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Australian GW School - Melbourne Program

This 4-day program provides an introduction to hydrogeology and groundwater topics. Over the 4 days, participants will learn about the hydrologic cycle, hydrogeology principles, drilling and data collection methods, groundwater flow and modeling, geophysics, surface water interactions, managed aquifer recharge, groundwater chemistry, contamination, salinity, fractured rock aquifers, mining hydrogeology, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, management, governance, and water law. The program includes presentations, tutorials, and case studies delivered by experts in the field.

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Australian GW School - Melbourne Program

This 4-day program provides an introduction to hydrogeology and groundwater topics. Over the 4 days, participants will learn about the hydrologic cycle, hydrogeology principles, drilling and data collection methods, groundwater flow and modeling, geophysics, surface water interactions, managed aquifer recharge, groundwater chemistry, contamination, salinity, fractured rock aquifers, mining hydrogeology, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, management, governance, and water law. The program includes presentations, tutorials, and case studies delivered by experts in the field.

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Program

Australian Groundwater School – Melbourne


Venue: Mantra Southbank

Monday 20 August 2018

TIME THEME/TOPIC PRESENTERS


8.30am Registrations and Coffee
8.45am Welcome and Introduction
The Importance of Groundwater In Australia
• What is groundwater
• Where is groundwater found?
• The hydrologic cycle
9.00am 1
• What is hydrogeology and its history?
• Australian groundwater facts and figures
• Australian aquifer map. sedimentary basin/fractured
province, inset on map
Introduction to Hydrogeology
• Water table and capillary zone
10.00am 2.1
• Aquifers & aquitards

11.30am Morning Tea


Introduction to Groundwater Hydraulics
• Groundwater flow systems
11.45am 2.2 • Storage in aquifers
• Hydraulic Head
• Physical & hydraulic parameters
12.45pm Lunch
Drilling Methods and Bore Design
• Types and purposes of various bores
1.45pm 3 • Drilling methods
• Databases in Australia
• Methods, variability & limitations of data collection
3.00pm Afternoon Tea
Groundwater Hydraulics
• Groundwater flow equations
3.15pm 4 • Borehole pumping test
• Single borehole test
• Lab measurements of hydraulic conductivity
5.15pm End Day 1

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Tuesday 23 August 2016

TIME THEME/TOPIC PRESENTERS


9.00am 5 Groundwater Modelling
• What is a model and what is its purpose?
• Modelling groundwater flow
• Modelling process
• Groundwater modeling codes

Groundwater Modelling Application


• Modelling guidelines
• Limitations and pitfalls in modelling
• Modelling case study
• Management, regulatory issues

11.00am Morning Tea


11.15am 6.1 Tutorial, Part 1
• Interpreting hydrographs
• Developing groundwater contours
• Borehole test for hydraulic conductivity
• Contaminant transport

1pm Lunch
1.45pm 6.2 Tutorial, Part 2
• Water budgeting
• Estimating groundwater flow
• Hydrostratigraphic conceptualisation

3.15pm Afternoon Tea


3:30pm 7 Geophysics
• Surface, airborne, borehole
• Methods and data processing and interpretation
• Hydrologic properties derived from geophysics

4.30pm End Day 2


4.40pm Networking Drinks

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Wednesday 21 August 2018

TIME THEME/TOPIC PRESENTERS


9.00am 8 Surface Water – Groundwater Interactions
• Introduction to surface water hydrology
• Locations and modes of interaction between
surface water and groundwater
• Water balance
• Human impacts
• Recharge/discharge definitions and estimation
10.00am 9 Managed Aquifer Recharge
• What is MAR and what is it for?
• MAR structure types
• Water sources to MAR
11.00am Morning Tea
11.15am 10 Groundwater Chemistry
• Why study groundwater chemistry?
• Physical and chemical composition of groundwater
• Origin of solutes, evolution in groundwater
• Field parameters
12.15pm 11 Environmental Isotopes in Groundwater
• What are isotopes and their use?
• Types of isotopes, Australian examples
1.15pm Lunch
2.00pm 12 Groundwater Microbiology
• Introduction to microbiology
• Pathogens in groundwater
• Microbial metabolism in groundwater
• Bioremediation
3.00pm Afternoon Tea
3.15pm 13 Groundwater Contamination
• Introduction and definitions
• Sources of contamination
• Fate of contaminants in the sub surface
• Groundwater remediation
4.15pm 14 Salinity and Water Logging
• What is salinity and why is it a groundwater issue
• Primary and secondary salinity & its sources
• Dryland and Irrigation salinity, water logging
• Impacts and management of salinity
5.00pm End Day 3
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Thursday 22 August 2018

TIME THEME/TOPIC PRESENTERS


9.00am 15 Fractured Rock Aquifers
• Fractured rock provinces in Australia
• Classification
• Basic Characteristics
• Groundwater flow
• Locating and mapping fractures
10.00am 16 Mining Hydrogeology
• Mine Dewatering
• Dewatering Methods
• Impacts of dewatering
• Design of dewatering system
11.00am Morning Tea
11.15am 17 Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems
• Introduction and definition
• Types of GDEs
• Hydrogeological framework
• Methods and indicators used in the determination of
GDEs
• Level of dependency
12.15pm 18 Groundwater Management
• What, why, when and how we manage GW?
• Principles
• Tools for groundwater management
• Management issues
• Climate change
1.15pm Lunch
2.00pm 19 Groundwater Governance – Water Law
• Development of water resources law in Australia
• Essential aspects of the current legal framework
• Groundwater and water trading

3.00pm Afternoon Tea


3.15pm 20 Groundwater Governance – Case Studies
4.30pm End of course wrap up and evaluation
5.00pm End Day 4

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