Ineson Lecture
The Ineson Lecture is our flagship annual event and is held in conjunction with the Hydro Group of the Geological Society. The lecture features a keynote speaker of international standing, supported by speakers and poster presentations from around the UK.
Find information from previous Ineson lectures:
The Ineson Lecture is named after Dr Jack Ineson, who:
“…will always be associated with introducing quantitative methods to British hydrogeology. A geologist with a sound knowledge of mathematics and statistics, unusual for the time, he seized the opportunity in 1948 to apply to British aquifers the burgeoning theory of well hydraulics initiated by Theis. Ineson’s career was mainly spent with the Geological Survey of Great Britain, now the British Geological Survey, but in the period 1965-1970 as Chief Geologist of the Water Resources Board. It was, however, a relatively short career with the start postponed by the Second World War and tragically truncated in June 1970 as a direct consequence of his experiences in the war.”
From ’200 years of British Hydrogeology’ (Geological Society Special … Publication Date, 2004)
These are all the Ineson lecturers since the inaugural meeting in 1991:
1991 James P Gibb, AGSE, National Water Well Association, USA
1992 Dr Dick Downing, ex BGS and Water Resources Board, UK
1993 Professor Dr Emilio Custodio Gimena, Univ Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
1994 Dr Mary Jo Baedecker, US Geological Survey, Virginia, USA
1995 Professor Ghislain de Marsily, Laboratoire de Geologie Appliqueé, Univ Paris VI, France
1996 Professor John Lloyd, University of Birmingham, UK
1997 Professor Thomas Christiansen, Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark
1998 Professor Steven Gorelick, University of Berkley, California, USA
1999 Professor Stephen Foster, British Geological Survey, UK
2000 David Grey, World Bank
2001 Professor Mike Edmunds, University of Oxford, UK
2002 Professor John Cherry, University of Waterloo, Canada
2003 Professor John Barker, University College London, UK
2004 Professor Tony Appelo, Netherlands
2005 Dr Leonard Konikow, USGS, US
2006 Andrew Skinner, ex. Environment Agency, UK
2007 Professor Peter Fritz, UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum, Leipzig, Germany
2008 Dr Wang Jinxia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2009 Professor Denis Peach, British Geological Survey, UK
2010 Professor Nico Goldscheider, Technische Universität München, Germany
2011 Professor Ian White, Australian National University, Australia
2012 Professor Paul Younger, University of Glasgow, UK
2013 Professor Poul Bjerg, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Professor James F. Barker, University of Waterloo, Canada
2015 Professor David Lerner, University of Sheffield, UK
2016 Professor Georg Teutsch, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig
2017 Dr Callist Tindimugaya, Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda
2018 Dr Pauline Smedley, British Geological Survey
2019 Professor Mario Schirmer, Eawag & Neuchâtel
2020 Anne Dacey, Environment Agency
2021 Dr Mike Jones, Thames Water