Rocky Mountain Section - 64th Annual Meeting (9–11 May 2012)

Session No. 24
Thursday, 10 May 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM
Alvarado H (Hotel Albuquerque)

T5. Arsenic, Uranium, and Radionuclides: Geology and Health Impacts in the Southwest and Rocky Mountains II

GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA Geology and Society Division

 

Malcolm D. Siegel, Advocates
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1:30 PM
PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS OF URANIUM IN GROUNDWATER IN NEW MEXICO
MCQUILLAN, Dennis1, TOTH, Barbara2, WIMAN, Stephen3, LONGMIRE, Patrick4, VANIMAN, David5, REARICK, Michael4, MCLEMORE, Virginia T.6 and SIMMONS, Ardyth M.7, (1)New Mexico Environment Department, 1190 St. Francis Dr., Suite S 2100, Santa Fe, NM 87505, (2)New Mexico Department of Health, 5301 Central Ave. NE, Suite 900, Albuquerque, NM 87108, (3)Good Water Company, 933 Baca Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505, (4)Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop D469, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, (5)NA, Planetary Science Institute, 1700 East Fort Lowell Road, Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719, (6)New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, (7)EP, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Emeritus, P.O. Box 1663, MS-M992, Los Alamos, NM 87501, dennis.mcquillan@state.nm.us, dennis.mcquillan@state.nm.us
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1:45 PM
GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES CONTROLLING TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION OF URANIUM, ESPAÑOLA BASIN, NEW MEXICO
LONGMIRE, Patrick1, VANIMAN, David2, REARICK, Michael1, MCLEMORE, Virginia T.3, WIMAN, Stephen4, MCQUILLAN, Dennis5 and SIMMONS, Ardyth M.6, (1)Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop D469, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, (2)Planetary Science Institute, 1700 East Fort Lowell Road, Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719, (3)New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, (4)Good Water Company, 933 Baca Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505, (5)New Mexico Environment Department, 1190 St. Frances Dr., Suite S 2100, Santa Fe, NM 87505, (6)EP, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Emeritus, P.O. Box 1663, MS-M992, Los Alamos, NM 87501, plongmire@lanl.gov, plongmire@lanl.gov
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2:00 PM
STUDYING URANIUM CONTAMINATION LEVELS IN GROUNDWATER FROM THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTA: A COMMUNITY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP
BHATTACHARYYA, Prajukti1, CONVERSE, Kathryn2, EJNIK, John, W.3, LAGARRY, Hannan E.4 and RIESEN, Alyssa L.3, (1)Geography and Geology, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 120 Upham Hall, 800 Main Street, Whitewater, WI 53190, (2)Natural Resources Regulatory Agency, Oglala Sioux Tribe, P.O. Box 320, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge, SD 57770, (3)Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190, (4)Department of Math, Science, & Technology, Oglala Lakota College, 490 Three Mile Creek Road, Kyle, SD 57752, bhattacj@uww.edu, bhattacj@uww.edu
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2:15 PM
LEACHABILITY OF URANIUM ORE AND MINE WASTES FROM THE GRAND CANYON AREA, NORTH RIM MINING DISTRICT, NORTHERN ARIZONA
GALLEGOS, Tanya J., Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr, MS 956, Reston, VA 20192 and OTTON, James K ., Energy Program, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 939 Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, CO 80225, tgallegos@usgs.gov, tgallegos@usgs.gov
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2:30 PM
USE OF RADIUM ISOTOPES TO EVALUATE NATURALLY-OCCURRING URANIUM AND RADIUM SOURCES AND BEHAVIOR IN NEW MEXICO GROUNDWATERS: EXAMPLES FROM THREE SITES
BRYAN, Charles R.1, SIEGEL, Malcolm2, VINSON, David S.3, RAANAN-KIPERWAS, Hadas4, VENGOSH, Avner5 and DWYER, Gary5, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, (2)School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (3)Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, (4)Wetlands Division, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC 20460, (5)Division of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, crbryan@sandia.gov, crbryan@sandia.gov
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2:45 PM
REMOVAL OF RADIONUCLIDES FROM ESTONIAN GROUNDWATER USING AERATION, OXIDATION AND FILTRATION
LUMISTE, Liie, Tallinn, 19086, Estonia and MUNTER, Rein, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn, 19086, Estonia, liielumiste@gmail.com, liielumiste@gmail.com
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3:00 PM
UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTS AND OTHER WORST-CASE ANALOGUES FOR GEOLOGIC WASTE ISOLATION
REMPE, Norbert T., 1403 N Country Club Cir, Carlsbad, NM 88220-4115, rempent@yahoo.com, rempent@yahoo.com
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3:15 PM
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3:30 PM
QUANTITATIVE MINERALOGY OF "ERIONITE-MESO" VILLAGES OF CAPPADOCIA, TURKEY: "ORIGINAL-OLD" VS. "RELOCATED-NEW" SARIHIDIR VILLAGES
DOGAN, Ahmet Umran, Earth Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, & Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia, DOGAN, Meral, Geological Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara, 55555, Turkey and BALLIRANO, Paolo, Dipartimento di Scienzadella Terra, Universita di Roma, Roma, 00185, Italy, umran-dogan@uiowa.edu, umran-dogan@uiowa.edu
 
3:45 PM
Discussion
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