UTSA Advancement Council Meeting – January 22, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Ruben Olivares Jr.
    Freshwater Challenges Near the Texas-Mexico Border - Implications of Unmonitored Private Wells for Human Health

University of Texas System Inaugural Postdoctoral Symposium – September 16, 2024 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Pousali Pathak, Ruben Olivares Thomas S. Varner, Harshad V. Kulkarni, Guadalupe Carmona, Cynthia Lima, Steven Hollan, Saugata Datta
    Hydrogeochemical Assessment of Groundwater in Transboundary Aquifers along the US-Mexico Border and Drinking Water Quality Implications for Texas Colonias

GSA Connect 2024 – September 22-25, 2024 • Anaheim, California

  • Saugata Datta, Harshad Vijay Kulkarni, Rajat Dhiman, Thomas Varner, Peter S.K. Knappett
    Understanding the Arsenic Mobility in the Sutlej-Indus River Basin Using Laboratory-Based Incubation Experiments of the Beas River Sediments
  • Alexander Tribley, Brian Curry, Pousali Pathak, Harshad Vijay Kulkarni, Mauricio E. Flores, Saugata Datta
    Seasonal Variations in Geochemical Characteristics of Surface Soils Controlling the Edwards Aquifer Groundwater Chemistry in South-Central Texas
  • Saugata Datta, Thomas Varner, Kyungwon Kwak, Harshad Vijay Kulkarni, William D. Nguyen, Meinhard Cardenas, Peter S.K. Knappett
    Arsenic and Iron Association in Sediment Comprising the Hyporheic Zone of the Meghna River in Bangladesh

UTSA Postdoctoral Research Symposium – September 22, 2023 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Pousali Pathak
    Assessing the Impact of Weathering, Lithology and Fluvial Transport on Molybdenum and its Isotopic Composition (δ98Mo) in Indian River of Tropical Climate

Fall 2023 iSTEM Symposium: Water Quality in Global Contexts – December 5, 2023 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Dinorah Méndez Huerta (UDG), Luis Antonio Muñoz (UDG), Arely Romo Becerra (UDG), Luis Montero Moguel (UDG), and Verónica Vargas Alejo (UDG)
    Mathematical Knowledge and Representations in Models Constructed by university Students To Explain an MEA
  • Paulina Salinas (UTSA)
    Computational Informatics and Water Quality in STEM Classrooms
  • Donna Dancer (UTSA)
    Public Meeting for Community Water Management Education in Comal County, TX: An Actor in Complete Participant Field Research
  • Arely Romo Becerra (UDG), Maureen Melina Marín Muñoz (UDG), Gilberto Vargas Hernández (UDG), Angélica Hernández Arellano (UDG), and Verónica Vargas Alejo (UDG)
    Rainwater Harvesting Model Eliciting Activity to Foster Estimation Processes
  • Emily Wright (UTSA)
    Water Quality, Nitrogen Cycle, and Project-Based Learning
  • Krista Schultze (UTSA)
    The Nitrogen Cycle and Agriculturists: Guided Inquiry in Situated Cognition
  • Tessa Martinez (UTSA), Amy Mendez (UTSA), and Cali Moran (UTSA)
    How Can Water Quality Develop Scientific Inquiry for School-Aged Children?
  • Amy Mendez (UTSA)
    Water Quality and Filtration Experiment

Fall 2022 iSTEM Symposium: Water Quality in the Texas-Mexico Region – December 6, 2022 • San Antonio, Texas

  • Amanda Villarreal (UTSA) and Ashley Montiel (UTSA)
    Connecting Tomorrow’s Scientists to Today’s Research: An Inquiry into Water Quality with 5th Grade ESL Learners
  • Dinorah Méndez Huerta, (UDG)
    Water Is Running Out, A Model-Eliciting Activity to Alert about the Future of Water
  • Donna C. Dancer (UTSA)
    Water Literacy in Comal County, TX: Who, What, When, Where, and How
  • Ana Rodríguez (UPPN) and Cecilia Ayala (UPPN)
    How Much Effort Does It Take To Have Potable Water at Home? A Study of Water Quality in Coahuila, Mexico
  • Krista Schultze, (UTSA)
    Model-Eliciting STEM Activity to Explore Livestock Water Quality with Agricultural Science Students
  • Luis Antonio Muñoz González (UDG)
    Models Constructed in the Context of Reforestation
  • Saul Cepeda (UTSA)
    STEM: Using Nature’s Design to Help Clean Water
  • Melissa Rodriguez (UTSA)
    How Do 7th Graders Understand the Importance of Drinking Water Quality Standards?
  • Luis Montero Moguel (UTSA)
    Building Ideas of Fluids Mechanical as a Foundation for Understanding Water Supply Systems on the Texas-Mexico Border: An Integrated STEM experience K-12
  • Katherine Solis (UTSA)
    Source Water Protection & The Involvement of School Communities, and Our Youth

SIET International Workshop on Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater Quality and Health Issues: Review and Way Forward – April 22-23, 2021 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta (keynote speaker)
    Dissolved Organic Matter and its Role in Contaminant Mobilities in Aquifers

8th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (As2021) – June 7-10, 2021 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta (Keynote Speaker)
    Understanding the Interactions among Dissolved Organic Matter, Fecal Contamination, and Arsenic in the Groundwaters of Southeast Bangladesh
  • Tom Varner
    Contrasting Biogeochemical Controls on Arsenic Mobilization in an Arsenic Contaminated Aquifer and a Potential Natural Reactive Barrier in Bangladesh

Goldschmidt2021 – July 4-9, 2021 • Virtual

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 18th Annual Meeting – August 1-6, 2021 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta (invited speaker)
    Geochemical Characterization of Sediments from an Arsenic Contaminated Aquifer in Proximity to a Potential Riverbank Permeable Natural Reactive Barrier in Bangladesh
  • Fernando Lopez
    Hydro-Chemical Mapping of Brackish Groundwater Reserves across the State of Texas, USA to Evaluate the Potential for Inland Desalination

International Microorganism Day 2021 – September 17, 2021 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta (invited speaker)
    Role of Natural Organic Matter in Microbially Mediated Mobilization of Iron and Arsenic in Reducing Aquifers

GSA Connects 2021 – October 10-13, 2021 • Portland, Oregon

  • Ashley Aguilar
    Hydrothermal Influence on Arsenic and Fluoride in Groundwater of the Independence Basin Aquifer System in Central Mexico
  • Protik Banerjee
    Role of Organic Matter in Mobilization of Phosphorus in Tallgrass Prairie Soil
  • Saugata Datta
    Using Analysis of Dissolved Organic Matter in Waters from Volcanic Caves to Identify Prevailing Microbial Metabolisms
  • Keisuke Ikehata
    Comparison of Chemical and Photobiological Methods for the Removal of Dissolved Silica and Calcium Hardness from Brackish Groundwater Reverse Osmosis Concentrate
  • Harshad Kulkarni
    Role of Dissolved Organic Matter in Controlling Growth of Coliform Bacteria in Arsenic Contaminated Groundwater of Southeast Bangladesh
  • Carole Lakrout
    Habitability Influences Biosignatures in Mars Analog Lava Tubes
  • Katrina Poling
    Investigating Biological Methods for Improving Reverse Osmosis-Based Desalination of Brackish Groundwater in Bexar County, TX
  • Tom Varner
    Contrasting Biogeochemical Controls on Arsenic Mobilization in Reducing Aquifer and a Potential Natural Reactive Barrier (NRB)

AGU 2021 – December 13-17, 2021 • New Orleans, Louisiana

  • Protik Banerjee
    Effect of pH and Organic Matter on Soil Phosphate Dynamics in a Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem
  • Reid Buskirk
    Experimental Investigation and Modeling of Fe-oxide Permeable Natural Reactive Barrier Formation through a Novel Reversing Flow 1-D Column Experiment (R1D)
  • Shayla Husted
    Inorganic and Organic Carbon Fluxes from Tropical Andisols and Andesitic Saprolite in a Pre-Montane Rainforest
  • Harshad Kulkarni
    The Influence of Physical Processes in the Growth of Speleothems in Volcanic (Lava Tube) Caves
  • Kyungwon Kwak
    Overbank Sediments as a Hotspot of Arsenic Release in Riverbanks of a Tidally and Seasonally Fluctuating River
  • Tom Varner
    Geochemical Characteristics of Sediments from a Potential Natural Reactive Barrier and Arsenic Contaminated Aquifer in Bangladesh

International E-conference on Recent Advances in Conservation and Utilization of Water – August 26-27, 2020 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta
    Influence of River-Groundwater Interactions on Aquatic Geochemistry in Hyphoric Zones

GSA 2020 Connects Online – October 26-30, 2020 • Virtual

  • Harshad Kulkarni
    Co-Occurring Trace Elements (CTEs) of Potential Human Health Concern in Arsenic Contaminated Aquifers in the Bengal Basin
  • Katrina Poling
    Brackish Groundwater in Bexar County Texas: Sustainability for Reverse Osmosis (RO) Desalination
  • Tom Varner
    Sedimentological Controls on Arsenic Mobilization in a Permeable Natural Reactive Barrier (PNRB)

2nd International Industrial and Environmental Toxicology Congress – November 18-22, 2020 • Virtual

  • Saugata Datta
    Role of Organic Matter in Mobilizing As and Co-Occurring Trace Elements of Health Concern in Natural Systems

SERDP-ESTCP Symposium 2020 – November 30-December 4, 2020 • Virtual

2020 AGU Fall Meeting – December 1-17, 2020 • Virtual

  • Felipe Becker
    Tracking Source of Contaminant Lead in Children's Blood as Means for Environmental Remediation
  • Reid Buskirk
    Experimental Investigation of Iron and Arsenic Fate and Transport in Fluctuating Reversing Flows Using Columns
  • Saugata Datta
    Geochemical Controls on Mobilization and Transport of Tungsten in Sediments from Fallon, Nevada
  • Peter Knappett
    Sources and Sinks of Arsenic in Riverbanks along the Meghna River, Bangladesh
  • Harshad Kulkarni
    Geochemistry of Mineral-Water-Microbe Interactions in Lava Caves: Exploring Terrestrial Correlations to Inform Future Planetary Life Detection Missions