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Integrated Management of Groundwater Resources and

Dependent Ecosystems

Second announcement and call for abstracts

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International conference

Prague, Czech Republic, 5-7 March 2014

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Groundwater in Europe and elsewhere face increasing pressures due to water abstraction for irri-

gation and other water uses, which is aggravated by land use and climate changes. Water pollution

and decline of water levels have occurred in many regions, producing a host of undesirable eco-nomic and environmental impacts. The European Water Frame Directive and Groundwater Directive

outline principles of protection and management and sets groundwater quality standards, as for

example threshold values for nitrate and pesticides concentrations. The aim is to prevent the deteri-

oration of the status of all bodies of groundwater, reverse negative trends in pollution and to achieve

a good groundwater quantity and quality status, promoting a long-term sustainable water use and

the enhancement of the ecosystems relying on groundwater.

Due to increased pressures on groundwater systems, future management must include better un-

derstanding of how land use affects groundwater quantity and quality. Additionally, the impact of

future climate change on groundwater systems must be better understood and considered in man-agement scenarios. Better understanding of the key role of groundwater in ecosystems must re-

Through the design of the proper institutional, legal and operational framework, the management of

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ing a sustainable management of water and associated ecosystems. Proper management of GDEs

requires that they are included in the risk assessment and management schemes. Procedures for

this should be further developed. Decision making in groundwater quantity and quality management

is often complex because of heterogeneous stakeholder interests, multiple objectives, different op-

realization and success of any regulations, policies, and measures. In the quest to develop mitiga-

tion and sustainable adaptation measures in land use and groundwater management practices, we

must also consider the socio-economic consequences of such measures, as well as the potential

role of economic instruments in balancing supply and demand and promoting a sustainable use of

the resources.

To target future actions to maintain good status of groundwater systems, groundwater bodies and

dependent ecosystems must be understood in an integrated way. This requires better methods to

assess groundwater systems vulnerability from hydrologic, economic and ecosystem perspectives.

Various methods can be used to study groundwater systems ranging from environmental tracers,

hydrological and ecological research to numerical modelling and management methods. During the

conference, different procedures and methods to manage groundwater systems will be discussed

in an interdisciplinary framework. New research results from a large scale research project GENE-

research and management as well as professionals from policy, administration or enterprises to

submit abstracts.

We cordially invite you to participate in the conference.

Bjrn Klve, Bioforsk (Norway), University of Oulu (Finland), GENESIS project co-ordinator

Hans Kupfersberger, Joanneum Research (Austria)

Manuel Pulido-Velzquez, Universitat Politcnica de Valncia (Spain)

Marco Trevisan, Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)

Welcome

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Conference themes

The conference covers major aspects of integrated groundwater research and the main topics are:

Contaminant load and modeling the leaching to groundwater

Groundwater dependent ecosystems: groundwater-surface water interaction

Integrated modelling of groundwater systems

Impact of land use and climate change

legal aspects

Abstract submission and call for abstracts

Abstracts are invited on the topics outlined in the conference themes and others falling within the

scope of the conference. Abstract submission for oral and poster presentations is 15 December

Template for abstract and how to proceed is given at the conference web site:

Special issue

All writers are strongly encouraged to submit their full papers to be published in a special issue of:

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) special issues on Groundwater resources

and their ecosystem services: new methods and management practices with deadline of sub-

mission of papers end of May 2014.

Science of the Total Environment(STOTEN) special issues on From the assessment of the

pollutant input into groundwater systems to the measures for protecting them, via the assess-

ment of the effect of climate and land-use change with deadline of submission of papers end of

February 2014.

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Venue

The Conference on Integrated Management of

Groundwater Resources and Dependent Eco-

systems will take place in the National Techni-cal Libraryin Prague, Czech Republic.

The library is close to the city centre and easily

accessible from the international airport.

The National Technical Library

Technick 6

160 80 Praha 6 - Dejvice

Accommodation

There are many options for accommodation close to the venue, and pre-booking has to been done

at the two following hotels:

Hotel Diplomat: Book on-line before November 30. and use the group code GENESIS to get spe-

cial rate of 85 /night.

Hotel Silenzion: Single room 52 /night. Double room 60 /night. Apartment 88/night/2 persons.For availability and booking contact: booking@silenziohotel.cz

Other options include:

Hotel Denisa

Masaryk Dormitory

Fees and registration

Participant: 300

Student: 200

Conference dinner: 50

The conference fee includes the welcome reception, daily lunches and coffee breaks.

For registration go to the conference website at:

Registration must be completed before 31 January.

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How to get there

From Prague airport:

From Prague railway station:

Pre-conference course

A two day pre-conference course Hydrogeology of groundwater dependent ecosystem (GDEs):

novel techniques for hydrological and ecological monitoring and analysis will be given 3-4 March,

2014 before the conference start.

For whom: PhD students or similar with background in hydrology, civil engineering, ecology etc.

Cost: No participant fee

Credits: 1 ECTS

Maximum number of participants: 25 (students registered to the conference are given preference toparticipate in case of received applications above 25). More details: -

conference

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Programme outline

Monday

Tuesday

09:00-18:00

09:00-18:00

Wednesday

10:00-10:30

10:30-11:15

11:15-12:00

12:00-13:30

13:30-14:30

14:30-15:00

15:00-16:30

16:30-18:00

Opening session

Key note Environmental tracers as indicators of groundwater reliance

Key note Groundwater dependent ecosystems: future challenges for

groundwater management, Bjrn Klve (Finland/Norway)

Lunch

Parallel session 1

Coffee

Parallel session 2

Poster session and ice breaking reception

Thursday

09:15-10:00

10:00-10:45

10:45-11:15

11:15-12:15

12:15-13:45

13:45-14:45

14:45-15:15

15:15-17:30

19:00-23:00

Key note Pollution of aquifers by pesticides and nitrates from land use,

Marco Trevisan (Italy)

Key note Modelling of groundwater systems: impacts of land use and

climate change, Hans Kupfersberger (Austria)

Coffee

Parallel session 3

Lunch

Parallel session 5

Coffee

Poster session

Conference dinner

Pre-conference course

Pre-conference course

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Friday

10:00-10:45

10:45-12:15

12:15-13:45

13:45-14:45

14:45-15:15

15:15-16:00

Key note Contribution of hydroeconomic models as DSS for a sustaina-

ble groundwater management, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez (Spain)

Parallel session 5

Lunch

Parallel session 6

Poster session

Conclusions and closing of conference

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Keynote speakers

Bjrn Klve(Finland/Norway) works as a professor at University of

Oulu, Finland and senior researcher at Bioforsk, Norway. He leads a

research group of 30 persons that focus on water and land resourcesresearch and hydrology. The research includes studies on hydrology

of groundwater, river systems and wetlands. He has 15 years experi-

ence on cold climate and peatland hydrology research with focus on

impacts of various land uses. A long term objective for the research is

to develop an integrated understanding of hydrological, sediment and

nutrient transport processes for better water and land management

including also impacts of climate change. The research methods used

hydrology, hydraulics and soil physics to environmental tracers and

Manuel Pulido-Velazquez(Spain) is Associate Professor in the De-

partment of Hydrologic Engineering and Environment at the Technical

University of Valencia (UPVLC), Spain, and a senior researcher within

the Research Institute of Water Engineering and Environment (IIA-

MA). His research focus on the developments of methods and tools

to support integrated management of water resource systems, withspecial emphasis on the integration of hydrology and engineering with

economics and system analysis techniques through the so called hy-

droeconomic models. He has published several papers on hydroe-

conomic modeling in different top journals, with applications to issues

like: the analysis of water markets and groundwater banking, optimal

conjunctive use of surface and groundwater, economic analysis of

recovery policies, or the economic impact of water conservation policies in irrigation (the latter, in

PNAS, 2008, led to comments in The New York Times, The Economist, and Science News, among

others). He has been involved in the development of hydroeconomic simulation and optimization

models for different case studies in Southern California, Rio Grande, Tigris-Euphrates basin, and

in several river basins in Spain and France. Recent collaborating organizations include the Jucar

and Segura River Basis Agencies, the Spanish Ministry of Environment, ONEMA, SIWI, BRGM, and

related to water management, water economics, groundwater management, climate change impact

and adaptation, and drought mitigation, Prof. Pulido-Velazquez currently leads the UPVLC research

team in the EU project GENESIS (FP7) on implementation of the EU Groundwater Directive and

assessment of climate change and land-use impacts on groundwater and related ecosystems, coor-

dinating the work package on groundwater economics and management. Manuel also co-chairs the

session Advances in Modeling of Coupled Hydrologic-Socioeconomic Systems at the annual EGU

conference in Vienna since 2011.

numerical modeling. The work is interdisciplinary with close collaboration with research groups e.g.in ecology and sociology. Bjrn Klve leads the GENESIS project and several national and Nordic

projects. He is the leader of Finnish doctoral programme VALUE in Integrated Catchment and Water

Resources Management.

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Dr. Hans Kupfersberger (Austria) is a senior researcher at the In-stitute of Resources at Joanneum Research in Graz and also a lec-

turer at the Civil Engineering Faculty, Graz University of Technology.

His major research interests generally lie in the area of numerical

groundwater modelling. Recently, he and his co-workers developed

a coupled scheme to model nutrient input and fate in the unsaturated

and saturated zone at the aquifer scale to delineate sustainable

agricultural management practices. Furthermore, he is involved in

research to predict the impact of climate and land use change on

groundwater quantity and quality considering associated uncertain-

limit the impacts of hydro power plants on groundwater dynamics.

(Poland) works in the Environmental Physics

Group at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow,

Poland. His research focuses on application of stable and radioactive

isotopes to study the hydrological, biogeochemical and geomorpho-

logical processes in the environment. He led and was involved in sev-

eral multidisciplinary national and international research projects and

currently coordinates one of Work Packages of the GENESIS project

Keynote speakers continued

Marco Trevisan (Italy) has studied the environmental fate of pesticide

and the behaviour of pesticide residues on crop and food since 1983.

-termination and consumer health. His activity is documented by 103

ISI paper (h-index of 20). Trevisan was involved in several European

LIFE (06 ENV/F/000133) Mitigation of agricultural nonpoint-source

GENESIS (Contract number: 226536) Groundwater and Dependent

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mate Change and Land-use Impacts on Groundwater Systems as

leader of WP3.

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expert, on Version Control Group and on Groundwater of FOCUS (Forum for the Co-ordination of

pesticide fate models and their Use) which is devoted to help the pesticide registration procedure

at European level using models. From 2009 to 2011 Trevisan was member of the External Review

panel of EFSA and in 2011 he became coordinator of a team involved in the evaluation of pesticide

dossier for the Health Ministry of Italy.

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Important dates

December 15, 2013

January 15, 2014

January 2014

February 2014

March 3, 2014

March 3, 2014

Abstract submission due date

Registration close

Start of pre-conference course

Start of conference

Organisers

The GENESIS Final Conferenceis organised by the GENESISproject. GIS-GEOINDUSTRY, s.r.o

is the local organising partner.

Project partners