Wednesday 15th November 2023 | Geological Society, Burlington House, London
Please find the final programme here, including speaker bios and abstracts.
The IAH-GB Chapter, together with the Hydrogeology group of the Geological Society London will be hosting this year’s 2023 Ineson Lecture. 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.
We will aim to address questions such as:
- What is the potential from new technological developments, what is available now, and how does this affect how we carry out our business?
- How quickly are things changing, and how will ‘game-changing’ or ‘disruptive’ technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning affect how we ‘do’ hydrogeology?
- Conversely, what are the risks and drawbacks behind these new technologies, and what are the barriers to achieving their potential?
The 2023 Ineson Lecture will be delivered by Holger Kessler, a widely-known geoscientist at the British Geological Survey, working closely with Government departments and bodies (including the Geospatial Commission, and Government Office for Science) on digital geospatial strategy for the environmental, water resource, engineering and infrastructure sectors (including the UK National Underground Asset Register, and Future of the Subsurface Foresight Programme).
Our keynote speaker is Marian Scott, Professor of Environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow, discussing “Digital earth systems: drawing intelligence from disparate data streams and models”. She is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was awarded an OBE for services to science. Her main research interests are in the use of statistics and data analytics in understanding environmental systems.
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.
New this year, we are including an option to attend online. Although in-person interaction is very valuable, we are keen to open the conference to those for whom travel is difficult, or who are located overseas.
Registration:
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