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Session Proposal: Transforming Groundwater Science and Management with Remote Sensing and Geophysics (AGU25)

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Transforming Groundwater Science and Management with Remote Sensing and Geophysics

Session ID#: 247547

Session Description:
Effective and sustainable groundwater management requires an understanding of the character and functioning of the groundwater system, and an ability to evaluate and monitor groundwater quantity and quality. In this session we focus on the application of remote sensing and geodetic methods using satellite sensors such as InSAR, GNSS, GRACE and SWOT, as well as conventional and emerging ground-based and airborne geophysical methods. Of interest are examples related to all aspects of groundwater science and water resource management. We invite presentations describing the use of novel sensors, data sources and methods; new uses of established data sources and sensors; novel combinations of multiple sensors and methods; advancements in data integration across spatial and temporal scales; and data-driven breakthroughs in our understanding of groundwater systems. The spatial scale of interest ranges from local to global scale. We welcome discussions on bridging the gap between science and water resource management.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • G - Geodesy
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1223 Ocean/Earth/atmosphere/hydrosphere/cryosphere interactions [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  John W Lane Jr, USGS Office of International Programs, Reston, United States
Conveners:  Susanna Werth, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, Ryan Smith, Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States and Meredith Goebel, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
 
The Essential Role of Modern Geophysical Methods in Developing Rural Groundwater Supplies in Africa (1845377)
Paul Bauman1, Landon Woods2, Colin Miazga2, Erin Ernst2, Eric Johnson2 and Max Layton2, (1)BGC Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)BGC Engineering, Geophysics, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Tracking baseflow supply dynamics using SWOT data from small groundwater dominated lakes in permeable terrain (Invited) (1856974)
Martin A Briggs, USGS Water Mission Area, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Storrs, United States, Merritt Harlan, U.S. Geological Survey, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Lakewood CO, United States, David Rey, USGS Observing Systems Division, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Golden, United States, Denis R LeBlanc, USGS New England Water Science Center, Massachusetts Office, Northborough, United States, Danielle Hare, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, David F Boutt, University of Massachusetts, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States and Michael N Gooseff, University of Colorado Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States
 
Geodetic insights into water-driven poro-elastic response, aquifer flow and land deformation dynamics in Delhi NCR, India (1863453)
Prohelika Dalal1, Sambit Sahoo1, Manoj Hari2, Mr. Deepak Kumar Tiwari, Ph.D.1, Bhaskar Kundu1 and Virendra Mani Tiwari3, (1)National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Rourkela, India, (2)University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, Assam, India
 
Integrated GIS and Machine Learning Approach for Groundwater Potential Mapping in an Arid Region of Morocco (1864274)
Anas Zbiri1, Azzouz Kchikach2, Jalal Moustadraf3 and Hassan Ibouh3, (1)Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Science and Technology Gueliz, Georessources, Geoenvironment & Civil Engineering Laboratory (L3G), Marrakech, Morocco, (2)Cadi Ayyad University, Cadi Ayyad University Faculty of Science and Technology Gueliz, Georessources, Geoenvironment & Civil Engineering Laboratory (L3G); Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Geology and Sustainable Mining Institute (GSMI), Marrakech, Morocco, (3)Cadi Ayyad University, Cadi Ayyad University Faculty of Science and Technology Gueliz, Georessources, Geoenvironment & Civil Engineering Laboratory (L3G), Marrakech, Morocco
 
Integrating Long-term InSAR monitoring into Local Groundwater Management: Insights from the Hollywood Basin, California (1865199)
Yujie Zheng, The University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences, Richardson, United States and Mark Simons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Fault-Aquifer Interaction in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah Inferred from Multitemporal InSAR Deformation and Poroelastic Models (1878456)
Zhenyu Kang and Junle Jiang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Geosciences, Norman, United States
 
Bedrock Aquifer Storage and Hydraulic Diffusivity Constrained by Space Geodesy (1894443)
Matthew Swarr, University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, Donald F Argus, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Hilary R Martens, Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, United States, Zachary Harwood Hoylman, University of Montana, Franke School of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, United States, Zachary Young, Nevada Geodetic Lab, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, United States, Adrian A Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Nicholas Lau, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and William P Gardner, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
 
Integrated Aquifer Characterization in the Parowan Valley with Drillers’ Logs and a Towed Transient Electromagnetic System (1902203)
Kendra Bratzler and Ryan Smith, Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States
 
Groundwater Trapping and Surface Uplift Controlled by Faulting within Greater Osaka (1903752)
Saho Fukunishi1, Jesse Kearse1, Yoshihiro Kaneko1 and Sylvain Barbot2, (1)Kyoto University, Department of Geophysics, Kyoto, Japan, (2)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Downscaled GRACE/GARCE-FO revealed rapid groundwater storage decline driven by irrigation expansion in the Upper Red River Basin, United States (1905245)
Ali Mirchi1, Arfan Arshad2, Muhammad Umar Akbar1, Jeffrey M. Sadler3, Sumon Datta Dr.4, Hakan Basagaoglu5 and Amir AghaKouchak6, (1)Oklahoma State University, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Stillwater, United States, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University, Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, Stillwater, OK, United States, (4)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Biosystems Engineering, Stillwater, United States, (5)Edwards Aquifer Authority, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
 
Improving Subsidence Estimates from Groundwater Extraction by 3D Poromechanical Deformation Modeling of Clay Interbeds (1905355)
Yifan Yu, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Eric M Dunham, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
 
Integrating InSAR-Derived Land Subsidence with Groundwater Level Trends Across Utah (1922213)
Tara Shreve, Mr. Paul Inkenbrandt, MS, Tyler Knudsen, Kathryn Ladig, Greg Gavin and Steve Bowman, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Leveraging Remote Sensing Data and National Hydrologic Models to Enhance Groundwater Models (1927393)
Soheil Nozari1, Ryan Smith1, Dana Rastad1, Erich R Mueller2 and Ryan T. Bailey1, (1)Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Southern Utah University, Department of Geosciences, Cedar City, United States
 
Integrating GRACE downscaling and hydrologic modeling to improve groundwater assessments in Bolivia (1935075)
Marina Reyes Lopez Mautner, Stockholm Environment Institute, US Water, Davis, CA, United States and Zhendan Cao, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
 
Water for Wafers: Groundwater Extraction at a Semiconductor Plant Leads to a Decade of Surface Deflation Observed with Multi-Track InSAR (1940284)
Zel Hurewitz1, Adrian A Borsa1 and Tonie M van Dam2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Assessing the Performance of Reanalysis and Satellite Precipitation Products in a Data-Scarce Semi-Arid Basin in Morocco (1954585)
Ahmed EL Azhari1,2, Ismail Karaoui3, Yassine Ait Brahim1, Mohamed Azhar1 and Lhoussaine Bouchaou1,4, (1)Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, International Water research Institute (IWRI), Benguerir, Morocco, (2)GEOTOP-UQAM, Departement of Earth and atmospheric sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Data Science for Sustainable Earth Laboratory (Data4Earth),, Beni Mellal, Morocco, (4)Laboratory of Applied Geology and Geo-Environment, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir 80035, Morocco, Agadir, Morocco
 
Quantifying Past and Present Groundwater Changes in the Central Valley, CA Using InSAR Time Series and a Viscoelastic Groundwater Model (1960185)
Molly Zebker1, David T Sandwell2, Adrian A Borsa3 and Yehuda Bock2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
 
Monitor Old Works groundwater flow with Anisotropic and 3-deminsional electrical geophysical method (1963034)
Yihuan Gao, Montana Technological University, Geological Engineering, Butte, United States
 
Monitoring Ground and Aquifer Water Using Gravimetry and Gravity Gradiometry on the Path to Quantum Sensing (1976016)
Alessandro Sgarabotto1, Nicole Metje1, David Sedlak2, Michael Holynski2, Asaad Faramarzi1, Xilin Xia1, Prof. David M. Hannah, PhD3,4, Stefan Krause3,4, Daniel Boddice1, Paul Bryan Wilkinson5 and Ben Dashwood5, (1)University of Birmingham, School of Engineering, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (2)University of Birmingham, Quantum Sensing Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (3)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (4)University of Birmingham, Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (5)British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
 
Hybrid Deep Learning for 3D Interpolation of Lithologic and Geophysical Resistivity Data (1976487)
Dana Rastad, Ryan Smith, Kendra Bratzler and Soheil Nozari, Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States
 
Using InSAR to Quantify Groundwater Storage Changes in the San Gabriel Valley in Response to Atmospheric Rivers (2000672)
Xiange Jian, Yujie Zheng and Eshanta Mishra, The University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences, Richardson, United States
 
An Integrated ML and Remote Sensing Framework for Groundwater Potential Zones Mapping and Subsidence Monitoring in Haryana, India (2002339)
Shubham Bhagat, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mohali, India and Chandrakanta Ojha, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, India
 
Electrical Resistivity Tomography at Frozen Lake: Investigating Water Availability for Mount Rainier National Park in an Alpine Environment (2003694)
Douglas Dunn, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, UNITED STATES, Tyler Gilkerson, National Park Service Fort Collins, Flagstaff, United States and Taylor Kenyon, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada