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Pumping Offshore Groundwater Resources Has Consequences on Land

by M. Bayani Cardenas 22 March 201917 June 2025

While vast volumes of fresh groundwater are located offshore, pumping these reserves can also deplete on-shore aquifers and cause land subsidence.

Researchers measure soil infiltration capacity outside a private residence

Research Spotlights

Strategies to Improve Urban Hydrology

by Aaron Sidder 18 March 201930 March 2023

Cities can reduce surface runoff and increase groundwater recharge by encouraging their residents to implement simple, hydrologic modifications on individual buildings and single-family parcels.

A woman draws water from a well in northern India, where unsustainable aquifers are vulnerable to drought conditions.

Research Spotlights

A Closer Look at the Sustainability of Our Groundwater Aquifers

by L. Strelich 19 October 20186 February 2023

Researchers use a new approach to assessing the world’s largest aquifers in hopes of improving groundwater management during drought periods.

Editors' Highlights

Bulging, Shrinking, and Deformation of Land by Hydrologic Loading

by P. A. Dirmeyer 19 June 20181 November 2021

The deformation of continents by groundwater can be measured locally by GPS or detected from satellites, but more precisely monitored when measurements are combined with a hydrologic model.

Lab-built streams reveal new insights into turbulence-driven transport in gravel streambeds

Research Spotlights

A Closer Look at Turbulent Transport in Gravel Streambeds

by Sarah Stanley 15 June 20186 February 2023

Lab-built streams reveal new insights into turbulence-driven exchange of dissolved substances between stream water and sediments below.

A new study uses GPS data to trace how aquifers in karst affect deformation of the Eastern Alps

Research Spotlights

Karst Groundwater Contributes to Deformation in Eastern Alps

by David Shultz 8 June 20181 November 2021

GPS data show compression and extension strains in the region resulting from changes in aquifer water levels.

New Zealand’s Canterbury coast seen from R/V Tangaroa during the MARCAN program’s controlled-source electromagnetic survey.

Science Updates

How Offshore Groundwater Shapes the Seafloor

by A. Micallef, J. J. Mountjoy, K. Schwalenberg, M. Jegen, B. A. Weymer, S. Woelz, P. Gerring, N. Luebben, D. Spatola, D. Cunarro Otero and C. Mueller 29 January 20188 November 2021

The MARCAN project, launched last January, is working to fill a gap in our knowledge of how freshwater flowing underground shapes and alters the continental margins.

Editors' Vox

Above and Below: Understanding River-Groundwater Exchanges

by P. Brunner, P. Renard, R. Therrien, C. T. Simmons and Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen 26 January 201819 July 2022

Field data, new technologies, numerical modelling, and geostatistical methods can be combined to improve understanding of the interactions between surface water and groundwater.