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Session Proposal: The Long Arc of Contamination: How Geological Histories Shape Geogenic Hazards in Modern Aquifers and Impact Human Health (AGU25)

GH029
The Long Arc of Contamination: How Geological Histories Shape Geogenic Hazards in Modern Aquifers and Impact Human Health

Session ID#: 252635

Session Description:
The principal goal of this session is to place geogenic contamination in context, where we examine the role of contingent geological histories in assessing modern aquifer vulnerability. We aim to facilitate a dialogue between disparately working groups of researchers: 1) those whose research attempts to understand the fundamental controls on ancient sedimentary depositional systems, where subsequent burial, lithification, and diagenesis structure the modern hydrogeologic system and distribution of strata-bound metals; and 2) those who seek to understand the release, transport and cycling of those metals in the modern environment. We welcome submissions across a range of disciplines (e.g., geohealth, hydrology, sedimentary geology, cyclostratigraphy, isotope geochemistry, geoscience education) and locality-specific contaminants (e.g., uranium and lithium in the Western US, arsenic in the Newark Basin). In particular, we want to highlight contributions from those looking at the evolution of these systems in response to future changes in temperature and precipitation.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

0215 Economic geology [GEOHEALTH]
1051 Sedimentary geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Sean Kinney, Rutgers University, Piscataway, United States
Conveners:  Anirban Basu, Columbia University of New York, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States and Clara Chang, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  David Tibbits, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States
 
Uranium Isotopes Reveal Redox-Driven Groundwater Uranium Cycling in Northern Plains Aquifers (1915503)
Arijeet Mitra1, Randall Hughes Jr.2, Tracy Zacher2, Rae O'Leary2, Reno Red Cloud3, Bayley Sbardellati4, Mason Stahl5, Benjamin Bostick6, Steven Chillrud6, Alex N. Halliday7, Ana Navas-Acien1, Kathrin Schilling1 and Anirban Basu1, (1)Columbia University of New York, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States, (2)Missouri Breaks Industries (MBIRI), Eagle Butte, United States, (3)Oglala Sioux Tribe Water Resources Dept., Pine Ridge, United States, (4)Union College, Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering, Schenectady, United States, (5)Union College, Department of Geosciences, Schenectady, United States, (6)Columbia University of New York, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (7)Columbia University of New York, Columbia Climate School, New York, United States
 
The Colorado Plateau Coring Project as a "Source-to-Sink-to-Source" venue for integrated study of geogenic contaminants, remediation, and resources (Invited) (1929854)
Paul E Olsen1, Anirban Basu2, Lavina Becenti3, Chase R Bebo4, Clara Chang5, Clarene Davis6, Paul G. Falkowski7, John A Higgins8, Jennifer C McIntosh9, Anne Nigra2, Magdalena R Osburn10, Kevin Patterson11, Tommy Rock12, Abhishek RoyChowdhury4, Danielle Santiago-Ramos13, Bennett B Slibeck1, Celina A Suarez14, David Tibbits15, Costantino Vetriani13, Jessica Whiteside16 and Sean Kinney5,17, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States, (3)Navajo Nation Department of Natural Resources, Navajo Nation Surface Mining Program, Window Rock, United States, (4)Navajo Technical University, Crownpoint, United States, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (6)Dine College, Tsaile, United States, (7)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (9)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States, (10)Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States, (11)Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, New York, United States, (12)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (13)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (14)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (15)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States, (16)San Diego State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, San Diego, United States, (17)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States
 
Selenium, Aluminum, Lithium, and Uranium Accumulation in Plants from an Abandoned Uranium Mine (1950467)
Clara Chang1, Akhilraj Pillai2, Arijeet Mitra2, David Tibbits3, Sean Kinney4, Adam Marsh5, Gilbert John6, Tommy Rock7, Ana Navas-Acien2, Kathrin Schilling2, Ronald Glabonjat2 and Anirban Basu2, (1)Columbia University of New York, Columbia Climate School, New York, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (5)Petrified Forest National Park, Petrified Forest, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (7)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States
 
The Association of Drinking Water and Urinary Lithium Levels in the Strong Heart Study (1958668)
Ellen Bannon1, Wil Lieberman-Cribbin1, Anirban Basu1, Anne Nigra1, Arijeet Mitra1, Ronald Glabonjat1, James M Ross2, Benjamin Bostick2, Steven Chillrud2, Ana Navas-Acien1 and Kathrin Schilling1, (1)Columbia University of New York, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
 
High-resolution elemental and isotopic mapping of redox gradients and uranium mineralization, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (1975637)
David Tibbits1, Sean Kinney2, Clara Chang3, Michael DiMaio1, Adam Marsh4, Paul E Olsen5, Morgan F Schaller6 and Anirban Basu7, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Piscataway, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (4)Petrified Forest National Park, Petrified Forest, United States, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (6)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, NY, United States, (7)Columbia University of New York, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States
 
How Metal Contamination Across Environments and Lifespans Contributes to Chronic Disease (Invited) (1984652)
Kathrin Schilling, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, UNITED STATES
 
Understanding global geogenic groundwater contamination: connecting tectonics to cancer (2000564)
Abhijit Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India
 
From Carboniferous cyclothems to modern contaminants: metal transport and fate in anthracite mine pools in Northeastern Pennsylvania (2002999)
Sean Kinney1,2, David Tibbits3, Clara Chang2, Michael Hewitt4, Linda A Hinnov5, Christopher J Lepre6, Robert Hughes4 and Anirban Basu7, (1)Rutgers University, Piscataway, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States, (4)Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation, Ashley, United States, (5)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, United States, (6)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Paleomagnetics Lab, Palisades, United States, (7)Columbia University of New York, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States
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