50th International Association of Hydrogeologists Congress 2023

50th International Association of Hydrogeologists Congress 2023
17 - 22 Sep 2023
UTC+02:00
Cape Town, South Africa

The 50th Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists will be hosted at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa from 17 to 22 September 2023. 

The Congress theme for IAH 50 is Groundwater: A Matter of Scale. This theme combines scientific advances through local to global scale experiments and case studies, with those extending over various temporal scales. 

Research, modelling and consulting work is developing at discrete scales right through to regional scale work related to the critical zone and transboundary aquifers. Data starts at the molecular level and moves to “big data”. We up-scale data and we down-scale data. Datapoints become temporal data. And we govern at different scales of involvement. So, in 2023, we look at Groundwater: A Matter of Scale.

Important dates

1 March 2023 – Abstract submission deadline
3 April 2023 – Abstract acceptance confirmed
3 May 2023 – Early Bird registration deadline
31 July 2023 – Late registration deadline

Event Themes

The connectedness of groundwater and planetary sciences
Catchment scale integrated surface water and groundwater studies
Scale aspects of groundwater flow and transport systems
Critical zone sciences – a multi-disciplinary, cross-scale science
Upscaling/downscaling techniques
Local-scale, pore-scale, and discreet scale
Polycentric groundwater governance systems
Improving shared sustainable use of groundwater resources that cross two or more jurisdictional borders
Venue

Cape Town International Convention Centre
Convention Square, 1 Lower Long Street
Cape Town
8001
South Africa