The 42nd
Annual IAH (Irish Group) Groundwater Conference: "Groundwater: Making the
Invisible, Visible" will be held over two half-days on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th
April 2022 via Zoom. The theme reflects the focus of
UN's 2022 World Water
Day.
There will be 14 presentations over two half days, from consultants, academics,
international and state agencies, as well as an Early Careers Session. Please
find full speaker details on the attached conference programme.
Please find
full speaker details and the conference
programme attached, and on the IAH (Irish Group)
website
here.
Half
day 1:
Our first day, session one, Exploring Groundwater, will take a broader
perspective and includes talks on the role of groundwater in the 2022 UN World
Water Development Report (Michaela Miletto, UNESOC WWAP), on Ireland's
geothermal potential (Sarah Blake, GSI) and how structure influences
groundwater movement and storage (Pat Meere, UCC).
Session two,
Groundwater Resource Resilience, gets underway with an overview of groundwater
in the World Water Quality Alliance (Claudia Ruz Vargas, UN IGRAC), updates to
the Irish National Karst database (Caoimhe Hickey, GSI), how groundwater is
being incorporated into public supplies in Northern Ireland (Paul Wilson,
GSNI), and updates on two GSI programmes that focus on groundwater (Katie Tedd,
GSI).
Half
Day 2:
Half-day number two kicks off with a session on Communication, with talks on
how to use groundwater in geoscience communication (Kirstin Lemon, GSNI), the
broader experiences of communicating geoscience to the public (Fegus McAuliffe,
iCRAG), and how to foster and support community engagement (Donal O’Keefe,
LAWPRO).
The
final session considers Emerging Issues in Groundwater, and the speakers will
talk about their research on using passive seismic methods to listen to water
flowing in conduits (Haleh Karbala Ali, DIAS), groundwater contaminants of
emerging concern (Dan Lapworth, BGS), and a linked presentation on the global
and Irish perspective on PFAS in groundwater (Olivia Hall & Ian Ross,
TetraTech). The final presentation will consider Irish Holy Wells (Bruce
Misstear, TCD).