Event Title
Tools and Techniques for Urban Karst Hydrology and Hazard Monitoring and Management
Session Type
Workshop session
Start Date
20-8-2020 10:00 AM
Description
Facilitators: Dr. Jason S. Polk and Adam Shelley, Center for Human Geoenvironmental Studies, Department of Earth Environment and Atmospheric Sciences, WKU
Participants took part in a virtual experience to visit several sites and engaged in case studies involving various methods and techniques for data collection, monitoring, and equipment/instrumentation use in conducting re- search and/or collecting data in urban karst systems. Covered topics included emergency management planning for groundwater and hazard mitigation (sinkholes, contamination events, long-term monitoring, etc.). This involved an overview of setting up a sampling or monitoring site, monitoring techniques, analytical techniques, data logger deployment and utilization, software selection and usage, data processing, and other related topics. The workshop topics included the current status of urban karst groundwater monitoring and future directions for planning for high-resolution monitoring, groundwater quality monitoring, hydrologic and geochemical monitoring, flood and hazard monitoring, study site security, and others. It also included a case study of integrating these techniques in the National Corvette Museum sinkhole project and the elements of its formation, impacts, and remediation. This highlights the importance of collaborative karst hydrologic and geotechnical investigations to better understand and remediate karst hazards and the usefulness of combining existing and new methods during the process, along with education and outreach, to build resilience against these urban karst hazards through improved awareness and implementation of advanced techniques.
Recommended Citation
Polk, Jason S. and Shelley, Adam, "Tools and Techniques for Urban Karst Hydrology and Hazard Monitoring and Management" (2020). Conservation of Fragile Karst Resources Proceedings. 1.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/con_karst_res_proc/con_karst_pro_2020/day_three/1
Tools and Techniques for Urban Karst Hydrology and Hazard Monitoring and Management
Facilitators: Dr. Jason S. Polk and Adam Shelley, Center for Human Geoenvironmental Studies, Department of Earth Environment and Atmospheric Sciences, WKU
Participants took part in a virtual experience to visit several sites and engaged in case studies involving various methods and techniques for data collection, monitoring, and equipment/instrumentation use in conducting re- search and/or collecting data in urban karst systems. Covered topics included emergency management planning for groundwater and hazard mitigation (sinkholes, contamination events, long-term monitoring, etc.). This involved an overview of setting up a sampling or monitoring site, monitoring techniques, analytical techniques, data logger deployment and utilization, software selection and usage, data processing, and other related topics. The workshop topics included the current status of urban karst groundwater monitoring and future directions for planning for high-resolution monitoring, groundwater quality monitoring, hydrologic and geochemical monitoring, flood and hazard monitoring, study site security, and others. It also included a case study of integrating these techniques in the National Corvette Museum sinkhole project and the elements of its formation, impacts, and remediation. This highlights the importance of collaborative karst hydrologic and geotechnical investigations to better understand and remediate karst hazards and the usefulness of combining existing and new methods during the process, along with education and outreach, to build resilience against these urban karst hazards through improved awareness and implementation of advanced techniques.
Comments
This presentation was part of the Workshops Session:
Thematic workshops facilitate collaboration between international resource protection programs and to inform karst conservation, sustainable development, and community involvement efforts in the world’s premier karst regions. Workshops are 1.5-hour blocks of time that were organized to achieve a specific outcome.