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IAH (Irish Group) run an annual conference, meetings and seminars.  “Technical Discussion” meetings are held in the Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.

Coffee at 17:30, lecture at 18:00 (except some joint meetings with the IEI which are indicated otherwise). 

 

Click on the link to view or download the associated report (pdf format).   Abstracts for conference proceedings are also included, a full copy of proceedings may be purchased from the Conference Secretary.
 

2008  

International Year of Planet Earth www.planetearth.ie

   

 

TDMs

Flyer for Technical Discussion Meetings for October, November, December and January 2009 click here

 

2 December  

Technical Discussion Meeting and Christmas Party in the Old School House

"Implementing the Water Framework Directive - implications for groundwater development and protection" Matthew Craig and Donal Daly, EPA

Part 1 [6.2MB]

Part 2 [3.2MB]

Part 3 [2.2MB]

 

 

4 November  

Technical Discussion Meeting

"Under down under - recent trends in groundwater management trends in Australia" Jenny Deakin, until recently, Groundwater Section Head, Water Resources Division, Department of Primary Industries and Water, Tasmania

7 October  

Technical Discussion Meeting - 'Quarries and Groundwater'

"Introduction to IGI Guidelines on Geological and Hydrogeological information for Quarry Developments" Fionnuala Collins (IGI)

"Quarry Risk Assessment in the context of the Water Framework Directive" Seán Moran (O'Callaghan Moran & Associates)

"Potential Impacts from Quarries on the Water Environment " Shane O'Neill (ONeill Groundwater Engineering)

"Planning, Scale and Heterogeneity" David Ball (Hydrogeological Consultant)

September   Annual IAH Field trip - flyer
6 May  

Joint Geothermal Association of Ireland and IAH (Irish Group) Lecture

"Geothermal Energy in the Paris Basin" Pierre Ungemach, GPC IP

22/23 April  

Annual IAH Conference Tullamore

Groundwater: A Resource at Risk?

1 April  

Annual IAH Burdon Lecture

"Climate Change Impact in Arid Regions" by Professor Bridget Scanlon (Birdshall Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer for the Geological Society of America, 2007)

4 March

 

Technical Discussion Meeting - 'Open Forum'

"The treatment performance of freely-draining subsoils and reed bed systems receiving domestic wastewater effluent" Niall O' Luanaigh (TCD)

"Hydrological Controls of Wetland Dynamics" Shane Regan (TCD)

"Initial studies of nutrients in a shallow sand and gravel aquifer under tillage farming in the Barrow catchment, South-Eastern RBD " Alina Premrov (Teagasc)

February

 

No TDM this month

8 January  

Joint IAH/Geotechnical Society of Ireland Lecture

"Engineering characterisation of glacial gravels in Cork" Michael Long (UCD)