These notes are provided for your information. The main purposes of the workshop were to (1) foster communication, (2) develop strategies for collaboration, and (3) brainstorm on ways to approach critical problems that are not yet being addressed by geology and geophysics.

Three main action items came from the planning and coordination discussions regarding (1) and (2). A preliminary list of priority items regarding (3) came from the panel discussion and was augmented by the Planning and Coordination Discussions.

ACTION ITEM 1.  Set up linked web sites and start an email list server.

Recommendation:  Develop or update web pages for each of the ongoing scientific studies of the Española basin, with responsibility given to the group running the study to develop and control the web pages.  Set up links between all the web pages for easy access to information about all the studies.

Status of Action:  Some web pages already exist, some need modification, and some need to be developed from scratch. For example, the USGS-Rio Grande basins (RGB) project web site is still in the design stage. Once a web site for the technical advisory group is developed, the links between web pages can be coordinated.

Recommendation:  Start an email list server as a forum for people to communicate by email amongst a list of interested people. The communications can be announcements of events, news items, technical information, requests for data, questions, comments, etc.

Status of Action.  The email list server can be set up as part of the web site for the technical advisory group.

ACTION ITEM 2.  Hold future workshops

Recommendation:  Hold future workshops, perhaps similar in format to the one just held.

Status of Action: There was no consensus on what the focus/format of future workshops should be. The majority felt future workshops should be a mixture of reports of study results to technical and lay audiences and have a planning and coordination component. A number of others felt the workshop should just report results to both technical and lay audiences. One function of the technical advisory group will be to decide how and when future workshops are to be held.

ACTION ITEM 3.  Form a technical advisory group

Recommendation:  Form a technical advisory group composed of a core group of technical people who represent the major governmental and academic groups undertaking scientific studies related to understanding the Española groundwater basin, including geologic, geophysical, hydrogeologic, hydrologic, and geochemical studies. The technical advisory group should be kept as small as possible, yet have mechanisms to assure that all interested parties are informed and involved.

The objectives are to:

• Act as a clearinghouse for ideas and directions of study
• Develop strategies for integration/coordination of technical studies to reach common goals
• Develop priorities, recommend needed work, and coordinate funding strategies
• Provide a focal point for communication and information transfer between the technical groups and between the technical groups and the users of the information

Example duties of the group would be to:

• Meet regularly for planning and coordination
• Oversee development of linked web sites and email list server
• Organize and sponsor workshops, forums, discussions, etc. to meet a variety of communication needs
• Identify and contact key funding agencies, ground-water management agencies, public policy makers, and other influential groups to provide advice and an avenue for input of their needs
• Have a "floating agenda", that is, address different subject at separate meetings to focus discussion and provide opportunities for groups to send people with different expertise at different times.  (Example agendas are geologic framework, aquifer characteristics, and ground-water models)

Status of Action  A tentative list of core technical groups was developed, along with volunteered or nominated recruiters (some without their knowledge), whose charge is to find out who their group would like to see join the technical advisory group.

Further Action:  The USGS-RGB project volunteers to develop and host the web site and email list server for the technical advisory group. We also volunteer to solicit responses from the recruiters to develop a preliminary group. We propose a first meeting on July 18, 2002. (see July 9 meeting) The agenda for the first meeting should focus on finalizing the objectives and implementation of the group (including the composition of the group) and on setting the format and timing of the next workshop.

Hydrologists' list of critical problems/issues that they ask geologists/geophysicists to address.

This list comes out of the panel discussion on Tuesday, and was augmented by the planning and coordination discussion group on Wednesday.

• Develop a better understanding of distribution of lithologies in the Santa Fe Group
• Determine the thickness of aquifer (Santa Fe Group) throughout basin
• Better integrate geology with hydrology
• Better define extent and thickness of basalts
• Gather evidence of buried river channels
• Examine the controls on deep upflow at the Rio Grande
• Assess geophysical methods that might detect productive zones at depth
• Examine fault locations compared with hydrologic data to look for their influence
• Determine where and which fault properties impact ground water
• Examine the effects of geothermal processes
• Develop paleogeographic reconstructions to aid understanding of present-day geology
• Determine the extent of fractured-rock-dominated flow in mountains and depth of active circulation
• Determinedip domains within basin
• Examine the controls of geologic heterogeneities on hydrologic properties
• Explain/quantify geologic uncertainties

Group	Representative
City of Santa Fe	Dale Doremus
Jemez Y Sangre Water Planning Council	Amy Lewis
Los Alamos Natl. Lab - geology, geophysics	Scott Baldridge
Los Alamos Natl. Lab - hydrology	Elizabeth Keating
NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources	Peggy Johnson
NM Office of State Engineer	Jack Frost
Santa Fe County	Katherine Yuhas
Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE)	Scott Baldridge
USGS-New Mexico District Office	Doug McAda
USGS-Rio Grande Basin project	Tien Grauch and Mark Hudson
University of New Mexico	Gary Smith
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)	Bill White

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These notes were compiled by Tien Grauch and Mark Hudson.

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