Past MGWA Conferences/Field Trips:
- Fall 2024 Groundwater Resilience in the Upper Midwest: Sustainability Vision 2050
- Spring 2024 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning – Application and Integration in MN Groundwater Science
- Fall 2023 50 Years of the Safe Drinking Water Act
- Spring 2023 A Drinking Water Journey: an exploration of unique water supplies across Minnesota
- Fall 2022 Minnesota Mining and Water Resources
- Spring 2022 A Groundwater Tour of Minnesota
- Fall 2021 Rural and Sensitive: Groundwater across the ‘Driftless Area’ of Southeastern Minnesota and Adjacent States
- Spring 2021 Groundwater Research: What’s New and Useful?
- Fall 2020 Keeping it Clean: Protecting and Managing Groundwater Quality in Urban Environments
- Spring 2020 Cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Fall 2019 No Longer ‘out of sight, out of mind’ – Making Groundwater Science Visible to Citizens and Clients
- Spring 2019 It’s Time to Talk about ‘Till’ – Glacial Sediments and Groundwater
- Fall 2018 Successes, Near-misses, and Failures – Regional Groundwater Planning
- Spring 2018 Where’s my flying car? Groundwater past, present, and future
- Fall 2017 The Effect of Agriculture on Groundwater Resources
- Spring 2017 Management, Analysis, and Optimization of Groundwater Data
- Fall 2016 Modern Advances in Groundwater
- Spring 2016 Thinking Big: Innovative Solutions for Groundwater Recharge and Reuse
- Fall 2015 The 14th Sinkhole Conference/MGWA Fall Conference
- Spring 2015 Pickles, Beer and Cloud Computing
- Fall 2014 The Legacy and Future of Superfund
- Spring 2014 Recharge, Infiltration and Drainage
- Fall 2013 The Economics of Groundwater Management
- Fall 2013 Field Trip – A Journey to the Paleozoic Plateau – Karst of SW Minnesota
Eric Mohring Photos
Tonia O’Brien Photos - Spring 2013 Hydrogeology and Public Health
- Fall 2012 and the 57th Midwest Groundwater Conference
Groundwater Opportunities and Conflicts in the 21st Century: Economy to Ecology - Spring 2012 Conduits, Karst, and Contamination – Addressing Groundwater Challenges
- Fall 2011 Held in Conjunction with the GSA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis
- Spring 2011 Toward Sustainable Water Use in Minnesota
- Fall 2010 A Sampling of Ambient and Non-point Water Quality Issues Affecting Minnesota
- Spring 2010 Mining and Water Resources
- Fall 2009 Groundwater Flow in Theoretical and Real World Aquifer Systems
- Spring 2009 Connecting with Ground Water
- Fall 2008 Advances in Field Data Collection
- Spring 2008 – Biofuels and Water Resources
- Fall 2007 – Addressing Ground-Water Issues for the Next Generation
- Spring 2007 – Methods for Solving Complex Ground-Water Problems
- Fall 2006 – Ground Water Management – The Minnesota Model
- Spring 2006 – Better Ground Water by Design
- Fall 2005 – GeoChemistry for Scientific Investigations
- Spring 2005 – Ground Water Sustainability Symposium
- Fall 2004 – Management and Analysis of Ground Water Data
- 2004 Calcareous Fen Workshop
- Spring 2004 – Ground Water Contamination: State of the State
- Fall 2003 – Water Conservation in Minnesota: Is it time to get serious?
- Spring 2003 – Interaction of Ground Water and Surface Water
- Fall 2002 – Municipalities and Ground Water Supply Issues
- Spring 2002 – Effective Drilling and Well Techniques in Minnesota
- Fall 2001 – The Value of Minnesota’s Ground Water
- Spring 2001 – Minnesota’s Emerging Ground Water Science and Technology Issues
- Fall 2000 – Minnesota’s Emerging Ground Water Quality Issues: Practical Ideas to Increase the Effectiveness of Ground Water Management
Outcomes of the November 2000 Conference PDF
- Spring 2000 – Minnesota Water Law
- Fall 1999 – Surface Geophysical Applications for Ground Water Professionals
- Spring 1999 – New Leadership in Evolving Ground Water Policy
- Fall 1998 – Developing Ground Water Technologies
- Spring 1998 – Brownfield Redevelopment and Ground Water Protection
- Fall 1997 – Surface Water – Ground Water Interaction
- Spring 1997 – Licensing of Geoscientists in Minnesota
- Fall 1996 – Datalogger Concepts and Applications in Hydrogeology Shortcourse
- Spring 1996 – Applied Ground Water Management: Wellhead Protection and Beyond
- Fall 1995 – Isotope Hydrology Short Course
- Spring 1995 – Technical Communication with the Public: Ground Rules for Scientists
- Fall 1994 – Directions in Ground Water Remediation
- Spring 1994 – Landfill Gasses: Genesis, Detection, and Control
- Fall 1993 – Land Use and Ground Water Protection: Making the Connection
- Spring 1993 – Applications of Geographic Information Systems for Investigating Ground Water Resources
- Fall 1992 – Characterizing Aquifer Conditions
- Spring 1992 – Innovations and Updates in Drilling and Well Construction
- Fall 1991 – Innovations in Field Screening Methods and Geotechnical Applications
- Spring 1991 – Remediation Technologies for the Unsaturated Zone
- Fall 1990 – Environmental Risks – Contrasting Perceptions
- Spring 1990 – Field Techniques and Interpretation
- Fall 1989 – 1989 Ground Water Legislation in Minnesota
- Spring 1989 – Property Transfer: Environmental Liability and Site Assessment
- Fall 1988 – Water Treatment Options: Coping with Contaminated Water
- Spring 1988 – Radium in Ground Water: Origin, Occurrence, Treatment and Health Effects
- Fall 1987 – Nitrate Seminar
- Spring 1987 – Hydrocarbon Contamination
- Fall 1986 – Ground Water Contamination with Dr, John A Cherry
- Spring 1986 – Geophyscial Exploration
- Winter 1986 – Ground Water Quality Data Analysis
- Fall 1985 – Geophysical Techniques in Ground Water Studies
- Spring 1985 – Implementation of Wisconsin’s Ground Water Law
- Summer 1984 – Ground Water Quality Sampling and Analysis
- Spring 1984 – The Professional as an Expert Witness
- Fall 1983 – The Why’s Wherefore’s, How’s, and I-Told-You-So’s of Piezometer Installations
- Summer 1983 – Drilling, Sampling, and Monitoring Well Installation
- Spring 1983 – Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Ground Water Contamination in Minnesota
- Fall 1982 – Hazardous Waste Disposal and Ground Water Contamination