The National Groundwater Association will be sponsoring National Groundwater Awareness Week from March 11 - 17, 2018. National Groundwater Awareness Week is meant to highlight responsible development, management, and use of groundwater, and includes participation from all levels of government, the private sector, students, groundwater professionals, and many others.
That little bit of CO2 amounts to serious gas
As groundwater scientists we’ve known that groundwater can be surcharged with CO2, compared to atmospheric levels. We sometimes see bubbles escaping our samples. An interesting article on CO2 and groundwater quantifies just how much CO2 is released from groundwater depletion in the US and the world.
A new approach to quantifying mountain groundwater from NASA
Exploring the Restless Floor of Yellowstone Lake
Gordon Butte Pumped Storage Project
Global Patterns of Nitrate Storage in the Unsaturated Zone
The British Geological Survey has released a global-scale quantification of nitrate stored in the vadose zone between 1900 and 2000. One of the study's conclusions is that areas identified as having high nitrate stores in the unsaturated zone are likely to exhibit delayed improvements in surface water and groundwater quality following reductions in nitrate input.
National Ground Water Association Releases Groundwater Modeling White Papers
The National Ground Water Association recently released a series of white papers intended to advance the science of groundwater modeling. These papers address groundwater modeling topics such as uncertainty and model use by decision makers, among other timely topics for practitioners and consumers of groundwater models.