Karst Resource Management Workshop

The China Environmental Health Project, with major support from the US Agency for International Development and the ENVIRON Foundation, announces "Principles and Methods for Karst Resource Management." The workshop will be held in Kunming at the offices of the Yunnan Provincial Hydrogeology Bureau. The change of location for the workshop will allow more scientists, professors, and students from karst areas to participate. Participants of previous workshops will be asked to instruct and present various topics at this workshop to bring the CEHP goals of 'training the trainers' full circle. At least five of the 12 workshop speakers will be Chinese.

This workshop will not only focus on how to study karst to develop water resources but also how to manage and protect those resources. Speakers from the Chinese and US National Park Service will discuss issues specific to protecting and managing karst park areas, including protection of biodiversity.

The speakers listed below have all accepted invitations to participate as faculty and we are working closely with our Chinese colleagues to get the word out to potential participants among provincial hydrologists from Yunnan and the other karst-rich provinces of SW China.

Principles and Methods for Karst Resource Management Workshop
Aug. 11-13, 2009

All Conference Activities located at Yunnan Provincial Geological Survey Offices, Kunming

Overview	Morning Session	Afternoon/ Evening Session
Tues. 11	TIME: 8:00-9:00	TIME: 13:00- 13 : 45
Welcome, Karst Research and Hydrology Introduction	Welcome and Introduction of Conference Speakers	P. Reed- Park Resource Mgmt. and Administration, Including Science in Resource Mgmt. Decisions
	Yuan D.- Karst of Southwest China
China World Heritage Sites and US Nat’l Park Service	TIME: 9:00 – 9:15	TIME: 14:45 - 15 : 15
	L. Bledsoe- USAID,CEHP description and goals, Pre-evaluation	R. Toomey-Biodiversity Protection Issues in Karst management
	TIME: 9:15 – 9:30
	Liang Y. - Overview of South China World Heritage Program
	TIME: 9:30 - 10 : 10
	P. Reed. - Intro. and overview Mammoth Cave National Park
	TIME: 10 : 20 – 11:00
	R. D’Alessandro.- NPS International Cooperation
Wed. 12	TIME: 8:00- 9:00	TIME: 14:30-15:30
Evaluation of	C. Groves-Intro to Karst and Environmental Problems	P. Kambesis, Cave Survey and Resource Inventory, Geographic Information System Applications
Karst Water	TIME: 9:00-10:00
Resources	C. Groves- Intro to Dye Tracing Methods	TIME: 15:30-16:15
		P. Baker-Kentucky, USA Case Studies and Remediation
Tools and	TIME: 10:00-10:30
Methods	Jia Peng- SWUC Dye Analysis Laboratory	TIME: 16:30- 17:00
		Zhang G., Yunnan Dye Trace 2008
Applied Case Studies – China, US, and beyond	TIME: 10:45-11:30
	J. Brewer-Water Quality Monitoring	TIME: 17:00-17:30
		Liu Hong-Kunming Karst Hydrogeology Projects (past/present)
	TIME: 11:30-12:30
	N. Ravbar- Groundwater Vulnerability Mapping	TIME: 17:30-18:00
		R. Toomey- Mammoth Cave Vadose Zone Dye Tracing Efforts
Weds. 13	TIME: 8:00- 17:00	Post evaluation sometime during field day. Give Certificates out.
Field Trip	Field Trip around Kunming and Stone Forest- Study sites, points of hydrogeologic interest.
to Stone	Zhang Gui Liu Hong, , C. Groves, P. Kambesis, P. Baker, R. Toomey, L. Bledsoe,
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