Ineson Lecture 2023 - final call for in-person registration!

Ineson Lecture is this Friday 10th November - Register now!

New this year, we are also including an option to attend online (choose virtual registration type in the drop down menu) , the deadline for this will be open longer – register here!

The IAH-GB Chapter, together with the Hydrogeology group of the Geological Society London will be hosting this year’s 2023 Ineson Lecture at the Geological Society, Burlington House, London. This year the theme is Groundwater in a digital landscape.

We live in an increasingly digitised world, with a continuing rapid pace of change. This year’s Ineson event on 15th November 2023 will follow immediately after the Geological Society conference “Digital Geoscience: Unleashing the Power of Data and Technology in Earth Sciences” and will look at how this digital revolution affects the hydrogeological profession.

The 2023 Ineson Lecture will be delivered by Holger Kessler (BGS), and our keynote speaker is Marian Scott (University of Glasgow).

Other speakers at the event will explore a broad range of new technologies, including: digital data representation and visualisation (e.g. digital geology models), use of artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning in areas including combined remote sensing and ground data, integration of live sensors and digital twins in relation to different aspects of hydrogeology and groundwater management.

The final programme is as follows and the speaker bios and abstracts will be shared before the day:

09:30Registration & coffee in the Lower Library

10:30 Welcome & introduction

Session 1 – Artificial intelligence & digital twins using real time data

10:40 Keynote speaker: Marian Scott (University of Glasgow). Digital earth systems: drawing intelligence from disparate data streams and models

11:40 Eleanor Blyth (CEH). Moving towards near-real-time soil moisture and groundwater data products for the UK

12:10 Ivana Barisin (Terra Motus). Case study linking satellite aperture radar (SAR) and ground-truthed data to investigate soil moisture as a tool to monitor groundwater in the East Yorkshire Chalk headwaters

12:40 Lunch in the Lower Library & Geological Society Hydrogeology Group AGM

Session 2 – Digital visualisation

13:40 Thomas Booth (WSP). Groundwater numerical modelling and visualisation workflows in international mining projects

14:10 Gerry Baker (Arup). The use of open source 3d visualisation and groundwater modelling software

14:40 Geological Society Hydrogeology Group medal awards

15:05 Afternoon tea in the Lower Library

15:35 Introduction to the Ineson Lecture

15:40 Ineson Lecture: Holger Kessler (BGS). 30 years of digital transformation in the Geosciences – is the glass half full yet?

16:40 Panel discussion

17:10 What’s on next?

17:20 Drinks reception in the Lower Library

Registration is available here (www.hydrogroup.org.uk/ineson-lecture-2023/) and the committee is calling for posters on recent research or projects in this subject area.

If you would like to contribute a poster to this Ineson event, please email Rachel.bell@nuclearwasteservices.uk or Harriet.Carlyle@sweco.co.uk with a few sentences outlining the proposed topic by Friday 10th November.