Training and events

Education from the ground up

The industry training team at the NCGRT is bringing together Australia’s leading experts from industry, universities and research agencies to deliver professional training that’s not just relevant and stimulating, but will enhance your company’s own natural resource management.

We offer specialised short courses, technology transfer, technical training and workshops across the country. Our short courses have been developed to provide technicians, specialists, community environment coordinators and land and water managers with the key skills and latest groundwater knowledge to excel in their fields whether this be engineering, water policy and management, environmental consulting, mining, hydrogeology, agriculture, environmental science, farming or education.

Responding to the diverse needs of Australia’s groundwater professionals for over twenty years, the centre’s industry training program leads the way in groundwater education.

View our upcoming course list 

Many other courses can be offered when there is enough interest. They include:

  • The Australian Groundwater School
  • Getting to Know Groundwater and Surface Water
  • Groundwater for Decision Makers
  • Soil and Groundwater Pollution
  • Well Design
  • Managed Aquifer Recharge
  • Groundwater Modelling
  • PEST (Parameter Estimation Software)
  • Mining Hydrology
  • Hydrochemistry and Environmental Isotopes
  • Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks
  • Groundwater and Vegetation
  • Surface Water – Groundwater Interactions
  • Field Methods School

Customised Training

Our industry training team can also adapt any of our high quality courses to suit your needs or develop an entirely new program specifically for your company.

Customised courses allow for greater flexibility, on-site delivery and individualised topics and we can readily customise training in the field of groundwater science and management across major industry sectors, including mining, environment and water resource management.

For more information, email industry training or call +61 (0)8 8201 5632.