NS014
The Use of Geophysical Methods for Groundwater Evaluation and Management
Session ID#: 75983
Session Description:
One third of the water used by humans worldwide is groundwater. Effective, sustainable management of this valuable resource is dependent on accurate information about aquifer properties, groundwater recharge, storage and withdrawal. In this session, we focus on existing or emerging groundwater issues in aquifer systems and the application of surface, airborne and satellite geophysical methods to advance the scientific understanding of these systems and their management. Of interest are examples related to all aspects of groundwater science and management including, but not limited to, development of hydrogeologic models, assessment of aquifer properties, evaluation of groundwater quantity and quality, and monitoring of natural/managed processes. Contributions ranging from laboratory and field experiments to theoretical and numerical modeling are encouraged. Of particular interest are contributions that advance the discussion on how to facilitate the transfer of promising new geophysical methods from the research arena to widespread application in aquifer characterization and groundwater assessment.
Co-Organized:
Index Terms:
0933 Remote sensing [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: John W Lane Jr, USGS Hydrogeophysics Branch, Storrs, CT, United States
Conveners: Rosemary J Knight, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States, James J Butler Jr, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States and Claudia C Faunt, U.S. Geological Survey, CA WSC, San Diego, CA, San Diego, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: John W Lane Jr, USGS Hydrogeophysics Branch, Storrs, CT, United States
Characterizing the heterogeneity of the subsurface redox architecture in three dimensions using geophysics (487125)
Hyojin Kim1, Anne-Sophie Høyer2, Rasmus Jakobsen3, Lærke Thorling4, Jens Aamand3, Pradip Kumar Maurya5, Anders Vest Christiansen6 and Birgitte Hansen3, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Groundwater and Quaternary Geology Mapping, København K, Denmark, (2)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Groundwater and Quaternary Geology Mapping, Aarhus, Denmark, (3)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (4)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Aarhus C, Denmark, (5)Aarhus University, Institute for Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark, (6)Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus C, Denmark
Assessing Groundwater-Fault Interaction at the San Andreas Oasis, California, Using Ground-based Magnetics, VLF, and DC Resistivity (518348)
Stacey Rebecca Petrashek, Raul Contreras, Nathan Pulver, Drew Faherty and Jascha Polet, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States
Improving Water Security in Southeastern Myanmar via Geophysical Capacity Building (525449)
Kevin Andrew Fan1, Doug Oldenburg1, Michael Maxwell1, Lindsey Justine Heagy2, Seogi Kang3, Soe Maung4, Win Naing4, Yin Yin Aye5, Zaw Lwin Oo5 and Melanie Stephens6, (1)The University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, United States, (3)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States, (4)Department of Rural Development, Mon state, Mawlamyine, Myanmar, (5)Mawlamyine University, Department of Geology, Mawlamyine, Myanmar, (6)Teck Resources, Vancouver, Canada
Geophysics at multiple scales to address groundwater depletion in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer (Invited) (529768)
James Rigby, USDA Agricultural Research Service Oxford, Oxford, MS, United States, Burke J Minsley, USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States and Wade Hampton Kress, U.S. Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Nashville, TN, United States
Hydrogeophysical characterization of groundwater conductors and storage geological structures using Magnetotelluric and Electrical Tomography Resistivity methods (549257)
Tainã Oliveira1, Emanuele Francesco La Terra2, Liliane Paiva Panetto1 and Sergio Luiz Fontes3, (1)Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (2)National Observatory of Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (3)Observatorio Nacional, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Investigating Potential Groundwater Outflows with Electrical Resistivity Tomography: Cottonwood sub-basin, Joshua Tree National Park, California, U.S.A. (551894)
John Boyle, United States Military Academy, West Point, Geography & Environmental Engineering, West Point, NY, United States, William Edward Sanford, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Steven Rice, National Park Service Colorado, Water Resources Division, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Tyler Gilkerson, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Assessment of NMR logging for estimating hydraulic conductivity in glacial aquifers (557723)
Alexander K Kendrick1, Rosemary J Knight1, Carole D Johnson2, Gaisheng Liu3, Steven Knobbe3, Randall Hunt4 and James J Butler Jr3, (1)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)USGS, Storrs, CT, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Middleton, WI, United States
Interrogating the model space of airborne electromagnetic inversion to answer hydrogeologic questions (557865)
Seogi Kang, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States, Rosemary J Knight, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States and Todd Greene, California State University Chico, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Chico, CA, United States
Investigating the geologic structure of a groundwater recharge basin in Yucca Valley, California. (566206)
John Jeremy Jasbinsek1, Zoe Elizabeth Pfahler2 and Tanner Joseph Mihelic2, (1)California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, (2)California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, Natural Resources and Environmental Earth Sciences, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States
Geophysical Investigation using 2D-ERT Method to revive depleted source of springs on hard rock area after Gorkha Earthquake 2015 in Lesser Himalyan region, Dolkha District Nepal. (573925)
Hari Ghimire1, Umesh Chandra Bhusal2, Bimal Gyawali3, Surendra Raj Shrestha Sr.4, Binod Maharjan5, Manoj Khatiwada5, Krishna Prasad Rijal6 and Bhaskar Khatiwada2, (1)Explorer Geophysical Consultants Pvt.Ltd, Chairman/Geophysicist, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (4)Department of Water Resources and Irrigation, Nepal, Hydrogeologist, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)Water Resource Research and Development Center, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)Department of Water Resources and Irrigation, Kathmandu, Nepal
The Significance of Incised Valleys: Using Airborne Geophysics to Understand the Role of Buried Bedrock Valleys in Regional Groundwater Flow Systems (583130)
Colby Steelman1, Adam Smiarowski2, Oliver Conway-White3, Hernan Andres Ugalde4, Emmanuelle Arnaud5, Anthony Lee Endres6 and Beth L Parker3, (1)University of Guelph, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, (2)CGG Canada, Mississauga, Canada, (3)University of Guelph, School of Engineering, Guelph, ON, Canada, (4)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (5)University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, ON, Canada, (6)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
High resolution characterization of time-lapse tracer experiments using crosshole GPR full-waveform inversion: Synthetic and field studies (589084)
Anja Klotzsche1,2, Peleg Yedidya Haruzi1,2, Richard Hoffmann3,4, Jessica Schmäck1,2, Zhen Zhou1,2, Jan Vanderborght5, Harry Vereecken1 and Jan Van Der Kruk1, (1)Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Juelich, Germany, (2)Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Geoverbund ABC/J, Juelich, Germany, (3)Liege University, Urban Environmental Engineering unit, Hydrogeology, Liege, Belgium, (4)University of Mons, Polytech Mons, Geology and Applied Geology, Mons, Belgium, (5)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Jülich, Germany
Monitoring Groundwater Levels in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico Using Data Loggers and Geophysical Methods (598956)
Emilio Salazar, Whittier, CA, United States, Luis Bautista Castillo, Northern Illinois University REU, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Philip J Carpenter, Northern Illinois University, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb, IL, United States and Rosa Maria Leal-Bautista, Centro Paro El Estudio Agua, Cancun, Mexico
Fracture Characterization and Determination of Groundwater and Halocline Levels from Geophysical Surveys on Karst Systems in Northeast Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (600674)
Luis Bautista Castillo, East Los Angeles College, Physics, Monterey Park, CA, United States, Emilio Salazar, Whittier, CA, United States; Rio Hondo College, Civil Engineering, Whittier, CA, United States, Philip J Carpenter, Northern Illinois University, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb, IL, United States, Rosa Maria Leal-Bautista, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A.C., Unidad de Ciencias del Agua, Cancún, QR, Mexico and Melissa E. Lenczewski, Northern Illinois University, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb, United States
Saltwater intrusion investigation using geophysical techniques in Southern Rhode Island (600714)
Jeeban Panthi1, Soni M Pradhanang2, Tom Boving3, Kyle Stoddard Young2 and Mamoon Y Ismail4, (1)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Geosciences, Kingston, RI, United States, (3)University of Rhode Island, Department of Geo sciences, Narragansett, RI, United States, (4)University of Rhode Island, Geosciences, Narragansett, RI, United States
High-rate tilt observations at a karst conduit system (607433)
Jared Ciarico1, Ronni Grapenthin2, Jacob Alexander Gochenour1, Susan L Bilek1, Andrew J Luhmann3 and Madison Flint4, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States
Hydrogeophysical characterization of intrusive bodies in the tropics: Upper Estibana sub-catchment case study (619009)
Alexis Mojica1, Maria Gabriela Castrellon Romero2, Alberto E. Ruiz3, Sidney Saavedra2, Miguel Salceda2, Eny Serrano4 and José R. Fábrega2, (1)Technological University of Panama, Panama City, Panama, (2)Technological University of Panama, Centro de Investigaciones Hidraulicas e Hidrotecnicas, Panama City, Panama, (3)Fundación INDICRI, Los Santos, Panama, (4)Technological University of Panama, Centro Regional de Azuero, Panama City, Panama
Bayesian Framework for Geodetic Characterization of Lateral Aquifer Heterogeneity (622495)
Amal Alghamdi1, Marc A Hesse2, Jingyi Chen3 and Omar Ghattas1,2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Austin, TX, United States
Toward maximizing utility of geophysical approaches for groundwater management (Invited) (624500)
Randall Hunt, U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Middleton, WI, United States, Esben Auken, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Wade Hampton Kress, U.S. Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Nashville, TN, United States, Burke J Minsley, USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, Elliot D Grunewald, Vista Clara Inc., Mukilteo, WA, United States and Steen Christensen, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Modeling of Arsenic Transport in Groundwater at Sunland Park, NM (624732)
Thomas A Marrone1, Gebregziabher Goitom2 and Salim Bawazir2, (1)SUNY College at Oneonta, Kinderhook, NY, United States, (2)New Mexico State University, Civil Engineering Department, Las Cruces, NM, United States
