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Preliminary Information for the Panel’s March Event: Confluence of Water Engineers

Water engineering covers a broad range of fields including water resources, water supply, water treatment, WSUD, water quality, waste water management, water reuse, water policy, water catchment management, environmental water etc over all aspects of research, analysis and design.

The Water Engineering Panel, Sydney Division is holding its annual networking event on the evening of 2 March 2010.

For those who have not attended the event in previous years, the night is dedicated to provoking discussion between like minded people who are interested and/or working in the field of water engineering. The event takes place in a causal environment with drinks and canapés provided.

The Chair will introduce the Water Engineering Panel, Sydney Division and explain how it goes about executing its common aim of advancing knowledge and interest in the field of water engineering. The Chair will also provide a précis of the seminars which will be held over the course of 2010.
When: Tuesday 2nd March, 5:30-7:30pm
Where: Engineers Australia Auditorium, Ground Floor, 8 Thomas Street, Chatswood NSW 2067
Further details: Karen Brakell, ph 92725346 (klancaster@pb.com.au)
Website: http://www.sydneywaterpanel.org.au/

17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference

In more conference news the announcement for the 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference has been given.

Location
The University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
5-9 December 2010

Important Dates
1 April 2010 Abstracts due.
17 May 2010 Notification of acceptance of abstracts.
15 July 2010 Full papers due.

EA Hosted Conferences

Engineers Australia have just posted their most recent list of hosted conferences but there are two conferences that stand out as water engineering focussed:

IAHR 34th Biennial Congress
Including the 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium &
10th Hydraulics in Water Engineering

Call for Abstracts close 15 July 2010

When: 26 June – 1 July 2011
Where: Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane Australia
Website: www.iahr2011.org

Pacific 2010 – International Maritime Conference

When: 27 – 29 January 2010
Where: Sydney Convention Centre
Website: www.pacific2010imc.com

2010 Water Sensitive Urban Design Workshop

On behalf of The Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority, GEMS Event management are running a number of Water Sensitive Urban Design Workshops over 2010. The first is scheduled for the 17th or 18th March 2010, details:

Construction and Establishment of Vegetated Stormwater Systems

Effective civil construction and landscape establishment of bioretention systems, wetlands and swales is required to minimise costs and timeframes and realise the stormwater management benefits of these systems.

This one-day course provides detailed step by step guidance on the construction and establishment of bioretention systems and stormwater wetlands in order to address the key issues faced during on-ground delivery. It covers construction methods that respond to the phases of development (i.e. civil construction, landscape establishment and house building) and protocols (inspection requirements, sign-off forms) that ensure successful construction and establishment.

Workshop Dates: Wednesday 17th March, 2010 or Thursday 18th March, 2010.

Venue: Sydney Masonic Centre
66 Goulburn St
Sydney NSW 2000

Local Government Officer fee – $390 per person including GST
Consultants or Industry fee – $550 per person including GST

Full details please contact: Julie McGraw on (02) 9744 5252

AGM Results and Welcome to the New Year

Thank you to those who attended the AGM in December we had some lively discussion, good food and wine. We also managed to elect the executive committee who are as follows:

  • Chair – Karen Brakell
  • Vice-chair – Grantley Smith
  • Secretary – Monique Retallick
  • Publicity – Peter Brady (Interim)

Congratulations to Monique and Grantley on your new positions and thanks to Peter for continuing in the publicity role.

Our first meeting for the year will be on Tuesday 2nd February 2010 at 6pm at the office of WMA Water, Level 2, 160 Clarence Street, Sydney, ph 92992855.

During our AGM we decided to start the year with a networking event. This will be held in the Engineers Australia Auditorium on Tuesday 2nd March 2010 from 5:30pm.

Water and Climate Change: An Overview from the UN World Water Development Report

The UN World Water Assessment Program would like to share a number of new publications addressing Water and Climate Change, produced in anticipation of the COP 15 discussions. These new publications draw from the findings of the UN World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World (2009).

Additionally, UN-Water presented its key messages on water and climate change as a contribution to COP 15 in the following document:

  • UN-Water Key Messages on Climate Change and Water [PDF 314 KB]

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Lastly, over the past year a number of publications addressing water and climate change have been released through WWAP’s Side Publications series:

For more information on the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) or the UN World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World (2009), please visit us at our website: http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap

Groundwater Short Courses Change of Name

The Groundwater Short Courses, formerly managed with outstanding success for twenty years by the Centre for Groundwater Studies (CGS), will continue to be managed by the same staff on the same business model, but now under the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT). We will now be known as: “NCGRT Groundwater Industry Training”.

To view the NCGRT Groundwater Industry Training Program for 2010, please visit our website: industrytraining.groundwater.com.au.

All staff emails and phone numbers remain the same, and general course enquiries can now be sent to:
Email: industrytraining@groundwater.com.au
Phone: +61 8 8201 5632

2009 Annual General Meeting – Venue Update

The meeting will include the election of new office bearers, Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and  Publicity officer. All are welcome to attend however RSVP is essential.

Date: Tuesday 8 December 2009

Time: 6:30pm

Venue: Restaurant – “Simple & Irresistible”, 283 Miller Street (corner of Ridge Street) North Sydney.


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RSVP: Karen Brakell (nee Lancaster) (klancaster@pb.com.au), 5pm Friday 4 December 2009

Cost: Dinner at own expense

Panel AGM

The Panel’s Annual General Meeting will be held on 8th December 2009 although the final venue is still to be confirmed.

Birdsall Dreiss Lecture With the IAH

The Water Panel is pleased to announce that it is co-hosting this year’s Birdsall Dreiss Lecture with the IAH.  This year’s lecture is titled: Understanding Solute Transport in Extremely Heterogenous Porous Media and will be given by Dr. Chunmiao Zheng, Professor of hydrogeology at University of Alabama.  The presentation will be given on Wednesday 11th November 2009, 6 to 8 pm, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway Campus, Tower Building (CB02), 15 Broadway Street Level 4 (Tower entrance level), Room 411 (CB02.04.11) – see map on our events page.

Drinks and nibbles will be available

The abstract for the presentation, which is available on the information flier,  is:

Field studies at well-instrumented sites have played a pre-eminent role in our efforts to better understand and predict contaminant transport in geologic media. In particular, field tracer tests have provided new insights and extensive data sets essential to development and testing of transport theories and mathematical models. In addition to the investigation at field site at the Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, much recent research on contaminant transport in heterogeneous media has been motivated by findings at the MADE site. In particular, results from field investigations have suggested the existence of small- scale preferential flow paths and relative flow barriers, which together exert a dominating control on contaminant transport and remediation. This presentation will provide an overview of the field campaigns at the MADE site over the past 25 years and discuss how the findings from these field studies have inspired various theories and models to accommodate the non-ideal transport observed in the field. The MADE site has proven to be a valuable natural observatory where continuing research efforts will lead to a stronger theoretical framework and practical tools for modelling solute transport and evaluating remedial measures in extremely heterogeneous aquifers.

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