[Aqualist] Paleo-hydrogeology: integrating paleoclimatology and hydrogeology @ 40th IAH Congress 2013, Perth

[Andy Baker]

Dear AQUA colleagues,

We would like to invite you to session 3.7, Paleo-hydrogeology: integrating paleoclimatology and hydrogeology, at the 40th International Association of Hydrogeologists Congress, to be held in Perth, Australia on the 15-20 September.

The call for abstracts is now open, and closes at the end of February, and can be found here: http://iahcongress2013.org/abstracts.php

Paleo-hydrogeology: integrating paleoclimatology and hydrogeology
In many parts of the globe, we are utilising a groundwater resource which is ‘fossil’, with groundwater recharge occurring thousands to millions of years ago. Our use of such a resource is effectively mining groundwater, and is likely to be unsustainable. This session seeks to bring together paleoclimatologists and hydrogeologists who have an interest in groundwater-climate interactions over millennial or longer time-scales. Archives and data that would be particularly relevant to this session include: regional-scale syntheses of groundwater ages; lake archives of paleohydrology; speleothem archives of paleorecharge; aquitard porewater archives of the paleogroundwater; high temporal-resolution paleo archives of the frequency of groundwater recharge; groundwater and or climate models of millennial or longer time-scales.

Convenors:
 Andy Baker, UNSW, NCGRT, and co-author of ‘Speleothem Science: from process to past environments’ (www.connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au<http://www.connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au>)
Dioni Cendon, ANSTO, and Groundwater at Global Paleoclimate Signals (www.gw-gps.com<http://www.gw-gps.com>; UNESCO (IGCP-618) and INQUA supported)