Tuesday, 26th 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 2: Exhibition and Registration Open
7:30AM - 8:00AM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
Panel: Groundwater in a Changing World
8:00AM - 9:00AM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Panel: Groundwater and the Environment
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
Groundwater Contamination & Remediation
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium
Clever Communication: Applying data analytics and dashboards to communicate groundwater quality data
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Christian M. Borovac
Sustainable outcomes with surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation of coal tar NAPL
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Daniel Hirth
Sources of nutrient contamination in groundwater at Recycled Water Plants and implications for management
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Kate Dowsley
Changing nitrate to nitrogen gas in a gravel aquifer, using a woodchip denitrification wall
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Lee F. Burbery
Using environmental isotopes to constrain pollutant migration pathways in an intensive agricultural area – Pampas, Argentinia
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Agustin Cabrera
Considerations for mine planning to reduce potential groundwater impacts
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Tamie Weaver
Are there interactions between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and in situ microbial populations at a legacy firefighting training area?
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Denis O'Carroll
Investigating the bioattenuation of emerging organic contaminants in managed groundwater environments to protect human health and the environment
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Peter J. Reeve
Groundwater Resources Vulnerability in a Changing Climate
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 1
Managed aquifer recharge feasibility assessment, City of Rockingham WA
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Cassie Turvey
Increased recharge due to land clearing Vs decreased recharge due to climate change - observations and modelling from the northern Perth basin
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David B. Schafer
A 35 ka record of groundwater recharge using stable water isotopes for Perth Basin in south-west Australia
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Stacey C. Priestley
Port Phillip Bay - the real value
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Derek J. Walters
Groundwater availability and climate change - assessing the combined influence of reduced water availability and increasing demand on the Barwon Downs groundwater resource
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Louise Lennon
Uncertainty analysis in groundwater modelling and its environmental management applications
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Mahsa Amirabdollahian
Meeting growing water demands in an uncertain future: a case study of current and future groundwater supply challenges and opportunities for Honiara, Solomon Islands
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Shaun Kies-Ryan
Seawater intrusion in a warming world
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Chenming Zhang
Social Engagement, Attitudes & Connection to Groundwater
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 2
Water impacts from unconventional gas development: more than just fracking
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Margaret Shanafield
Case studies on community engagement to achieve groundwater allocation reductions
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Steve R. Barnett
Grassroots education of groundwater
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Rhona E. Cartwright
Raising a glass to citizen science: collecting more data and establishing better relationships between water users and government
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Saeed Ghaderi
Supporting better management of groundwater in Pakistan: a collaborative approach
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Michael Mitchell
Improving groundwater management using a participatory research approach in Balochistan, Pakistan
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Syed M. Khair
Exploring options for improved groundwater management using a participatory research approach in Sindh, Pakistan
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Tehmina Mangan
Evolution of groundwater concerns over the Carmichael Mine: 2014 to 2019
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Adrian D. Werner
Geophysical & Petrophysical Methods & Groundwater. Sponsored by Shell QGC
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 3
Advancements in frequency domain electromagnetic surveys and their interpretation and effectiveness for determining flow in mine waste rock dumps and below Tailing's storage facilities
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Bradley van Blomestein
Testing innovative technologies for Atoll groundwater mapping
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Amini Loco
Revisiting old cased bores for new hydrogeological data; borehole magnetic resonance
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Olga Filiptsova
GAB Bore Doctor
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Brendon I. Isbister
A series of case studies to highlight the use of geophysics for hydrogeological applications
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Karen M. Gilgallon
Characterising the access constrained valley by using non-destructive investigation methods – Thirlmere lakes case study
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Katarina David
Looking beyond wells: geophysical methods for improved groundwater assessments
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Kevin Hayley
Use of Big Data & Groundwater Databases - Mapping, Cleansing & Maintenance
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Room
Groundwater intelligence: applying data analytics and visualisation tools to process, analyse and communicate groundwater data
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Alice L. Drummond
Managing an extensive regional groundwater monitoring network in the Surat Basin – key challenges, opportunities and innovation
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Ben Cairns
Moving towards near real-time groundwater level data. Providing an automated and consistent groundwater level dataset for Australia
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Brendan Dimech
When groundwater strikes: mapping shallow groundwater risks
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Jeremy Bennett
Validating and scaling metered groundwater use data for the development of the Central Condamine groundwater flow model
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Leon L. M. Leach
Porosity and permeability of the Springbok Sandstone, Surat Basin – integrating wireline and laboratory data
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Oliver Gaede
Field-scale downscaling of passive microwave soil moisture retrievals using a neural network trained on integrated hydrological model predictions
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Steven j. Berg
The importance of quality assurance and quality control for making the most out of hydrogeochemistry data
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Ivan Schroder
Networking Lunch. Sponsored by AGE Consultants
12:30PM - 1:15PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
Data Assimilation & Metrics for Models in Decision Support Roles
1:15PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium
A novel approach to collating and mapping groundwater recharge and aquifer property data to communicate variability from temporal and spatial scales
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Andrew Barker
Data fusion – Merging model results with telemetry data to obtain design water levels, real-time monitoring and virtual sensors
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Eduardo De Sousa
On regional groundwater models as tools for informing management: an example of effective and efficient decision-support modelling (Wairarapa Valley; NZ)
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Brioch Hemmings
Is Steady State Model Calibration sufficient?
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Catherine Moore
The full Monty for a regional-scale CSG groundwater impact model
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Daan Herckenrath
PEST ++ IES and cloud computing: case study of a numerically challenging mine-closure model with rigorous uncertainty analysis, within the confines of a realistic consulting timeframe and budget
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Kevin Hayley
Stochastic knowledge integration for groundwater exploration in data scarce areas
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Luk Peeters
Spatial data mapping for reduction of uncertainty in groundwater modelling
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Xuyan Wang
Climate Change/Variability Impacts and Water Security in Tropical & Arid Climates
1:15PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 2
Mapping groundwater trends across Australia – visualising the impact of drought
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John Sharples
Rationalisation of the Shepparton irrigation region public groundwater pump network - an adaptive response to a changing climate
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Simon Cowan
Climate change adaptation: Protecting and expanding freshwater lens resources during land reclamation on low lying islands
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Phil Hayes
Application of MAR technology in Sri Lanka
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Craig Flavel
Climate resilient urban water security by recharge techniques
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Jagannatha Venkataramaiah
Future scenarios for reliability of community groundwater supplies in East Sumba, Indonesia – a karst savanna case study
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Penelope B. Godwin
Rising water levels in the Burdekin groundwater management area
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Amy L. Becke
Impact of climate change on the groundwater resources of India: need of an appropriate adaptation strategy
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Shadananan Nair Krishnapillai
Stygofauna & Microbiology
1:15PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 2
What happens to groundwater ecosystems when you take out the groundwater?
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Grant C. Hose
What’s going on down (under) there? Unravelling biochemical flows under differential rainfall periods in a Western Australian calcrete
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Mattia Saccò
Can metabarcoding provide insights into trophic web interactions underground: a case study from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia.
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Nicole E. White
All creatures great and small - a case study of stygofauna from an agricultural field site in Canterbury, New Zealand
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Annette Bolton
Biological exchanges within the hyporheic zone: the importance of maintaining connectivity between surface and groundwaters
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Kathryn L. Korbel
Development of a groundwater health index
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Louise Weaver
Novel Bioremediation strategies for nitrogen contaminated groundwater
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Justin Morrissy
Intermittent/Ephemeral Drainage Systems
1:15PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 3
Are all rivers equal? Attitudes towards intermittent and ephemeral rivers in Australia, the UK and USA
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Catherine Leigh
Identification and systematic prioritisation of surface water refuges to sustain freshwater biodiversity in eastern Australian intermittent stream networks
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Mark J. Kennard
Use of multiple methods for studying recharge/discharge processes in regulated and unregulated reaches of the Dumaresq River
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Dawit Berhane
The canary or the coalmine? Isotopic evidence of drying climate versus groundwater outflow as the cause for recent losses from Thirlmere Lakes, NSW
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Mark A. Peterson
Streamflow generation mechanisms for an intermittent-ephemeral catchment in South Australia: a modelling approach
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Karina Y. Gutierrez-Jurado
Geological controls on the spatial variability of ephemeral flow regimes
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Josephine Searle
Directly measured soil evaporative losses in the semiarid Pilbara
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Grzegorz Skrzypek
Water velocity and groundwater upwelling control benthic algal biomass in an intermittent tropical river: implications for water resource development
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Ryan M. Burrows
Tracers & Isotopes
1:15PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Room
Multi-tracer characterisation of the Cambrian Limestone Aquifer in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin
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Alec Deslandes
Characterising changes in isotope hydrochemistry through time in a high use, arid-zone aquifer
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Stephen Hostetler
Understanding the sources and transit times of water sustaining streamflow in upland catchments
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Ian Cartwright
Use of environmental tracers in environmental impact assessments for coal seam gas and large coal mining developments
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Kelly Strike
Using environmental tracers to quantify recharge mechanisms and variation in the semi-arid Pilbara region
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James McCallum
A golden age for environmental tracers in Australia
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Sébastien Lamontagne
Partitioned mantle degassing through the Australian plate delineated by noble gas data
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Karl E. Karlstrom
Use of stable and radiogenic isotopes in characterising wastewater derived impacts in Urban and Peri-Urban areas
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William G. McCance
Afternoon Tea Sponsored by SkyTEM Australia
3:15PM - 3:45PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
Day 2 Poster Presentations
3:45PM - 4:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium Foyer
Co-transport of the F-RNA coliphage MS2 and graphene oxide nanoparticles (GONPs) in saturated limestone-packed columns: role of biofilm
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Amirhosein Ramazanpour Esfahani
A novel hydrogeochemical investigation utilising Pb and Sr isotopes in the vicinity of the Century Pb-Zn Mine, NW Queensland, Australia
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Candan Desem
Stable isotopic and water quality characteristics of groundwater systems associated with methane pathways in the Surat/Bowen Basins
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Tikiri Tennakoon
Using
87
Sr/
86
Sr ratios in groundwater to assess inter-aquifer connectivity
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Christopher Harris-Pascal
Reviewing three years of measurements of all stable Noble Gases in groundwater
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Punjehl Crane
Hydrogeochemistry of basalt aquifers: Multi-isotope analysis for better understanding of groundwater recharge, flow-paths and surface water interactions of the McBride and Nulla Basalt Provinces - northern Queensland, Australia.
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Luke Wallace
Helium-4 as a tool to assess sequences of hydrogeochemical reactions
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Alec Deslandes
14
C-dating model for groundwater affected by CO
2
inputs from deep underground formations
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Tao Wang
Environmental watering requirements in the context of groundwater under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
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Tariq Rana
Reporting and compliance of groundwater use under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
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Rebecca Nixon
Guidelines for the application of adaptive management to groundwater contexts
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Jason A. Thomann
Towards a consistent approach to groundwater resource assessments in Victoria
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Greg Hoxley
An overview of the geological and bioregional assessments program
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Mitchell Baskys
Protection Schedule in Daihai Lake Basin
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Xia Jiang
A simplified methodology for uncertainty quantification in dewatering modelling of an operational mine
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Ji Zhang
Design of a simple tool for automated groundwater level forecasting
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Andrew L. Dark
Hydrogeological Bayesian hypothesis testing through trans-dimensional sampling of a stochastic water balance model
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Luk Peeters
Evaluating the presence of chemotaxic microbes at a hydrocarbon contaminated site undergoing remediation
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Cameron Murphy
A comparison of methods for the numerical simulation of the unsaturated zone in the SA River Murray floodplain
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Behzad Gitijamal
Assessing seawater intrusion vulnerability to sea level rise in Christchurch, New Zealand using GIS-based methods
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Irene Setiawan
Landscape patterning of riparian vegetation across a novel gradient of surface water persistence and groundwater proximity
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Neil E. Pettit
Case study of the application of EM34 geophysical surveys in assessing fresh groundwater potential in Onotoa atoll – Republic of Kiribati
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Anesh Kumar
Handpump borehole functionality in rural Africa: using environmental tracers to evaluate groundwater residence times, water quality risk and supply in Shallow Unconfined Aquifers
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Eddie Banks
Spatial and temporal stable isotope variability within Alpine Streams of the Snowy Mountains
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Reuben Parige
New South Wales Great Artesian Basin bore survey projects
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Madhwan Keshwan
Aquifer and aquitard permeability changes following earthquakes: insight from the water level response to earth tides and atmospheric pressure
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Hui Zhang
1D groundwater elevation prediction model
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Stefan S.C. Charteris
Diurnal water level fluctuation in pressure logger data: an evapotranspiration response or a pressure transducer artefact?
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Harald Hofmann
Planning water resilience, by using an MAR approach in South Africa
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Hugo L. Marais
A different approach to characterising aquifer properties using pressure transducers in privately owned bores in South East Queensland
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Lisa Gurieff
Offshore fresh groundwater in New Zealand: a review
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Leanne K. Morgan
Lessons learnt in shallow groundwater monitoring in urban areas: the Christchurch experience
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Helen Rutter
Review of methodologies to extract and measure noble gases in rock fluid inclusions
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Axel Suckow
and
Punjehl Crane
Groundwater monitoring programs in mining– adaptive management considerations
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Madelyn Harp
Northern Australia Hydrogeochemical Survey: groundwater as a tool for mineral and hydrocarbon prospectivity and environmental baselines
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Luke Wallace
Can you have an in-pit tailings storage with a permanent water cover in Australia?
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Andrea Madden
Mining and the role of NSW Water Legislation in managing impact change
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John Williams
Field to desktop integrated water data management solution
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Chris Jones
Groundwater chemistry and microbiology in a wet tropics agricultural catchment
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Jim Stanley
Integrated geophysical, hydrogeological and environmental tracer assessment to improve groundwater-surface water systems conceptualisation and sustainable use in the Aconcagua River Valley, Chile
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Matthias Raiber
Rapid national hydrogeology assessment framework for groundwater prospectivity and vulnerability: Timor-Leste case study
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Luke Wallace
Data Assimilation & Metrics for Models in Decision Support Roles
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Auditorium
PEST and management models – the highs and lows of automated calibration for groundwater management
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Kittiya Bushaway
Putting the geo back into hydrogeology. Geological uncertainty propagation impact on groundwater modelling
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Evren Pakyuz-Charrier
Does geophysics really reduce groundwater model uncertainty? Insights from a synthetic study on the benefits of including EM and SNMR in groundwater modelling
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Chris Li
Assimilating remote sensing evapotranspiration into coupled groundwater - unsaturated zone model
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Simone Gelsinari
Water Quality Management
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 1
Groundwater hydrochemistry data delivery in Australian Groundwater Explorer—the value of multi-agency collaboration for nationally consistent data
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Eloise Nation
Retrospective on 10 years of risk-based guidelines for managed aquifer recharge
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Peter J. Dillon
Using aquifers for natural treatment: nutrient removal from urban stormwater during ASR
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Karen Barry
Interaction between groundwater salinity and hydraulic head at an underground storage cavern, Port Botany, New South Wales
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Ellen E. Kwantes
Regulation, Policies & Management
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 2
Groundwater management at the localised scale in the Murray-Darling Basin
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Tariq Rana
NSW groundwater team is on the move and looking ahead, getting ready for upcoming needs
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Fabienne d'Hautefeuille
Murray-Darling Basin groundwater strategic planning beyond 2019
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Kristanne Mahony
The costs and benefits of managed aquifer recharge
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Andrew Ross
Irrigation & Groundwater Protection
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Breakout Room 3
Targeted field investigations are fundamental to underpin future water planning and investment in northern Australia: insights from the Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment
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Andrew R. Taylor
Lower Burdekin Water – management challenges of a large aquifer replenishment scheme
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David M. Sartori
Management and optimisation of agricultural irrigation systems by using digital twins in the framework of a digital physical system (DPS)
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Douglas Graham
From investigation to legislation - lakeland groundwater management, Cape York Peninsula, Australia case study
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Glynis Orr
Fractured Rock Hydrogeology Systems
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Boulevard Room
To connect or not to connect: the importance of hydrogeological conceptualisation for groundwater impact assessments
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Angela L. Bush
The use of proxy data for hydrogeological site characterisation
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Todd Hamilton
Hydrogeological characterisation of volcanic-sedimentary rock aquifer within Southern Johor Bahru, Malaysia
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Vynotdni Rathinasamy
Conference Dinner. Sponsored by the University of Queensland Centre for Coal Seam Gas
6:30PM - 10:30PM
Tuesday, 26th November
Function Room
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