Application of radon (222Rn) as an environmental tracer in hydrogeological and geological investigations: an overview

S Sukanya, J Noble, S Joseph - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Radon (222 Rn) is a colourless, odourless, inert, and radioactive noble gas (t 1/2= 3.8 days)
that emanates from rocks and soils as a result of the alpha decay of its parent, radium (226 …

Land use impacts on coral reef health: A ridge-to-reef perspective

RR Carlson, SA Foo, GP Asner - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over 60% of the world's reefs experience damage from local activities such as overfishing,
coastal development, and watershed pollution. Land-based sources of pollution are a critical …

The impacts of climate change on coastal groundwater

CM Richardson, KL Davis, C Ruiz-González… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Coastal groundwater (CGW) is a critical water resource for many communities and can be a
key part of coastal ecosystems. Owing to its location, CGW faces both terrestrial and marine …

Groundwater discharge impacts marine isotope budgets of Li, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba

KK Mayfield, A Eisenhauer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Groundwater-derived solute fluxes to the ocean have long been assumed static and
subordinate to riverine fluxes, if not neglected entirely, in marine isotope budgets. Here we …

The impact of tropical land-use change on downstream riverine and estuarine water properties and biogeochemical cycles: a review

Y Tanaka, E Minggat, W Roseli - Ecological Processes, 2021 - Springer
Tropical primary forests have been disappearing quickly to make use of the land for
commercial purposes. Land-use change has an impact on downstream aquatic processes …

Synthesizing the effects of submarine groundwater discharge on marine biota

AL Lecher, KRM Mackey - Hydrology, 2018 - mdpi.com
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a global and well-studied geological process by
which groundwater of varying salinities enters coastal waters. SGD is known to transport …

Impact of submarine groundwater discharge on marine water quality and reef biota of Maui

DW Amato, JM Bishop, CR Glenn, H Dulai, CM Smith - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Generally unseen and infrequently measured, submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) can
transport potentially large loads of nutrients and other land-based contaminants to coastal …

Vulnerability of coral reefs to bioerosion from land‐based sources of pollution

NG Prouty, A Cohen, KK Yates… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification (OA), the gradual decline in ocean pH and [] caused by rising levels of
atmospheric CO2, poses a significant threat to coral reef ecosystems, depressing rates of …

Kīlauea lava fuels phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Ocean

ST Wilson, NJ Hawco, EV Armbrust, B Barone… - Science, 2019 - science.org
From June to August 2018, the eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the island of Hawai 'i injected
millions of cubic meters of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters of the North Pacific …

Submarine groundwater‐borne nutrients in a tropical bay (Maowei Sea, China) and their impacts on the oyster aquaculture

X Chen, Y Lao, J Wang, J Du, M Liang… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) has been recognized as an important pathway for
nutrients into estuaries, coasts, and the adjacent seas. In this study, 222Rn was used to …