The XXI Conference on Groundwater in Siberia and Far East will be held in Yakutsk, Russia from 22-26 June 2015. Organizers invite those interested in attending the conference to pre-register before 31 December 2014.
The Conference on Groundwater in Siberia and Far East has a long-standing history and is held every three years. The first conference was convened in October 1955 by the East Siberian Department of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Irkutsk Geological Survey, USSR Ministry of Geology and Mineral Conservation. The 2015 conference will mark the 60th year since the first forum of Siberian hydrogeologists was organized.
This conference will be held as part of the Federal Target Program 2010-2015: Clean Water to present the advances in fundamental hydrogeology since the XX Conference in 2012 (Irkutsk) and to discuss a wide range of issues of importance for hydrogeology in Russia and worldwide.
The topics for the conference are as follows:
- Groundwater in permafrost: state of knowledge, exploration, and use
- Evolution of groundwater systems related to climatic change and human activities
- Interaction of groundwater with soils, rocks and surface water
- Petroleum hydrogeology
- Groundwater use and protection
- Modeling and GIS technologies in hydrogeology
- Hydrogeology education
- Regional hydrogeology
For more information on the conference, please visit the conference link above.