Latest research
This page contains articles from a special edition of a technical journal containing the most recent research into the GAB. These articles combine this important recent research with existing knowledge, to give the latest science-based picture of the GAB developed by universities, industry, government, consultants and other research institutions.
Hydrogeology Journal articles
All articles are also available on the Springer Nature website and IAH members have full access to all Hydrogeology articles.
Overview article
History of the GAB
Eminent researcher
Groundwater flow processes
Compartmentalisation and connectivity
- Connectivity between Australia's Great Artesian Basin, underlying basins, and the Cenozoic cover
- Hydrogeological implications of active tectonics in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia
Aquifer flows: pathways, rates and heterogeneity
- Reconciling contradictory environmental tracer ages in multi-tracer studies to characterize the aquifer and quantify deep groundwater flow: an example from the Hutton Sandstone, Great Artesian Basin, Australia
- Flow system of the Hutton Sandstone in the northern Surat Basin, Australia
- Well log constrained porosity and permeability distribution in the Springbok Sandstone, Surat Basin, Australia
- Inter-aquifer connectivity between Australia’s Great Artesian Basin and the overlying Condamine Alluvium: an assessment and its implications for the basin’s groundwater management
- Refined understanding of groundwater in heterogeneous units through identification of vertical stratification of hydrochemistry as identified in the Walloon subgroup of Australia’s Great Artesian Basin
- Hydrogeological Implications of fault behaviour from in-situ pressure measurements of the Horrane Fault in the Surat Basin (Great Artesian Basin, Australia)
Numerical modelling
- Enhancing geological and hydrogeological understanding of the Precipice Sandstone aquifer of the Surat Basin, Great Artesian Basin, Australia, through model inversion of managed aquifer recharge datasets
- Regional scale modelling and predictive uncertainty analysis of cumulative groundwater impacts from coal seam gas and coal mining developments
Springs and GDEs
- A multidisciplinary approach to the hydrological conceptualisation of springs in the Surat Basin of the Great Artesian Basin (Australia)
- Field investigation of potential terrestrial groundwater dependent ecosystems within Australia’s Great Artesian Basin
- Hydrochemical variations of groundwater and spring discharge of the western Great Artesian Basin, Australia: implications for regional groundwater flow
- Elucidating sources to aridland Dalhousie Springs in the Great Artesian Basin (Australia) to inform conservation
- Evidence for intra-plate seismicity from spring-carbonate mound springs in the Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre region, South Australia: implications for groundwater discharge from the Great Artesian Basin
- Evidence for groundwater mixing at Freeling Spring Group, South Australia
- An integrated remote-sensing mapping method for groundwater dependent ecosystems associated with diffuse discharge in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia
Groundwater governance and management tools
- Challenges in sustainably managing groundwater in the Australian Great Artesian Basin: lessons from current and historic legislative regimes
- The 3D Water Atlas: a tool to facilitate and communicate new understanding of groundwater systems
- Climate changes and variability in the Great Artesian Basin (Australian), future projections, and implications for groundwater management
- Estimating current and historical water abstraction from the Great Artesian Basin and other regional scale aquifers in Queensland, Australia
- Improved characterisation of unmetered stock and domestic groundwater use in the Surat and southern Bowen basins of the Great Artesian Basin (Australia)
- Understanding the public’s response towards ‘enhanced water recovery’ in the Great Artesian Basin (Australia) using the carbon capture and storage process
- The contribution of citizen science in managing and monitoring groundwater systems impacted by coal seam gas production: an example from the Surat Basin in Australia’s Great Artesian Basin
Project Summary article
Video about the findings from the Special Issue of the Hydrogeology Journal
“This project brings together leading research on the latest understandings of the GAB. Before being published as part of this series, each article is put through a robust peer-review process. It is then added to a central portal to ensure people can find and use the information. Having access to the latest, peer-reviewed information on the Great Artesian Basins will help facilitate better decision making when formulating regulatory controls, mitigating risks and determining industry best practice.”
- Dr Carlos Miraldo Ordens, Lead researcher on the GAB project
“Having conducted some research in the distant past on flowing bore casing performance in the GAB of parts of western Queensland, I can safely say: the Great Artesian Basin issue of the latest Hydrogeology Journal is superb. I am most encouraged that so many Australian hydrogeologists are able to contribute such high quality papers. This augers well for the future.”
- Michael Knight AM, Emeritus Professor of hydrogeology and past world president of the IAH