Remediation in Fractured Bedrock

2.0 PDHs 

The treatment of contamination in fractured bedrock is challenging due to the complex fracture flow field, uncertainties associated with contaminant distribution among fractures, microfractures, and the rock matrix, and ultimately the difficulties with understanding these complexities as they relate to remedial impacts on both short and long-term groundwater quality. The costs associated with drilling, testing, and monitoring of these fractured bedrock projects are also an issue for site management.

The speakers on this EnviroClass have worked on hundreds of fractured bedrock sites.

Presenters:

Dora Taggart, President, Microbial Insights 

John Fontana, PG, President/CEO, Vista GeoScience

Dora Taggart is the President of Microbial Insights, Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee. She received a Biomedical Engineering degree from Vanderbilt University and has focused on the optimization and implementation of molecular tools for environmental remediation, microbiologically influenced corrosion and microbial source tracking. Under Dora’s direction, MI has become the leading molecular environmental laboratory with locations in the US, Australia and Europe specializing in DNA, RNA, and isotope testing that aids consulting firms, government agencies and academia in environmental restoration and corrosion mitigation. Over the course of her career, Dora has become a global ambassador for the environmental restoration industry, regularly presenting as an invited/keynote speaker at environmental and corrosion conferences, leading hundreds of technical workshops worldwide, and co-authoring guidance documents with advisory groups like the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC) and Environmental Remediation Wiki (Remediapedia) to support appropriate use and interpretation of molecular tools. In 2016, MI received the Woman Owned Business Excellence Award and Dora received the Business Person of the Year for Scott County in 2017. She serves on the Board of Directors of Bottle Rocket Productions, the Boys and Girls Club of the Cumberland Plateau and Environmental Workshops, LLC. She is also a member of the Board of Visitors for the department of Microbiology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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John Fontana is a certified professional geologist, certified well driller, President and CEO of Vista GeoScience.  Vista is an industry respected environmental site investigation and remediation technology firm.  For nearly 40 years, he has managed thousands of site investigation and remediation projects across the country, while improving the methods and tools used to create successful outcomes.  John earned his B.S. in Geology, Oceanography and Physics from Humboldt State University (now Cal-Poly Humboldt) in California.  He helped write guidance for the Advanced Site Characterization and Optimized In-Situ Injection teams for ITRC and was also nominated to serve on an EPA Science Advisory Board.  John has presented at hundreds of conferences, private training, and public workshops on these topics. 

Contact: [email protected] // (720) 308–1703