The demographics of water: A review of water ages in the critical zone

M Sprenger, C Stumpp, M Weiler… - Reviews of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The time that water takes to travel through the terrestrial hydrological cycle and the critical
zone is of great interest in Earth system sciences with broad implications for water quality …

[HTML][HTML] Using multi-tracer inference to move beyond single-catchment ecohydrology

BW Abbott, V Baranov, C Mendoza-Lera… - Earth-Science …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Protecting or restoring aquatic ecosystems in the face of growing anthropogenic pressures
requires an understanding of hydrological and biogeochemical functioning across multiple …

Modeling groundwater nitrate concentrations in private wells in Iowa

DC Wheeler, BT Nolan, AR Flory, CT DellaValle… - Science of the Total …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Contamination of drinking water by nitrate is a growing problem in many agricultural areas of
the country. Ingested nitrate can lead to the endogenous formation of N-nitroso compounds …

Upscaling nitrogen removal capacity from local hotspots to low stream orders' drainage basins

G Pinay, S Peiffer, JR De Dreuzy, S Krause… - Ecosystems, 2015‏ - Springer
Denitrification is the main process removing nitrate in river drainage basins and buffer input
from agricultural land and limits aquatic ecosystem pollution. However, the identification of …

Tracer applications of noble gas radionuclides in the geosciences

ZT Lu, P Schlosser, WM Smethie Jr, NC Sturchio… - Earth-Science …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Noble gas radionuclides, including 81 Kr (t 1/2= 229,000 years), 85 Kr (t 1/2= 10.8 years),
and 39 Ar (t 1/2= 269 years), possess nearly ideal chemical and physical properties for …

Using groundwater age and hydrochemistry to understand sources and dynamics of nutrient contamination through the catchment into Lake Rotorua, New Zealand

U Morgenstern, CJ Daughney… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2015‏ - hess.copernicus.org
The water quality of Lake Rotorua has steadily declined over the past 50 years despite
mitigation efforts over recent decades. Delayed response of the groundwater discharges to …

A review of methods for modelling environmental tracers in groundwater: Advantages of tracer concentration simulation

C Turnadge, BD Smerdon - Journal of hydrology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Mathematical models of varying complexity have been developed since the 1960s to
interpret environmental tracer concentrations in groundwater flow systems. This review …

Forecasting and Hindcasting PFAS Concentrations in Groundwater Discharging to Streams near a PFAS Production Facility

CR Jensen, DP Genereux, DK Solomon… - Environmental …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are known to be highly persistent in
groundwater, making it vital to develop new approaches to important practical questions …

Over a third of groundwater in USA public-supply aquifers is Anthropocene-age and susceptible to surface contamination

BC Jurgens, K Faulkner, PB McMahon… - … Earth & Environment, 2022‏ - nature.com
The distribution of groundwater age is useful for evaluating the susceptibility and
sustainability of groundwater resources. Here, we compute the aquifer-scale cumulative …

Toward operational methods for the assessment of intrinsic groundwater vulnerability: A review

P Wachniew, AJ Zurek, C Stumpp… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Assessing the vulnerability of groundwater to adverse effects of human impacts is one of the
most important problems in applied hydrogeology. At the same time, many of the …