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Commissions and Networks

About our commissions and networks

The activities of IAH’s commissions and networks include contributing to the science of groundwater and undertaking outreach, education and training. They run sessions at IAH congresses, co-convene technical meetings and field excursions with other societies, host workshops and training courses and prepare educational and outreach publications. We welcome suggestions for new topics or activities – email ideas and comments to info@iah.org.

You do not have to be an IAH member to participate. In fact we encourage wide involvement from the groundwater community, as this will help the groups to thrive and give greater authority to their work.

Use the listings below to find out more about IAH’s commissions and networks and to make contact with them.

Commissions

Commission on Groundwater and Climate Change

Chair: Dr Tibor Stigter (Netherlands) (t.stigter@un-ihe.org)

Commission on Groundwater and Energy

Chair: Grant Ferguson (Canada) (grant.ferguson@usask.ca>)
Co-Chair: Bridget Scanlon (USA) and Rob Ward (UK)

Commission on Groundwater Quality

Chair: Dr Thomas B. Boving (iahgqc@gmail.com)
Co-Chair: Dan Lapworth; Dr Pauline Smedley and Dr Seifu Kebede Gurmessa

Commission on Karst Hydrogeology

Co-Chair: Ben Tobin, Avi Burg and Peter Malík (benjamin.tobin@uky.edu; burg@gsi.gov.il; peter.malik@geology.sk)

Commission on Managing Aquifer Recharge

Co-Chair: (in alphabetical order): Enrique Fernández Escalante, Catalin Stefan and Yan Zheng (efernan6@tragsa.es; catalin.stefan@tu-dresden.de; yan.zheng@sustech.edu.cn)

Commission on Mineral and Thermal Waters

Chair: Dr Jim Lamoreaux (USA) (JLamoreaux@pela.com)
Co-Chair: Dr Adam Porowski (Poland) (adamp@twarda.pan.pl)

Commission on Regional Groundwater Flow

Chair: Judit Mádl-Szőnyi (Hungary) (szjudit@ludens.elte.hu)
Co-Chair: Okke Batelaan (Australia), Xiaowei Jiang (China), Hanneke Verweij (the Netherlands), Fadoua Hamzaoui Azaza (Tunisia), René Lebvre - John Molson (Canada), José Joel Carrillo-Rivera (Mexico) (szilviasimon@gmail.com (secretary))

Transboundary Aquifers Commission

Chair: Alfonso Rivera (aguasub7@gmail.com)
Co-Chair: Rosario Sanchez, Arnaud Sterckx and Kevin Pietersen (Maria.SanchezFlores@ag.tamu.edu; arnaud.sterckx@un-igrac.org; kpietersen@mweb.co.za)

Networks

Burdon Groundwater Network for International Development

Director: Alan MacDonald (UK) (amm@bgs.ac.uk)
Co-Director: Viviana Re (re.viviana@gmail.com)

Early Career Hydrogeologists’ Network

Director: Jared van Rooyen (South Africa) (jvanrooyen121@gmail.com)
Co-Director: Stefania Stevenazzi (stefania.stevenazzi@unina.it)

Groundwater Resources UNECE Classification and Management Network (GRUCMN)

Director: Peter Van Der Keur (pke@geus.dk)

Network for Coastal Aquifer Dynamics and Coastal Zone Management (CAD-CZM)

Director: Maurizio Polemio (maurizio.polemio@cnr.it)
Co-Director: Albert Folch and Gualbert Oude Essink (albert.folch.s@upc.edu; gualbert.oudeessink@deltares.nl)

Network on Fractured Rock Hydrogeology

Director: Uwe Troeger (uwe.troeger@tu-berlin.de)

Socio-Hydrogeology Network

Director: Viviana Re (Italy) (viviana.re@unipi.it)
Co-Director: Shrikant Limaye (India); Theresa Frommen (Germany)

Urban Groundwater Network

Director: Niels Hartog (niels.hartog@kwrwater.nl)
Co-Director: Helen Fallas, Ken Howard and Steven Foster