Technical Session Schedule

Coffee Discussions

Welcome and Introductions

Speaker: Dr. Ben Tobin

Opening Keynote: Advancing Discrete–Continuum Modeling of Flow and Transport in Karst Systems Across Scales

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Reimann

Break

Remediating Groundwater in a Karst Terrane ‒ Encouraging Results and Lessons Learned

Speaker: Urvi Tulsiani

A Simple Approach to Assessing Groundwater Discharge Behavior at Government Spring, Central New Mexico

Speaker: Matthew Kaspar

Ongoing Dye Tracing Prompts Major Reevaluation of Groundwater Divides for The Lost River Karst System, Bowling Green, KY, USA

Speaker: Lee Anne Bledsoe

Stratigraphic Controls on Recharge to the Confined Aquifer of the North Coast Karst Belt of Puerto Rico

Speaker: Brian A. Smith

Lunch (2 Hours)

Springs of The Catskill Mountains: A Conduit Flow System in Predominantly Siliciclastic Strata

Speaker: Daniel H. Doctor

Karst at a Potential Construction Site Adjacent to the Delaware River Near the Glacial Terminus, New Jersey, USA

Speaker: Ira D. Sasowsky

Karst Sinkholes and Civil Engineering: Overview of Characterization and Treatment Options from a Geophysical and Geotechnical Viewpoint

Speaker: Mia Painter

Break

A Comprehensive Analysis of Stratigraphic Influence on Karst Feature Distribution and Density Across Southeast Minnesota, USA

Speaker: Julia R. Steenberg

Hasparos Embayment – An Example of Intrastratal Hypogenic Speleogenesis

Speaker: Peter J. Hutchinson

Contrasting the Groundwater Pathways Driving Cave Formation in the Water Sinks Area in Highland County, Virginia, USA Using Electrical Resistivity Imaging

Speaker: Shamsuddin Ahmed

Brine-Enhanced Hypogenic Speleogenesis and Concentrated Karst Development in the Burton Flats, Eddy County, New Mexico

Speaker: David D. Decker

Coffee Discussions

Statewide Sinkhole Susceptibility Mapping in Florida Using Explainable GeoAI

Speaker: Osama M. Al-Tarawneh

Comparing Manual and Automated Methods in Sinkhole Delineation: a Cantabrian Mountains (Spain) and Tasman Mountains (New Zealand) Case Study

Speaker: Mario Puente-Sierra

Attention-Enhanced MultiModal Fusion of Elevation and Aerial Imagery for Sinkhole Segmentation

Speaker: Junfeng Zhu

Break

Cover Collapse Sinkholes in Stormwater Infrastructure in the Urban Karst of Bowling Green, Kentucky – Occurrence, Mitigation, and Prevention

Speaker: Nick Lawhon

A Comprehensive Look at Ohio’s Karst Inventory Mapping Reconnaissance, Ground-Truth, and Beyond

Speaker: Brittany Parrick

Characterization of the Galena Karst of East-Central Olmsted County Minnesota

Speaker: John D. Barry

Investigating Sediment Accumulation Dynamics via Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing Tools Along with Physical/ Chemical Characteristics of Sediments in Owl Cave, Highland County, Virginia

Speaker: Dhanuska B. Wijesinghe

Break

Banquet and Speaker: A Bellwether for Change: Groundwater and Sea Level Rise in Southeast Florida

Speaker: Dr. Michael Sukop

Karst Clips

Poster Session