flag Room
Horizontal Hero: A Mine
Dewatering Milestone
Aurore Kurc
Imperial Oil/MEMS
Eagle Robe Room
Site Closure Mechanisms in
Saskatchewan Vers Alberta: A
Groundwater Risk Perspective
Bryce Reiter / Michelle Taylor
WSP / Waterline Resources Inc.
9:30 - 10 am
Big Plume Room
Groundwater in the
Eastern Slopes of the
Rockies Water Cycle
Cathy Ryan
University of Calgary
9:30 - 10 am
Crow Flag Room
Darcy Goes Mining: Adaptive
Groundwater Management in
Open Pit Mines
Tim Crowell / Ashley Sullivan
Suncor Energy
9:30 - 10 am
Eagle Robe Room
Development of Background
Levels for Parameters in
Groundwater
Trevor Butterfield / Max Lukenbach
Worley
10 - 10:30 am
Big Plume Room
Regional Water Mapping and
Change Detection Analysis
Brent Welsh
Alberta Geological Survey
10 - 10:30 am
Crow Flag Room
Hydrological Closure of
Oil Sands Sites
Dallas Heisler
Suncor Energy
10 - 10:30 am
10:30 - 11 am
Break
12 - 12:15 pm
Break
New Tools for Efficient
Geophysics Data Acquisition:
Characterizing Groundwater
Resources Using Ground-Based
Mobile TEM
Erin Ernst
BGC Engineering
Eagle Robe Room
11 - 11:30 am
Regulating Groundwater
at B.C. Mines
Chris Donnelly
BC Ministry of Environment and Parks
Big Plume Room
11 - 11:30 am
Crow Flag Room
Evolution of the Regional
Groundwater Flow System in
Northeast Alberta Shaped Mine
Water Challenges
Matt Neuner
HydroEQ
11 - 11:30 am
TBD
TBD
TBD
Eagle Robe Room
11:30 am - 12
Hydrogeology is Key to
Integrated Mine Closure
Bill Wilmot
Okane Consultants
Big Plume Room
11:30 am - 12
Crow Flag Room
Unlocking the Haynes: Aquifer Testing and Licensing Alberta's First Horizontal Multilateral Source Well
Geoff Kovacik
Connate Water Solutions Inc.
11:30 am - 12
Disposal on the Edge - Case Study
Reviews for a Potential and
Approved Disposal Well in
Marginally Saline Aquifers
Jason Clarke
Montrose Environmental Group
Eagle Robe Room
2 - 2:30 pm
Beyond K Values and Storativities:
Integrating Multidisciplinary
Studies to Manage Water Quality
in the Elk Valley, BC. Case Study of
the Fording River Aquifer: Part 1 -
Groundwater Inputs and Flow
Stefan Humphries
SRK Consulting
Big Plume Room
2 - 2:30 pm
Crow Flag Room
Understanding
Models
Gord MacMillan
Fluid Domains Inc.
2 - 2:30 pm
Brine-Hosted Lithium Resources
of Western Canada: Distribution
and Origin
Brendan Bishop
The University of Texas at Austin
Eagle Robe Room
2:30 - 3 pm
Beyond K Values and Storativities:
Integrating Multidisciplinary
Studies to Manage Water Quality
in the Elk Valley, BC. Case Study of
the Fording River Aquifer: Part 2 -
Groundwater Transport and
Discharge
Stefan Humphries
SRK Consulting
Big Plume Room
2:30 - 3 pm
Crow Flag Room
Flee From Parsimony: Escaping
the Boundary Condition Paradox
in Groundwater Modelling
Mike Callaghan
Aquanty Inc.
2:30 - 3 pm
Advanced Laboratory Solutions
for Comprehensive Analysis
of Selenium
Kien To
ALS Global
Eagle Robe Room
3 - 3:30 pm
Investigating Faults as Flow Paths
for Mine Contact Water:
Examples from the Foreland Belt
in Eastern BC
Tyler Gale
AtkinsRealis
Big Plume Room
3 - 3:30 pm
Crow Flag Room
Groundwater Flow Simulation as a
Tool for Predicting Mitigation
Pathways and Proactively Guiding
Mitigation
Charles Dourado
WSP
3 - 3:30 pm
Modernizing Water Diversion Management for Upstream Oil and Gas - Software-Based
Tracking Solution
Jason Hong / James Burke
Cenovus Energy / Barreleye Ltd.
Eagle Robe Room
3:30 - 4 pm
TBD
TBD
TBD
Big Plume Room
3:30 - 4 pm
Crow Flag Room
Laneway Green Rainwater
Infrastructure in Western Canada:
Variably Saturated Groundwater
Modelling to Evaluate Risks to
Existing Structures and Inform of
Infrastructure Setback Distance
Getachew Mohammed / Aspen Anderson
AECOM
3:30 - 4 pm
Development of Background Levels for Parameters in Groundwater
Trevor Butterfield / Max Lukenbach
Worley
Regional Water Mapping and Change Detection Analysis
Brent Welsh
Alberta Geological Survey
Hydrological Closure of
Oil Sands Sites
Dallas Heisler
Suncor Energy
10:00
Site Closure Mechanisms in Saskatchewan Versus Alberta -
A Groundwater Risk Perspective
Bryce Reiter / Michelle Taylor
WSP / Waterline Resources Inc.
Groundwater in the
Eastern Slopes of
the Rockies Water Cycle
Cathy Ryan
University of Calgary
Darcy Goes Mining: Adaptive
Groundwater Management
in Open Pit Mines
Tim Crowell / Ashley Sullivan
Suncor Energy
9:30
Perils of Misunderstanding
Contamination in Dual Porosity
Groundwater Systems
Daniel Pollard / Alex Haluszka
Montrose Environmental Group
Water Sourcing for a Small Community in Hythe, AB
Everett Nemeth
ISL Engineering and Land Services Inc.
Horizontal Hero: A Mine Dewatering Milestone
Aurore Kurc
Imperial Oil/MEMS
9:00
TBD
TBD
TBD
Hydrogeology is Key to Integrated Mine Closure
Bill Wilmot
Okane Consultants
Unlocking the Haynes: Aquifer
Testing and Licensing Alberta's
First Horizontal Multilateral
Source Well
Geoff Kovacik
Connate Water Solutions Inc.
11:30
New Tools for Efficient Geophysics Data Acquisition: Characterizing Groundwater Resources Using Ground-Based Mobile TEM
Erin Ernst
BGC Engineering
Regulating Groundwater
at B.C. Mines
Chris Donnelly
BC Ministry of Environment and Parks
Evolution of the Regional
Groundwater Flow System in
Northeast Alberta Shaped
Mine Water Challenges
Matt Neuner
HydroEQ
11:00
Break
10:30
Modernizing Water Diversion Management for Upstream
Oil and Gas - Software-Based
Tracking Solution
Jason Hong / James Burke
Cenovus Energy / Barreleye Ltd.
Laneway Green Rainwater
Infrastructure in Western Canada:
Variably Saturated Groundwater
Modelling to Evaluate Risks to
Existing Structures and Inform of
Infrastructure Setback Distances
Getachew Mohammed / Aspen Anderson
AECOM
TBD
TBD
TBD
15:30
Advanced Laboratory
Solutions for Comprehensive Analysis of Selenium
Kien To
ALS Global
Investigating Faults as Flow
Paths for Mine Contact Water: Examples from the Foreland
Belt in Eastern BC
Tyler Gale
AtkinsRealis
Groundwater Flow Simulation as a
Tool for Predicting Mitigation
Pathways and Proactively Guiding
Mitigation
Charles Dourado
WSP
15:00
Brine-hosted Lithium Resources
of Western Canada:
Distribution and Origin
Brendan Bishop
The University of Texas at Austin
Beyond K Values and Storativities:
Integrating Multidisciplinary
Studies to Manage Water Quality
in the Elk Valley, BC. Case Study of
the Fording River Aquifer: Part 2 -
Groundwater Transport and
Discharge
Stefan Humphries
SRK Consulting
Flee From Parsimony: Escaping the Boundary Condition Paradox in Groundwater Modelling
Mike Callaghan
Aquanty Inc.
14:30
Disposal on the Edge - Case Study
Reviews for a Potential and
Approved Disposal Well in
Marginally Saline Aquifers
Jason Clarke
Montrose Environmental Group
Beyond K Values and Storativities: Integrating Multidisciplinary Studies to Manage Water Quality in the Elk Valley, BC. Case Study of the Fording River Aquifer: Part 1 - Groundwater Inputs and Flow
Stefan Humphries
SRK Consulting
Understanding
Models
Gord MacMillan
Fluid Domains Inc.
14:00
16:00
17:30
Networking Reception
FRIDAY - May 29
*Preliminary Schedule - Subject to Change
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