Salt Water Intrusion Meetings proceedings now available online

The Salt Water Intrusion Meetings (SWIMs) have been organized since 1968 and have become an important platform for the exchange of knowledge and ideas about saltwater intrusion and coastal hydrogeology. Currently, SWIMs are organised every 2 years, and the venue alternates between a European and a non-European country. The proceedings and abstracts from the 22 meetings held to date form an important scientific legacy and they illustrate the developments in this field over the past 45 years.

We are in the process of digitizing the proceedings from past SWIMs and making them available online.

Right now the abstracts and proceedings of 11 of the 22 meetings are online, comprising more than 500 articles. The ultimate aim is to make all proceedings available via this website. Therefore we would like to ask people that have paper copies of those volumes that are still missing to contact us to see how we can add those to the collection.

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The SWIM proceedings span a period of almost 40 years. The proceedings of the first informal meeting consisted of a few pages in German. Successive meetings all had regular proceedings. They provide an excellent overview of the developments in the research of saline groundwater over the past decades.

At the 18th SWIM in Cartagena it was agreed that efforts will be undertaken to make all SWIM proceedings available through the internet. Currently, the proceedings of the 9th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st SWIM and the abstracts of the 18th SWIM are available from this web site. The proceedings of other meetings will become available as soon as they have been digitized. Some hardcopies of proceedings can still be ordered from various publishers. Links to these are provided on this page.

Available for download:

• 21st SWIM, S. Miguel, Azores, Portugal
• 20th SWIM, Naples, Florida, USA (abstracts)
• 19th SWIM, Cagliari, Italy
• 18th SWIM, Cartagena, Spain
• 18th SWIM, Cartagena, Spain (abstracts)
• 17th SWIM, Delft, The Netherlands
• 16th SWIM, Wolin Island, Poland
• 15th SWIM, Ghent, Belgium
• 13th SWIM, Cagliari, Italy
• 12th SWIM, Barcelona, Spain
• 9th SWIM, Delft, The Netherlands
• 7th SWIM, Uppsula, Sweden

For sale (external links)

• Proceedings of the 18th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting, Cartagena, Spain
• Proceedings of the 12th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
• Proceedings of the 6th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting, Hannover, Germany