Paid Programme

Drought, food and the global water crisis

President : Everton de Oliveira, President, 47th IAH Congress Organizing Committee | Brazil
Speakers: John Cherry, The Groundwater Project | Canada

Hydrogeoethics for a just society

President: Gerson Cardoso da Silva Jr., Full Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) | Brazil

Speakers:

Manuel Abrunhosa, Researcher, Center of Earth and Space Research of the University of Coimbra (CITEUC) | Portugal

Sebnem Arslan, Associate Professor, Ankara University | Turkey

António Chambel, Professor, University of Évora | Portugal

Transboundary groundwater: thinking beyond the aquifers

President: Leticia Rodríguez, Full professor at Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral | Argentina

Speakers:

Khalil Ibrahim Al-Samarrai, Teaching Staff at the Department of Engineering Geology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tripoli | Iraq

Jac van der Gun, International Groundwater Resources Consultant, Van der Gun Hydro-Consulting | The Netherlands

Francesco Sindico, Director, Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG) | Italy

Managed & unmanaged aquifer recharge

President: Sumaya Israel, Senior lecturer, University of the Western Cape | South Africa

Speakers:

Peter Dillon, Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO | Australia

Eberhard Braune, Associate Professor, University of the Western Cape | S0outh Africa

Ricky Murray, Founder, Groundwater Africa | South Africa

Water challenges for the cities of the future

President: Roberto Kirchheim, Hydrogeology Researcher, Serviço Geológico Nacional | Brazil

Speakers:

Robert Pitt, Emeritus Cudworth Professor of Urban Water Systems, University of Alabama | USA

Monica Porto, Director of Regional Systems, SABESP | Brazil

Shirley Clark, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Penn State University Harrisburg | USA

Numerical models in hydrogeology: how not to be drowned by numbers

President: Carlos Molano, Vice president, Latin America and the Caribbean, IAH | Colombia

Speakers:

Joseph D. Hughes, Hydrologist, United States Geological Survey | USA

Francesca Lotti, Founder, SYMPLE (School of Hydrogeological Modelling and Project-related Strategies) | Italy

Abdalraheem Huwaysh, General Executive Manager, Join Authority for the Study and Development of the Nubain Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS-JA) | Libya

Emerging tools and technical advances in hydrogeology

President: Everton de Oliveira, President, 47th IAH Congress Organizing Committee | Brazil

Speakers:

Rick Devlin, Editor-in-Chief, Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation Journal | USA

William (Bill) L. Cunningham, Acting Director of the Office of International Programs, United States Geological Survey (USGS) | USA

Solving the challenges of groundwater agriculture

President: Marco Petitta, Full Professor of Hydrogeology, Sapienza University of Rome| Italy

Speakers:

David Rudolph, Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo | Canada

Klaus Hinsby, Sr. Scientist / Research Hydrogeologist, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) | Denmark

Shin-ichi Onodera, Professor, Hiroshima University | Japan

Taming the bull by the horns: a governance for groundwate

President: Alice Aureli, Water Science Division, UNESCO | Italy

Speakers:

Karen Villholth, Principal Researcher, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) | South Africa

Elena López Gunn, Founder and Director, ICATALIST | Spain

Flávia Carneiro da Cunha Oliveira, Implementation of Plans, Programs and Projects Deputy Superintendent, National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA) | Brazil

New frontiers of hydrogeochemistry

President: Didier Gastman, Researcher, UNESP | Brazil

Speakers:

Cathy Ryan, Researcher, University of Calgary | Canada

Emmanuelle Petelet, Head of the Isotope Geochemistry Unit, BRGM (French Geological Survey) | France

Contamination of complex aquifers

President: Reginaldo Bertolo, Vice Director, CEPAS|USP | Brazil

Speakers:

Beth Parker, Director, Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute | Canada

Daniel Lapworth, Principal Hydrogeochemist, British Geological Survey | United Kingdom

Michael Rivett, Founding Director, GroundH2O plus Ltd | United Kingdom

Global climate change on the groundwater future

President: Wolfgang Kinzelbach, ETH Zurich, Head of the Sino-Swiss Groundwater Project | Germany

Speakers:

Tibor Stigter, Associate Professor of Hydrogeology and Groundwater Resources, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (UNESCO Category 2) | The Netherlands

Jianyao Chen, Professor, Sun Yatsen University | China

Presiden: Ricardo Hirata, Chair of the Scientific Committee of the 47th IAH Congress, Director at Groundwater Research Center, University of São Paulo (CEPAS|USP) | Brazil

Speakers: Emilio Custodio, Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya | Spain