Monday, 25th November
NCGRT/IAH Australasian Groundwater Conference 2019
Days
Sunday, 24th November
Monday, 25th November
Tuesday, 26th November
Wednesday, 27th November
Tracks
Groundwater Settings/Systems
Regional Scale Studies
Fractured Rock Hydrogeology Systems
Special Session: Great Artesian Basin - Hydrogeology Journal Special Issue (by invitation)
Coastal Processes & Tropical Island Hydrogeology
Recharge & Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction
Alluvial Systems & Vadose Zone Hydrogology
Intermittent/Ephemeral Drainage Systems
Tracers & Isotopes
Geophysical & Petrophysical Methods & Groundwater
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems
Stygofauna & Microbiology
Special Session: Springs of the Great Artesian Basin - The Royal Society of Queensland Special Issue (by invitation)
Nutrients Diffuse Pollution in Aquifers & Catchments
Irrigation & Groundwater Protection
Cumulative Groundwater Impacts - Assessment & Management
Water Quality Management
Emerging Challenges in Mining & Groundwater
Emerging Analytical & Numerical Methods
Coupled Modelling (Reactive Chemistry and Transport, Geomechanics & Transport)
Data Assimilation & Metrics for Models in Decision Support Roles
Social Engagement, Attitudes & Connection to Groundwater
Indigenous Groundwater Values & Connections
Community Engagement, Cultural Values and Groundwater Resources - Other
Big Data & Innovative Applications
Use of Big Data & Groundwater Databases - Mapping, Cleansing & Maintenance
Groundwater Studies to Solve Geotechnical Issues
Groundwater Resources Vulnerability in a Changing Climate
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Speakers
Day 1: Exhibition and Registration Open
7:30AM - 8:00AM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
AGC2019 Opening and Welcome to Country
8:00AM - 8:15AM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Opening Address: Prof Paul Bertsch, Chief Scientist, QLD
8:15AM - 8:30AM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Plenary: Prof Makoto Taniguchi, Deputy Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan
8:30AM - 8:50AM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Integrated management of groundwater-energy-food nexus for sustainability
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Makoto Taniguchi
Plenary: Ms Laura Tyler, Chief of Geoscience and Asset President, Olympic Dam, BHP
8:50AM - 9:10AM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Planning for a water secure world – a global miner’s perspective
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Laura Tyler
Plenary: Mr Chris Langton, Vice President, Klohn Crippen Berger, Australasia
9:10AM - 9:30AM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Hydrogeology – the role, integration of the profession, and the need for common technical language
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Chris Langton
Morning Tea
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
Special Session: Great Artesian Basin - Hydrogeology Journal Special Issue. Sponsored by University of QLD
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium
The Great Artesian Basin, Australia – from discovery to current hydrogeological, hydrochemical and isotope hydrology interpretations
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M. A. Habermehl
Estimation methodology and improved characterisation of unmetered stock and domestic groundwater use in the Surat and southern Bowen basins of the Great Artesian Basin (Australia)
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Steve Flook
Estimating current and historical water extraction from the Great Artesian Basin and other regional scale aquifers in Queensland, Australia
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Claire R. Kent
Field investigations of potential terrestrial groundwater dependent ecosystems and comparison to popular conceptual models within the Surat Basin
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Chris Jones
Groundwater recharge at the eastern intake beds of the Great Artesian Basin using multi-isotope studies
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Axel Suckow
Hydrogeological implications of active tectonics in the Great Artesian Basin
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Mike Sandiford
Sequence stratigraphy, palaeo-depositional environments, and aquifer geometries and connectivity of the Hutton Sandstone to Springbok Sandstone interval of the Surat Basin, Queensland
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Mark Reilly
Hydrochemical variations of groundwater and spring discharge of the western Great Artesian Basin
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Stacey C. Priestley
Coupled Modelling(Reactive Chemistry & Transport, Geomechanics & Transport)
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 1
Development of upscaling laws for geochemical reactions and their integration in reservoir-scale models
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Achyut Mishra
Understanding flow and chemical reactions at the pore scale
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Apoorv Jyoti
Scenario modelling of reactive transport processes governing fluoride release and attenuation during managed aquifer recharge
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David Schafer
Metal mobilisation and re-precipitation with CO
2
stream injection in the Precipice Sandstone: Experimental data input for a reactive transport model
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Julie K. Pearce
Denitrification parameter uncertainty under uncertain redox conditions
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Theo S. Sarris
Horizontal dewatering well construction – a combination of technologies and practices delivering the next generation mine dewatering solution
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David L. Hoffman
Longitudinal dispersivity increases with distance. should we allow for this in our analyses?
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Dylan J. Irvine
Geomechanical considerations for hydraulic conductivity estimation of the jointed rocks
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Mahdi Zoorabadi
Cumulative Groundwater Impacts - Assessment & Management
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 2
Stream depletion calculations for resource consenting – reality and uncertainties
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Alexandra M. Badenhop
Communicating groundwater science: reporting to reduce cognitive strain and reach a broader audience
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Claire Stephenson
Application of uncertainty analysis to salinity modelling
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Greg Hoxley
Estimating sources of inflow on mining complexes
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Juan Berrio
Dealing in groundwater, New South Wales
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Ken Kolstad
Flowing wells on the Adelaide Plains – implications for ASR Management
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Paul D. Magarey
Tip toe through the tulips - the role of the OWS in EPBC assessments
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Sarah Taylor
Groundwater level trend analysis to inform likelihood of cumulative coal seam gas impacts in the Surat CMA
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Sanjeev Pandey
Recharge & Groundwater - Surface Water Interaction
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 3
Influence of new constructed wetlands on groundwater recharge in a rapidly urbanising catchment
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Ben Hall
The development of recharge models under irrigation districts with perched water tables
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Glen R. Walker
Locating groundwater discharge into a large coastal lagoon
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Katie Coluccio
Understanding recharge process on North Stradbroke Island
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Leon L.M. Leach
Assessment of spatial distribution of river recharge through hyporheic zone
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Maria Grodzka-Łukaszewska
Using multiple lines of evidence to characterise groundwater recharge in a rapidly urbanising catchment: implications for future land and water management
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Matthew J. Currell
Strontium isotopes as tracers to assess inter-aquifer and groundwater-surface water exchanges in sedimentary basins: an example from the Surat and Clarence-Moreton basins in Australia
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Matthias Raiber
Hydrogeological, climatic and anthropogenic drivers of acidification within an inland acid sulfate soil wetland – investigations to inform remediation
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Nicolaas P. Unland
Indigenous Groundwater Connections, Knowledge and Values (Session and Panel)
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Room
Indigenous Groundwater Values & Connections
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Brad Moggridge
Partnering indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga Māori) and biophysical science: developing a planning framework for rock art and cultural landscape protection in relation to disturbance of freshwater environments
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Richard Harmon
Scientific benefits of partnering with Traditional Owners
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Josephine A. Searle
A collaborative study combining contemporary hydrogeological methods with traditional knowledge to understand living water in the Great Sandy Desert
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Steven J. Bolton
Networking Lunch. Sponsored by AGE Consultants
12:00PM - 12:45PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
Special Session: Springs of the Great Artesian Basin - The Royal Society of Queensland Special Issue
12:45PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium
The evolution of knowledge and management of springs in the Great Artesian Basin
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Steven Flook
Springs of the Great Artesian Basin – an initiative of the Royal Society of Queensland
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Angela Arthington
Artesian springs of the Great Artesian Basin – hydrogeology, hydrochemistry and age dating of artesian groundwater and spring deposits
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M.A. Habermehl
In search of lost springs in the eastern Great Artesian Basin
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Jen Silcock
Macro-invertebrates of GAB springs: how understanding their distributions can help us conserve them
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Renee Rossini
Evolution in isolation: the endemic fishes of Australia’s remote Great Artesian Basin springs
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Adam Kerezsy
Regulatory tools for managing resource development impacts on spring ecosystems
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Revel Pointon
An adaptive management plan for GAB springs
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Lynn Brake
Emerging Analytical & Numerical Methods
12:45PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 1
The Ensemble Optimizer: making management optimization under uncertainty possible since 2019
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Matthew J. Knowling
Using an adjoint state approach to estimate cumulative streamflow depletion efficiently
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Chris Turnadge
Recent developments in speeding Up MODFLOW-USG simulations: the truncated Newton Method and GPU acceleration
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Damian Merrick
Reconstruction of baseline groundwater levels using backwards Cumulative Rainfall Departure and highly-parameterised parameter inversion
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Eduardo De Sousa
Generating hydrogeological virtual realities for hypothesis testing in groundwater modelling
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Jeremy Bennett
Comparing modelling approaches for salinity impact assessment of irrigation in SA Mallee
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Juliette Woods
The early days of groundwater modelling in Australia, 25 years from 1970 to 1994
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Noel P. Merrick
A novel approach to representing longwall induced fracturing in finite difference groundwater models
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Neil Manewell
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems
12:45PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 2
Where does submarine groundwater discharge occur?
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Jodie L Pritchard
Murray Darling Basin groundwater management under the Basin Plan
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Kristanne Mahony
Mapping groundwater dependence in data poor areas: analysis of earth observation data in the Isa Geological and Bioregional Assessment region, north-west Queensland, Australia
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Prachi Dixon-Jain
A new approach to prioritising groundwater dependent vegetation communities in New South Wales, Australia
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Jodie Dabovic
The Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas' role in decision-making
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Eloise Nation
Root-zone “Periscope” and its applications for investigating plant-water relations and modelling transpiration
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Huade Guan
Drought-Induced hydrogeological impact causing dieback in a grassy woodland threatened ecological community, Monaro, NSW, Australia.
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Leah Moore
Multidisciplinary and adaptive approach to assessing groundwater dependence of River Oak community in NSW Hunter coalfields
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Adam P. Skorulis
Recharge & Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction/Novel Investigation Techniques
12:45PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 3
Infiltration, recharge and plant water availability in a tropical environment – Ranger Uranium Mine, Northern Territory
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Peter A. Baker
Modelling shallow groundwater recharge and ET processes using FloPy
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Rebecca Doble
How uncertain are our recharge estimates?
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Russell Crosbie
Estimating recharge from recirculated groundwater with dissolved gases: an end-member mixing analysis
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Shawan Dogramaci
Evaluation of natural and anthropogenic factors on changes in river discharge and groundwater exchange in a Mekong sub-basin
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Somphasith Douangsavanh
Increased groundwater and contaminant discharge to surface water in response to catchment loading
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Tamie R. Weaver
Quantifying air−water gas exchange in rivers and lakes using high-resolution time series of dissolved atmospheric gases
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Peter G Cook
Assessment of PFAS as a novel tool for estimating groundwater recharge and aquifer characteristics
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John M. Bradd
Community Engagement, Cultural Values and Groundwater Resources. Sponsored by Arrow Energy
12:45PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Room
Community involvement in water management in Punjab, Pakistan: A strategy to sustainability of livelihoods of farmers
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Saira Akhtar
Lining of canals and ground water recharging: socio-economic implications for sustainable agricultural development in Pakistan
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Saira Akhtar
Engaging Surat Basin landholders in groundwater monitoring
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Mabbie Elson
Social and gender constructions associated to water resources in isolated Rural Pakistan
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Farooq Tanwir
Out of the comfort zone – stakeholder engagement outside the Ivory Tower
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Petah Rhynehart
Integrating stakeholder engagement into bioregion scale assessments
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Emily Turner
Groundwater recharge and water security for Bengaluru city with traditional well diggers and their knowledge systems
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Vishwanath Srikantaiah
Social research in socio-hydrology
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Yongping Wei
Afternoon Tea Sponsored by SkyTEM Australia
2:45PM - 3:15PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
Day 1 Poster Presentations
3:15PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
A finite element 3D model to assess the impact of environmental changes on the coastal groundwater aquifer in Nauru
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Louis Bouchet
A GIS based graph representation for fault and fracture characterisation
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Ulrich Kelka
An analytical model for predicting evaporation rates from bare soils
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Xiaocheng Liu
Are heat tracers applicable to quantify groundwater-surface water interaction in a tidal wetland?
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Christian Anibas
Assessing risk to a coastal aquifer using a multi-model approach
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Cameron Wood
Closing the loop - delivering landholder supplied groundwater data to the community in coal seam gas areas, Surat and Bowen basins, Queensland
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Tony Andresen
Complex interactions in modelling the floodplains of the Lower River Murray in South Australia
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Juliette Woods
Evaluation of unsaturated zone models coupling to MODFLOW for a more robust modelling of groundwater-vegetation interaction
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Simone Gelsinari
Field and numerical investigation of the evaporation induced unstable density flow within the tidal wetland system
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Yue Liu
GAB Springs Adaptive Management Plan
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Lynn Brake
Identifying groundwater-surface water interactions and groundwater geochemistry in the Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment using surface water surveys
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Sharon S. Gray
Losing condition or evaporation: Why the Thirlmere Lakes in NSW are falling dry?
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Christian Anibas
Numerical modelling of tidal effect on contaminant transport in coastal aquifers
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Congrui Li
Numerical modeling of surface water and groundwater interactions in the Stoney Creek Watershed, British Columbia
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Yousef Beiraghdar
Porewater exchange drives solute export from a temperate mangrove wetland
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Mahmood Sadat-Noori
Incorporating uncertainty in the design of a woodchip denitrifying bioreactor
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Theo S. Sarris
Quantifying groundwater abstraction in the face of imperfect data
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Helen Rutter
Using geochemistry to understand sources of groundwater inflow to intermittent rivers: the upper Wimmera catchment, southeast Australia
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Zibo Zhou
Simulation of the efficiency of Managed Aquifer Recharge schemes to support sustainable development of groundwater resources. The Minderoo- Peepingee (Minderoo) case study
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Panagiotis Giannoulopoulos
Taking the wonky out of Wonky Holes
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Leon L.M. Leach
Toward a new paradigm for the Great Artesian Basin: hydrologic mixing, multi-scale flow systems, fault-partitioned sub-basins, and mantle influences on groundwater quality
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Andrew J. Love
The benefits of a multidisciplinary team model for groundwater-surface water investigations, Thirlmere Lakes, NSW
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Kirsten Cowley
The impact of groundwater discharge on nutrients and carbon cycles in a freshwater lake
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Helen Rutlidge
The cumulative impact of potential groundwater extraction under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
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Glen R. Walker
The role of shallow groundwater as a nutrient export pathway under subsurface drained pastoral agriculture
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Aldrin Rivas
Simulation of contaminant capture by an hydraulic containment system
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Tingting Liu
Near real-time decision support insights with fully-integrated hydrologic models
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Steven J. Berg
Improving FEFLOW well boundary constraints using Theis-forward solution
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Eduardo De Sousa
How groundwater age relates to meandering history: insights from a simplified physical model
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Guillaume Rongier
How realistic are groundwater drawdown predictions? A quantitative evaluation of reported specific storage values
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Wendy Timms
Modeling Groundwater Budget under increased anthropogenic pressure in the Modjo River Catchment, Central Ethiopia
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Nafyad Serre Kawo
Pore pressure modelling of pit slopes - the influence of drill holes
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Todd Hamilton
Hydrochemical assessment and quality classification of the complex terminal Aquifer in the region of Oued Righ (Sahara Algerian)
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Aziza Hammadi
Sediment transport in porous media due to groundwater discharge
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Amir Jazayeri
Effective groundwater monitoring of the Perth Superficial aquifer during a controlled CO
2
release trial at Harvey, Western Australia
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Praveen Kumar Rachakonda
Snowy 2.0: pumped hydro-electric power in an alpine groundwater environment
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Doug Weatherill
Machine learning emulation for reactive transport models
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Xiayang Yu
Groundwater quality assessment and its driving factors
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Qiuying Zhang
Modeling salt leaching from coal mine waste rock - upscaling from laboratory to meso-scale
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Neil McIntyre
Big Data & Innovation Applications
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Groundwater field data capture: custom mobile apps for the groundwater industry
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Alice Drummond
Documenting provenance of science in a state government agency – a groundwater example
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Angela London
Coding to automate groundwater data analysis and visualisation
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Cassandra Murphy
Hidden water in remote areas - using innovative exploration to uncover the past
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Adrian Costar
Hydrogeol_utils: an open-source, data processing, integration and visualisation toolkit for hydrgeology
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Neil Symington
The Exploring for the Future web portal – democratising access to geoscience data, tools and information
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Simon E. van der Wielen
Emerging Analytical & Numerical Methods
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 1
Modelling groundwater-surface water interactions with the Double-Averaged Navier Stokes Equations: a step towards next-generation tools for integrated limit setting
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Andrew L. Dark
Seepage analysis through the body and the vicinity of an earth water dam by using unstructured-mesh finite element modelling. The Mornos - dam case study
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Panagiotis Giannoulopoulos
Practical examples of numerical modelling techniques to inform groundwater impact assessments for major infrastructure projects
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Rikito Gresswell
Dynamic meshing for integrated hydrologic modelling in mining
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Steven J. Berg
Time series analytical modelling using HydroSight to investigate drivers of groundwater level fluctuation
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Tim Armstrong
Simulate the impact of external loading on groundwater level
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Vahid Shapoori
Nutrients Diffuse Pollution in Aquifers & Catchments
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 2
The nitrate load to come: a tale of two porosities
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Helen Rutter
Nutrient transfer through the vadose zone under sugarcane in the Wet Tropics
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Rezaul Karim
Denitrification walls as a tool to reduce nitrate load to the Greats Barrier Reef whilst reducing nitrous oxide emissions: results from the southeast Queensland trials
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Fabio Manca
Removing nitrate from artificial subsurface drainage under pastoral agriculture using woodchip bioreactors
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Aldrin Rivas
Reducing N-discharges from agriculture: modelling the potential benefits of spatially targeted regulation
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Theo S. Sarris
A participatory approach to better understand well water quality in Canterbury, New Zealand
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Abie Horrocks
Coastal Processes & Tropical Island Hydrogeology
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 3
Seawater intrusion and aquifer compartmentalisation in the Darwin rural area
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Anna Haiblen
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Melissa Woltmann
Effects of dispersion on the offshore fresh groundwater extent
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S. Cristina Solórzano-Rivas
The value of geophysics in understanding the variability of groundwater systems in low carbonate islands
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Andreas Antoniou
Evaluation of hydrogeophysical data to constrain a 3D variable density numerical groundwater model of a freshwater lens in a multi-layered, Island Aquifer System
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Eddie W. Banks
Investigating submarine groundwater discharge at Sellicks Beach, using hydrogeophysical techniques
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Marianna Ramirez-Lagunas
Adding spatial comprehensiveness to the characterisation of remote freshwater lens systems in tropical island settings in Northern Australia using airborne electromagnetics
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Timothy Munday
Geophysical & Petrophysical Methods & Groundwater. Sponsored by Shell QGC
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 25th November
Boulevard Room
Deriving groundwater volume estimates for Managed Aquifer Recharge: an interdisciplinary approach
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Larysa Halas
The utility of shallow geophysics to contribute to the characterisation of shallow groundwater conditions
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Okke Batelaan
Improving hydrogeological characterisation with borehole magnetic resonance for managed aquifer recharge
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Benjamin Birt
Is there a fault in the geology or in the geophysics?
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Titus Murray
Origin of ultra-basic, strongly-reducing groundwater conditions within an epithermal gold-bearing system
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Matthew Lenahan
Insights into subsurface properties from sonic core drilling in the Keep River region, East Kimberley, northern Australia
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David L. Gibson
Student - Industry Networking & IAH Groundwater Industry Awards Night @ QLD Museum. Sponsored by SLR Consulting
6:30PM - 9:30PM
Monday, 25th November
Main Foyer & Lost Creatures
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