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align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000099"><b><font size="4">November Software Releases </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000099"><b><font size="4">(9/27/2004)</font></b></font></b></font></p> </font> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">A number of public-domain software releases are expected by or before the end of november, including </font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Times New Roman">Visual Bluebird 2.0 (with contaminant transport using the Cardinal library)</font> <li><font face="Times New Roman">ArcAEM 1.0 (An ArcGIS-based interface to Split)</font></li> </ul> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> <font face="Times New Roman"><font color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"> </font></font> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000099"><b><font size="4">Groundwater Research Group has first Ph.D. Graduate </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000099"><b><font size="4">(9/27/2004)</font></b></font></b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">GRG student member James Craig successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "Reactive Contaminant Transport modeling using Analytic Element Flow Solutions" on Sept. 21st. His comittee was comprised of GRG members Drs. Rabideau, Becker, Jankovic, and Flewelling.</font></p> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000099"><b><font size="4">New Visual Bluebird (v1.8) Released (7/29/2004)</font></b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Visual Bluebird has been updated to include automated calibration features provided by the software product Ostrich. Software available for download <a href="http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/groundwater/software/VBB/VBBMain.htm">here</a>. </font></p> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000099"><b><font size="4">Short Course Announcement (5/12/2004)</font></b></font></p> <font face="Times New Roman"></font> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">A short course administered by the Groundwater Research Group is to be offered at UB (and satellite locations in Albany and New York City, enrollment permitting) on June 28th and 29th entitled</font></p> <p align="left"><b>Modeling Regional Groundwater Flow with the Analytic Element Method:<br> Source Water Assessment and GIS</b></p> <p align="left">The course is a primer on analytic element modeling of groundwater flow, with 1.6 Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) available for professional engineers. For more information, please download the <A href="UBShortCoursePamphlet.pdf">brochure</a> (*.pdf format)<br> </p> <font face="Times New Roman"><font color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> </font></font><font face="Times New Roman"> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000099"><b><font size="4"><br> New Visual Bluebird and Split Released (11/20/2003)</font></b></font></p> </font> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">Visual Bluebird and Split, two software products developed by the UB groundwater group have been updated with new elliptical elements, analysis tools, algorithms, and interface tools. Software available for download <a href="http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/groundwater/software/VBB/VBBMain.htm">here</a>. </font></p> <font face="Times New Roman"><font color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> </font> <p align="left"><b><font size="4" color="#000099">Groundwater researchers featured in UB Today</font></b></p> <p align="left">Visit UB's online alumni magazine- UB Today- to learn about the recent activities of the Groundwater Research Group!</p> <p align="left">Go to article:<br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/UBT-archives/22_ubtw03/features/indexb.html">http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/UBT-archives/22_ubtw03/features/indexb.html</a></p> <font color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> </font> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b> <font size="4" color="#000099">Jankovic convenes AGU session on Analytic Elements</font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><br> Dr. Igor Jankovic, along with Dr. Henk Haitjema of Indiana University, convened a Special Session on Analytic Element Modeling of Groundwater Flow at the May 2002 meeting of the American Geophysical Union held in Washington DC. Included in the session were talks by Dr. Jankovic and Ph.D. candidate James Craig.</p> </font> <font color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> </font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b> <font face="Times New Roman" color="#000099" size="4">UB Environmental Engineers win national design competition</font></b></p> </font> <CENTER> <font face="Comic Sans MS"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">On September 29, 2002, a group of UB environmental engineering majors traveled to Chicago to participate in the first annual Water Environment Federation Student Design Competition.&nbsp; Presenting their work alongside students from 3 other universities, the UB team of Jean Balent, Samuela Franceschini, and Howard Kellick took first place in the competition.&nbsp; All three students were members of the 2002 graduating class of UB s new BS environmental engineering program.&nbsp; Other participants in the project included faculty advisor Alan J. Rabideau and the following environmental and civil engineering majors: Chris Angier, Erika Bleyle, Dan Brown, Jeff Carpenter, Valarie Ellis, Heather Humphrey, Erik Magboo, Meaghan Partelow, Natalie Sauer, and Brian Szalda.</font></p> </font> <CENTER> <font face="Times New Roman"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"> <IMG height=126 src="award1.jpg" width=217 border=0></p> </font> <CENTER> <font face="Comic Sans MS"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman">UB students receive award plaque&nbsp;</font></p> </font> <CENTER> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"> <font face="Comic Sans MS"> </font> For more information about the project, go to: <font color=#000099> <a href="http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/ees/research/water_quality.htm" style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single"> www.eng.buffalo.edu/ees/research/water_quality.htm</a></font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font> </p> <font color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"> <CENTER> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> <h3 align=left><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Graduate Student Wins Presentation Award</font></h3> </CENTER> </font> </CENTER> </CENTER> </CENTER> </CENTER> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Graduate student James Craig (Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering) won one of the Don Rennie memorial awards for his presentation of a talk entitled "Modeling Groundwater/Surface Water Interaction with the Analytic Element Method" at the 12th annual Great Lakes Research Consortium Student/Faculty Conference held in Syracuse, NY March 15-16, 2002.</font></p> <hr color=#00009c size=3 width="50%"> <FONT color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"> <H3 align=left><font color="#000099" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2001 Fluid Flow and Transport Conference</font></H3> </FONT> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dr. Igor Jankovic gave a talk titled "Analytic-based Numerical Laboratory for Investigating Dispersion&nbsp; in Groundwater"&nbsp; on&nbsp; the conference&nbsp; "Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media:&nbsp; Mathematical and Numerical Treatment" held in South Hadley, MA June 17-21, 2001.</font> </p> <HR color=#00009c SIZE=3 width="50%"> <H3 align=left><font color="#000099" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2001 Remediation Conference</font></H3> <P align=left><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dr. Alan Rabideau will moderate sessions on Modeling for the 2001 International Containment &amp; Remediation Technology Conference and Exhibition to be held June 10 - 13, 2001 in Orlando, Florida. Dr. John Van Benschoten will also present a paper entitled "Application of a Competitive Cation Exchange Model for Simulating Removal of Strontium in a Zeolite Permeable Reactive Barrier" For more information on the International Containment Remediation Technology Conference and Exhibition, click <A href="http://www.containment.fsu.edu/">here</A></font></P> <HR color=#00009c SIZE=3 width="50%"> <H3 align=left><font color="#000099" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Research Group wins ASCE Medal</font></H3> <P align=justify><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">A group led by Professor John Van Benschoten recently received the 2001 Rudolph Hering medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Hering medal recognizes <I>"..</I>. the paper which contains the most valuable contribution to the increase of knowledge in, and to the advancement of, the environmental branch of the environmental branch of the engineering profession." Co-recipients include recent Ph.D. graduates Chandra Gangulay and Chih Huang, and Associate Professor Alan Rabideau</font></P> <HR color=#00009c SIZE=3 width="50%"> <H3><font color="#00009c" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Appointments</font></H3> <P><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;Prof. Igor Jankovic has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the Reviews of Geophysics</font></P> <HR color=#00009c SIZE=3 width="50%"> <H3><font color="#00009c" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Professor Becker wins prestigious award</font></H3> <P><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dr. Matt Becker, Assistant Professor of Geology, recently received the prestigious New Investigator Award from The National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA). The 3-year award will support research entitled: "<A href="http://www.geology.buffalo.edu/Research/hydro/NASA.htm">Remote Sensing of Ground Water</A>: Calibration of Environmental Ground-Water Flow Models to Satellite Data."</font></P> <HR color=#00009c SIZE=3 width="50%"> <FONT color=#000099 face="Comic Sans MS"> <H3 align=left><font color="#000099" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2001 Fluid Flow and Transport Conference</font></H3> </FONT> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dr. Igor Jankovic gave a talk titled "Analytic-based Numerical Laboratory for Investigating Dispersion&nbsp; in Groundwater"&nbsp; on&nbsp; the conference&nbsp; "Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media:&nbsp; Mathematical and Numerical Treatment" held in South Hadley, MA June 17-21, 2001.</font> </p> <HR color=#00009c SIZE=3 width="50%"> <H3 align=left><font color="#000099" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2001 Remediation Conference</font></H3> <P align=left><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dr. Alan Rabideau will moderate sessions on Modeling for the 2001 International Containment &amp; Remediation Technology Conference and Exhibition to be held June 10 - 13, 2001 in Orlando, Florida. Dr. John Van Benschoten will also present a paper entitled "Application of a Competitive Cation Exchange Model for Simulating Removal of Strontium in a Zeolite Permeable Reactive Barrier" For more information on the International Containment Remediation Technology Conference and Exhibition, click <A href="http://www.containment.fsu.edu/">here</A></font></P> <HR color=#00009c SIZE=3 width="50%"> <H3><font color="#00009c" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Appointments</font></H3> <P><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;Prof. Igor Jankovic has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the Reviews of Geophysics</font></P> <HR color=#00009c SIZE=3 width="50%"> <H3><font color="#00009c" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Software</font></H3> <P><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Latest version of Split, PhreFlow and Visual Bluebird are available from the <A href="../software/software.html">groundwater software</A> web page</font></P> <P><a href="http://www.groundwater.buffalo.edu"><b>Return to the GRG Homepage</b></a></P><!-- #EndEditable --></td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <map name="home"> <area shape="RECT" coords="44,3,177,58" href="../index.html"> </map> </body> <!-- #EndTemplate --></html>