The 2014 Schultz Oration, The Groundwater Grand Challenge, will be presented on 7 April by Professor Craig T. Simmons, who holds the Inaugural Schultz Chair in the Environment and is also Professor of Hydrogeology at Flinders University and Director of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training.

Groundwater is our planet’s largest and most precious resource, making up 97 per cent of the world’s available fresh water.  On a global level, depletion of groundwater resources and groundwater pollution are massive issues which underpin the sustainability of groundwater resources.

The Oration will discuss key groundwater challenges and opportunities in areas including policy/management, research, technical practice, education/training and overarching governance/institutional arrangements. It will demonstrate that there has never been a better time and greater opportunity to make a material and urgently needed difference to the long-term management and sustainability of critical groundwater resources in Australia and worldwide.

The lecture will be held at 5pm on Monday, 7 April 2014 in the SILC Building, Flinders University

Light refreshments will be served after the lecture. Please register online.