PROGRAM
Conference Program
The AHA 2016 Conference is to be held in Canberra, ACT at the Southern Cross Club from the 24 October – 27 October.
Monday, 24th October 2016
1800: Welcome Reception
Tuesday, 25th October 2016
0900: Welcome
0915: James Price – The barriers to and benefits of managing information as a business asset
Session: Technology
1000: Michael Whiting – Harnessing 3D Design, printing and scanning in hydrography
1030: Morning Tea
1100: David Hammond – The Internet of Things: A New Start
1130: Matthew Henderson – Unravelling the IoT
1200: Matt Saunders – Telemetry: Cell Phone and Satellite
1230: Lunch
1400: Ben Starr – Water in the Cloud
1430: AGM
1500: Afternoon Tea
1530: Ray Godley – Digital Signal Processing and Water Sector Instruments
1600: Robert Armstrong – Smart Phone Apps in Ground Water Field Data Collection
1630: Allan Garland – Safety in Hydrography – The impact of innovation and technology
1830: Pre-dinner Drinks
1900: Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 26th October 2016
Session: Technical Workshops
0900: Hening Huang – Estimation of Type A uncertainty of moving-boat ADCP streamflow measurements.
0920: Gavin Hewitt – New Logger CR310
0940: Stevan Palos – Innovative Application of Communication in Hydrography
1000: Peter Heweston – Asset Management and Quality Data
1020: Questions
1030: Morning Tea
1100: Paul Hart – End to End telemetry based solution – introducing Metasphere’s ‘point colour range’
1140: Jarrah Watson – Workshop demonstrating how to connect and configure datasources
1200: Michael Summersby & Tony Scarborough – New radar technology for liquid level measurement
1220: Group Photo
1230: Lunch
Session: Techniques
1315: Richard Hillhouse – Skill Development for Hydrographers
1345: Rob De Hayr – Better Management of Water Quality Data
1415: Glenn McDermott – Applying Measurement Uncertainty
1430: Jessica Littlejohn – Siterunner: Onsite Data Colllection
1500: Afternoon Tea
1530: Stuart Hamilton and Ray Maynard – Discharge Rating Curve Development
1600: Geordie Durack – Ground Water Monitoring in Coal Seam Gas
1615: Daniel Wagenaar – Acoustic Doppler Technology in Sediment Transport
1645: Daniel Sinnott – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in River Hydrography
1715: Justin Stockley – Removing tidal aliasing in estuarine discharge data
Thursday, 27th October 2016
Session: Applications
0900: Peter Waugh – Out of Control
0930: Paul Hart – Remote Monitoring and Alarming for Floods and Sewer Level Monitoring
1000: Glenn McDermott – Means to an End in Data Collection
1030: Morning Tea
1100: Todd Lovell – Application of Hydrographic Data
1130: Carla Mooney – National Standards for Flood Warning
1200: Daniel Condon – Innovation in Compliance Monitoring
1230: Lunch
Session: International Presentations
1315: Lizzie Fox – Implementation of National Environmental Monitoring Standards in NZ (NZHS conference best paper winner)
1345: Brent Hutchby – Lysimeters for Ground Water Recharge (NZHS conference best paper winner)
1415: Alex Miller Award
1430: Close and Prize