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Foundation
Board
Awards
Three
Developing
Nations
Grants
$10,000
Allocated for
Scholarships
Second
Highest Total
Ever
Achieved by
Auction
Scholarship
Fundraiser
NGWREF
Appreciates
Its Donors
Darcy Target
of Major
Fundraising
Objective
Water Exhibit
Featuring
Ground
Water Draws
Crowds at
American
Museum of
Natural
History
Research
Proposals
Solicited for
Possible
NGWREF
Grant Awards
2008
NGWREF
Board of
Directors
Contributions
Make a
Difference
E-Mail
Changes
Spring 2008
Foundation Board Awards Three Developing Nations Grants
Sixteen thousand dollars in grants were awarded by NGWREF to three different organizations doing
water well construction projects in differing regions of the developing world. This is the second time in
the Foundation's history to award developing world grants.
Receiving $6,000 is the Tarahumarra Children's Hospital Fund for constructing water wells in the
villages served by the hospital located near Creel in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico's Copper
Canyon region. According to Steve Schneider, MGWC, a water well contractor from Oregon who has
volunteered for the hospital, "On one site where I was assisting with a new well, a man with a burro
carrying a couple of five gallon containers took over three hours making the round trip from our drill
site and back, and he had still further to go to finish transporting the water to his family."
Receiving $5,000 is second-time grant winner, the Ann Campana Judge Foundation. The funds will be
used for potable water projects in either Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, or El Salvador.
"Thank you so much for your notification of a $5,000 match to be provided to the Ann Campana Judge
Foundation," writes Mike Campana, Judge Foundation president. "We are extremely grateful, and
would ask that you convey our heartfelt thanks to the Foundation and its board."
The school
in Geisha,
Malawi that
will benefit
from the
Foundation's
grant.
A school in
the Malawi
village of
Geisha will be
benefiting
from a $5,000
grant made to
the Richland,
Washington,
Westside
Presbyterian
Church.
"Thank you so much," says Rochelle Holm, the organizer of the church's initiative. "This grant will
improve the lives of hundreds of poor villagers. Clean water really is an invaluable resource."
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$10,000 Allocated for Scholarships
Students intending to study post-secondary programs that relate to ground water science or water well
technology will have $10,000 in scholarships to compete for in 2008, thanks to the efforts of the Len
Assante Scholarship Fund of NGWREF.
This is the largest amount made available by the Foundation since the fund's inception. Thanks to
large gifts from NGWA, and from fundraising auctions held in conjunction with the President's Dinners
at the NGWA annual meeting and Ground Water Expo, it is anticipated that larger sums will be
available in future years as greater investment returns are earned from the endowment fund.
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Second Highest Total Ever Achieved by Auction Scholarship Fundraiser
Thanks to an active and generous group of bidders, the Scholarship Fundraising Auction held
following the 2007 President's Dinner of NGWA's annual meeting and Ground Water Expo, some
$41,920 was raised, the second highest total since the auction's inception in 2002, when some
$48,248 was raised.
The auction was made possible by items donated by the following organizations and individuals:
Columbus Blue Jackets, Boshart Industries, Wyo-Ben, Willis Programs/WellGuard, Aermotor, Sta-Rite
Pumps, Daniel Meyer, Mantyla Drilling, Quinn Executive Coaching, National Oilwell Varco, Haunted
Mortuary/ Ghost Expeditions, Kevin McCray, Renaissance Hotels of New Orleans, Blaine Kern's Mardi
Gras World, Palm Court Jazz Café, Cookin' Cajun, Audubon Nature Institute, Antoine's Restaurant,
JW Marriot Hotel, Bourbon Vieux, AMTROL, Dinosaur World, Caribe Royale Hotel, Arabian Nights,
Boston Lobster Feast, Steak and Ale, Smeal Derricks, Longue Vue House and Gardens, Bev Herzog,
Len & Joanne Assante, Atlas Copco, Schramm Inc., In-Situ, Campbell Manufacturing, Alturnamats,
Dahlman Pump and Drilling, GEFCO, Franklin Electric, Downey Drilling, Goulds Pumps/ ITT Corp.,
Baroid, Milby Co, Rantec Corp., Milspec Industries, Flowserve, Flexcon Industries, Roscoe Moss
Company, Simco Drilling Equipment, Titan Industries, Watson Well Drilling, Wallace Well Service,
Cribley Drilling Co., Hartford Insurance, N L Pitz Co., Bob Reichart, and Brent Murray.
Successful bidders during the auction
included: Scott Fowler,Terry Farago,
Griffin Crosby Jr., R W Stichman, John
Christ, Steve Schneider, Art Becker,
Roberta Henrich, Gary Burner, Daniel
Meyer, Stewart Krause, R. Van Valer,
Henry Boyd, Tim Sullivan, Don
Harvard, Ronnie Jones, Bruce Fowler,
Arlene Webb, Lawrence Gregory, Paul
Eberhardt, Alan Eades, Bill Reichart,
Julie Bullock, and Robert Webb II.
The highest bid received during the
auction was $9,000 from Daniel Meyer,
MGWC of Gregg Drilling and Testing
for half a truckload of Quik Gel drilling
fluid, and half a truckload of Baroid Benseal granular grout.
The auction was once again conducted by Charlie Waller, CPI, a pump contractor and professional
auctioneer from Uvalde, Texas, who donates his auctioneering skills for the benefit of the young
people who earn NGWREF scholarships.
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NGWREF Appreciates Its Donors
The various works made possible by NGWREF, such as the Darcy and McEllhiney lectures,
scholarships, and grants for ground water projects in the developing world, are only possible through
the generosity of the many donors to the Foundation.
Since 1995, these are the statistics for our various NGWREF donor recognition categories:
Category
Donation Range (cumulative)
Number of Donors
$50,000 and above
Franklin Electric Co.
Leader
Benefactor
$25,000 to $49,999
Len and Joanne Assante
$10,000 to $24,999
Gregg Drilling and Testing,
Partner
William W. Reichart, Inc., and
Downey Drilling
Patron
$5,000 to $9,999
19
Associate
$2,500 to $4,999
26
Friend
$500 to $2,499
112
Donor
$1 to $499
872
In all, 1,034 donors have given a collective $516,746, to date. This is not inclusive of support provided
by NGWA.
All donors are recognized at NGWA's Web site, and will also be recognized at various conferences of
the Association, as well as at the NGWA annual meeting and Ground Water Expo. Each donor, no
matter the size of the contribution, is recognized in writing by the Foundation.
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Darcy Target of Major Fundraising Objective
The NGWREF Board agreed to make securing support for the Darcy Lecture Series in Ground Water
Science its first priority in 2008, although the Foundation will continue to solicit support for each of the
other funds. The short-term goal is to raise at least $25,000 annually, while the longer-term goal (eight
years) is to secure at least $500,000 in endowment for the Darcy fund.
To foster interest and excellence in ground water science and technology, the Henry Darcy
Distinguished Lecture Series in Ground Water Science was established in 1986. The series—which
has reached more than 70,000 ground water students, faculty members, and professionals—honors
Henry Darcy of France for his scientific discoveries of 1856. Darcy's investigations established the
physical basis upon which ground water hydrogeology has been studied ever since.
Annually, a panel of scientists and engineers invite an outstanding ground water professional to share
his or her work with their peers and students. Today, NGWREF sponsors the Henry Darcy
Distinguished Lecture Series in Ground Water Science in response to invitations from universities
throughout the world.
No fee is charged to attend the NGWREF Darcy Lecture Series. The first presentation outside of North
America was made in 1993.
The 2008 lecturer is Michael Celia, Ph.D.,chair of the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. His topic is
"Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option." Anthropogenic
emissions of CO2 have increased atmospheric concentration of CO2 by
about 35 percent during the past 200 years. The current concentration, at
about 385 ppm, represents the highest CO2 concentration in the last 500,000 years. Projected future
emissions will lead to doubling of preindustrial CO2 concentration within the next 50 years. If this
relentless increase of atmospheric CO2 is to be reduced, or reversed, technological solutions must be
implemented on a massive scale. While many options are being considered, one attractive approach
is carbon capture and storage, or CCS.
The "geological storage" version of CCS involves capture of CO2 before it is emitted into the
atmosphere and subsequent injection of the CO2 into deep geological formations. Injection of CO2
into deep formations leads to potential impacts on ground water resources, which is the focus of
Celia's lecture.
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Water Exhibit Featuring Ground Water Draws Crowds at American Museum of Natural History
Thanks to a grant from NGWREF, wells and ground water are an integral part of a traveling exhibit on
water touring the world’s leading science museums.
The 7,000-square-foot exhibit, Water: H2O=Life, opened November 3, 2007 at its first stop, the
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, where the exhibit will run through May
27, 2008. After New York, the exhibit travels to the San Diego Natural History Museum (July 19November 30, 2008), the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) (January 17-April 26, 2009),
Chicago’s Field Museum (June 12-September 20, 2009), the Great Lakes Science Center in
Cleveland (November 14, 2009-April 11, 2010), and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto (March 12September 5, 2011). Destinations outside of North America include the Singapore Science Center;
Instituto Sangari of Sao Paulo, Brazil; and the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
Following the opening of the exhibition at AMNH, the SMM
sent a team to New York to conduct a formal evaluation of
the exhibition. One of the elements on which data were
collected was whether the exhibition results in any changes
in "worldview." Worldview involves an individual's core
values, beliefs, and ways of understanding and creating
meaning. Visitors were asked to choose the most important
reason to care about protecting the environment from a list
of six reasons taken from a national survey. The worldview
summarized as, "You have a personal responsibility to
leave the Earth in good shape for future generations," was selected as most important by 58 percent
of the visitors entering Water. After seeing the exhibition, 70 percent of visitors chose this worldview,
which indicates that the exhibition is having a significant impact on those who go through it.
The organizers of the exhibit, AMNH and SMM, expect more than three million people to see the
exhibit during its several-year run. Additional stops are being explored by the exhibit's organizers, as
well. The exhibit, which focuses on all sources of water, features live animals, hands-on exhibits, and
immersive dioramas.
"The exhibit invites people of all ages to discover the beauty and wonder of water and to explore the
challenges to protecting Earth's most precious life-giving resource," says Patrick Hamilton, SMM’s
director for this project.
The ground water
portion of the
exhibit features
"Porous Stones,"
an exhibit
component
intended to help
dispel the common
misperception that
ground water
occurs largely as
underground lakes, rivers, and "veins" of water. Visitors are encouraged to trickle water onto various
rock samples to observe that some have sufficient porosity and permeability to permit water to enter
and flow through them.
Also featured is a component that shows what may happen when two wells access the same aquifer.
When water is pumped from one of the wells (by turning a hand crank), the pressure in the aquifer
drops as a cone of depression spreads out until it reaches the recharge area of the aquifer, the
discharge area, or both.
A third ground water component is featured in the three-dimensional GeoWall animation. It shows how
ground water underneath Tucson, Arizona, has fluctuated during the past several decades in response
to ground water pumping and recharge.
"It is important for the ground water story to be told as often and as widely as possible," says
Foundation director Mark Husnik, CSP. "We're delighted to be able to be a part of this comprehensive
exhibit."
"Efforts that contribute to greater public understanding of the drinking water resource of half of the
nation’s population will contribute to better stewardship of the resource," adds Jack Henrich, MGWC,
also a Foundation director.
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Research Proposals Solicited for Possible NGWREF Grant Awards
NGWREF intends to fund leading-edge programming that stimulates new knowledge, information,
programs, and products to advance ground water science and technology. In turn, this will enhance
the future effectiveness of the ground water professions and will maximize ground water's benefit to
society.
There are several areas where NGWREF research funds in 2008 would contribute to achieving the
Foundation's mission related to sustainability and pubilc concerns about ground water policy.
Proposals are due by April 15, 2008.
For more information, link to http://www.ngwa.org/about/ngwref/research/index.aspx
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2008 NGWREF Board of Directors
These are the 2008 Board of Directors of the National Ground Water Research and Educational
Foundation:
President: Scott Fowler, CWD/PI
Executive Director: Kevin McCray, CAE
Directors:
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Alan Eades, CWD/PI
Brent Murray, PG
Jack Henrich, MGWC
Richard Clarke
Mark Husnik, CSP
John Pitz, CPI
Art Becker, CWD
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Len Assante, CWD/PI
Robert Reichart, CWD/PI
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Contributions Make a Difference
Your corporate or personal gift contribution helps the ground water professions in many ways, such as
providing necessary support to accomplish the programs described in this newsletter.
We invite your tax-deductible contribution. You may be able to increase the impact of your gift by
stipulating a "matching fund contribution" offered by many employers.
For your convenience, you may make your contribution through our Web site. Simply go to
http://www.ngwa.org/about/ngwref/contribute/index.aspx to learn more about how to contribute to
NGWREF.
Please contact Executive Director Kevin McCray if you have any questions, want to discuss
opportunities for supporting a specific program, or wish to make a planned gift. He can be reached at
800.551.7379 (or 614.898.7791), extension 503, or by e-mail to kmccray@ngwa.org.
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