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Program

 

Monday 1 November

 

Opening Address: Don Blackmore, Conference Chair

Headline Plenary Address: Stephen Foster, World Bank

Intensive groundwater use – inspiration and frustration in the quest for sustainability

Platinum Sponsor Plenary Address: James Cameron, National Water Commission

Rising to the groundwater challenge- Australia’s national groundwater action plan

Hot Topic Session 1): The Challenges of Sustainable Management in Australia

Plenary Address: Ray Evans

An evaluation of the sustainability of extraction of groundwater in Australia

Plenary Address: Frank Walker

Groundwater in the Murray Darling Basin – an essential resource

 

Concurrent Session 1

1A - Current Water Policy Environment

 

Topic: The Murray-Darling Basin Plan

1B - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Estimation of sustainable yields

1C - Future Opportunities

 

Topic: Deep Groundwater Resources, geothermal and carbon geo-sequestration

1D - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater System Mapping and Characterisation

1E - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater in the Coastal Zone

1F - Capacity Building

 

Topic: Information Requirements

1G - Future Opportunities

 

Topic: Arid Zone Groundwater Resources

 

Tariq Rana

Murray Darling Basin groundwater planning under the Basin Plan. Part 1: Framework for change

 

Glen Walker

SY projects- achievements – but where to from now?

 

 

Phil Commander

Deep groundwater resources in Australia

 

Tim Munday

Regional lines, select traverses, calibrated data - the future for airborne EM in aquifer and groundwater characterisation?

 

Adrian Werner

Seawater intrusion vulnerability assessment: Improving on existing large-scale approaches

 

Carl Daamen

Conceptual models of groundwater systems for regional water balance

 

Steven Lewis

Regional mapping of palaeovalley groundwater resources in arid Australia

 

Lucy Lytton

Murray Darling Basin groundwater planning under the Basin Plan. Part 2: Policy Development

 

Tony Smith

Aquifer Sustainability Factor: a review of previous estimates

 

Alison Kirkby

Overview of geothermal energy in Australia

 

Tristan Campbell

Airborne electromagnetics for groundwater: what it can and can't do

 

Steven Pells

Potential impact of sea-level rise on coastal aquifers

 

Carl Daamen

Groundwater storage and water accounting: an open discussion

 

Derwin Lyons

Hydrogeology of the southeastern Arckaringa Basin and overlying southwestern Eromanga Basin, and the implications for sustainable water supply development in central South Australia

 

Robert McLeish

Murray Darling Basin groundwater planning under the Basin Plan. Part 3: Management outcomes

 

Joseph Guillaume

Managing uncertainty in determining sustainable aquifer yield

 

 

Soazig Corbel

Implementation of a multi-disciplinary data repository to aid geothermal exploration

 

Greg Street

Groundwater geophysics study of Pilbara Coast

 

Prachi Dixon-Jain

A national scale vulnerability assessment of seawater intrusion in Australian coastal aquifers

 

Milos Pelikan

A focus on the Z dimension in Groundwater - Profile databases as a means of information discovery and communication of aquifer structure

 

Pauline English

Application of airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data for mapping buried palaeovalleys in the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia

 

Ray Evans

Hydrogeology behind the lines: the concepts used to develop management boundaries for groundwater in the Basin Plan

 

Brendan Cossens

A water balance approach to determining sustainable diversion limits and groundwater resource management options

 

 

Ludovic Ricard

Sustainability and management of HSA geothermal systems in the Perth metropolitan area

 

Jon-Phillipe Pigois

A window to Perth's confined aquifers on the north Gnangara Mound

 

 

Bithin Datta

Management models for optimal and sustainable utilization of coastal aquifers using linked simulation-optimization

 

Tim Ransley

Cumulative rainfall collector - a low-cost tool for assessing groundwater recharge

 

Maria Woodgate

Groundwater in palaeovalleys in the Northern Territory

Concurrent Session 2

2A - Current Water Policy Environment

 

Topic: The Murray-Darling Basin Plan (ctd)

 

2B - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Estimation of sustainable yields

2C - Future Opportunities

 

Topic: Deep Groundwater Resources and aquifers for geothermal and carbon geo-sequestration

2D - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater System Mapping and Characterisation

2E - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater in the Coastal Zone

2F - Capacity Building

 

Topic: Groundwater Monitoring

2G - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Arid Zone Groundwater Resources

 

Russell Crosbie

Groundwater recharge modelling as an input to the Basin Plan

 

Mike Dudding

Steps towards estimation of meaningful sustainable yields in a regional aquifer

 

Soazig Corbel

Building 3D geological models for groundwater and geothermal exploration

 

 

Ken Lawrie & Tim Munday

The use of AEM for salinity hazard mapping in the Ord River Irrigation Area, Western Australia

 

Keith Bristow

Towards improved management of the Lower Burdekin Coastal floodplain groundwater systems

 

Chris McAuley

Strategic planning for groundwater monitoring needs

 

Ryan Vogwill

Toolibin Lake 2010, combining hydrogeology, remote sensing and plant ecophysiology to explain the response to management interventions

Brian Barnett

Groundwater modelling in the Murray Darling Basin to inform sustainable extraction limits

Fred Leaney

Recharge and discharge estimation in data poor areas using empirical relationships

Lynn Reid

Modelling hot sedimentary geothermal aquifers: a groundwater perspective

Kok Piang Tan

Salinity Hazard in the Ord Valley, Western Australia

 

Eloise Larsen

Iron bacteria in Australian estuarine catchment groundwater

Bob Knowles

Benefits of refurbishing the State Observation Bore Network for groundwater resource management

Pauline English

Groundwater investigations in palaeovalleys in the Murchison region, Western Australia

Eliza Wiltshire

The recharge risk assessment method - informing groundwater extraction limits for the Murray-Darling Basin

Lazarus Leonhard

Gascoyne River alluvial aquifer, groundwater management and tools

Ludovic Ricard

Assessing sustainability of geothermal resources for hot sedimentary aquifer systems

Jon Clarke

Use Of An Integrated Hydrogeological Systems Approach to Guide Irrigation Development in the Weaber Plain

 

Darren Alcoe

Evaluating approaches to coastal aquifer management: a comparison of trigger-level and flux-based paradigms

Malcolm Graham

Risk ranking of high-risk artesian bores - Victorian State Observation Bore Network

John Wischusen

Localised recharge in the arid zone: a case study of the Finke River, Great Artesian Basin, Australia

Kate Dowsley

Baseflow assessment for unregulated streams in the Murray-Darling Basin

Ben Hall

Groundwater resource appraisal for South East Melbourne, Victoria

Cara Danis

A static method for collecting temperatures in deep groundwater bores for geothermal exploration and other applications

Kok Piang Tan

The use of airborne electromagnetics (AEM) as part of a hydrogeological systems approach to map aquifer systems and address specific salinity management questions in the Barr Creek-Gunbower reach of the Murray River

Jay Punthakey

Development of a groundwater management and seawater intrusion model for the Macleay Sands aquifer

Alan Wade

Victorian State Observation Bore Network - decommissioning of high-risk artesian bores

Simon Fulton

Localised recharge in the arid zone: a case study of the Finke River, Great Artesian Basin, Australia

 

Jim Fraser

Virtual aquifers and the Middle East

Zeb Etheridge

Aquifers as heat sinks: the United Kingdom experience

Damon Greenhalgh

Groundwater Science in Support of the Cloudbreak Water Management Scheme (Stage 1 of the Papa Warringka)

Genevieve Larsen

Cluster analysis to support graphical methods in the characterisation of ground and surface waters in a subtropical coastal catchment, Fraser Coast, Queensland

Michael Mozina

Development of an adaptive groundwater monitoring framework to inform salinity management across the Victorian Mallee region

 Andrew Tankey

Fossil groundwater extraction in Australia: Social, environmental and economic implications and the need for management principles