International Workshop on Groundwater Systems in Europe

August 22 - 23, 2013

BGR Branch Office Berlin

At the occasion of the completion of the International Hydrogeological Map of Europe (IHME), EuroGeoSurveys (EGS) and the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), in association with the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO, the European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine Waters (ETC/ICM), the Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW), the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) and the International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC) organised an international workshop to discuss future perspectives of cooperation on hydrogeological issues in Europe. More than 60 groundwater experts from 19 European countries and several organisations as well as research institutes and universities participated in the workshop.

The workshop served as a platform to discuss:

methods and approaches of characterization, classification and delineation of groundwater systems in Europe, including transboundary aquifer systems;
significance of the hydrogeological background and natural groundwater flow systems in river basin management, modeling and decision support systems;
challenges and opportunities for harmonized data handling in Europe for natural resources management and to sustain European land, water and soil policies;
needs and requirements for underpinning policy approaches by appropriate data, tools and information to bridge the gap between science and policy stakeholders.

Conclusions

List of Participants

Final Agenda (PDF, 118 KB)

Extended Conclusions (PDF, 271 KB)

The International Hydrogeological Map of Europe

Oral Presentations

Speaker	Lecture title
*Opening and introduction*
Demicheli, Luca	Monitoring and mapping groundwater systems in Europe - The viewpoint of EuroGeoSurveys (PDF, 9 MB)
*Theme 1: Groundwater and European policies*
Künitzer, Anita	Significance of groundwater in the European environmental policy (PDF, 3 MB)
Grath, Johannes	Groundwater Common Implementation Strategy for the WFD – Current status and prospects (PDF, 2 MB)
Prchalová, Hana et al.	Groundwater body systems in the Czech Republic (PDF, 2 MB)
Højberg, Anker Lajer et al.	The Danish National Water Resources Model (DK-Model) - Support for decision making and WFD implementation (PDF, 3 MB)
*Theme 2: History and lessons learnt of the International Hydrogeological Map of Europe (IHME)*
Struckmeier, Wilhelm	The International Hydrogeological Map of Europe (IHME), scale 1:1.5 million - A coherent hydrogeological map for greater Europe and a model for the rest of the world (PDF, 9 MB)
Eftimi, Romeo et al.	Hydrogeological mapping in Albania - From the IHME contribution to larger scale national maps (PDF, 4 MB)
Günther, Andreas et al.	A new digital European data layer on shallow subsurface lithology derived from IHME 1500 information (PDF, 2 MB)
Duscher, Klaus	IHME and the European groundwater body GIS layers - Comparison, applications, synergies (PDF, 3 MB)
*Theme 3: Transboundary aquifers in Europe*
Treidel, Holger	Global assessment of transboundary aquifers - ISARM and GEF TWAP (PDF, 4 MB)
Kukuric, Neno	Assessment of transboundary aquifers in Europe (and the rest of the world) (PDF, 4 MB)
Ganoulis, Jacques	Open-Source WebGIS cooperative information systems for transboundary groundwater management (PDF, 4 MB)
Scheidleder, Andreas	Managing transboundary groundwater bodies in the Danube River Basin (PDF, 2 MB)
*Theme 4: Hydraulic and geochemical characterization of groundwater systems and geological units*
Andreo, Bartolomé	Groundwater recharge assessment in karst aquifers by APLIS method and potential at European scale (PDF, 10 MB)
Wagner, Bernhard	Web mapping service of natural background values of groundwater in Germany (PDF, 3 MB)
Birke, Manfred et al.	Geochemical mapping at European scale - the GEMAS-project (PDF, 10 MB)
*Theme 5: Groundwater modelling as a basis for decision support*
de Roo, Ad et al.	Pan-European modelling studies for balancing water availability and water demand - Supporting the 2012 EC Blueprint to safeguard Europe’s waters (PDF, 4 MB)
Lorenzo-Alonso, Alberto	Rough estimation of groundwater resources in Europe based on IHME (inter alia) (PDF, 3 MB)
Walter, Thomas	Closing down the mining in the Saar Region, Germany: Are we creating a transboundary “great man-made aquifer”? (PDF, 5 MB)
Ward, Rob	Application of 3D modelling to groundwater management in the UK (PDF, 2 MB)
Schelkes, Klaus et al.	A Decision Support System (DSS) for Integrated Water Resources Management (PDF, 7 MB)

Poster Presentations

Name	Poster title
Allier, Delphine et al.	BDLISA - The new aquifer reference system in France (PDF, 2 MB)
Atzenhofer, Bernhard et al.	Central Europe Project TRANSENERGY - Transboundary assessment, dissemination and management of hydrogeothermal energy resources of Slovenia, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia (PDF, 7 MB)
Böhm, Anna-Katharina	GRACE – Groundwater absence in cretaceous sandstone aquifers (PDF, 2 MB)
Brugeron, Alexandre et al.	WFD groundwater bodies - Consequences of the new national hydrogeological reference system BDLISA for their delineation in France (PDF, 2 MB)
Czarniecka-Januszczyk, Urszula et al.	Hydrogeological mapping in Poland (jpeg, 8 MB)
Duscher, Klaus	European groundwater bodies - June 2012 (PDF, 6 MB)
Gómez, Juan de Dios	Integration of hydrogeological modelling in decision support systems in Spain: the case of Loma de Ubeda aquifer (PDF, 1 MB)
Günther, Andreas et al.	Transboundary aquifer systems in Europe deduced from IHME 1500 (PDF, 4 MB)
Gustafsson, Mattias et al.	Groundwater mapping in Sweden (PDF, 4 MB)
Prestor, Joerg et al.	Mapping and modelling of the transboundary thermal groundwater system – supra regional to local scale. A newly proposed transboundary thermal groundwater body "Mura – Zala" between Hungary and Slovenia (PDF, 5 MB)
Schubert, Gerhard	Hydrogeological maps in Austria - A rough overview on available maps and ongoing projects (PDF, 6 MB)
Sinreich, Michael	Advancement in Swiss hydrogeological mapping (PDF, 3 MB)
Vernes, Ronald	Knowing your neighbours - Towards a consistent interpretation of the subsurface in the Flemish-Dutch border region (PDF, 669 KB)
Walter, Thomas	Groundwater Flow Model "Saarland" - A regional groundwater flow model as tool for water administration (PDF, 10 MB)