Plenary Address: Craig Simmons, Flinders University and National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training

Groundwater Challenges and Opportunities for Australia in the 21st Century

Plenary Address: Rob Vertessy, Deputy Director (Water), Bureau of Meteorology

Recent advances towards regular and systematic reporting on Australia's water resources

Plenary Address: Chris Pigram, Geoscience Australia

Groundwater: Geoscience Australia’s role in national water issues

Hot Topics Session 4

HT4A - Capacity Building

Sub-theme: Information Requirements

HT4B - Future Opportunities and Challenges

Sub-theme: Northern Australia Groundwater Resources and Development

HT4C - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

Sub-theme: Groundwater and Mining

Greg Hoxley

Towards a national groundwater information system

Richard Cresswell

Northern Australia’s water resources: the vitality of groundwater

Chris Moran

Groundwater and mining

James Devonshire

Groundwater data for the ‘Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric’ (Geofabric)

Richard George

The Ord Stage 2 development in the Weaber plain

Doug Brown

The Cloudbreak Water Management Scheme (Stage 1 of the Papa Warringka)

Andrew Harrison

Development and use of an interim national aquifer framework for the Australian geospatial fabric

Ian Lancaster

Northern Territory groundwater resources

Susan Worley

The Pilbara Water in mining guideline- integrating water policy with industry best practice and environmental approval processes

Greg Holland

Groundwater metering and licensing- a national review

Paul Howe

A risk-based approach to assessing local and cumulative effects of mining operations on groundwater systems

Concurrent Session 8

8A - Capacity Building

Topic: Education, Training, Employment and Community Engagement

8B - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Surface-groundwater interaction

8C - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Great Artesian Basin

8D - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Groundwater modelling

8E - Future Opportunities and Challenges

Topic: Northern Australia Groundwater Resources and Development

8F - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

Topic: Groundwater and Mining

8G - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Groundwater System Mapping and Characterisation

8H - Future Opportunities and Challenges

Topic: Frontier Science and Technologies

Richard McLoughlin & Richard Hopkins

National Water Skills Strategy

Hugh Middlemis

Advances in groundwater modelling of floodplain inundation recharge and evapo-transpiration, with application of AEM data (Lindsay-Wallpolla, Victoria and NSW)

Mark Keppel

The hydrochemistry of selected mound spring environments, Lake Eyre South Region, Great Artesian Basin, South Australia

Douglas Graham

Embedding high resolution topography in an integrated groundwater-surface water model

Ursula Zaar

The Gulf water study - mapping work

Alan Puhalovich

Evolution of conceptual hydrogeological models, Ranger Uranium Mine, Northern Territory

Igor Zektser

Experience of regional groundwater resources assessment and mapping

Chris Barber

Treatment and use of brackish and saline groundwater resources: options and opportunities in regions with climate variability and freshwater shortages

Imogen Fullagar

Groundwater: more than a technical topic

Glenn Passfield

Do groundwater managers really need to consider floodplain processes in the lower Murray-Darling Basin

Glen Harrington

Measuring millimetre per year discharge fluxes in the two million square kilometre Great Artesian Basin

Damian Finlayson

Monte Carlo probability technique applied to groundwater resource assessments and management

Rebecca Doble

Sampling for stream-aquifer connections by helicopter in a remote, inaccessible area

Katarina David

Mine water sharing - a way forward

Graham Green

Groundwater flow pathways in mountain front fractured rock systems: implications for conjunctive management of surface and groundwater resources

Wendy Timms

Centrifuge permeameter testing and field geophysics for characterising aquitards and leakage paths

Robert Williams

Mallee Cliffs Salt interception scheme - a demonstration of the impact of groundwater pumping on a regulated river

M.A Rien Habermehl

Recharge to the Great Artesian Basin in New South Wales

Richard George

Modelling the impacts of a 1,000 ha plantation on groundwater overlying a palaeochannel aquifer in South Western Australia

Andrea Madden

The Scarborough Sandstone and its connectivity with longwall mining in a water supply catchment

Adrian Costar

Hydrogeological mapping of fracture orientation and groundwater flow in the Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia

William Milne-Home

An efficient piston pump for low-yield boreholes

Juliette Woods

The impact of flooding on surface and groundwater interaction in the River Murray at Lock 2 and Murtho

Champika Wethasinghe

Groundwater recharge: comparison of outputs

Karsten Michael

Hydrodynamics of the Gippsland Basin

Tania Wilson

Prediction of catchment scale processes in fractured rock aquifers, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia

Hilary Nath

Electrochemical decontamination of iron and manganese from groundwater