Posted 6 October 2016
CWI team members presented their research at the recent 43rd annual congress Hydrogeology Congress in Montpellier, France.
The event, which was organised by the French and German chapters of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) and was themed Groundwater and society: 60 years of IAH, attended by more than 700 representatives of groundwater management and research from across the globe.
Among the attendees representing CWI, Cameron Holley presented on Water markets, regulation and groundwater – insights from Australia; Scott Cook presented on Integrating hydrographic and hydrochemical data using a multivariate statistical approach: A case study in an Australian alluvial aquifer-aquitard systemandWendy Timms presented on Conceptual models of risks to shallow waters associated with underground mining through geological fault structures (click here for poster).
Wendy also participated in a Energy and Groundwater workshop in which groundwater challenges associated with extraction of shale gas, coal seam gas, and mining of coal and uranium were discussed by participants from the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Japan and Australia.
The results of the election of the international council of IAH were declared during the congress. The new IAH President is Professor António Chambel of Portugal. Wendy Timms was re-elected as an IAH Vice President, representing Australasia-Pacific.
In July 2017, UNSW will host the Australasian Groundwater Conference, a joint event between IAH and the NCGRT.
UNSW Sydney water engineers have revealed that investigating and managing groundwater resources more sustainably can be achieved at lower cost by using existing Earth and atmospheric tidal data.
The Director of CWI was recently quoted on the ABC story: ‘ Who's watching the water? Experts sound warning on deteriorating groundwater monitoring’
Dr Wendy Timms talks about her many hats and why diversity is critical in sustainable mining practice.
African groundwater helped kick-start the evolutionary history of humans, with the movement of our ancestors across East Africa shaped by the location of springs, new research suggests.
Connected Waters Initiative research fellow Dr Landon Halloran was a keynote speaker at the Water Institute for Sustainability Forum in Bangkok, Thailand in January 2017.
What are the effects of fire on water underground? Let’s think about what happens on the surface, and translate that to what is likely to happen to the subsurface.
Squeezed by gravity: how tides affect the groundwater under our feet
