Past Ineson Lectures

These are all the Ineson lecturers since the inaugural meeting in 1991:

• 2024 Dr John Bloomfield, British Geological Survey

Theme: Groundwater famine and feast. Quantifying future groundwater extremes (slides available)

 

• 2023 Holger Kessler, British Geological Survey

Theme: Digital Geoscience: Unleashing the Power of Data and Technology in Earth Sciences (abstracts available)

 

• 2022 Professor Jimmy Jiao, University of Hong Kong

Theme: Coastal Aquifers (abstracts available)

 

• 2021 Dr Mike Jones, Thames Water

Theme: Groundwater: How does it fit in planning water supply for future climates?

 

• 2020 Anne Dacey, Environment Agency

Theme: The Future of UK groundwater, environmental policy and regulation post-2020

 

• 2019 Professor Mario Schirmer, Eawag & Neuchâtel

Theme: Challenges in Urban hydrogeology – groundwater quality and resources (abstracts available)

 

• 2018 Dr Pauline Smedley, British Geological Survey

Theme: Hydrogeochemistry of trace elements and human health: from the water table to the kitchen table (abstracts available)   

 

• 2017 Dr Callist Tindimugaya, Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda

Theme: Africa, Groundwater and the Sustainable Development Goals (slides available)

 

• 2016 Professor Georg Teutsch, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig

Theme: Groundwater: managing our hidden asset

 

• 2015 Professor David Lerner, University of Sheffield, UK

Theme: Keeping groundwater sustainable under multifunctional pressures (abstracts available)

 

• 2014 Professor James F. Barker, University of Waterloo, Canada

Theme: Groundwater and Hydrocarbon Change (abstracts available)

 

• 2013  Professor Poul Bjerg, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Theme: The continuing challenge of nitrate and pesticide in groundwater (speaker list available)

 

• 2012  Professor Paul Younger, University of Glasgow, UK

Theme: Groundwater and Energy (QJHEG article of Ineson Talk and speaker list available)

 

• 2011  Professor Ian White, Australian National University, Australia

 

• 2010  Professor Nico Goldscheider, Technische Universität München, Germany

 

• 2009  Professor Denis Peach, British Geological Survey, UK

 

• 2008  Dr Wang Jinxia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Ineson Talk: “The evolution of groundwater governance: productivity, equity and changes in the level of China’s aquifers” (QJHEG article of Ineson Talk available)

 

• 2007  Professor Peter Fritz, UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum, Leipzig, Germany

 

• 2006  Andrew Skinner, ex. Environment Agency, UK

Ineson Talk: Groundwater: still out of sight but less out of mind (QJHEG article of Ineson Talk available)

 

• 2005  Dr Leonard Konikow, USGS, US

 

• 2004  Professor Tony Appelo, Netherlands

 

• 2003  Professor John Barker, University College London, UK

 

• 2002  Professor John Cherry, University of Waterloo, Canada

 

• 2001  Professor Mike Edmunds, University of Oxford, UK

 

• 2000  David Grey, World Bank

 

• 1999  Professor Stephen Foster, British Geological Survey, UK

Ineson Talk  “Assessing and Controlling the Impacts of Agriculture on Groundwater—from Barley Barons to Beef Bans” (QJHEG article of Ineson Talk available)

 

• 1998 Professor Steven Gorelick, University of Berkley, California, USA

 

• 1997  Professor Thomas Christiansen, Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark

 

• 1996  Professor John Lloyd, University of Birmingham, UK

 

• 1995  Professor Ghislain de Marsily, Laboratoire de Geologie Appliqueé, Univ Paris VI, France

 

• 1994  Dr Mary Jo Baedecker, US Geological Survey, Virginia, USA

 

• 1993 Professor Dr Emilio Custodio Gimena, Univ Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 

• 1992 Dr Dick Downing, ex BGS and Water Resources Board, UK

 

• 1991  James P Gibb, AGSE, National Water Well Association, USA