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Registration is required to reserve your spot at Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance’s 2025 Mine Pools as Beneficial Resources conference. This event will gather experts from various backgrounds to discuss innovative approaches to mine pool utilization, management, and remediation strategies. Join us in sharing knowledge and fostering connections that can lead to sustainable solutions for our Coal Region communities. We look forward to your participation.
AGENDA
8:30AM Introduction
Session 1 - Geothermal Energy from Mine Pools
8:45AM - Mike Korb, P.E. (TetraTech, Retired) Save Money, Save the Environment: Another Discussion of Mine-Water Geothermal
9:15AM - James Britton (West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey) Assessing Mine Pool Geothermal Potential in West Virginia using the WVGS Coal Bed Mapping Project (CBMP) Database
9:45AM - Arash Dahi Taleghani, PhD (Penn State University) Presentation Title
10:15AM - Panel discussion among Session 1 presenters
11:00AM - Lunch
Session 2 - Needed Investigation and Characterization of Mine Pools
12:15PM - Daniel Goode, PhD (USGS, retired) Hydrologic Data Synthesis for Mine Pool Water Management
12:45PM - Michael Hewitt/Robert Hughes (EPCAMR) Presentation Title
1:15PM - Michael Sheehan (Tetra Tech) Strategies for Watershed Restoration – Case Studies of Success
1:45PM - Sami Pretzel, P.E. (Kleinfelder) Banning No. 4: Title V Active Treatment Plant Retrofit and Mine Pool Management Project
2:15PM - Panel discussion among Session 2 presenters
2:45PM - Break
Session 3 - Pumped Underground Storage Hydropower (PUSH) in Abandoned Mines
3:00PM - Tim Scarlett, PhD (Michigan Technological University) PUSH and Abandoned Mines: Perspectives on Site Selection and Qualification
3:30PM - Thomas Johansson (CEO, Mine Storage International AB, Sweden) Mine Storage for Enabling the Energy Transition
4:00PM - Susan Stewart, PhD (Penn State University) The Potential for Wind Power Integration with Abandoned Mines
4:30PM - Panel discussion among Session 3 presenters
Adjourn Day 1
Session 4 - Coal Region as Sources of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals
8:00AM - Mohammad Rezaee, PhD (Penn State University) Selective Recovery of Multi-Critical Minerals from Acid Mine Drainage
8:30AM - Bette Conway (EPA) EPA ROAR Research Project, Sampling for Critical Rare Earth Metals in Acid Mine Drainage and Coal Refuse to Inform Long-term Mine Pool Treatment and Land Reclamation
9:00AM - Charles Cravotta, PhD, P.G. (USGS, Retired) Water-quality Modeling Tools to Evaluate Potential for Precipitation and Absorption of Dissolved Metals During Treatment of AMD with Application to Recovery of Critical Minerals
9:30AM - Frederick Day-Lewis, PhD (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories) Drone-based Geophysical Surveying and Autonomous, Real-time Data Analysis for Characterization of Coal Mine Refuse Sites.
10:00AM - Panel discussion among Session 4 presenters
10:30AM - Break
Session 5 - “How are you going to pay for that?”
10:45AM - Angela Meck, P.E. (Tetra Tech) Available Federal/State Funding Sources for Remediation and Development
11:15AM - Pierre MaCoy, PG (SRBC) Presentation Title
Session 6 - Coal Region History, Industrial Heritage and Organizing Community Involvement
11:45AM - Bode Morin, PhD (Eckley Miners Village and Heritage Museum) Heritage Beyond the History and the Value of the Past
12:15PM - Shaunna Barnhart, PhD (Bucknell University) Presentation Title
12:45PM - Steve Chrismer, PhD, P.E. (SCRA) A Creek Runs Through it - Water and the People of Shamokin
Adjourn Conference
