Events
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2 Mar - 19 Oct 2021 – Zoom / web
Operation and Maintenance Webinar Series
Operation and Maintenance of WASH infrastructure. This webinar series will share advances in approaches to operation and maintenance (O&M) of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure in the developing world. Much WASH infrastructure ultimately relies on groundwater, and consideration of groundwater characteristics is an integral part of optimizing approaches to better value, longer lasting and more sustainable infrastructure.
Speakers will discuss their program's approaches to engineering, environmental, financial, and political-economy challenges, and aim to draw out important lessons that are more widely applicable.Price: Free
Organised by PRO-WASH, Save the Children.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/operation-and-maintenance-of-wash-infrastructure-webinar-series-registration-140916706663 
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9 Mar - 21 Apr 2021 – Online
Brownfield Summit 2021
Environment Analyst’s virtual event Brownfield Summit is returning for its second year! This online summit will consist of two separate conferences on Ground Gas (9-10 March) and Groundwater (20-21 April), and has been designed for a broad range of brownfield professionals, including business leaders and early career professionals.
If you are involved in monitoring and risk assessing contaminated land or groundwater; installing, monitoring or verifying ground gas protection measures, or developing remedial strategies, then this event provides the perfect opportunity to update yourself on latest guidance and new good practices.
Listen to live online presentations, put questions to expert speaker panels and network with fellow brownfield professionals in the virtual conference and exhibition lounge.Price: https://www.brownfieldsummit.com/book-now
Organised by Environment Analyst.
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19-30 Apr 2021 – Online
vEGU21: Gather Online
In 2021, EGU will be hosting vEGU21: Gather Online (#vEGU21), a fully virtual meeting that will be held in place of the General Assembly in Vienna. vEGU21 will provide as full a representation of the experience that EGU members enjoy at the annual meeting in Vienna as possible. Abstract submissions will be accepted until 13 January 2021 at 13:00 CET. More details, including the registration fees, will be announced in the coming weeks.
RGFC-IAH supported sessions are “The role of groundwater flow systems in solving water management and environmental problems” convened by John Molson and co-convened by Daniela Ducci, Jim LaMoreaux, Manuela Lasagna, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi, and “Interacting geofluids systems – Research and innovation” convened by Ádám Tóth and co-convened by Teppo Arola, Gabriella B. Kiss, Corrado Camera, Hanneke Verweij.
In addition:
- EGU Session HS8.2.6 now open for abstract submissions - Topic: Fault zone hydrology: the effect of structural controls on groundwater flow. Convener: Rowan Vernon; Co-conveners: Neil Burnside, Jonathan Ford, Richard Haslam.
- EGU Session EOS4.2 "Geoethics: Geosciences serving Society" now open for abstracts. This is co-sponsored by the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (https://www.geoethics.org), aims to develop ethical and social perspectives on a range of topics, with case studies.Organised by European Geosciences Union (EGU).
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20 Apr 2021 – Online - 12.00 CET
IAH Europe C&W series, webinar III: SOS drought: Is groundwater the problem or the solution?
Marijke Huysmans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will talk about: SOS drought: Is groundwater the problem or the solution? This is the third webinar from our Central and Western European chapters, and coincidently ties in with the abstract deadline date for our Belgium congress!
The webinar, organized by the Belgian Chapter, will be on ZOOM platform:
https://uniroma1.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-6uqzwrGdf9VrpfLqR1kodfq7B7SNwm
ID meeting: 834 0765 7133
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29 Apr 2021 – Online (Brazil/Belgium)
Online: The effect of global climate change on groundwater – From Brazil to Belgium”.
Ahead of our 47th hybrid Brazil congress and 48th Belgium congress, from our two organising committees.
"The effect of global climate change on groundwater – from Brazil to Belgium"
Featuring three guest speakers.Organised by ABAS, Brazil and Belgium congress organising committees.
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27 May 2021 – Webinar
Groundwater, key to the Sustainable Development Goals
Groundwater, Sustainable Development Goals. The "Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs), multinational and multilateral roadmaps, constitute a great message of hope for the future of human societies and terrestrial ecosystems, currently facing the impacts of global change. Water is part of this 2030 Agenda especially through SDG 6.
Within this framework, groundwater resources (GWR) have a key role to play, directly in terms of hygiene and health, food production (irrigation), protection and restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity and, then, contribute to reduce poverty and inequalities, to education and gender equality, peace, etc.
This First Webinar will be the opportunity to address some of these themes through the experiences of various actors ( research, industry, local government, NGO ...).Price: free
Organised by IAH-CFH, UNESCO, FWP, IHP.
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6-7 Jun 2021 – online
Karst: From Top to Bottom
Multidisciplinary topics. Successive to the international course “Characterisation and Engineering of Karst Aquifers”, a multidisciplinary conference “Karst: From Top to Bottom” will be organised online (via Zoom) on 6-7 June 2021 as a contribution to the “International Year of Cave and Karst“. The conference is open to all, but is especially devoted to younger and talented karst researchers - those preferably, but not limited to, under the age of 40.
Price: Free
Organised by Centre for Karst Hydrogeology of the University of Belgrade. Partners: UNESCO-IHP, IGRAC, Regional Waterworks of Montenegro Coast, City of Trebinje, Geological Survey of Montenegro and Geological Survey of Republic of Srpska B&H.
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20-26 Jun 2021 – Irkutsk, RUSSIA
All-Russian Conference on GROUND WATERS IN THE EAST OF RUSSIA (XXIIIth Meeting on Ground Waters of Siberia and Russian Far East)
GROUND WATERS IN THE EAST OF RUSSIA. This all-Russian Conference is traditional and it is held every 3 years since 1955. In 2021, it will be dedicated to the 95th anniversary of Prof. Eugene V. Pinneker, head of the Siberian hydrogeologists School and to the blessed memory of the organizer of the first meetings on groundwater and engineering geology of Eastern Siberia Prof. Valentina G. Tkachuk.
The conference, which originated 66 years ago, will again be held in the Institute of the Earth’s Crust of SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia. At the upcoming meeting, for the first time in many years it is planned to consider the results of theoretical and applied research not only in the field of hydrogeology, but also in the field of engineering geology, to discuss a wide range of problems facing domestic and world science.
It is noteworthy that the meeting will be held within the framework of the international decade for action "Water for Sustainable Development", which the UN celebrates in 2018-2028 (A/RES/71/222).
Proposed conference topics:
• Underground hydrosphere. Past, Present, Future.
• Water-rock system. Steps forward.
• Ground waters and permafrost
• Hydrogeology of oil and gas regions
• New approaches and methods in hydrogeodynamics and hydrogeochemistry
• Natural and technical systems. Condition and control.
• Training problems of qualified hydrogeologists and geological engineers
• Youth section “New in hydrogeology and engineering geology”
Before the conference beginning it is supposed to publish its proceedings. Main selection criteria are traditional — novelty of the results obtained. The organizing committee welcomes the reports of foreign colleagues on modern problems of hydrogeology and engineering geology in various countries.Price: Registration fee: Early Bird Registration Rates (April 1-10, 2021) 400 €, Standard Registration rate (after April 10, 2021) - 450 €, young scientists (before 35 years old) - 100 €. The registration fee includes: Conference Icebreaker; 1 copy of the Conference Proceedings; a folder, a writing pad, a pen, a badge, information&schedules brochure; coffee-breaks between the sessions, lunches.
Organised by Institute of the Earth’s Crust of SB RAS Irkutsk National Research Technical University Irkutsk State University Hydrogeological and Geoecological Company “GIDEK” International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Russian Public Organization "Russian Union of Hydrogeologists" (ROSGIDROGEO).
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27 Jun - 1 Jul 2021 – Caserta, Italy
MinWat2020
3° International multidisciplinary conference on mineral and thermal waters. (Postponed from 2020)
The different events related to the current spreading of covid19 forced us, once again, to defer the date of MinWat2020 to 2021.
SESSIONS
1. Hydrogeology and geochemistry of mineral and thermal waters
2. Protection and management of mineral and thermal waters
3. Bottled mineral waters
4. Health issues, balneology and balneotherapy.Organised by Commission on Mineral and Thermal Waters of IAH and IAH Italy.
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7-9 Jul 2021 – Online/Budapest, Hungary
International Symposium on Geofluids – Online
(Postponed from 2020 - now virtual event) LATEST!! Deadline for abstraction submission extended to 14 April!!
The declared objective of the Symposium is to bring together scientists, professionals, stakeholders to share and discuss all kinds of aspects of geofluids, i.e., groundwater, geothermal energy, hydrocarbon, geogenic contamination, and hydrothermal mineral resources, with special emphasis on harmonized exploration and utilization. We, therefore, welcome researchers in all aspects of geofluids’ research. Main Topics and planned Sessions include: Energy flow systems and related fluids in the lithosphere; Managed aquifer recharge and groundwater flow systems; Geoenergy, thermal water and hydrocarbon systems; Natural contamination and hazards of geofluids; Fluid–rock interactions and hydrogeochemical reaction.Organised by Organised by the József and Erzsébet Tóth Endowed Hydrogeology Chair and Foundation and by the Regional Groundwater Flow Commission of IAH, in scientific collaboration with the ENeRAG H2020 project of Eötvös Loránd University.
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