20th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting

The conference is designed to bring together scientists, engineers, water resource managers, and policy makers who are actively involved in and/or affected by salt water intrusion, management of coastal aquifers, and submarine groundwater discharge. This includes those studying the marine environment as well as those from the terrestrial side. Participants from academia, private consulting firms, local, state, and national government agencies will interact in an informal and relaxed environment to summarize and review state-of-the-art methods for investigating salt water intrusion.

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Benefits of Attending

Conference participants should expect to have a meaningful experience that fosters:

development of new ideas and directions for future work.
an up-to-date understanding on the issues related to salt water intrusion.
the opportunity to form new collaborative relationships and to renew existing ones.
new strategies for monitoring, simulating, and managing salt water intrusion

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Conference Overview

In keeping with 40 years of the SWIM tradition, the Florida meeting will consist of an informal environment where students and those new to the field can meet established and well-known salt water intrusion scientists and engineers. A workshop on salt water intrusion modeling will also be offered. Southern Florida has a lot to offer to SWIM participants including field trips to the Everglades, Florida Keys, and locations of some of the first field studies of salt water intrusion. This is the first time the meeting will be held outside of Europe. The previous meeting in Cagliari, Italy, 2006 was a combined meeting of SWIM and SWICA. There it was agreed to combine the two organizations under the SWIM name and that SWIM would be held outside Europe every second meeting. The venue of the 2010 SWIM meeting is planned to be Portugal.

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Additional information on SWICA can be found at: http://www.olemiss.edu/sciencenet/saltnet/conf-swica.html

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Purpose

The purpose of the 20th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, water resource managers, and planners to share their research, ideas, and recommendations. This conference provides a unique opportunity to meet well-known and respected scientists and engineers in the field of salt water intrusion. Conference participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback on their research and management issues and to form collaborative relationships with those encountering similar problems.

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Conference Topics

Field studies of saltwater intrusion
Geochemistry
Geophysics
Management of coastal aquifers
Submarine groundwater discharge
Variable density flow and transport modeling
Parameter Estimation
Optimization modeling
Effects of sea level rise and climate change
Case studies of saltwater intrusion
Impacts of increased water demand on coastal water resources and ecosystems
Use of satellite and remote sensing to characterize coastal water systems

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Call for Papers

Paper Submission is now Closed.

Individuals conducting research on all aspects related to Salt Water Intrusion are strongly encouraged to submit a paper (no more than four pages in length) representing an oral or poster presentation. The Scientific Committee will select oral presentations for the Salt Water Intrusion Meeting from submitted papers based on relationship to conference topics. Those not selected for oral presentation are encouraged to present their work in poster format. ALL papers, both oral and poster, will be published in the book of papers and will also be posted on the Conference website following the meeting.

Papers must be submitted ONLINE via this web site no later than February 15, 2008. The organizing committee will be reviewing all paper submissions and will contact you by March 3, 2008 with a decision regarding your presentation status and comments on your paper. The revised and final paper will be due no later than April 8, 2008.

Please note that oral and poster presenters must register for the meeting.

Paper Submission is now Closed.

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Tentative SWIM Agenda

Sunday, June 22, 2008

6:00pm-8:00pm

Early Bird Social & Poster setup, Registration Open

Monday, June 23, 2008

7:00am-5:00pm	Conference Registration Open
7:30am-8:30am	Morning Refreshments
8:30am-9:00am	Welcome & Announcements - Christian Langevin, Meeting Organizer, and Others
General Session I: Case Studies in Salt Water Intrusion
9:00am-9:25am	Assessing Well Field Impacts on Water Quality in the Upper Floridan Aquifer in Southwest Florida - Terry Bengtsson (Featured Speaker)
9:25am-9:40am	Modeling of Historical Evolution of Salt Water Distribution in the Phreatic Aquifer in and around the silted up Zwin Estuary Mouth (Flanders, Belgium) - Luc Lebbe
9:40am-9:55am	Assessment of Groundwater Resources by a Seawater Intrusion Mathematical Model in the Rmel Coastal Aquifer (Morocco) - Abdelkader Larabi
9:55am-10:10am	Dynamic Groundwater Equilibrium during a Base Level Drop: The Dead Sea Case - Yael Kiro
10:10am-10:40am	Refreshment Break
General Session II: Case Studies in Salt Water Intrusion, continued
10:40am-10:55am	Simulation of Processes Controlling Migration of Saline Water and Brine above a Flooded Salt Mine in Western New York, USA - Richard Yager
10:55am-11:10am	A Case Study of Finite-Element Numerical Modeling on Salt Water Intrusion for the Ping-Tung Plain - Jing-Yea Yang
11:10am-11:25am	Salt Water Intrusion in the Shallow Aquifers of Venice - Eloisa Di Sipio
11:25am-11:40am	Study of Saltwater Intrusion into the Coastal Aquifer of Tavabe-e Arsanjan, Iran - Gholmareza Rakhshandehroo
11:40am-11:55am	Vulnerability Assessment of Groundawater Aquifers during the Construction of the Citytunnel in Malmö, Sweden - Kenneth M Persson
11:55am-12:10pm	Combined Groundwater Quality and Groundwater Model Approach as Main Tool of an Aquifer Management for Sustainable Water Supply in the Santo Domingo Valley, Baja California Sur, Mexico - Jobst Wurl
12:10pm-1:25pm	LUNCH
General Session III: Management of Coastal Aquifers
1:25pm-1:50pm	An Assessment of the Impact of Geologic Heterogeneity on Predictions of Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers - Whitney Trainor (Featured Speaker)
1:50pm-2:05pm	Artificial Recharge of Fresh Water in the Belgian Coastal Dunes - Alexander Vandenbohede
2:05pm-2:20pm	Management of the Iao and Waihee Aquifer Areas With the Aid of a 3-D Numerical SUTRA Model, Maui, Hawaii - Stephen Gingerich
2:20pm-2:35pm	Pumping of Brackish and Saline Water in Coastal Aquifers: An Effective Tool for Alleviation of Seawater Intrusion - Mohsen Sherif
2:35pm-2:50pm	Managing Seawater Intrusion Using Multiple-depth Monitoring Wells - Wes Danskin
2:50pm-3:05pm	Field Validation of Simulation-Optimization Model for Protecting Excessive Pumping Wells - Namsik Park
3:05pm-3:35pm	Refreshment Break
General Session IV: Variable Density Flow and Transport Modeling
3:35pm-3:50pm	Benchmarks for Two- and Three-Dimensional Variable-Density Ground-Water Flow Simulators: Analytical Expressions for Unstable Convection - Clifford Voss
3:50pm-4:05pm	Solute Extraction in Variable Density Flow: Shock Wave Driven Transport Compared to Pumping -Shaul Sorek
4:05pm-4:20pm	Use of Image Analysis to Develop New Benchmarking Datasets for Variable Density Flow Scenarios - Rohit Goswami
4:20pm-4:35pm	Modeling of the Potential for Vertically Downward Saltwater Migration from a Dredge Pond - Peter Andersen
4:35pm-4:50pm	Freshwater-Saltwater Mixing Zone in Coastal Aquifers: Biased vs. Reliable Monitoring - Eyal Shalev
4:50pm-5:05pm	Simulation of Coastal Wastewater Injection in Hawaii using SUTRA, and the Value of Compelling Visualizations in Conveying Results to the Non-Specialist Public - Charles D Hunt, Jr.
5:30pm-7:30pm	WELCOME RECEPTION ON OCEAN LAWN

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

7:00am-5:00pm	Conference Registration Open
7:30am-8:30am	Morning Refreshments
General Session V: Submarine Groundwater Discharge & Field Studies
8:30am-8:55am	Analytical Benthic Flux Model Forced by Surface-Water Waves: Application to the South Atlantic Bight, USA - Jeffrey King (Featured Speaker)
8:55am-9:10am	Mechanisms Driving Submarine Groundwater Discharge and Associated Radium Flux: Implications for Use of Radium as a Tracer - Holly Michael
9:10am-9:25am	The Role of Fresh and Saline Submarine Groundwater Discharge in Nutrient Contribution to Coastal Seawater, Dor Bay (Israel) - Yishai Weinstein
9:25am-9:40am	Global Land-Ocean Linkage: Direct Inputs of Water and Associated Nutrients to Coastal Zones via Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) - Hans H. Dürr
9:40am-9:55am	Causes of Borehole Flow and Effects on Vertical Salinity Profiles in Coastal Aquifers - Delwyn Oki
9:55am-10:10am	Characterization of Local Rainwater Lenses in Agricultural Areas with Upward Saline Seepage: Monitoring Results - Perry de Louw
10:10am-10:40am	Refreshment Break
General Session VI: Field Studies of Salt Water Intrusion
10:40am-10:55am	Altered Hydroperiod and Saltwater Intrusion in the Bald Cypress Swamps of the Loxahatchee River - David Kaplan
10:55am-11:10am	Global Warming and Salt Water Intrusion: Bangladesh Perspective - Md. Abu Noman
11:10am-11:25am	An Investigation of Groundwater Flow on a Coastal Barrier using Multi Electrode Profiling -Søren Erbs Poulsen
11:25am-11:40am	Pumping Test Analyses in an Aquifer with Fresh Water/Salt Water Interface - Liliana Cecan
11:40am-11:55am	Assessing the Extent of Saltwater Intrusion in the Aquifer System of Southern Baldwin County, Alabama - Dorina Murgulet
11:55am-12:10pm	Freshwater Lens Development on Padre Island, Texas - Egon Weber
12:10pm-1:25pm	LUNCH
General Session VII: Parameter Estimation
1:25pm-1:50pm	Incorporating Initial Conditions in the Model Calibration Process - John Doherty (Featured Speaker)
1:50pm-2:05pm	Saltwater Intrusion and Hydraulic Conductivity Estimation in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana - Frank Tsai
2:05pm-2:20pm	General Guidance Concerning Inverse Modeling Techniques and Value of Field Data Types for Seawater Intrusion Simulation - Clifford Voss
2:20pm-2:35pm	Efficient Calibration of Seawater Intrusion Models - Juan José Hidalgo
2:35pm-2:50pm	Calibration of a Density-Dependent Groundwater Flow Model of the Lower West Coast Floridan Aquifer System - Jorge Restrepo
2:50pm-3:05pm	Saltwater/Freshwater Interface Movement in Response to Deep-Well Injection in a Coastal Aquifer - Alyssa Dausman
3:05pm-3:35pm	Refreshment Break
General Session VIII: Geochemistry
3:35pm-4:00pm	Chemical and Isotopic Evidence for Seawater Intrusion Examples from the Coastal Aquifers of the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea - Yoseph Yechieli (Featured Speaker)
4:00pm-4:15pm	Base Exchange Indices as Indicators of Salinization or Freshening of (Coastal) Aquifers - Pieter Jan Stuyfzand
4:15pm-4:30pm	Use of Geochemical Tools to Study Groundwater Salinization in Volcanic Islands: a Case Study in the Porto Santo (Portugal) and Santiago (Cape Verde) Islands - Maria Teresa Condesso de Melo
4:30pm-4:45pm	Geochemistry of Phosphorus in a Carbonate Aquifer Affected by Seawater Intrusion - Rene Price
4:45pm-5:00pm	Time Scale of Water-Rock Interaction Processes in the Fresh-Saline Water Interface of Coastal Aquifers - Amos Russak
5:00pm-5:15pm	Utilizing Stable Isotopes (2H, 18O) to Better Identify Different Water Types of the Floridan Aquifer System in Southwest Florida - Ed Rectenwald
5:15pm-5:30pm	Geochemical and Isotopic Study of the Origin of Salinization in an Unconfined Coastal Aquifer of Cap Bon (Tunisia) - Mohamed Fethi Ben Hamouda
5:30pm-7:00pm	Poster Presentations & Social

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

8:00am-5:00pm

Optional Field Trip

Thursday, June 26, 2008

7:00am-5:00pm	Conference Registration Open
7:30am-8:30am	Morning Refreshments
General Session IX: Variable Density Flow & Transport Modeling
8:30am-8:55am	Variable Density Flow and Transport in Tsunami Impacted Coastal Aquifers: Laboratory Investigations in Homogeneous Saturated Porous Media - Meththika Vithanage (Featured Speaker)
8:55am-9:10am	The Delayed Effects of Variable Density Flow on Flow and Heads in Fresh Groundwater -Frans Schaars
9:10am-9:25am	Experimental Mapping of the Saltwater/Freshwater Mixing Zone - Elena Abarca
9:25am-9:40am	Virginia Ground Water Withdrawal Permitting Program Modeling for Resource Management - Roberta Patton
9:40am-9:55am	A Saltwater Upconing Model to Evaluate Wellfield Feasibility - Gregory Council
9:55am-10:10am	Dispersive Behavior of the Mixing Zone between a Shallow Freshwater Lens and Upward Seeping Saline Groundwater - Sara Eeman
10:10am-10:40am	Refreshment Break
General Session X: Impacts of Increased Water Demand, Optimization Modeling, & Case Studies
10:40am-10:55am	Brackish Groundwater as a New Resource for Drinking Water, Specific Consequences of Density Dependent Flow, and Positive Environmental Consequences - Theo Olsthoom
10:55am-11:10am	Analytical Method for Preliminary Management of Pumping and Injection in Coastal Areas - Namsik Park
11:10am-11:25am	Compositional Change of Groundwater Chemistry in the Shallow Aquifer of Small Tropical Island Due to Seawater Intrusion - Ahmad Zaharin Aris
11:25am-11:40am	TBD
11:40am-11:55am	The Use of Mapping the Salinity Distribution Using Geophysics on the Island of Terschelling for Groundwater Model Calibration - Arjen Kok
11:55am-12:10pm	Verifying the Use of Specific Conductance as a Surrogate for Chloride in Seawater Matrices - Robert Mooney
12:10pm-1:25pm	LUNCH
General Session XI: Management of Coastal Aquifers
1:25pm-1:40pm	Salt Water Intrusion Modeling in the Flemish Coastal Plain based on a Hydrogeological Database - Dieter Vandevelde
1:40pm-1:55pm	Management of Coastal Aquifers -- The Case of a Peninsula -- State of Qatar - Nauman Rashid
1:55pm-2:10pm	Evaluating Safe yield for Supply Wells in an Aquifer with Fresh Water / Salt Water Interface - Gregory Nelson
2:10pm-2:25pm	Saltwater Intrusion Monitoring in the Biscayne Aquifer near Florida City, Miami-Dade County, Florida: 1996-2007 - Christopher Peters
2:25pm-2:40pm	Dynamics of Negative Hydraulic Barriers to Prevent Seawater Intrusion - María Pool
2:40pm-2:55pm	Alternative Approaches for Water Extraction in Areas Subject to Saltwater Upconing - David Tarbox
3:05pm-3:35pm	Refreshment Break
3:35pm-4:00pm	Seawater Intrusion in Australia - A National Perspective of Future Challenges - Adrian Werner (Featured Speaker)
4:05pm-6:00pm	Planning for 2010 & 2012 SWIMs
6:00pm-7:00pm	Dinner on Own
7:00pm-9:00pm	PEST Fest*
*PEST FEST: A Festive Primer on the PEST Software for Parameter Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis A short PEST FEST will be held between 7pm and 9pm on Thursday June 26th. The FEST will be a relaxed and happy occasion, hosted by John Doherty, author of PEST. The other entertainer will be Alyssa Daussman from the Fort Lauderdale office of USGS, who has lots of PEST and SEAWAT experience. John will speak for about an hour on parameter estimation using regularised inversion. He will show how the use of many parameters instead of just a few (when combined with high-end parameter estimation software that can undertake the necessary regularisation) can lead to: model predictions of maximum likelihood and minimum uncertainty; an ability to quantify uncertainty; an ability to assess the contributions made by different parameter types to predictive uncertainty; an ability to formulate a strategy for future data acquisition which will most effectively reduce predictive uncertainty. Alyssa will then make a short informal presentation on her experience in using PEST to calibrate her models, including some practical advice in using PEST with density dependent models. Following the presentations, there will be a short time for questions, and discussions on any issues that FEST-goers would like to raise. All are welcome to attend. Admission is free.

Friday, June 27, 2008

7:00am-12Noon