Conference papers

Townley, L.R., and Wilson, J.L. (1983), Conditional second moment analysis of groundwater flow: the cumulative effects of transmissivity and head measurements, International Conference on Groundwater and Man, Sydney, Australian Government Publishing Service, December 1983.

Townley, L.R. (1984), Second order effects of uncertain transmissivities on predictions of piezometric heads, Finite Elements in Water Resources, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference, Burlington, Vermont, USA, Springer-Verlag, June 1984.

Bates, B.C., and Townley, L.R. (1985), Estimation of parameters and uncertainty in a runoff routing model, Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Sydney, May 1985.

Townley, L.R., and Wilson, J.L. (1985), Estimation of boundary values and identification of boundary type for numerical models of aquifer flow, International Symposium on the Stochastic Approach to Subsurface Flow, Montvillargenne, France, June 1985.

Townley, L.R. (1985), Response of unconfined aquifers to periodic recharge, 21st Biennial Congress of IAHR, Melbourne, August 1985.

Townley, L.R. (1985), First and second order effects of uncertain parameters on finite element predictions of piezometric heads, Paper H22C-09, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 9-13 December 1985.

Boughton, G.N., Townley, L.R., and Perkins, G.P. (1986), Large-scale modelling of the unconfined aquifer system underlying Perth, Western Australia, International Conference on Groundwater Systems under Stress, Brisbane, May 1986.

Townley, L.R. (1987), Quantifying the uncertainty in model predictions, CSIRO Division of Groundwater Research, Mildura Modelling Workshop, 16-18 February.

Townley, L.R., Nield, S.P., and Davidson, M.R. (1988), Dimensionless simulations of two-dimensional flow in the vicinity of shallow water table lakes, International Symposium on Interaction between Groundwater and Surface Water, Ystad, Sweden, May 1988, 321-338.

Townley, L.R. (1988), Modelling flow in heterogeneous aquifers : Identification of the important scales of variability, VII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, Boston, USA, June 1988, 197-202.

Townley, L.R. (1989), Design of a groundwater modelling package, requiring large arrays and portable graphics, WATERCOMP '89, Melbourne, May 1989, 41-45.

Townley, L.R. (1989), Water balance modelling of regional aquifers : problems and possibilities, Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 1989, 320-324.

Townley, L.R., and Brooker, A.M.H. (1990), Simplified modelling of multi-layered aquifers in large sedimentary basins, International Conference on Groundwater in Large Sedimentary Basins, Perth, July 1990, 330-339.

Barr, A.D., and Townley, L.R. (1991), SALTPROD: a simulation model for systems of salt evaporation ponds, International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 1991, Perth, 2-4 October, Volume 3, 657-658.

Townley, L.R., Turner, J.V., Trefry, M.G., and Barr, A.D. (1991), Groundwater flow patterns near lakes and wetlands: modelling and field validation, International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 1991, Perth, 2-4 October, Volume 3, 732-737.

Trefry, M.G., and Townley, L.R. (1991), Three-dimensional modelling of groundwater flow through the Koongarra uranium orebody, Northern Territory, International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 1991, Perth, 2-4 October, Volume 3, 623-624.

Turner, J.V., Townley, L.R., Rosen, M.R., and Sklash, M.K. (1992), Coupling the spatial distribution of solute concentration and stable isotope enrichments to hydrologic processes in hypersaline paleochannel aquifers, Water-Rock Interaction, Proc. of 7th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction - WRI-7, Park City, Utah, 13-18 July, Balkema, Rotterdam, 217-221.

Townley, L.R., and Bligh, K.J. (1992), Evaluation of physically-based rainfall-runoff models, using field data from Berkshire Valley, Western Australia, In: Proceedings of the 5th Australian Soil Conservation Conference, held in Perth, WA, March 1990, Volume 3, Erosion/Productivity and Erosion Prediction Workshop (Hamilton, G.J., Howes, K.M., and Attwater, R., Eds.), Department or Agriculture, Perth, 200-213.

Townley, L.R., and Turner, J.V. (1994), Identification of components of the water balance of small water table lakes using abundances of natural isotopes and concentrations of chloride, American Geophysical Union, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Hong Kong, 25-29 July.

Townley, L.R. (1994), Hydrogeological modelling of the Koongarra site, Proc. Fifth CEC Natural Analogue Working Group meeting and Alligator Rivers Analogue Project (ARAP) final workshop, held at Toledo, Spain, 5-9 October 1992, Commission of the European Communities Report EUR 15176 EN, 57-62.

Turner, J., Townley, L., Rosen, M., and Milligan, N. (1994), Groundwater recharge to paleochannel aquifers in the eastern goldfields of Western Australia, Water Down Under '94, combining the 25th Congress of the IAH and the International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium of the IEAust, Adelaide, 21-25 November, 511-516.

Ellerbroek, D.A., Jones, D.R., and Townley, L.R. (1996), Managing the hydrology and water quality of final voids after mining, Proc. ACMRR Workshop on Post-mining Landform Stability and Design (Bell, L.C., and Maclean, R.W., Eds.), 17-18 September, 111-121.

Barr, A.D., Townley, L.R., and Turner, J.V. (1996), Water, solute and environmental isotope balances for lakes and wetlands: general solutions for simple cases, in Wetlands for the Future, INTECOL's V International Wetlands Conference, Perth, 22-28 September, Programme and Abstracts, pp.90-91.

Linderfelt, W.R., Williams, J.M., Turner, J.V., and Townley, L.R. (1996), Identifying zones of groundwater recharge and discharge in the shallow aquifer adjacent to the Swan River, Western Australia, in Wetlands for the Future, INTECOL's V International Wetlands Conference, Perth, 22-28 September, Programme and Abstracts, p.77.

Sim, D.A, Townley, L.R., and Turner, J.V. (1996), Modifications to lake hydrology and chemistry due to stormwater discharge, in Wetlands for the Future, INTECOL's V International Wetlands Conference, Perth, 22-28 September, Programme and Abstracts, p.88.

Smith, A.J., and Townley, L.R. (1996), Groundwater-surface water interaction in aquifers subjected to periodic forcing: flow in vertical section, in Wetlands for the Future, INTECOL's V International Wetlands Conference, Perth, 22-28 September.

Townley, L.R., Turner, J.V., Barr, A.D., Trefry, M.G., Johnston, C.D., and Nield, S.P. (1996), Groundwater flow patterns near shallow flow-through Lakes, in Wetlands for the Future, INTECOL's V International Wetlands Conference, Perth, 22-28 September, Programme and Abstracts, p.42.

Turner, J.V., Townley, L.R., Barr, A.D., Linderfelt, W.R., Woodbury, R.J., Bartle, G.A., and Watson, G.D. (1996), Lake-aquifer interactions near Lake Jasper, D'Entrecasteaux National Park, in Wetlands for the Future, INTECOL's V International Wetlands Conference, Perth, 22-28 September, Programme and Abstracts, p.78.

Smith, A.J., and Townley, L.R. (1996), Modelling interaction between unconfined groundwater and surface water bodies in aquifers subjected to periodic forcing, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 15-19 December.

Alexandrov, A., Hocking, G.C., and Townley, L.R. (1997), Modelling of time-dependent lake-aquifer interaction, in Volume 6: Application in Modelling and Simulation, 15th IMACS World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modeling and Applied Mathematics, Berlin, Germany, 24-29 August, 71-76.

Otto, C.J., and Townley, L.R. (1997), Feasibility of a dual pump recovery (DPR) system to recover a dense plume, IAH XXVII Congress, Groundwater in the Urban Environment, Nottingham, UK, 21-27 September, 4pp.

Jones, D.R., Ellerbroek, D.A., and Townley, L.R. (1997), The hydrology and water quality of final mining voids, 22nd Annual Environmental Workshop, Minerals Council of Australia, Adelaide, 12-17 October, 208-224.

Turner, J.V., Linderfelt, W.R., Townley, L.R., Bartle, G.A., and Watson, G.D. (1998), Interaction between shallow groundwaters and saline surface water in a seasonal estuary: The Swan River System, Swan-Canning Estuary Conference, York, Western Australia, 15-17 April, 7 pp.

Turner, J.V., Linderfelt, W.R., Smith, A.J., Herne, D.A., and Townley, L.R. (1998), Interaction between shallow groundwaters and saline surface water in a seasonal estuary: The Swan River System, American Geophysical Union, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, 21-24 July.

Townley, L.R. (1998), Surface water - groundwater interaction, with implications for groundwater contamination, Stormwater Industry Association (SIA) 3rd Regional Conference on Stormwater Management, Perth, 27 October, 3 pp.

Barr, A.D., Townley, L.R., and Endres, A.L. (1999), A numerical quasi-three-dimensional model for simulating large-scale stable dense miscible plumes in aquifers, Proceedings of Contaminated Site Remediation: Challenges posed by urban and industrial contaminants, 21-25 March 1999, Fremantle WA, 267-73.

Otto, C., and Townley, L.R. (1999), Response of a dense aqeous phase contaminant plume under pumping stress, Proceedings of Contaminated Site Remediation: Challenges posed by urban and industrial contaminants, Ed. C.D. Johnston, 21-25 March 1999, Fremantle WA, 8pp.

Turner, J.V., Linderfelt, W.R., Townley, L.R., Bartle, G.A., and Watson, G.D. (1999), Interaction between shallow groundwaters and saline surface water in a seasonal estuary: The Swan River System, IUGG XXII General Assembly, Birmingham, UK, 20-30 July.

Barr, A.D., Turner, J.V., and Townley, L.R. (2000), WSIBal: a coupled water, conservative solute and environmental isotope mass balance model for lakes and other surface water bodies, Proceedings of TraM 2000, the International Conference on Tracers and Modelling in Hydrogeology, Liege, Belgium, May, IAHS Publication 262, Ed. A. Dassargues, 539-544.

Trefry, M.G., and Townley, L.R. (2000), Three-dimensional analysis of steady groundwater flow near ellipsoidal lakes, In: Groundwater 2000, Proceedings of the International Conference on Groundwater Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-8 June, Eds. Bjerg, P.L., Engesgaard, P, and Krom, T.D., Balkema, Rotterdam, 139-140.

Townley, L.R. (2000), The importance of dynamic exchange between groundwater and wetlands: what the models tell us, In: Invited Symposium entitled "The range of significance of ground water to wetland water and chemical budgets", at Quebec 2000 Millennium Wetland Event and INTECOL's VI International Wetlands Conference, co-sponsored by the Society of Wetland Scientists (US) (SWS), the International Peat Society (IPS), International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) and INTECOL, Quebec City, 6-12 August. [This paper was kindly presented by Dr Don Rosenberry of USGS on behalf of the author.]

Turner, J.V., and Townley, L.R. (2004), Determination of groundwater flow-through regimes of shallow lakes and wetlands from numerical analysis of stable isotope and chloride tracer distribution patterns, INTECOL VII: The role of wetlands for integrated water resources management, Symposium 4, Groundwater-surface water interactions in wetlands for integrated water resources management, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, July.

Turner, J.V., Townley, L.R., Smith, A.J., Rich, J.F., Shimojima, E., Gailitis, V., and Woodbury, R.J. (2006), A water, solute and isotope mass balance toolkit for analysis of groundwater connectedness of shallow lakes and wetlands, 9th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference, Adelaide, December.

Deschaine, L.M, Guvanasen, V., Pinter, J.D., and Townley, L.R. (2011), Optimised Planning for Management of Integrated Surface Water and Groundwater Systems, Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Research and Engineering (IAHR), 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 10th Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering, Engineers Australia, Brisbane, 26 June - 1 July, 2024-2031.

Deschaine, L.M, Guvanasen, V., Pinter, J., and Townley, L. (2011), Dewatering smarter with model optimisation, Dewatering in the Modern Age, IAH WA, Perth, 23 September.

Gossmann, S., Herbert, St.J., Tovar, M., Townley, L., and Brooker, A. (2012), Modelling connections between aquifers in the CSG industry, APPEA 2012 Conference, Adelaide, 13-16 May.

Barnett, B., Townley, L., Post, V., Evans, R., Hunt, R., Peeters, L., Richardson, S., Weatherill, D., Werner, A., Knapton, A., and Boronkay, A. (2013), Developing groundwater modelling guidelines for Australia, Proceedings of MODFLOW and More 2013: Translating science into practice, Integrated Groundwater Modeling Center (IGWMC), Colorado School of Mines, 2-5 June 2013, Golden, Colorado, 14 pp.

Neame, T., Smith, T., Townley, L., Narayan, K., and Toogood, G. (2013), Assessing the cumulative impacts of coal seam gas development on water resources in the Gunnedah Basin, northern NSW - using a regional groundwater flow model., IAH Congress, Perth, September.

Reid, L.B., Townley, L.R., and Smith, A.J. (2013), Impacts of CSG Production on Regional Groundwater Systems, IAH Congress, Perth, September.

Townley, L.R., Brooker, A.M.H, and Reid, L.B. (2013), 40 Years of Groundwater Modelling in the Perth Basin, Western Australia, IAH Congress, Perth, September.

Townley, L.R. (2015), Potential impacts of CSG production on regional groundwater systems - learnings for shale and tight gas, Water Management for Shale and Tight Gas Resources, 8-9 June, Perth, Co-convened by IAH, SPE and ASEG WA Chapters.

Smith, A.J., Dionne, I., Gresswell, R.A., Townley, L.R., Toogood, G.M., Neame, T., and Narayan, K.A. (2015), Challenges for water sharing in the context of large-scale and long-term impacts on regional groundwater systems, Australian Groundwater Conference, Canberra, December.

Townley, L.R., Jiang, H., and Tang, J. (2019), WRRM1 and WRRM2: Implementations in GoldSim of Unit Process Models and IWA Benchmark Models (BSM1 and BSM2) for Nutrient Removal, IWA Innovation Conference on Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery, Shanghai, China, November.