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Exploring Innovations, Challenges and Opportunities
Groundwater monitoring data is essential for prediction of groundwater resource condition and for early warning of anthropogenic impacts on groundwater availability for consumptive use and ecosystem support. There are more than 30,000 regularly monitored bores in Australia – many of which have been monitored for many decades. However, the threats to groundwater resources have changed over this period, as has the nature of hydrogeology itself. It is time to ask whether our current monitoring (that focusses mostly on water level and salinity measurements on observation bores) is sufficient for today’s needs. In this seminar we discuss this question.
Three speakers will examine groundwater monitoring approaches from different perspectives: groundwater quantity, groundwater chemistry, and opportunities provided by spaceborne remote sensing.
Chaired by Peter Cook, Professor of Hydrogeology at Flinders University and Director of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT)
Panel includes:
Dr Gabriel Rau, Lecturer in Hydrology, University of Newcastle
Dr Pascal Castellazzi, Research Scientist in Hydrogeology/Remote Sensing, CSIRO
Mr John Rayner, Research Scientist, CSIRO