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- Ineson Lecture 2011: Impacts of Land Use and Catchment Management on Groundwater
20 October 2011; 12.45pm registration & coffee for a 1.30pm start. Ineson Lecture: Professor Ian White, Australian National University, on Integrating Land and Groundwater Management: Experiences in Australia and the Pacific. Supporting speakers: Bob Harris, DEFRA; David Lerner, University of Sheffield; Luke de Vial, Wessex Water; Brian McCluskey, Highland Spring Group. Fee: £20 IAH/GeolSoc members; £50 non-members; £10 students; includes wine reception. Please pre-register by emailing Brighid Ó Dochartaigh (beod@bgs.ac.uk) with name and membership affiliation. Abstract: Integrating Land and Groundwater Management; Experiences in Australia and the Pacific;. Threats to groundwater from overuse and from contamination are well documented in many countries. One of the key objectives of the Australian 2007 National Water Initiative is that the connectivity of surface and groundwater must be recognized and managed as a single resource. This poses significant issues in the integration of land and groundwater management. In this lecture, the use of hydrogeology in integrating land and groundwater management will be discussed using illustrations involving the acidification of ground and surface waters, salinity in upland catchments of the Murray-Darling Basin and very vulnerable freshwater lenses in small island states in the Pacific. The role of hydrogeologists in assisting with the development of policy and regulations regarding land use and water resources will also be discussed. Biography: Ian White is Professor of Water Resources and the Australian National University and Associate Director Research in the Fenner School of Environment and Society. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (Hydrology) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. His area of research area is water resources with emphasis on sustainable water use and management, surface-groundwater interactions, and the mitigation of global change and land use impacts on catchment and groundwater yield and water quality.
- Conference: Groundwater in Fractured Rocks
An international conference on Groundwater in Fractured Rocks 21-24 May 2012, Prague, Czech Republic For more information please see the conference website: http://web.natur.cuni.cz/gwfr2012/ or contact Dr Zbynek Hrkal at Zbynek_Hrkal@vuv.cz or Karel Kovar at karel.kovar.pbl.nl
- Conference: Water Resource Sustainability Issues on Tropical Islands
The Directors of the four island centres in the National Institutes for Water Resources Program invite your participation on 14-16 November 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in a conference on the general theme of water and wastewater sustainability in island environments. This is a first call for abstracts. Contributors are asked to submit original research papers addressing relevant issues and concerns on the following topics (but not limited to): - Groundwater issues - Surface water issues - Wastewater issues - Water-energy nexus - Natural and manmade disasters The conference chair is Dr Aly El-Kadi. Please send abstracts to Dr El-Kadi on elkadi@hawaii.edu For more information on the meeting please contact Philip Moravcik on morav@hawaii.edu
- Groundwater & Climate in Africa – conference report
Groundwater & Climate in Africa, an international conference held in Kampala, Uganda from 24-28 June 2008, is a landmark, the first-ever meeting to discuss the role of groundwater in improving livelihoods in Africa under conditions of rapid development and climate change. Organized by the Ministry of Water & Environment (Uganda), University College London (UK) and the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO, the conference brought together more than 300 water scientists, managers and policy makers from 23 countries in Africa and 14 other countries. The conference featured 96 presentations that contributed to 6 strategic themes including the impacts of climate variability and change on groundwater-based livelihoods and groundwater-fed ecosystems, monitoring and modelling of groundwater replenishment and use, estimation of groundwater resources and demand and groundwater management. With over 20 hours of dedicated discussion time, participants were able to translate scientific and policy-related research findings into technical and policy recommendations, summarised in the Kampala Statement, for national governments in Africa, regional, basin-wide and transboundary organisations as well as international fora. See http://www.gwclim.org. Conference papers will be published early in 2009 in an IAHS Red Book with selected papers forming a special issue of Hydrological Sciences Journal. RICHARD TAYLOR University College London, UK; E-mail: r.taylor@geog.ucl.ac.uk CALLIST TINDIMUGAYA Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda; E-mail: ctindi.wrmd@dwd.co.ug
- Twinning with new chapters in Malawi and Tanzania
Under the guidance of Segun Adelana (IAH Vice President for Africa), the British National Chapter is embarking on twinning arrangements with fledgling national chapters in Malawi and Tanzania. Twinning will provide opportunities for sponsorship of new members, and for giving professional, organisational and financial support. As part of this initiative, Mjemah Ibrahimu Chikira from Tanzania and Mcpherson Nkhata from Malawi were sponsored to attend the Kampala conference at the end of June 2008. While at the conference, Richard Boak, John Chilton and Alan McDonald (all from the British NC) met delegates from Tanzania and Malawi to prepare for the twinning.
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