The IET, in cooperation with ELA, sponsors seminars on topical subjects of the day. One seminar was presented on ground-water supply issues under investigation for the Harris County, Texas area where the classic battle between surface water (dam construction) and ground water (declining potentiometric levels) has been under way over the past 10 years. 

The IET also sponsors research to improve access to the technical literature in the geosciences and on local geological and environmental issues. Click (here). 
 

 
The IET also sponsors and hosts a number of web sites on the ela-iet.com domain. One site is the website for the Texas Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists.  Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., Principal Instructor for the IET and Managing Director, served as the Program Chairman for the Environmental Management and Mining Sessions for the 1997 Annual AIPG Conference held in Houston.  Special presentations were made in the memory of Gene Shoemaker and his extraordinary partnership with his wife, Carolyn Shoemaker, and for special contributions made by Dr. John McKay (of NASA) and by Dr.Wayne Pettyjohn (retired, Oklahoma State University). 

Other web sites sponsored are of various types of environmental technology, such as: Environmental Geophysics Associates (EGA), and similar sites now under construction. In cooperation with the IET, M. David Campbell, P.G., Project Hydrogeologist of M. D. Campbell and Associates, created and maintains the Texas Section: AIPG web site as well as the Texas Section: AEG web site.