Ineson Lecture 2025 – Call for poster abstracts! 

If you would like to submit a poster abstract relating to this year’s theme, please email Rachel Bell (rbell1@bgs.ac.uk) with a few sentences outlining your proposed topic. 📃

This year will be a joint event hosting both the Ineson and Darcy lectures.

Theme: Sustainable Groundwater: Old and New 💧

Following the 2024 theme of droughts and floods, this year’s event will focus on the role of groundwater as a sustainable resource in relation to water scarcity. Global water use is increasing, with unequal distribution of demands across geographic areas such as those with high population and/or agricultural water use, and over time (seasonal and in periods of drought). As groundwater provides the largest overall volume of freshwater source, it has the potential to buffer these spatial and temporal variations in demand, if managed sustainably. The event will consider the opportunities and challenges in achieving this, looking at the role of historical and possible future climates as a key driver affecting both recharge and water demand, approaches to quantifying current and historical actual recharge rates and residence times, the balance between demand and long-term replenishment (including the role of fossil groundwater), and the equitable use of both groundwater and surface water resources to provide overall water security.

The 2025 Ineson Lecture will be given by Dr Bridget Scanlon, a Research Professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin.

The 2025 Darcy Lecture will be given by Dr Grant Ferguson, a professor of hydrogeology in the Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan.

Registration will open in October.

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