WORKSHOP DAY 1: 25th May 2011
Core Tasks: Presentation of example studies demonstrating skills and science highlights to
identify gaps and synergies between participants and countries; will cover
irrigated systems and agricultural water savings, surface and groundwater
interactions including vadose zone hydrology, regional water management and
sustainability and water policy and governance
(Individual presentations: 12 min presentation and 13 min discussion)
Time
Presenter
Presentation (Draft working titles)
8:00 am
8:05 am
8:10 am
8.15 am
Prof. Yonghui Yang
Greeting from CARR
Greeting
speech
from CAS
Dr Keith L. Bristow
8:30 am
8:55 am
9:20 am
Dr John Radcliffe
Mr Allan Peake
Prof Xiying Zhang
Welcome speech and introduction of participants
Prof. Qijun Ma, Head of CARR
Vice Director, Cao Jinghua, Bureau of International
Cooperation in CAS
Welcome and introductions and Background and
summary of workshop objectives
Water Management in Australia – the big picture
Agronomy and water use efficiency of irrigated crops
Long-term monitoring of the soil-plant-atmosphere water
cycle and the potential for water-saving
9:45 am
Photo
of
the
participants
Photo and Morning
tea
Dr andrew Hamiltonr Wastewater irrigation: reaping the benefits, minimizing the
risks
Prof Zucong Cai
Importance of soil moisture in greenhouse gas emissions
from terrestrial ecosystems
Prof Chunsheng Hu
The nitrogen cycle and leaching of nitrogen from
agricultural fields to groundwater
Prof Xiaojing Liu
Improving saline soils by freezing saline water irrigation:
mechanism and practice
Lunch
Dr Keith L. Bristow
System Harmonisation: Irrigation within a catchment
context
Prof Wayne Meyer
Irrigation practice across a range of soils, climates and
cultural practices
Prof Zongyu Chen
Groundwater depletion and future trend in the North China
Plain
Prof Fadong Li
Interaction between surface and groundwater in the
irrigation area of the lower reaches of the Yellow River
Prof Derek Eamus
Managing groundwater and associated ecological
systems
10:10
10:35
11:00
11:25
11:50
12:15
13:30
13:55
14.20
14:45
15:10
15.35
15:45
Afternoon tea
Prof Yonghui Yang
16:10
Prof Zhang Jiebin
16:35
Prof John Tisdell
17:00
All participants
18:00
Close for the day
Free time
Workshop Dinner
19:00
Sustainability of water for food production under the
South-to-North Water Transfer Project
Management of water resources in a water limited
catchment and implications to policy and governance
Water and environmental economics and implications to
policy and governance
Summary of key points, gaps, opportunities and linkages,
coming out of the days presentations, suggestion for the
second day