International Symposium on Isotope Hydrology: Advancing the Understanding of Water Cycle Processes CN-271

20 May 2019, 12:45 → 24 May 2019, 12:45 Europe/Vienna

Board Room C (Vienna International Centre)

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has convened quadrennial symposia on isotope hydrology since 1963. Over the decades these symposia have provided opportunities to present and review analytical developments as well as applications and research trends in isotope hydrology. Nowadays, isotope hydrology is an established discipline within the field of Earth Sciences and makes important contributions to our understanding of hydrological processes, particularly in water resources assessment and management in the context of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6. The stable isotopes of the water molecule are key recorders of changes in the Earth’s climate. More recently, scientists used environmental isotopes in areas such as forensic sciences and ecology, food source traceability, and in water cycle studies.

This symposium is the 15th in the series and will be held at the IAEA’s Headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from 20 to 24 May 2019. The symposium aims to facilitate exchange of information and knowledge among water and environment professionals from developed and developing countries in order to advance scientific understanding, promote collaboration, and demonstrate new capabilities to respond to pressing global water challenges .

Documents

• IHS2019 Poster Guidelines
• IHS2019 Synopsis Template
• List of Invited Organizations

Forms

• Form A - Participation Form
• Form B - Submission of a Paper
• Form C - Grant Application

Monday 20 May

12:45 → 14:45 OPENING SESSION

Conveners: Ate Visser (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Mr Christopher John Ballentine (University of Oxford)

13:15 A Map of the future of water

Speaker: Prof. Jay Famiglietti

13:45 The 2014-2018 Cape Town water crisis: Mistakes made, lessons learned and knowledge gained

Across southern Africa, an understanding of the inter-relationship between climate change and available water resources, and the implications of this relationship on socio-economic factors, is critical to the long-term sustainability of the region’s economy. The most profound aspect of this inter-relationship is the predicted change in climate linked to significant changes (both positive and negative) in regional, national and transboundary water budgets. This outlook has significant socio-economic implications for the region including the ability to support urban centres, to reduce poverty, to protect food and energy supplies and to develop skills and capacity within the population. In recent years, these issues came to head as severe drought affected the city of Cape Town, an urban centre at the bottom of Africa, with a population of ~ 3.8 million people. Below average rainfall between 2014 and 2017 and water management failures, resulted in the City of Cape Town experiencing extreme water stress over the 2017-2018 summer. The bulk of Cape Town’s municipal water supply is derived from six surface water storage facilities with a combined total capacity of 828 991 Ml. By March of 2018, the total storage in these facilities reached its lowest recorded level, at less than 20 %, with the largest of the reservoirs, the Theewaterskloof reservoir, at only 13.5 % of its 480 188 Ml capacity. Given that the bottom 10% of dams is regarded as “unusable”, this left only 3.5% usable water in the largest dam supplying the City of Cape Town. All residents were required to reduce water consumption to 50 L per person per day and various pronouncements of an imminent "Day Zero" were made, the day the city would turn off the municipal water supply in order to maintain critical infrastructure.
In the end “Day Zero” in Cape Town did not eventuate. The collective effort of the Cape Town population to save water allowed the city’s water storages to last until the arrival of the winter rains. However, the possibility of the municipal water network being shutdown, focused people’s minds on how we use and value water and led to a real change in water use patterns. Cape Town, like many large urban centres worldwide, based its water security on surface water storage systems. This practice leaves these urban centres at the mercy of fluctuating climates and increasingly erratic rainfall patterns. In response, many cities around the world are now introducing a diverse mix of water sources to supplement of municipal water supply networks and to protect supply security. These water sources include desalination, grey-water recycling, and direct rainwater harvesting but for many cities, including Cape Town, groundwater supplementation remains a strong focus.

Speaker: Jodie Miller (Department of Earth Sciences Stellenbosch University)

14:15 Water isotopes recorded in Antarctica ice cores: beyond past climatic reconstructions, tracers of hydrosphere-atmosphere interactions

Speaker: Elise Fourré (CEA, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement UMR 8212)

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 → 16:15 SESSION 1: Isotopes in precipitation and atmospheric processes

Conveners: Elise Fourré (CEA, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement UMR 8212), Jodie Miller (Department of Earth Sciences Stellenbosch University)

15:15 Spatial datasets of δ2H and δ18O in precipitation, vapour and tapwater to underpin isotope hydrology and provenance applications in Australia

Speaker: Dr Catherine Emily Hughes (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)

15:30 High frequency stable isotope tempestology of Hurricane Otto

Speaker: Ricardo Alonso Sanchez-Murillo (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica)

15:45 GNIP in the 21st century: A foundational global isotope data network for water, climate and environment

Speaker: Stefan Terzer-Wassmuth (IAEA/NAPC)

16:00 Atmospheric circulation and tritium in precipitation

Speaker: Ate Visser (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:15 → 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 → 18:00 SESSION 1: Isotopes in precipitation and atmospheric processes (continued)

Conveners: Mr Umaya Doss Saravana Kumar (Isotope Hydrology Section, IAEA, ), Jodie Miller (Department of Earth Sciences Stellenbosch University)

16:45 Identifying anthropogenic from natural hydrocarbon contamination of aquifers using noble gas isotopes and other tracers

Speaker: Mr Christopher John Ballentine (University of Oxford)

17:15 Decoding the isotopic fingerprint of water vapour over the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean

Speaker: Martin Werner (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research)

17:30 Revelation of hydrometeorological processes affecting precipitation in different climatic zones of Indian sub-continent

Speaker: Mr Harsh Jagdip Oza (Physical Research Laboratory, INDIA)

17:45 Atmospheric controls on the precipitation isotopes over Bangladesh

Speaker: Mr Nasir Ahmed (Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission)

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday 21 May

08:30 → 10:00 SESSION 2: Isotopes in water quality studies

Conveners: Michael Hendry (University of Saskatchewan), Frederic Huneau (University of Corsica)

08:30 An (e)valuation of nitrate isotope monitoring for improving nutrient management in complex catchments

Speaker: Prof. Pascal Boeckx (Ghent University, Isotope Bioscience Laboratory)

09:00 The new titanium method: a simple, one-step reduction of aqueous NO3- to N2O for IRMS or laser-based analysis of δ15N, δ18O, and δ17O

Speaker: Dr Mark Altabet

09:30 Groundwater recharge and nitrate contamination sources in the Plateaux Region of Togo

Speaker: Kossitse Venyo Akpataku (University of Lome)

09:45 Isotopic and geochemical evidence of anthropogenic recharge in the Thiaroye urban aquifer of Dakar, Senegal

Speaker: Dr Seynabou Cisse Ep Faye (Geology Department faculty of science & technique University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 SESSION 2: Isotopes in water quality studies (continued)

Conveners: Prof. Pascal Boeckx (Ghent University, Isotope Bioscience Laboratory), Dr Mark Altabet

10:30 Assessment of sources and fate of contaminants in groundwater: the case of Milan Metropolitan area

Speaker: Dr Massimo Marchesi (Politecnico di Milano)

10:45 Application of hydrochemical and isotope techniques to investigate nitrogen pollution in Mauritius

Speaker: Mr Jean Oswaldo Yannick Fanny (University of Mauritius)

11:00 Recent advances and challenges in nutrient source apportionment using phosphate oxygen isotopes

Speaker: Prof. Daren Clive Gooddy (British Geological Survey)

11:15 Filling the hydrogeological gaps for an improved management of shared groundwater resources in the Sahel Region: main outcomes from the RAF/7/011 project

Speaker: Prof. Frederic Huneau (Université de Corse Pascal Paoli)

11:45 Use of isotopes and conventional methods to update hydrogeological information of the Sebaco Valley aquifer, Nicaragua

Speaker: Prof. Valeria Delgado Quezada (CIRA/UNAN-Managua)

12:00 Socio-Hydrogeology: coupling isotope geochemistry and public engagement to constrain nitrate pollution. The case of Grombalia (Tunisia)

Speaker: Viviana Re (University of Pisa, Department of Earth Sciences, Pisa, Italy)

12:15 Vulnerability assessment of hard-rock aquifers in the Upper-Volta-Gourma-Liptako area using chemical and isotope methods

Speaker: Laurence Gourcy (BRGM)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:45 SESSION 2: Isotopes in water quality studies (continued)

Conveners: Michael Hendry (University of Saskatchewan), Frederic Hunaeu (University of Corsica)

14:00 Application of isotopic techniques for the determination of water sources in the intensive agriculture area of Guadalhorce detrital aquifers (south of Spain)

Speaker: Dr Iñaki Vadillo-Pérez (Associate Professor)

14:15 Continuous real-time analysis of water stable isotopes in ecohydrology

Speaker: Barbara Herbstritt (University Freiburg)

14:30 Use of isotopes for environmental management. Case study: Hydrogeological conceptual model of a mining site under remediation

Speaker: Dr Daniel Cicerone (CNEA)

14:45 → 17:30 Poster Session 1: Isotopes in the assessment of groundwater systems

14:45 Isotope tracers in investigating the effect of water pre-treatment on the decomposition of organic matter in managed aquifer recharge

Speaker: Dr Paula Iris Adalmina Niinikoski-Fusswinkel (RWTH Aachen University)

15:00 Origin of nitrogen at two drinking water reservoirs in Cienfuegos, Cuba. Preliminary results from a stable isotopes perspective.

Speaker: Mr Alejandro Garcia-Moya (Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos)

15:15 Investigating the seasonal dynamics of anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to nitrate reduction using stable isotope technique

Speaker: Alejandra Gisela Pena Sanchez

15:30 Assessing the potential of triple isotope analyses of water in groundwater hydrology: examples from Poland

Speaker: Prof. Kazimierz Rozanski (Science and Technology, Krakow )

15:45 Determination of recharge by means of stable isotopes in the Groundwater from North-Eastern Aquifer of the West Bank/Palestine

Speaker: Mr Saed K K Khayat (Palestine Technical Uni. Tulkarm-Palestine)

16:00 The role of isotope hydrology for understanding groundwater dynamics and recharge mechanisms of a hard-rock aquifer in a uranium mining area

Speaker: Mariza Franklin (Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) - Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry (IRD))

16:15 Use of hydrogeochemical and isotopic tools to evaluate the impact of the agricultural activities in the groundwaters of the Taiguaigüay lagoon basin, Zamora municipality, Aragua state, Venezuela

Speaker: Dr Ramón Luis Montero Mudarra (Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela)

16:30 Isotope monitoring of dangerous water inflows to the Wieliczka salt mine, southern Poland

Speaker: Dr Marek Dulinski (AGH University of Science and Technology)

16:45 Groundwater quality assessment in Grombalia basin: application of chemical and isotopic (15N,18O, 2H, 3H, 14C, 13C) approaches

Speaker: Siwar Kammoun (Laboratory of Radio-Analyses and Environment, National School of Engineers of Sfax)

17:00 Stable isotope compositions of surface waters in Jamaica: Case studies from Rio Cobre and the Milk River watersheds

Speaker: Dr Debbie-Ann Denise Shantie Gordon-Smith (University of the West Indies, Mona)

17:15 An alluvial aquifier as an archive of the Danube River water for the last century

Speaker: Laszlo Palcsu (Institute for Nuclear Research)

17:15 An integrative understanding of Mediterranean coastal aquifers based on geochemical and isotopic tracers: the carbonate aquifer of Bonifacio (Corsica Island, France)

Speaker: Sébastien Santoni (Université de Corse Pascal Paoli)

17:15 Application of isotope techniques to evaluate nitrate contamination in groundwater in Rio Cuarto city (Argentina)

Speaker: Dr María Jesica Giuliano Albo (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto)

17:15 Assessment and study of groundwater contamination in the Zarati River watershed, Cocle Provine, Panama

Speaker: Dr Jose Rogelio Fabrega Duque (UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA DE PANAMA)

17:15 Baseline groundwater quality prior to shale gas development: analysis of multiple environmental isotopes (2H, 18O, 13C, 15N, 87Sr/86Sr, 11B, 3He)

Speaker: Mr Zhenbin Li

17:15 Dual geochemical and isotopic approach to study the functioning of the Gabes South phreatic aquifer (south-eastern Tunisia)

Speaker: Mohsen Ben Alaya (INRAP)

17:15 Evaluation of surface and groundwater interaction of the Kilimanjaro Aquifer in the south-western part of Kenya, applying isotope techniques

Speaker: Mrs Agnes Wanjiru Mbugua (Ministry of Water and Sanitation)

17:15 Evaluation of the contamination of the Purapurani aquifer by means of isotopic tools

Speaker: Daniela Alanoca Choque (Ministry of Environment and Water)

17:15 Evaluation of water quality pollution Indices for heavy metal contamination in the water of Sokoto basin, NW Nigeria.

Speaker: Dr Ogechukwu Jennifer Ette (Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission)

17:15 Fluxes, processes, and mechanisms driving nitrogen transport in urban coastal waters

Speaker: Gurpal Toor (University of Florida)

17:15 Formation of hypersaline groundwater in temperate-climate coastal zones: insights from stable isotopes

Speaker: Dr Vincent Post (Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR))

17:15 Geochemical and isotopic characterization of groundwater from the Zaccar karst system (Northern Algeria)

Speaker: Rachid Abdelouahab (Algiers Nuclear Research Centre)

17:15 Geochemical and isotopic characterization of groundwater in the coastal zone of Nouakchott, Mauritania

Speaker: Bacar Teiss (Centre national des ressources en eau-Mauritanie)

17:15 Identifying geochemical processes and recharge in Infra Cambrian and Continental Terminal zone of Burkina Faso and Mali: A combined hydrochemistry and water isotopes approaches

Speaker: Mr Bouraima Kouanda (Ministry of Water and Sanitation of Burkina Faso/ Currently in internship position as a PhD candidate at 2iE)

17:15 Improving water quality in vulnerable and shallow aquifers under two intensive fruit and vegetable production

Speaker: Mr Miha Curk (University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical faculty, Jamnikarjeva 101, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

17:15 Intrusion of saline water into a coastal aquifer containing palaeogroundwater in Estonia

Speaker: Valle Raidla

17:15 Investigation of ground water quality changes using isotope data and water chemistry (case study: East coast of Lake Urmia, Iran)

Speaker: Dr Werner Balderer (ETH Zurich Department of Earth Science (retired))

17:15 Iron and carbon isotopes in landfill areas

Speaker: Virginia Grace Barros (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina)

17:15 Isotope and hydro-geochemical assessment in Jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka for groundwater development aspects

Speaker: Mr Galapitagedara Ranjan Ratnapriya Karunaratne (Water Resources Board)

17:15 Isotope geochemical and molecular biological evidence for chemo-litho-autotrophic microbial denitrification in a fractured rock aquifer

Speaker: Karsten Osenbrück (University of Tübingen)

17:15 Isotope geochemistry as management tools for hydraulic barriers effectiveness in tailings dams

Speaker: Carlos Felipe Quintana Sotomayor (DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE AGUAS)

17:15 Isotopic and hydro-chemical assessment of the Gwandu Formation aquifer, NW Nigeria

Speaker: Dr Ogechukwu Jennifer Ette (NAEC)

17:15 Isotopic and hydrochemical investigation of the basement aquifer in the north of Togo

Speaker: Goumpoukini Boguido

17:15 Isotopic and hydrogeochemical studies for evaluating aquifer vulnerability to saline water intrusion and groundwater quality of the Western Sundarbans Delta Complex, India

Speaker: Dr Debabrata Das (Panjab University)

17:15 Isotopic fingerprinting of nitrate pollution sources in shallow boreholes using stable isotopes technologies

Speaker: Dr Nadia Babiker Ibrahim Shakak (Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation and Electricity, Ground Water and Wades’ General Directorate,Environmental Isotopes Laboratories )

17:15 Measurements and comparison of uranium and radium isotopes activities and activity ratios in some natural water sources in Morocco.

Speaker: Prof. Abdelmajid Choukri (University of Ibn Tofail, Kenitra)

17:15 Recharge estimation of the Purapurani aquifer through isotopic and conventional techniques

Speaker: Mrs Daniela Alanoca Choque (Ministry of Environment and Water)

17:15 Regional and vertical trends in the isotopic composition of groundwater in Alberta, Canada

Speaker: Veith Becker (University of Calgary)

17:15 Seasonal change in the origin of terrestrial dissolved nutrients to a pristine micro-estuary (Corsica Island, France)

Speaker: Emilie Garel (University of Corsica)

17:15 Strontium isotopic signature of groundwater from aquifers of a semi-arid region in Brazil: Pandeiros River watershed

Speaker: Dr Carlos Alberto Carvalho Filho (Nuclear Technology Development Center - CDTN/CNEN)

17:15 The Continental Intercalaire groundwaters of the Tidikelt (In-Salah region). Hydrochemical and isotopic features.

Speaker: Rachid Abdelouahab

17:15 The IAEA Coordinated Research Project on isotopes to study nitrogen pollution and eutrophication of rivers and lakes

Speaker: Dr Ioannis Matiatos (International Atomic Energy Agency, Isotope Hydrology Section)

17:15 The importance of 18O and 2H isotope data to better understand the hydrogeological conceptual model of a waste rock dump

Speaker: Mr Peter Marshall Fleming (Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission - CNEN, Nuclear Technology Development Center - CDTN)

17:15 The influence of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone on groundwater levels and isotope ratios in the Bauru and Guarani Aquifer Systems in the southern-east region of Brazil

Speaker: Mr ROBERTO KIRCHHEIM

17:15 The stable isotope composition of soil moisture at the radioactive waste repository site, Lithuania

Speaker: Prof. Jonas Mažeika (Nature Research Centre)

17:15 Tracer experiments to forecast the soluble pollutants transport in rivers

Speaker: Dr Rike Völpel (German Federal Institute of Hydrology)

17:15 Use of environmental isotopes and hydrogeochemistry to assess the effects of pollution caused by agricultural and domestic activities on the quality of groundwater.

Speaker: Manuel Alexis Escudero Vargas (Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear)

17:15 Use of isotope hydrology in groundwater conceptualization for modeling flow and contaminant transport at northwestern Sinai, Egypt

Speaker: Dr Kamilia Hamed Hagagg Hamed (Lecturer)

17:15 Use of isotopic and chemical tracers to evaluate the impacts of irrigation by treated waste water on groundwater quality in coastal areas: Thyna case study (Sfax-Tunis)

Speaker: Siwar Kassar (LABORATOIRE RADIO ANALYSES ET ENVIRONNEMENT (LRAE) SFAX-TUNIS)

17:15 Use of water (δ18O, δ2H) and nitrate (δ15N, δ18O) isotopes for the evaluation of urban and agricultural activities on groundwater in the plain of Azua (Dominican Republic)

Speaker: Yenny Rodríguez De Estepan (Servicio Geológico Nacional)

17:15 Using 15N, 17O, and 18O to determine nitrate sources and fate in wetlands – case study of the Auzon Oxbow, fluvial annex of the Allier River, France

Speaker: Hélène Celle-Jeanton (Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté)

17:15 Using stable isotope tools for the assessment of karstic water origin and source in Georgia

Speaker: George Melikadze (Hydrogeology)

17:15 Using water chemistry and O-H-N stable isotopes patterns to trace contaminant sources in the Olt River, Romania

Speaker: Dr Roxana Elena Ionete (National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies - ICSI Rm. Valcea)

17:30 → 18:00 Lab Visit

18:00 → 20:00 Workshop: Introduction to Groundwater Age Dating by Noble Gas Isotopes

Conveners: Mr Laszlo Palcsu (Institute for Nuclear Research), Mr Takuya Matsumoto (IAEA)

Wednesday 22 May

08:30 → 10:00 SESSION 3: Isotopes in groundwater age dating

Conveners: Mr Lorenzo Copia (IAEA/NAPC), Yves Travi (University of Avignon)

08:30 Radio-krypton and radio-argon dating of groundwater

Speaker: Prof. Zhengtian Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)

09:00 A multi-tracer study on groundwater flow and impacts from changes in paleoclimate and regional development: Peel Area, Western Australia

Speaker: Christoph Gerber (CSIRO Land & Water, Locked Bag 2, Glen Osmond SA 5064, Australia)

09:15 The 3H/3He groundwater dataset of the Netherlands: Assessing hydrochemical trends and subsurface processes in the Rhine and Meuse River basins

Speaker: Hans Peter Broers (TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands)

09:30 81Kr groundwater dating in rocks with high uranium content

Speaker: Roland Josef Purtschert (University of Bern)

09:45 Groundwater dynamics in the coastal Wairau Plain aquifer

Speaker: Dr Uwe Morgenstern (GNS Science)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 SESSION 3: Isotopes in groundwater age dating (continued)

Conveners: Zhengtian Lu (University of Science and Technology of China), Takuya Matsumoto (IAEA)

10:30 14C and 81Kr age model for the Dead Sea hot-saline springs

Speaker: Ms Nurit Weber (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Geological Survey of Israel)

10:45 New radiocarbon and stable isotope data from the Senegalese deep aquifer system: hydrogeological modelling and palaeohydrological implications

Speaker: Prof. Yves Travi (Avignon University)

11:00 Estimating mean residence times and flow velocities to quantify recharge to the western Dead Sea Aquifer System using multiple environmental tracers

Speaker: Ms Cornelia Wilske (UFZ, CSIRO Land and Water, TU Bergakademie Freiberg)

11:15 Understanding recharge processes in weathered and fissured zones of basement aquifers in Benin

Speaker: D. O. Valerie Kotchoni (Université d'Abomey-Calavi/Institut National de l'Eau, Abomey-Calavi, Benin International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA – UNESCO CHAIR), Cotonou, Benin PROTOS, Cotonou, Benin)

11:30 Isotope assessments in the Guarani Aquifer System, Brazil: From stable isotopes to noble gases

Speaker: Mr Roberto Eduardo Kirchheim (CPRM)

11:45 Mineral springs in South-East Australia reveal the mechanisms of mantle CO2 migration to shallow aquifers

Speaker: Ruta Karolyte (University of Edinburgh)

12:00 Application of isotope techniques to study groundwater in the unconsolidated aquifer along the Ping River (Thailand)

Speaker: Mr Kiattipong Kamdee

12:15 Investigating recharge and inter-aquifer connectivity at the eastern intake beds of the Great Artesian Basin using multi-isotope studies

Speaker: Dr Axel Suckow (CSIRO)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:45 SESSION 3: Isotopes in groundwater age dating (continued)

Conveners: Mr Oliver Kracht (IAEA - Isotope Hydrology Section), Yves Travi (University of Avignon)

14:00 Assessment of the water resources in the Kingston hydrologic basin, Jamaica, using isotope techniques

Speaker: Mr Naveed Rasheed Samuda (National Water Commission)

14:15 Dynamic hydrological cycle in the alleged fossil Nubian Sandstone Aquifer as revealed by 81Kr versus 14C isotopes in the Sinai-Negev deserts

Speaker: Mr Eilon Adar (BGU)

14:30 Hydrochemical patterns established in the Pleistocene preserved in the Ordovician-Cambrian aquifer system, northern Baltic Artesian Basin

Speaker: Joonas Pärn (Geological Survey of Estonia)

14:45 → 17:30 Poster Session 2: Isotopes in groundwater age dating and paleohydrology

14:45 Testing 14C-DOC dating in aquifers of the London Basin, UK

Speaker: Dr William Darling (British Geological Survey)

15:00 Isotopic investigation (δ2H, 3H, δ18O, δ13C and 14C) on recharge, origin, residence time and dynamics in the Douala/Cameroon aquifer system

Speaker: Dr Huguette Christiane Emvoutou (LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA/CAMEROON)

15:15 Dating very old groundwaters in thermal aquifers of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, through 14C and noble gases measurements

Speaker: Daniel Emilio Martínez (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)

15:30 Multi-tracer groundwater study including 39Ar in the Salalah Plain, Dhofar, Oman

Speaker: Ms Viola Raedle (University of Heidelberg)

15:45 Application of stable isotope and groundwater dating techniques in the confined aquifers of Rio Cuarto River Basin, Cordoba, Argentina

Speaker: Dr Marina Luciana Maldonado (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto)

16:00 Understanding Kr-81 abundances in the atmosphere for improved accuracy in groundwater dating

Speaker: Jake Zappala (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:15 Isotope Hydrology: A tool for a better understanding of the hydrological processes of groundwater systems in the coastal basin of Akermoud (North of Essaouira city, Morocco)

Speaker: Mr Mohamed Qurtobi (National Centre of Nuclear Energy, Sciences and Technology, )

16:30 Identification of He sources in the Complexe Terminal paleogroundwater (southern Tunisia)

Speaker: Rim Trabelsi Ep Gdoura (ENIS-LRAE)

16:45 Assessing the hydrogeological functioning of an evaporite karst system coupling tritium and physico-chemical data

Speaker: José Manuel Gil Márquez (Universidad de Málaga)

17:00 The CorsicArchive Project: Integrating isotope hydrology, climatology, and tree rings to improve climate record interpretation

Speaker: Mr Tobias Juhlke (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg )

17:15 14C and 4He isotopes for groundwater dating of the Tubarão aquifer system, central portion of the Paraná basin in the State of São Paulo, Brazil

Speaker: Prof. Didier Gastmans (Centro de Estudos Ambientais - UNESP Rio Claro)

17:15 55 years of isotope investigations to unravel the groundwater cycles in the Southern Vienna Basin

Speaker: Martin Kralik (University of Vienna)

17:15 A multi-isotope approach to trace salinisation in the lower valley of Wadi Medjerda, northern Tunisia

Speaker: Prof. Mohamed Fathi Ben Hamouda (CNSTN)

17:15 Advances in isotope hydrology and its role in sustainable water management in Cuba (Project CUB/7/009)

Speaker: Dr Carlos Alonso-Hernandez (Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos)

17:15 Advances in the hydrological understanding of the Actopan Basin, Veracruz, Mexico, using a multi-tracer approach

Speaker: Mr Juan Perez Quezadas (INSTITUTO DE GEOLOGIA)

17:15 Application of 222Rn in distinguishing groundwater mixing relationships in the Table Mountain Group aquifer, Western Cape, South Africa

Speaker: Ms Yaa Agyare-Dwomoh (Stellenbosch University)

17:15 Application of geochemical and isotopic techniques in the study of groundwater in Sidi Merzoug-Sbiba basin, central Tunisia

Speaker: Khaoula Khmila (PhD student)

17:15 Application of isotope hydrology in groundwater resources management in Myanmar

Speaker: Ms Khin Cho Cho (Division of Atomic Energy)

17:15 Application of quantum technology for radio-argon dating of glacier ice

Speaker: Zhongyi Feng (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)

17:15 Assess impact of climate change on water resources of the Pamir

Speaker: Ms Elena Finaeva

17:15 Contribution of environmental isotopes (2H, 18O, 13C, 14C) in the development of a conceptual hydrogeological model of the Complex Terminal Aquifer in the Kebili Basin

Speaker: Mohamed Rafaa Trigui (National School of Engineers of Sfax)

17:15 Conventional tritium method calibration with 3H/3He ratio in Eastern Lithuania groundwater

Speaker: Vytautas Samalavičius (Vilnius University)

17:15 Evaluation of drinking water sources of a small Romanian urban community using isotopic techniques - Preliminary results

Speaker: Dr Carmen Varlam (National R&D Institute for Cryogenic Isotopic Technologies -ICSI)

17:15 Evaluation of the meteoric Cl- input for calibration of 36Cl dating with 81Kr ages in the brackish Nubian Sandstone Aquifer of the Negev Desert, Israel

Speaker: Mr Roi Ram (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

17:15 Factors controlling the radon distribution in groundwater of a small tropical mountainous river basin, southwest India

Speaker: Dr Sabu Joseph (University of Kerala, India)

17:15 Hydrogeochemistry and isotope studies of groundwater in the Ga West Municipal Area, Ghana

Speaker: Mr David Saka (Ghana Atomic Energy Commission)

17:15 Identification of recharge processess by means of environmental isotopes in the Lake Chad basin

Speaker: Dr Sara Vassolo (BGR)

17:15 Improving shallow groundwater resources management in the Lake Chad basin through isotope hydrology: Outcomes from the IAEA RAF/7/011 project

Speaker: Frederic Huneau (University of Corsica)

17:15 Inaccurate application of isotope hydrology techniques to the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer (NSA) in Sinai and the Western Sahara Aquifer System (NWSAS)

Speaker: Prof. Samir Anwar Mahmoud Elgamal (An Emeritus Professor in ENRRA)

17:15 Integrated studies of 4He and 81Kr noble gas ages of the deep aquifers with coupled particles track modeling in the Baltic Artesian Basin

Speaker: Prof. Robert Mokrik (Vilnius University)

17:15 Investigation of recharge sources of groundwater its residence time and quality through entire area of Bari Doab for sustainable management through the utilization of isotope and chemical techniques

Speaker: Ms Saira Butt (Pakistan Institute of Nuclear science & technology)

17:15 Isotope hydrology and chemical study of water resources management in Myanmar

Speaker: Ms Aye Aye Thin (Division of Atomic Energy, Ministry of Education, Myanmar)

17:15 Isotope hydrology to evaluate long term impact of groundwater exploitation under arid climate. Case of the Djibouti coastal basalt aquifers

Speaker: Kadar Mohamed Hassan (CERD)

17:15 Isotopic and geochemical composition of water and gaseous phases associated to Sandim-CO2 rich hydromineral system - NE-Portugal

Speaker: Dr Paula Carreira Paquete (Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares (C2TN), Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa)

17:15 Isotopic data for inferring groundwater dynamics in Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines

Speaker: Mr Charles Darwin Racadio (Philippine Nuclear Research Institute)

17:15 IWAVE-The IAEA water availability enhancement approach

Speaker: Oliver Kracht (IAEA - Isotope Hydrology Section)

17:15 Krypton-81 feasibility study on deep thermal groundwaters in the karstified Upper Jurassic limestone of the Molasse basin (Germany-Austria)

Speaker: Mr Michael Heidinger (Hydroisotop GmbH)

17:15 Noble gas and radiocarbon constraints on the residence time of groundwater in the Table Mountain Group (TMG) Aquifer, South Africa

Speaker: Ms Zita Michele Harilall (Stellenbosch University)

17:15 Preliminary isotopic assessment of the Douarah Basins’ aquifers in central Tunisia

Speaker: Samah Khaled (Ph-D student)

17:15 Recent seawater intrusion into deep aquifers determined by the radioactive noble-gas isotopes 81Kr and 39Ar

Speaker: Prof. Yoseph Yechieli (Geological Survey of Israel)

17:15 Recharge mechanisms in the shallow groundwater of the coastal Golfo de Uraba from a stable and radioactive isotope study

Speaker: Ana Karina Campillo Perez (Universidad de Antioquia)

17:15 Seasonal variations of tritium, uranium and stable isotopes in groundwater and spring waters in the Anthemountas Basin, Northern Greece

Speaker: Ms Alexandra Ioannidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Physics Department, Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Thessaloniki, 54124 Greece)

17:15 Spatial distribution of both groundwater recharge and withdrawals in the Nubian Sandstone Transboundary Aquifer using isotope hydrology tools, Lower Nile Basin

Speaker: Dr Nadia Babiker Ibrahim Shakak (Ministry of Water Resources, Ground Water Resource General Directorate, Environmental Isotopes laboratory)

17:15 Synthesis of isotopic studies in the Senegal Maastrichtian aquifer: Lessons learned and perspectives

Speaker: Prof. Serigne Faye (University Cheikh Anta Diop)

17:15 Ten years of isotope hydrology in the Central African Republic

Speaker: Mrs Chantal Laure Djebebe Ndjiguim (University of Bangui)

17:15 The contribution of geochemistry and environmental isotopes to the underground water resources assessment in the Great Algiers District (Algeria)

Speaker: Dalele Khous (Algiers Nuclear Research Centre)

17:15 The impact of water and land use on nitrate contamination and groundwater residence time in a densely populated area: the Lombardy Plain (N Italy)

Speaker: Prof. Elisa Sacchi (Dep. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia)

17:15 The IWAVE project in Latin America in support of SDG 6.5: Integrated water resources management

Speaker: Emilia Bocanegra (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)

17:15 The stable isotope characteristics of groundwater in the Sokoto Basin

Speaker: Dr Ogechukwu Jennifer Ette (Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission)

17:15 The use of isotopic tracers for integrated and sustainable management of shared groundwater resources of the Iullemeden aquifer systems (Sahel region)

Speaker: Kamel Zouari (ENIS-LRAE)

17:15 The use of krypton-81, noble gases and environmental isotopes to characterize and to date Continental Intercalaire paleogroundwater (southern Tunisia)

Speaker: Kamel Zouari (ENIS-LRAE)

17:15 Thrift use of water through tank cascade systems in Sri Lanka as an adaptation to climate change impacts on crop production

Speaker: Dr Anhettigama Gamaralalage Chandrapala (Department of Agriculture, Sri Lanka)

17:15 Transit time distribution function based on tritium data from the Cauê aquifer, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Speaker: Aurelio Silva (CDTN)

17:15 Tritium and stable isotopes in waters of Baltic Sea in 2016-2017

Speaker: Dr Olga Jefanova (Nature Research Centre)

17:15 Understanding water circulation with tritium-tracer measurements in selected catchments across Japan

Speaker: Dr Maksym Gusyev (ICHARM/Public Works Research Institute (PWRI))

17:15 Use of noble gases to investigate unconsolidated aquifers along the Ping River, Thailand

Speaker: Dr José Corcho (Spiez Laboratory)

17:15 Using isotope hydrology tools to assess both groundwater recharge and withdrawals in the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer

Speaker: Dr Nadia Babiker Ibrahim Shakak (Ministry of Water Resources, Ground Water Resource General Directorate, Environmental Isotopes laboratory)

17:15 Using of environmental isotopes to improve the understanding of Wadi Samail Catchment hydrogeology: a pilot study within the framework of the IWAVE project

Speaker: Mr Ahmed Salim Mohammed Al Sa Idi (Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources)

Using of environmental isotopes to improved understanding of Wadi Samail Catchment hydrogeology.pdf

17:15 Water resources management and inventory in Azerbaijan Republic

Speaker: Mrs Gunay Abdiyeva-Aliyeva (Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan Republic)

17:15 Water resources management using isotope techniques. Case study of Nakhlak-Anarak lead mine, Iran

Speaker: Yousef Khalaj Amirhosseini (Water Research Institute- Ministry of Energy of Iran)

17:30 → 18:00 Lab Visit

18:00 → 20:00 Workshop: Introduction to TracerLPM Software

Convener: Mr Bryant Jurgens (USGS)

Thursday 23 May

08:30 → 10:00 SESSION 4: Noble gas isotope studies

Conveners: Mr Ioannis Matiatos (IAEA), Prof. Kazimierz Rozanski (Science and Technology, Krakow )

08:30 The importance of environmental isotopes in understanding aquitard hydrogeology

Speaker: Michael James Hendry (University of Saskatchewan)

09:00 Continuous, high-resolution measurement of Δ17O from ice cores

Speaker: Lindsey Davidge (University of Washington)

09:15 Recommendations for integrating isotope fingerprinting in Environmental Baseline Assessment as part of regulation on unconventional gas exploration and exploitation

Speaker: Wolfram Kloppmann (BRGM)

09:30 Shale gas exploration in the United Kingdom - site characterisation and baseline monitoring using geochemical and isotope tracers

Speaker: Dr Lee Paul Gumm (British Geological Survey)

09:45 Noble gases: A tool for tracing enhanced oil recovery signatures in produced waters from the Fruitvale, Lost Hills and Orcutt Oil Fields, CA, USA

Speaker: Ms Rebecca Louise Tyne (University of Oxford)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 SESSION 5: Isotopes in surface water systems and catchment hydrology

Conveners: Lucía Ortega (IAEA), Prof. Christine Stumpp (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna)

10:30 Isotopes in the unsaturated zone: new opportunities and challenges

Isotopes have been frequently used as tracers to study water flow and transport processes in the unsaturated zone. For example, they can give information about water transit times, groundwater recharge rates, evaporation rates or ecohydrological processes. In recent years, new analytical and technical developments have transformed the field of isotope hydrology and widened the scope of questions that can now be tackled. In particular, it is now possible to measure and parameterize isotope dynamics within the unsaturated zone at increasingly finer resolution. In addition, new sampling systems in combination with the new laser technologies can provide high-resolution and even in-situ measurements. In this talk, new possibilities of sampling and analyzing oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in pore water as well as challenges of these sampling and analytical methods are presented. The importance of isotopes and their contribution to advancing our understanding of water flow and transport processes in the unsaturated zone are highlighted, including different examples of using isotopes for numerical model calibration. Further, current challenges and future opportunities for including isotope approaches in solving open research questions in unsaturated zone hydrology are presented.

Speaker: Prof. Christine Stumpp (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna)

11:00 Temporal variability of snow melt, ice melt and direct runoff in Bhagirathi River (a tributary of River Ganga), Western Himalayan region, India, using stable isotope (δ2H & δ18O)

Speaker: Dr Shive Prakash Rai (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)

11:15 Changes to snowmelt-driven recharge in a high-elevation desert valley

Speaker: Michelle Lanzoni

11:30 Triple oxygen isotope systematics in evaporitic lake settings

Speaker: Claudia Voigt (University of Cologne)

11:45 Time-variability of the fraction of young water in a small headwater catchment

Speaker: Dr Michael Stockinger (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna)

12:00 Relating estimated watershed residence times and nutrient concentrations in artificially-drained landscapes using stable isotope variability

Speaker: Lisa Welp-Smith (Purdue University)

12:15 A novel combined method for high-resolution measurements of water stable isotopes in trees and soils – the stem borehole equilibration

Speaker: Dr Matthias Beyer (Technical University Braunschweig & BGR, Hannover)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:45 SESSION 5: Isotopes in surface water systems and catchment hydrology (continued)

Conveners: Prof. Kazimierz Rozanski (Science and Technology, Krakow ), Mr Luis J. Araguás Araguás (International Atomic Energy Agency)

14:00 Hydrogen and oxygen isotopic fractionation in water evaporation: new experiments and equations to describe the isotopic behavior

Speaker: Luis J. Araguás Araguás (International Atomic Energy Agency)

14:30 Assessing human impacts on the Red River Delta, Vietnam, to enable sustainable hydrological management

Speaker: Trinh Anh Duc (Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute)

14:45 → 17:30 Poster Session 3: Isotopes in precipitation; Isotopes in water balance modelling and mapping; Analytical methods

14:45 Ten years of operation of the Belo Horizonte-CDTN GNIP station, Brazil

Speaker: Eliana Aparecida Nonato Knupp (CDTN)

15:00 Isotope and chemical characteristics of natural waters in the Lower Mahaweli Basin, Sri Lanka

Speaker: Mrs Jasinhage Dona Chaturangi Gunasekara (Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board)

15:15 Groundwater isotope ratios reflecting convective and stratiform palaeoprecipitation fractions in Bauru aquifer system, Brazil

Speaker: Hung Kiang Chang (UNESP)

15:30 Tritium Information Management System (TRIMS): New software to improve performance outcomes of low-level liquid scintillation counting laboratories

Speaker: Dagnachew Legesse Belachew (IAEA)

15:45 Exploring the use of water isotopes to investigate fast-forming rain events at a mid-latitude site in Southern Italy

Speaker: Dr Luisa Stellato (Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli")

16:00 Spatio-temporal patterns of stream hydrochemistry in a glacierized alpine catchment

Speaker: Mr Michael Engel (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

16:15 Environmental isotope applications in Mediterranean coastal plains of Turkey: effects of irrigation

Speaker: Dr Pinar Avci (Hacettepe University)

16:30 Stable water isotopes in precipitation across the Himalayas: constraints on sources of moisture

Speaker: Prof. Ghulam Jeelani (University of Kashmir)

16:45 Mapping environmental tritium activity concentration in recent precipitation in Spain to trace moisture sources in the hydrological cycle

Speaker: Dr Javier Rodríguez Arévalo (CEDEX)

17:00 Numerical groundwater modeling of the ex industrial mining complex Los Gigantes, Cordoba, Argentina

Speaker: Daniel Cicerone (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica)

17:00 Variation in tritium activity in rainfall in Paarl, South Africa and its bearing on understanding groundwater recharge processes

Speaker: Prof. Jodie Ann Miller (Stellenbosch University)

17:15 Analysis of groundwater recharge from isoscapes of precipitation and shallow groundwater in the Northwest of Colombia

Speaker: Prof. Teresita Betancur (Universidad de Antioquia)

17:15 Assessing the tritium levels in the laboratory atmosphere to avoid contamination in ultra-low level analysis

Speaker: Dr Eliana Aparecida Nonato Knupp (CDTN-CNEN)

17:15 Boron isotope analyses in fluid samples: PTIMS versus MC-ICP-MS (Neptune Plus)

Speaker: Dr Maddalena Pennisi (IGG-CNR)

17:15 Boron isotopic composition in fluvial and rain water from the Adige basin (Northern Italy)

Speaker: Dr Maddalena Pennisi (IGG-CNR)

17:15 Carbon dioxide degassing along a high-relief headwater stream inferred from seasonal variability of the gas exchange between water and atmosphere

Speaker: Dr Robert van Geldern (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU))

17:15 Chlorine isotope analysis of chloride solution using UV-FSLA-MC-ICP-MS

Speaker: Dr Masaaki Musashi (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

17:15 Climatic controls over the isotopic composition of precipitation in Rio Claro (SP), Brazil

Speaker: Ms Vinícius dos Santos (CEA UNESP Rio Claro)

17:15 Comparison of isotope hydrological patterns of large rivers in Germany (Weser and Rhine Basin)

Speaker: Dr Paul Koeniger (BGR German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources)

17:15 Determining the origin of leakage water in El Cajon dam, using stable isotopes

Speaker: Mrs Tirza Carolina Contreras Galeano

17:15 Development of a conceptual groundwater model in an intermountain Andean aquifer with the support of water stable isotopes: Uspallata valley, Argentina

Speaker: Nerina Belen Lana (Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA))

17:15 Environmental isotopes for assessing water resources in a semiarid biome in Brazil

Speaker: Mr Vinicius Ferreira

17:15 Filling white spots in Central Asia – a Tajik network of isotopes in precipitation

Speaker: Mr Stephan Matthias Weise (UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)

17:15 First application of a newly developed field gas extraction device to date old groundwater

Speaker: Dr Roland Bäumle (BGR)

17:15 Geochemical monitoring and flow rates of glacial drainages in the Bayelva catchment (Ny-Ålesund area, Svalbard)

Speaker: Dr Ilaria Baneschi (IGG-CNR)

17:15 Groundwater and surface water interaction in a recharge area of the Guarani Aquifer System (GAS)

Speaker: Ludmila Batista

17:15 Groundwater dynamics of the Murunkan sedimentary basin in Northern Sri Lanka: an environmental isotope study

Speaker: Mr Mahinda Premathilake Karunadhipathige (National Water Supply and Drainage Board, Sri Lanka)

17:15 Groundwater isoscapes in the southeastern region of Buenos Aires Province - Argentina

Speaker: Dr Daniel Emilio Marinez (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)

17:15 High-resolution modeling of flow partitioning using water isotopes and electrical conductivity for model calibration

Speaker: Giovanny Mauricio Mosquera Rojas (Universidad de Cuenca)

17:15 Hydro-chemical detection and quantification of permafrost degradation in the Eastern European Alps

Speaker: Sabine Kraushaar (University of Vienna)

17:15 Hydrochemical and isotopic characterization of the Mampostón-Jaruco Basin as a contribution to the sustainable management of its water resources

Speaker: Mr Alejandro Garcia-Moya (Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos)

17:15 Hydrogeological responses in tropical mountainous springs

Speaker: Mr Luis Daniel Rojas-Jimenez (ESPH)

17:15 Identifying and correcting the gas matrix effects on a cavity ring-down water stable isotope analyzer

Speaker: Mr Benjamin Gralher (University of Freiburg, Germany)

17:15 Illustrating the role of isotopes to understand hydrologic processes in large-plain environments

Speaker: María Emilia Zabala (Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo J. Usunoff"- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET))

17:15 Isotope and geochemical tracers for delineating the hydrogeological functioning of a low altitude Mediterranean peat bog (Corsica Island, France)

Speakers: Sébastien SANTONI (Avignon Université, France / Université de Corse, France), Prof. Frederic HUNEAU (Université de Corse Pascal Paoli)

17:15 Isotopic and hydrochemical assessment of groundwater on the Santa Elena Peninsula (Ecuador): implications for artificial recharge

Speaker: Daniel Omar Garces Leon (ESPOL)

17:15 Isotopic composition of monsoon rain in the Salalah area, southern Oman

Speaker: Mr Thomas Harald Müller (UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)

17:15 Isotopic composition of precipitation at two stations in Antananarivo: a comparative study

Speaker: Dr Voahirana Ramaroson (Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucleaires (INSTN-Madagascar))

17:15 Maintaining the VPDB scale for δ13C: reference materials at the IAEA

Speaker: Sergey Assonov (IAEA)

17:15 Measuring water stable isotopes in tree xylem in situ: The stem borehole equilibration method

Speaker: Ms Kathrin Kühnhammer (University of Freiburg)

17:15 Meteoric water lines with an interval of 27 years, São Paulo, Brazil

Speaker: Veridiana Martins (University of Sao Paulo - Brazil)

17:15 Middle Earth – Stable isotope investigation of precipitation sources in Romania, eastern Europe

Speaker: Dr Aurel Perșoiu (Emil Racoviță Institute of Speleology)

17:15 Modeling of snowmelt water from a snow pit in Tibetan Plateau

Speaker: Mr Ke Wang (Key Laboratory of Shale Gas and Geoengineering, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China)

17:15 New in-situ samplers for Krypton-85 for groundwater dating

Speaker: Mrs Stéphanie Musy (University Bern)

17:15 New noble gas analytical capabilities at the CSIRO Environmental Tracer Laboratory, Australia

Speaker: Christoph Gerber (CSIRO Land & Water, Locked Bag 2, Glen Osmond SA 5064, Australia)

17:15 On combining stable and radioactive water isotopes to estimate the transit time distribution in heterogeneous aquifers

Speaker: Dr Julien Albert Farlin (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)

17:15 Persistent organic compounds and water stable isotopes in rain in Buenos Aires City, Argentina

Speaker: Karina Silvia Beatriz Miglioranza (Lab. of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Pollution)

17:15 Piston flow vs. preferential flow in loess aquifer: evidence from multiple environmental tracers (H, O, C, N, Sr)

Speaker: Prof. Tianming Huang (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

17:15 Real-time observations of water stable isotope dynamics during rainfall and throughfall events

Speaker: Dr Barbara Herbstritt (Hydrology, University of Freiburg, Germany)

17:15 Regional stable isotope signatures in precipitation and river runoff in Switzerland

Speaker: Ulrich Schotterer (Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University Bern, Switzerland)

17:15 Relation between the water isotopic composition in the North Atlantic marine boundary layer and the boundary layer dynamics

Speaker: Dr Árný Erla Sveinbjörnsdóttir (Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland)

17:15 Relationship between precipitation and groundwater in the Guarani Aquifer System recharge areas revealed by stable isotopes

Speaker: Prof. Didier Gastmans (CEA-UNESP - Brazil)

17:15 Seasonal variation of the latitude effect in a mid-latitude region

Speaker: Dr Masahiro Tanoue

17:15 Spatial and temporal isotopic characterization (2H/1H and 18O/16O) of modern day precipitation in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

Speaker: Bruk Lemma Debebe

17:15 Spatial and temporal variabilities in stable isotope and hydrochemistry to determine flow paths in the Jonkershoek catchment

Speaker: Ms Retang Anna Lapalemabu Mokua (University of the Western Cape)

17:15 Spatial and temporal variability of stable isotopes in precipitation in Kumamoto, southern Japan

Speaker: Prof. Kimpei Ichiyanagi (Kumamoto University)

17:15 Spatial variability of tritium in precipitation during single storm events and its bearing on hydrological studies

Speaker: Jared van Rooyen (Stellenbosch)

17:15 Stable isotope composition (δ2H, δ18O and δ17O) of rainfall in Benin, West Africa

Speaker: Christine Vallet-Coulomb (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France)

17:15 Stable isotopes for estimation of urban groundwater balance in the Kharkiv city, East Ukraine

Speaker: Mr Dmytro Diadin (O. M.Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv)

17:15 Stable isotopic composition of precipitation and the environmental controls in Bangladesh

Speaker: Mr Mohammad Masud Karim (Senior Scientific Officer)

17:15 Study of springs and karst springs using environmental isotopes 2H and 18O in the Lagoa Santa karst region, Brazil

Speaker: Ms Carolina Gomes Ribeiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG))

17:15 Surface water and groundwater interaction inferred by isoscapes in Sao Paulo state watersheds, Brazil

Speaker: Lucas Vituri Santarosa (CEA-UNESP)

17:15 Temporal variation of stable water isotope ratios at Neumayer-III station, East Antarctica

Speaker: Mr Saeid Bagheri Dastgerdi (Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI))

17:15 The interesting information of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes carried by groundwater: a case from five identical simulated catchments with different land uses from the Shawan Test Site, Southwest China

Speaker: Yundi Hu (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

17:15 The latitude effect on the stable isotopic composition of precipitation across Thailand

Speaker: Mr Jeerapong Laonamsai (Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan)

LAONAMSAI J_PosterA0_IAEA01Apr.pdf

17:15 The new GNIP network in Brazil: an example of sound institutional arrangements

Speaker: Andrea Franzini

17:15 Trace isotope detection of Cl, I, and Cs at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator - routine & ventures

Speaker: Johannes Lachner (University of Vienna)

17:15 Tracing surface water dynamics and groundwater recharge at Inle Lake (Southern Shan State, Myanmar) using stable water isotopes

Speaker: Ms Viviana Re (University of Pisa, Department of Earth Sciences, Pisa, Italy)

17:15 Triple isotope analyses (δ2H, δ18O, δ17O) of water with the aid of laser spectroscopy: analytical performance of Picarro L2140-i spectrometer

Speaker: Mrs Anna Magdalena Pierchala (AGH University of Science and Technology)

17:15 Using stable isotopes to conceptualize groundwater flow system in a tropical wetland

Speaker: Dr Cynthia Nonterah (Ghana Atomic Energy Commission)

17:15 Water isotopes in Beijing Basin: Monitoring for climate and water changes in a monsoon affected arid region

Speaker: Prof. Zhonghe Pang (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

17:15 Water isotopes in precipitation in Turkey

Speaker: Naciye Nur Ozyurt (Hacettepe University)

17:30 → 18:00 Lab Visit

18:00 → 20:00 Workshop: Introduction to TracerLPM Software

Convener: Mr Bryant Jurgens (USGS)

Friday 24 May

08:30 → 10:00 SESSION 6: Isotopes in water balance modelling and mapping

Conveners: Prof. Rolf Kipfer, Dagnachew Legesse Belachew (IAEA)

08:30 What value do we gain from isotope-abled simulation of the water cycle?

Calibration of hydrological models is challenging in remote, high latitude regions where hydrometry data are minimal. The vast water resources and complex hydrology of Canada necessitate the use of models to predict future changes in water supply, yet often with high amounts of uncertainty, in part, from poorly calibrated models. In this paper, we demonstrate the utility of isotopes for improving the amount and type of information available for model calibration using the isoWATFLOODTM model. We show that adding additional information to calibration does not hurt model calibration statistics, improves model validation, and offers additional feedback on internal flow paths and hydrologic storages that can be useful for informing model calibration. The inclusion of isotopes in model calibration reduces the number of realistic parameter combinations, resulting in more representative model calibrations and improved long-term simulation of large-scale water balance.

Speaker: Dr Tricia Stadnyk (University of Manitoba)

09:00 Water balance estimates using isotope-enabled rainfall-runoff modelling in the Ouémé catchment (Benin)

Speaker: Dr Christine Vallet-Coulomb (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France)

09:15 Isotope-based water balance modelling in a small mountain catchment recovering after deforestation (Czech Republic)

Speaker: Dr Yuliya Vystavna (Institute of Hydrobiology)

09:30 Water storage of tropical alpine catchments at the top of the Andes

Speaker: Giovanny Mosquera (Universidad de Cuenca)

09:45 A predictive model of the stable isotopic composition of groundwater in Greece

Speaker: IOANNIS MATIATOS (IAEA)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 SESSION 7: Frontiers in isotope hydrology

Conveners: Mr Leonard I. Wassenaar (IAEA), Tricia Stadnyk (University of Manitoba)

10:30 Landing (noble) gas analytics in the field - towards real time insitu gas determination (or how mini-Ruedi Ruessel sniffs the World)

Speaker: Prof. Rolf Kipfer

11:00 New perspectives for 39Ar-dating in the hydrosphere

Speaker: Prof. Werner Aeschbach (Heidelberg University)

11:30 23 unsolved problems in hydrology (and how isotopes may help)

Speaker: Günter Blöschl

12:00 → 12:30 CLOSING SESSION

Conveners: Mr Leonard I. Wassenaar (IAEA), Ms Melissa Denecke (IAEA)