Hot Topics Session 3

HT3A - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

Topic: Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

HT3B - Future Opportunities

Topic: Managed Aquifer Recharge

HT3C - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

Topic: Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater

HT3D - Water Policy Environment

Topic: Water Policy Challenges

Moya Tomlinson

Policy and science needs for the protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems

Peter Dillon

Managed aquifer recharge: a novel adaptation to climate change via water recycling

Olga Barron

Climate change impacts on groundwater resources in Australia

Russell James

National Water Initiative policy guidelines for water planning and management

Ray Froend

Environmentally sympathetic groundwater production: is it possible to maintain abstraction in areas with vulnerable phreatophytic vegetation?

Joanne Vanderzalm

Water recycling via the aquifer: benefits and hazards

Russell Crosbie

Groundwater and climate change - impacts on diffuse recharge

Tony Jakeman

Modelling and decision support for integrated groundwater management

Stephen Parsons

The emergence of GDE management in Australia

Elizabeth Zajc

MAR: great idea, but how do you licence and manage it?

Rick Evans

Adaptation options for the impacts of climate change on groundwater

Jennifer McKay

The third leg of sustainability - Australian courts and water plans

Jon Fawcett

Developing a national atlas of groundwater dependent ecosystems

Kim Alexander

What do communities know about managed aquifer recharge and storage of stormwater and are they prepared to use water from this source?

Concurrent Session 5

5A - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

Topic: Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

5B - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

Topic: Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater

5C - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

Topic: Great Artesian Basin

5D - Current Water Policy Environment

Topic: Water Trading Regimes

Kate Holland

Response of riparian vegetation to flooding and groundwater management in a saline, semi-arid environment

Warrick Dawes

Impacts of a changing climate on groundwater interaction with streams in South West Western Australia

Andy Love

Toward a new paradigm for the Great Artesian Basin: hydrologic mixing, partitioned sub-basins, and mantle influences on groundwater quality

Scott Lawson

Overcoming impediments to groundwater trading in Australia

Caroline Canham

Adaptability of phreatophytic plants to groundwater drawdown: will Banksia roots follow a declining water table?

Riasat Ali

Future groundwater resources in the south-west Western Australia under changing climate

Pauline Rousseau-Gueutin

Groundwater evaluation and modelling of fossil water

Tim Ford

The makings of a success story- groundwater trading in Northern Victoria

Bea Sommer

A risk assessment framework for managing hydrological habitat of groundwater dependent vegetation in areas of water resource development

Jarrah Muller

Modelling cyclone reliant aquifers supporting groundwater dependent ecosystems in the Pilbara; the Lower De Grey River groundwater model

Andrew Feitz and Tehani Kuske

Hydrogeochemical baseline mapping of the Great Artesian Basin groundwater

Sue Hamilton

Addressing the challenges of groundwater trading in New South Wales

Laura Gow

Identification and monitoring GDEs using MODIS time series: Hat Head National Park - a case study

Stacey Priestley

Travertine deposits as paleo-hydrogeology and neotectonic indicators in the Great Artesian Basin of Australia

Concurrent Session 6

6A - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Surface-Groundwater Interaction

6B - Challenges and Threats to Groundwater Management

Topic: Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

6D - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Great Artesian Basin

6E - Capacity Building

Topic: Community Involvement, Education and Training

6F - Current Water Policy Environment

Topic: Water allocation planning (reductions)

6G - Future Opportunities

Topic: Managed Aquifer Recharge

Meg Humphrys

A multi-faceted approach to assessing groundwater-surface water interaction for conjunctive management in the Upper Ovens River Valley

Brooke Swaffer

Water flux pathways and groundwater use by a mallee eucalypt growing on skeletal soils over a karst aquifer

Jeff Austin

The Great Artesian Basin - a cross sectorial view

Michael Mitchell

Social research for groundwater management: we know we need it but what is it?

Madeleine Hartley

The legal framework for implementing the NWI principles in New South Wales groundwater management plans

Andrew Kelly

Conjunctive use in the Burdekin MAR scheme

Xiang Cheng

The characteristics of groundwater-stream interactions in the ovens catchment, North-Eastern Victoria

Claire Harding

Developing risk assessment tools for water dependent ecosystems in South Australia

James Hill

The Great Artesian Basin whole-of-basin monitoring network

Terry Flynn

Southern groundwater futures

Glenn Harrington

Integrating science with community and environmental values to determine an alternative and sustainable groundwater allocation framework: Padthaway (SA)

Ross S. Brodie

Development of a Novel Assessment Framework for Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) Site Selection

Will Minchin

Catchment-scale, spatially-distributed groundwater - surface water modelling to aid conjunctive management of the Ovens catchment, North East Victoria

Lindsay Bourke

Current and a pre-clearing reconstruction of the water and salt balance of a wetland system using Chloride, Bromide, and stable isotopes in the Wheatbelt, Western Australia

Jennie Fluin

The integration of hydrogeological science and management in ensuring water security for the far north of South Australia

Elissa McNamara

Translating hydrogeology for the community

Hugh Middlemis

Decision support tool scenario modelling to inform water allocation planning: Padthaway (South Australia)

Carlos Descourvieres

Water quality changes during managed aquifer recharge in the Leederville aquifer: from laboratory to field-scale or agricultural water supply

Ian Cartwright

Using geochemistry to constrain groundwater-surface water interaction in the Ovens Valley, Victoria, Australia

Sepideh Zolfaghar

An assessment of the impact of groundwater availability on the ecophysiology of groundwater dependent ecosystems

Laurence Clarke

Environmental determinants of vegetation at spring-fed wetlands in arid central Australia

Sondoss El Sawah

The use of information and communication tools to support public engagement in water resource management

Daniela Conesa

Communities involved in natural resources management: a community-based solution to addressing over-allocation in the Padthaway area of South Australia

Konrad Miotlinski

A coupled groundwater flow, solute and heat transport model to assist the operation of the Aquifer Storage Transfer and Recovery (Salisbury, South Australia)

Chris Daughney

Understanding Interaction between groundwater and surface water at the regional scale using multiple hydrochemical methods, Wairarapa Valley, New Zealand

Mark Mitchell

Identification of potential groundwater dependent terrestrial vegetation in New South Wales

Meghan Dailey

Geophysical evidence for groundwater mixing at Freeling Springs, South Australia

Scott Lawson

MAR for agricultural water supply

Concurrent Session 7

7A - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Surface-groundwater interaction

7B - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Risks to Groundwater Quality

7C - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Great Artesian Basin

7D - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Groundwater modelling

7E - Capacity Building

Topic: Community Involvement, Education and Training

7F - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Groundwater, irrigation and farming

7G - Challenges and Threats to groundwater management

Topic: Groundwater System Mapping and Characterisation

Bear McPhail

River water and groundwater compositions and interaction in the lower Murrumbidgee catchment, New South Wales, Australia

Luke Stacey and James Burkitt

Groundwater and salinity management of environmental assets in the Shepparton Irrigation region

Travis Gotch

GAB spring classification and risk assessment

Yueqing Xie

A stochastic analysis of density-driven solute transport in homogeneous porous media

Andrew Todd

Community engagement and groundwater investigation in a rural/peri urban basaltic aquifer system, Tamborine Mt, South East Queensland

Leif Wolf

Implications of supplying high purity recycled water to connected surface-groundwater systems in agricultural area

Andrew Harrison

3D Hydrogeological mapping of Southern Victoria

Carlos Miraldo

Integrating multiple approaches to groundwater recharge estimation for a topographically closed sedimentary aquifer: Uley South Basin, South Australia

Mohammed Alamgir

Establishing the baseline groundwater quality for Lower Murray Alluvium

Graham Green

Evaluating risks to Great Artesian Basin Springs

Juliette Woods

Modelling the impact of clays in the unsaturated zone on groundwater recharge

Ian White

Collaborating with groundwater users to manage abstraction cutbacks in the Condamine

Liz Webb

A review of the significance of stock and domestic groundwater use

Simon Fell-Smith

Koolpinyah dolomite aquifer characteristics project

Brooke Broadstock

Managing the high impact of groundwater pumping on stream flow in highly connected systems - a case study in the Peel Valley, New South Wales, Australia

Fiona Glover

Inland acid sulfate soil: a study of Bottle Bend Lagoon and Tareena Billabong

Paul Shand

Acid sulfate soils (Ass) associated with carbonate mound springs in the Great Artesian Basin: implications for groundwater resource management and mound evolution

Dylan Irvine

Control of clogging layer heterogeneity on disconnected losing streams

Andrew Ross

Water connecting, people adapting; the influence of institutions on integrated surface water and groundwater management 

Melissa White

A trial of three floodplain groundwater management techniques to improve vegetation condition

Attila Kovacs

A new method for analytical baseflow separation

Brian Smerdon

Linking the Oolloo Dolostone Aquifer and Daly River, Northern Territory: using tracers and flow models to investigate connectivity and intra-wet-season storage

Xuyan Wang

Use of fuzzy reliability index for quantification of uncertainties in the groundwater impact assessment for a mine residue storage facility

Davina White and Megan Lewis

Developing methods to monitor GAB mound spring flow rates using hyperspectral remote sensing

Huade Guan

Estimating groundwater recharge in the coastal areas with vegetation changes

Chris McAuley

Getting in on the 'ground' level - groundwater education for secondary students

Imogen Fullagar 

Groundwater demand management: finding growth beyond water limits

Richard Green

Assessment of multi-layered sandstone aquifers in the Sydney Basin. Blue Mountains

Eddie Banks

Assessing surface water groundwater connectivity - from the headwaters to the sea, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Peter Sinclair

Capacity in paradise

Andrew Ross

Water security beneath our feet: rural aquifer storage and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin & the Western USA

Uwe Morgenstern

Dating of streamwater using Tritium in a post-bomb world: continuous variation of mean transit time with streamflow