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Program

 

Tuesday 2 November

 

Headline Plenary Address: Robert Glennon, University of Arizona 

Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis And What To Do About It

 

Plenary Address: Tony Slatyer, Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Water for the future

Hot Topics Session 2

HT2A - Water Policy Environment

 

Topic: How can science create new policy and management options?

HT2B - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

 

Topic: Surface-groundwater connectivity

HT2C - Future Opportunities and Challenges

 

Topic: Coal Seam Gas

HT2D - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

 

Topic: Sustainable, Integrated Groundwater Management

Don McFarlane

Assessing future groundwater yields under climate change (SW Western Australia)

Peter Cook

What is a disconnected stream?

Matthew Paull

CSG Overview

Greg Russell

Challenges to groundwater management in a metropolitan environment

Ned Harmer

Coal Seam Gas (CSG) - gas project or water project?

Peter Dillon

Urban stormwater re-use - Adelaide MAR

Rob Brownbill

Interconnection of surface and groundwater systems - river losses from losing/disconnect streams

Randall Cox

Policy and Management Overview- a Qld perspective

Chris McAuley

Secure allocation, future entitlements - integrated groundwater system based management framework for Victoria

Richard McLoughlin & Ken Lawrie

Menindee Lakes: “A case study of geoscientific support in resolving a longstanding policy and water management problem”

Ian Jolly and G. Podger

Modelling groundwater - surface water interactions in the new generation of river systems models for Australia

Andrew Moser

Realising the Potential for CSG Water Injection to Aquifers in the Surat and Southern Bowen Basins

Imogen Fullagar

Translating ‘one resource water management’ from concept to practice in mature irrigation systems of the southern Murray Darling Basin

Jane Coram

Integrating groundwater science and policy: bridging the chasm

Kate Dowsley

Developing a national framework and guidelines for integrated management of connected groundwater/surface water systems

 

Steve Barnett

Management approaches for non-renewable groundwater resources

 

Concurrent Session 3

3A - Current Water Policy Environment

 

Topic: Water allocation planning, and management of over-allocation

3B - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Surface-groundwater connectivity

3C - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Risks to groundwater quality

3D - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic:  Groundwater visualisation

3E - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater System Mapping and Characterisation

3F- Future Opportunities

 

Topic: Coal Seam Gas

3G - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater in the Coastal Zone

3H - Future Opportunities

 

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

Randall Nott

Cross border peace in a time of water wars

Sebastien Lamontagne

Field assessment of the connection status and recharge rate in losing streams

Wendy Timms

Evaluating groundwater quality trends, risks of aquifer salinisation and aquifer connectivity, Namoi catchment, Murray-Darling Basin

Peter Schätzl

Visualisation in Groundwater Modelling — Helpful Tool Or Colourful Toy?

Andrew Fitzpatrick

Direct water detection and hydraulic properties estimation using the latest magnetic resonance sounding technology in Australia

Ryan Morris and Ned Hamer

A risk-based approach to cumulative effects analysis for the Australian Coal Seam Gas Industry

Doug Weatherill

Modelling impacts of climate change and groundwater extraction on coastal groundwater quality and groundwater dependent ecosystems of New South Wales

 

Andrew Feitz

Groundwater and geological storage of carbon dioxide

 

Ross Carruthers

Using risk assessments to drive sustainable groundwater management

James McCallum

Methods for quantifying groundwater-surface water interactions in 10 catchments

John Webb

Tectonic/volcanic control on salinisation of Bet Bet Creek, Central Victoria

Bruce Gill

The use of 3D geological mapping for groundwater resource appraisal and management

Bradley Keane

The application of Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (SNMR) geophysical technique for evaluation of recharge mechanisms at Gnangara Mound, Western Australia

Wendy McLean

Isotopic tools for assessing aquifer connectivity during coal seam gas exploration

Seng Chee Poh

Tracing temporal variability of groundwater fluxes in tidal wetlands using radon isotopes and electrical conductivity

Patrice de Caritat

An overview of the CO2CRC Otway Geosequestration Project, Victoria, Australia

Martin O’Rourke

Peel Valley water sharing plan, an integrated approach

David Rassam

Assessing the impacts of groundwater development on low flows in rivers using resource indicators

Matt Lenahan

Groundwater redox controls on the mobility of nitrogen in a karstic aquifer system in tropical Northern Australia

Malcolm Cox

Visualisation modelling in 3D of an alluvial aquifer system at a valley -wide scale to understand groundwater status: Lockyer, Queensland

Jon Clarke

High resolution geological logging and hydrogeochemical sampling using sonic drilling

Sanjeev Pandey

CSG technical issues in Queensland

Zijuan Deng

Canopy enhanced chloride deposition and its implication for chloride mass balance method modification in coastal area

Patrice de Caritat Groundwater monitoring at the Otway project site, Australia

Concurrent Session 4

4A - Current Water Policy Environment

 

Topic: Water allocation Planning, and management of over-allocation

4B - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Surface-groundwater connectivity

4C - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Risks to groundwater quality

4D - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic:  Groundwater visualisation

 

4E - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater System Mapping and Characterisation

4F - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic:  Groundwater modelling

 

4G - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater and climate change

4H - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

 

Topic: Groundwater in cities and towns

Rick Evans

Remotely sensed ET measurement - is it the future of water management?

 

Linda Holz

How useful is surface water unaccounted difference for quantifying groundwater-surface water inter-connectivity?

Luke Wallace

Acid sulfate soils in groundwater resource aquifers: Macleay Sands Aquifer, Hat Head National Park case-study

Allan James

GVS: a flexible, low-end, 3D visualisation framework for enhancing conceptual groundwater models for community, management and simulations

David Allen

Transient electromagnetic transects over the MacIntyre River Alluvium

Danica Jakovovic

A numerical modelling assessment of saltwater up-coning: comparison with experimental observations

Scott Johnston

Mobilisation of groundwater arsenic at the tidal fringe: hydro-geochemical coupling in seawater inundated coastal lowlands

 

Greg Russell

Managing the groundwater impacts of construction in Sydney, New South Wales

Susan Worley

Managing groundwater through allocation planning and licensing in Western Australia

Martin S. Andersen

On the temporal variability of streambed hydraulic conductivity

Michael Mozina

Bore casing deterioration - value management approaches for environmental and cost impact abatement

Amy Hawke

A 3D visualisation model applied to a thick, multi-layered alluvial groundwater system under stress: Condamine Valley, Queensland

Brad Wolaver

Estimating aquifer depths from hot spring measurements of outflow temperatures and flow rates

Roger Cranswick

Understanding groundwater impacts on surface water - a catchment scale approach

 

Ty Watson

Transience of seawater intrusion in response to sea-level rise

Ben Hall

Impacts on groundwater flow systems from urban infrastructure

Brendan Dimech

Water allocation plan for the Tindall Limestone Aquifer, Mataranka, Northern Terrritory

 

Liz Webb

Enhancing connected groundwater and surface water management with new techniques in geochemistry

Bear McPhail

A conceptual hydrogeochemical model of groundwater salinity in the Lower Murrumbidgee

Milos Pelikan

Groundwater Management in 3D - a case studying using 3D to communicate the 3D nature of groundwater management arrangements in Victoria

Tim Anderson

Finding, developing and sustainably managing potable groundwater supplies in Victoria’s Central Highlands region - A consultant, resource manager and urban water supply authority’s perspective

Mark Gallagher

The Groundwater Operational Management Package (aka GWOMP)

Vanessa Wong

Sea-level rise impacts on water quality: interactions between porewater, surface- and shallow groundwater geochemistry

Kimberley Saflian

Alstonville reclaimed water scheme; 'protecting natural water assests whilst producing a reliable water source for the future

Chris McAuley

Managing groundwater /surface water interaction using groundwater levels

Payton Gardner

Separating local and regional groundwater discharge to streams using 4He and traditional age tracers of young groundwater

Michael Reynolds

Impacts of land use change on water and salinity budgets in the Eastern Dundas Tablelands, Western Victoria

Paul Champ

Building a robust groundwater model for the southern Perth Basin, Western Australia: three dimensional visualisation and modelling of geology using Petrel©

Ian Cartwright

Environmental isotopes as indicators of aquitard effectiveness, Murray Basin, Australia

Damon Howles

Groundwater modelling to assist in the sustainable use of the Swan Coastal Plain aquifers

David Ife

Water table accessions in the Shepparton irrigation region

Jeff Morgan

Anglesea Borefield Project: groundwater resource development for urban supply. The assessment of potential impacts while addressing data gaps

Ken Heidke

Groundwater for life! A case study for sustainable groundwater management

 

Dawit Berhane

Application of heat as a hydrological tracer for assessment of infiltration and near streambed water exchanges: Focus Catchments, NSW

Fahmida Perveen

Catchment - scale water and salinity impacts of changing land use in South-West Victoria

Matthias Raiber

Combining three-dimensional geological modelling and multivariate statistical analysis of groundwater chemistry data for a better understanding of groundwater resources in the Wairau Plain, Marlborough District, New Zealand

Lucy Leyland

3D characterisation of a heterogeneous sedimentary aquifer, Leederville Aquifer, Perth, Western Australia

Amandine Bou

Modelling groundwater resources in the Peel-Harvey Coastal Plain, Western Australia

Jillianne Segura

Predicting the survival of groundwater dependent vegetation types in Central Australia based on groundwater depth and landscape features

Graham Hawkes

Urban groundwater dewatering in the Botany Sands Aquifer, eastern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

 

Harald Hofmann

Interactions between surface water and groundwater in shallow aquifer systems in the Gippsland basin, South-East Australia

Sarah Hagerty

Recharge and discharge mechanisms on granite slopes near Ararat, Western Victoria

 

Sylvain Massuel

Carbonate eolianites of the Perth coastal aquifer: early investigations and hydraulic characterization

Huseyin Bilge

Upper Lachlan Valley Groundwater model

Paul Bolger

Applying a risk approach to protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems

Zhifang Wu

Injecting stormwater into urban aquifers - community responses from SA and QLD