15-19 September 2025 MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, Australia “Groundwater now and for the future” Details to come […]
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2023 Groundwater Industry Awards
Nominate your peers or yourself for the 2023 IAH Awards The IAH Australia Executive invites nominations for its 2023 Groundwater Industry Awards. With these awards, we celebrate, honour, and support IAH members for their outstanding contributions to the industry. The award categories are: IAH groundwater professional award IAH groundwater project excellence and innovation award IAH […]
AGC NZ HS Conference
“Learning from the past, Adapting for the future” 28 Nov – 1 Dec 2023 On behalf of the organising committee, we would like to invite you to join us for this year’s Australasian Groundwater / New Zealand Hydrological Society Joint Conference in Auckland. The conference is organised by the New Zealand and Australian Chapters of […]
#WorldWaterDay
‘Valuing Water’, which is the theme of this year’s United Nations World Water Development Report. Valuing water extends beyond issues of price: it also takes into account the environmental, social, and cultural value people place on water. Find our more with about protecting our valuable resource with the World Water Development Report 2021. https://www.worldwaterday.org/ https://www.unwater.org/publication_categories/world-water-development-report […]
In Memoriam – Frans Kalf (1946-2021)
On 7 February 2021, the Australian hydrogeology community lost a pioneer. Frans Robert Peter Kalf died that day, after enduring a long battle with myeloma for much of the past decade, although he kept his illness quiet until the last couple of years. His specialty was mathematical geology, which morphed naturally into groundwater modelling. In […]
Managed aquifer recharge in WA (2021)
The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation has revised its managed aquifer recharge (MAR) policy and developed a supporting guideline, to inform the community. The revised policy – Managed aquifer recharge in Western Australia (2021) replaces Operational policy 1.01 – Managed aquifer recharge in Western Australia (Department of Water, 2011) and earlier practices for MAR operations […]
Numerical Modelling Conference
The upcoming Stamford Computational Methods in Water Resources XXIII online conference is not for the faint hearted. It’s a four-day academic event where you’ll hear from world leaders in computational methods for water resources, including Australian representatives such as Luk Peeters and Tim Munday. https://cmwrconference.org/ […]
Great Artesian Basin in the news..
Hydrogeologist Phil Hayes outlines how the efforts to rehabilitate uncontrolled bore-discharge in the Great Artesian Basin is helping to stabilise artesian heads. Read the full article here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-11/great-artesian-basin-water-pressure-recovering/12872642 […]
IAH Council elects Sarah Bourke
The Council of IAH was appointed by election online in September 2020. IAH is excited to announce, Sarah Bourke, our WA Chairperson was elected Vice President for Australasia and the Pacific, and will take on the new IAH Council leadership role for the next 4 years. Sarah Bourke Vice President – Australasia and the Pacific, AUSTRALIA […]
AGC2021 ….. stay tuned
The AGC2021 committee is well underway in planning next year’s conference. We hope to share some news with everyone soon on key conference dates, location, and more. […]
Call for papers – Special issue, Watershed Ecology and the Environment
The Journal of Watershed Ecology and Hydrology is a new journal published by KeAi – a joint venture between Elsevier and China Science and Publishing Media Ltd. They’re planning for a special issue on the catchment-scale hydrological modelling, including: Catchment-scale models Model uncertainty Urban catchment hydrology Water resource models Hydro power impacts Flood modelling Integrated […]
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“Advances in hydrogeologic understanding of Australia’s Great Artesian Basin”
IAH Qld Branch are pleased to announce the first technical talk for 2020! Carlos Ordens from UQ will be talking on “Advances in hydrogeologic understanding of Australia’s Great Artesian Basin”. When: 5pm, Thursday, 13th February 2020 Where: Community Meeting Room, Brisbane Square Library, 266 George Street Cost: This is a free event RSVP: By email […]
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Invitation to contribute to an IAH MBDA submission
The Select Committee on the Multi-Jurisdictional Management and Execution of the Murray Darling Basin Plan is examining the effects of the different approaches of the basin states to water resource management in the Murray Darling Basin, including consideration of the complications in respect of basin-wide or cross jurisdiction oversight. The committee has invited submissions. IAH […]
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Welcome to IAH in 2020
Welcome! 2019 was a busy year for IAH Australia, culminating in the AGC2019 conference in Brisbane. The conference welcomed over 500 attendees and had a program that included international speakers, informative presentations and great networking events and field trips. I’m indebted to the AGC2019 organising committee for the incredible work they did to make […]
IAH VIC Branch Presentation Notes: Groundwater, Gold and Salinity – Challenges for the City of Greater Bendigo
Please find Phil’s presentation notes from the November 2019 presentation IAH Presentation- Phil Dyson […]
Photographs from AGC 2019
Did you know we had a professional photographer at the AGC2019? Click the link below to see all the photos from the event… http://www.slrms.com.au/GroundwaterConference/ […]
That’s a wrap…. Australasian Groundwater Conference 2019
The 2019 Australasian Groundwater Conference was the most successful of our conferences to date. This success would not have been possible without the support of the speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and delegates. So once again, thank you to all who participated. We have an extraordinary community of professionals interested in groundwater as evidenced by the interest in […]
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IAH QLD – Early Career Night
Thanks to our Early-Career Hydrogeologists who presented at the University of Queensland on Thursday, 22nd August. Great to hear about their journeys and great to share some good pizza! A big thanks to Harald Hofmann and Madelyn Harp for organising the event. […]
IAH QLD – July Event
Bridget Scanlon from the University of Texas presented a great talk on “Unconventional Oil and Gas – Approaches to Managing Water Issues Related to Unconventional Oil and Gas Production in the United States”. Thanks to our sponsor GHD for hosting this event for us! We took the opportunity offer a heartfelt thanks to our IAH Qld Branch Treasurer, Lucy Reading, who recently completed 3 […]
IAH QLD – Darcy Lecture
Thanks to everyone who attended Dr John Doherty’s excellent presentation at QUT on May 17th for the 2019 Darcy Lecture! […]
IAH QLD – End of Year Party 2018
Thanks to those who attended the great IAH QLD Branch end-of-year party, a great celebration for a busy year! And congratulations to our 2018 student awards winners: Ashley Dunn (QUT) and Madelyn Harp (UQ). […]
IAH QLD – July 2018 Technical Talk
A great presentation by Todd Halihan (Oklahoma State University) at SLR in Brisbane, July 2018. […]