WaterUnderground

Nature Geoscience digging into water underground this month!

Tom Gleeson 4th February 2016 Groundwater, Research Comments Closed

Nature Geoscience is digging hard into water underground – the February issue is part of a special focus on groundwater. The cover this month is a gorgeous (groundwater-filled?) waterfall by Glen Jasechko, Scott’s brother. The groundwater focus includes:

commentary on drought in the Anthropocene, led by Anne van Loon
news and views pieces by Ying Fan and Tamara Goldin
our paper on the volume and distribution of modern groundwater
a paper on young streamwater globally led by Scott Jasechko
a paper on groundwater as a crustal cooling agent by Henk Kooi

As part of the focus the journal made our paper on modern groundwater free to registered users for a month – so go download it an check out this and the other papers too!

By Tom Gleeson

I am a hydrogeologist at University of Victoria, Canada who is interested in groundwater sustainability, mega-scale groundwater systems, groundwater recharge and discharge and fluid flow around geologic structures. My goal is fundamental and applied research and teaching to enable sustainable groundwater use.

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Groundwater—the world’s largest freshwater store— is a life-sustaining resource that supplies water to billions of people, plays a central part in irrigated agriculture and influences the health of many ecosystems. Water Underground is a groundwater nerd blog written by a global collective of hydrogeologic researchers for water resource professionals, academics and anyone interested in groundwater, research, teaching and supervision. The blog, started and led by Tom Gleeson, is the first blog hosted on both the EGU blogs and the AGU blogosphere.