GWB Virtual Workshop
“Introduction to Geochemical Modeling”
Presented online • 3–4 March 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 speciation and surface complexation in aqueous systems.

This workshop will be of interest to users of all versions of the GWB 2021 software, including the free GWB Community Edition.

The workshop will be presented as a fully interactive, instructor-led online meeting for two consecutive half-days, from 08:00 to 11:30 CST (14:00 to 17:30 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:

Species distribution in solution
Saturation and partial pressure
Redox disequilibrium
The geochemist's spreadsheet GSS
Modeling inside GSS datasheets

Brines and the “Pitzer equations”
Automatic reaction balancing
Equilibrium lines and equations
Pourbaix, activity, solubility diagrams
Surface complexation modeling

Prerequisites: There are no advance requirements for this course beyond an interest in geochemistry and a willingness to learn.

More information? Contact workshop support. Can't come? Consider an alternative from our 2021 workshop lineup.

Thank you very much for the workshop. It was intense but very, very clear and useful.

– Samantha Y., Stanford University

I have been modeling with GWB for several years now but I always learn something new at the workshops.

– Johan Fourie, Geostratum Groundwater & Geochemistry Consulting

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

Brian Farrell has many years of experience in developing and applying geochemical and reactive transport models. He is expert in aquifer microbiology, geochemical modeling, and reactive transport in geochemical systems. Brian has taught short courses in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.

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$199 until February 4, or $249 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 14:00 to 17:30 UTC, or:

London	14:00–17:30
Paris	15:00–18:30
Beijing	22:00–01:30

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:

If you do not have access to the GWB 2021 software, begin by downloading the free GWB Community Edition.
Please make sure a version of GWB 2021 is installed and activated on a computer running MS Windows before joining the workshop.
About a week ahead of the workshop, we will send you the workshop schedule along with two pdf files.
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.