05.03.2018 - 07.03.2018; Tagung
16th Biennial Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (BSMAR16)
1710 W Mission Bay Drive
San Diego, CA 92109
USA
The Sixteenth Biennial Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge, Recharge to the Rescue!, Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Water Management Tool, will take place at on March 5-7, 2018 in San Diego, CA. This event continues a long-standing series of symposia originating in Arizona in 1978. The Fifteenth Biennial Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge was combined with the Ninth International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR 9) held in Mexico City in 2016. The Groundwater Resources Association of California and the Arizona Hydrological Society have teamed up to hold the BSMAR event with the location alternating between California and Arizona. Please visit the GRA website at www.grac.org for updates.
BSMAR 16 will be a 1.5 day symposium that will feature numerous oral presentations, poster presentations, an awards luncheon as well as optional workshops the day prior to the symposium. Abstracts are being sought for oral and poster presentations on the topics listed below.
MAR Testing, Design and Construction
- Advanced methods for selection of aquifers, sites and methods
- Designing for storm water capture
- Predicting sediment loading/clogging
- Alternative recharge systems
- Innovation in harvesting and storing flood waters
- Overcoming the hydrogeology/engineering disconnect
MAR Operations and Maintenance
- Monitoring and modeling
- Tracer testing
- Clogging management
- Fate of pathogens and pollutants
- Geochemistry and hydrogeology
- Groundwater hydraulics and storage recovery
- Training for MAR operators
- Long-term maintenance requirements/budgeting
- Modifying operations for long-term sustainability
MAR Governance
- Integrated water resources management
- Recharge policies, standards and regulations
- Community engagement and awareness in MAR
- MAR to complement groundwater demand management
- Legal issues related to storm water capture by MAR systems
MAR and Water Resources Management
- Reclaimed water reuse via MAR
- Storm water harvesting via MAR (MS4 permitting, etc.)
- Quantification of benefits and costs of MAR
- MAR for drinking water quality improvement
- MAR with desalinated water
- Mining and industrial applications of MAR
- MAR to source heat pumps and geothermal injection
- Mitigating geological problems using MAR - land subsidence, seawater intrusion, etc.
- MAR for rural and irrigation water supplies
- MAR in conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater
MAR Case Studies
- Success factors for projects that worked
- Lessons learned from projects that did not work
Other Issues related to MAR
- MAR and climate change
- MAR in urban areas
- Greenhouse gas considerations in MAR operations
Abstracts deadline November 1, 2017
To submit an abstract go to https://www.grac.org/forms/abstract-submittal-form-bsmar16/