GWB Virtual Workshop
“Geochemical Reaction Modeling”
Presented online • 31 August–2 September 2021
Please join us from the comfort of your home or office for instructor-led, hands-on training on how you can use The Geochemist's Workbench® software to create quantitative models of multicomponent reaction processes in isothermal and polythermal geochemical systems.
This workshop will be of interest to users and potential users of the Standard and Professional versions of the GWB 2021 software.
The workshop will be presented as a fully interactive, instructor-led online meeting for three consecutive half-days, from 08:00 to 11:30 CST (13:00 to 16:30 UTC).
What you will learn. Following a fully hands-on format, you will learn all the ins and out of this advanced toolset. Specific topics covered include:
- Reaction in multicomponent systems
- Geochemical buffers
- Acidity and alkalinity
- Acid drainage and wallrock buffering
- Fluid mixing and scaling
- Waste injection wells
- Evaporation
- Geothermometry
- Creating phase diagrams with Phase2
Prerequisites: There are no advance requirements for this course, but we suggest you acquaint yourself with how to configure the GWB apps to model speciation and surface complexation.
More information? Contact workshop support. Can't come? Consider an alternative from our 2021 workshop lineup.
The best workshop I've ever participated in. The short theoretical introductions and illustrated exercises helped me learn the software in two days.
– Valeria B., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Thanks again for a great course! I really learned a lot and am looking forward to putting it into practice.
– Andrew Wigston, Natural Resources Canada
The [Johannesburg] workshop was good and quite informative, I'll be attending the one that you'll hold in Cape Town in 2016.
– Hlanganani Tutu, University of the Witwatersrand
Instructors
The workshop will be presented by Brian Farrell and Jia Wang. Brian and Jia are Geochemists at Aqueous Solutions LLC, makers of The Geochemist's Workbench®.
Brian Farrell
Jia Wang is an aqueous and isotope geochemist and a reactive transport modeler with special expertise in weathering and the critical zone. She has many years of experience as an instructor at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and as a noted mentor to less experienced students at the secondary through graduate levels.
Jia Wang
Registration
Space is limited, so sign up early. The workshop fee is US$299 until August 6, or $349 after that date.
A registration may be transfered to another participant at no charge, and is fully refundable until 30 days before the workshop. Liability in the event of workshop cancellation or other eventuality is limited to refund of the registration fee.
How to participate
Plan to enjoy this online workshop from the comfort of your own home or office! We will use a secure video conferencing platform that allows participants to ask questions, share their screens, and generally interact with the instructors and other participants.
Please plan to join the online meeting room from 13:00 to 16:30 UTC, or:
| London | 14:00–17:30 |
| Paris | 15:00–18:30 |
| Beijing | 21:00–00:30 |
| San Francisco | 06:00–09:30 |
| Chicago | 08:00–11:30 |
| New York | 09:00–12:30 |
We will take periodic breaks between instructional units over the course of each meeting.
Please expect an email containing a meeting ID and password in the days leading up to the workshop.
Before the workshop
As the workshop date approaches, please take note of the following:
- About a week ahead of the workshop, we will send you a free 60-day license to The Geochemist's Workbench® 2021 Professional, along with the workshop schedule and two pdf files.
- Please make sure GWB 2021 Standard or Professional is installed and activated on a computer running MS Windows before joining the workshop.
- The first pdf file holds the complete set of PowerPoint slides to be shown by workshop instructors, in chronologic order, for your reference during and after the workshop.
- We recommend you print and spiral bind the second pdf file, containing the workbook you will use to complete hands-on exercises.
- We think you will be happiest if you have two computer screens available. That way, you will be able to take part in the workshop on one screen, while you use the other to run the software.
Sponsorship
The workshop is presented courtesy of Aqueous Solutions LLC, makers of The Geochemist's Workbench® software package.
