API Oxygenates Workshop

USGS scientist James Landmeyer was asked to be one of the instructors for the American Petroleum Institute http://www.api.org/ (API) Oxygenates Workshop at the National Ground Water Association's Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Materials in Ground Water: Prevention, Assessment, and Remediation Conference and Exposition, Costa Mesa, California, August 20-22, 2003. The workshop described recent groundwater research on the fate and remediation of fuel oxygenates /definitions/fuel_oxygenates.html. The workshop included presentations on site characterization, mass flux estimates, natural attenuation, and remediation technologies for fuel oxygenates. Dr. Landmeyer presented information on the natural attenuation of fuel oxygenates.

Instructors

• Eric Nichols - LFR/Levine-Fricke
  
• Jim Landmeyer - U.S. Geological Survey
  
• Doug Mackay - University of California, Davis and University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  
• Gino Bianchi - Geomatrix Consultants, Inc.
  
• Pedro Alvarez - University of Iowa
  
• Matt Lahvis - Shell Global Solutions
  
• Ravi Kolhatkar - BP Environmental Technology
  
• Kirk O'Reilly - ChevronTexaco Research and Technology Co.
  
• Tim Buscheck - ChevronTexaco Research and Technology Co.

More Information

• National Ground Water Association Event Calendar

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Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Research on Fuel Oxygenates

• Processes Affecting the Natural Attenuation of Fuel Oxygenates in Ground Water -- Laurel Bay, South Carolina