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Conference Seating Setup

8 am - 5 pm

2026 WGF

Conference Program & Schedule

May 27 - 29, 2026

To review ABSTRACTS:

Conference Seating Setup

May 27 - 29, 2026

2026 WGF

Conference Program
& Schedule

To review ABSTRACTS:

WEDNESDAY - May 27

ICEBREAKER

Jon Noad

7 - 9 pm

FIELD TRIP

Kevin Parks / Nigel Atkinson

8 am - 5 pm

19:00

21:00

Jon Noad

ICEBREAKER

Hydrogeology of Wine

THURSDAY - May 28

8:45 - 9:00 am

Break

8:30 - 8:45 am

Opening Remarks

Jamie Wills

7:30 - 8:30 am

Registration and Breakfast

12:15 - 2 pm

Lunch &
Keynote Address

Dr. John Cherry

4:00 - 4:15 pm

Closing Remarks

4:15 - 5:30 pm

Networking Reception

Eagle Robe Room

 9 - 9:25 am

Everett Nemeth

ISL Engineering and Land Services Inc.

 9 - 9:25 am

Crow Flag Room

Aurore Kurc

Imperial / Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd. (MEMS)

Big Plume Room

 9 - 9:25 am

Eagle Robe Room

 9:30 - 9:55 am

Big Plume Room

 9:30 - 9:55 am

Bryce Reiter / Michelle Taylor

WSP / Waterline Resources Inc.

Eagle Robe Room

 10 - 10:25 am

Crow Flag Room

 10 - 10:25 am

Big Plume Room

 10 - 10:25 am

10:30 - 11 am

Break

12 - 12:15 pm

Break

Chris Donnelly

BC Ministry of Environment and Parks

Big Plume Room

 11 - 11:25 am

Crow Flag Room

 11:30 - 11:55 am

Big Plume Room

 11:30 - 11:55 am

Eagle Robe Room

 2:30 - 2:55 pm

Big Plume Room

 2:30 - 2:55 pm

Beyond K Values and Storativities: Integrating Multidisciplinary Studies to Improve Water Quality in the Elk Valley, BC. Case Study of the Fording River Aquifer: Part 2 - Groundwater Transport and Discharge

Leslie Harker / Stefan Humphries

SRK Consulting

Elk Valley Resources

Jutta Hoppe

Break

Opening Remarks

Jamie Wills, MC

Registration and Breakfast

8:45

8:30

7:30

Eagle Robe Room
Crow Flag Room
Big Plume Room

Trevor Butterfield / Max Lukenbach

Worley

10:00

Bryce Reiter / Michelle Taylor

WSP / Waterline Resources Inc.

9:30

Everett Nemeth

ISL Engineering and Land Services Inc.

Aurore Kurc

Imperial / Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.

9:00

Lunch & Keynote Address

Dr. John Cherry

12:15

Break

12:00

15:30

15:00

Brendan Bishop

The University of Texas at Austin

14:30

Gord MacMillan

Fluid Domains Inc.

14:00

16:00

Closing Remarks

16:15

17:30

Networking Reception

FRIDAY - May 29

Kevin Parks / Nigel Atkinson

FIELD TRIP

Urban Hydrogeology
of Calgary

8:00

17:00

*Preliminary Schedule - Subject to Change
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