Subseafloor Hydrogeology: Moving Beyond Watersheds<\/a>,\u201d will explore how the field of submarine groundwater discharge was launched in the 1990s by the remarkable discovery \u2013 through naturally occurring isotopic tracers \u2013 that saline groundwater was discharging to the South Atlantic Bight in very large volumes. Further studies have found that saline groundwater discharges to the Atlantic Ocean in volumes that rival river discharges, and the volume of nutrients in the saline discharges also exceeds river discharges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cHydrogeology is the study of water moving through the ground. Almost all hydrogeologists focus on terrestrial groundwater \u2013 water stored in aquifers beneath the land. Watersheds are areas that drain to one point through such flowpaths as rivers and groundwater and are core to a hydrologist’s understanding of water flowing from the land to the sea. They inherently exist only on land, and do not exist in the ocean,\u201d said Russoniello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAlicia’s work looks at water that is in the sediments beneath the ocean. Water is stored in and flows through these sands, clays and gravels that can be up to kilometers in thickness,\u201d he added. \u201cHer talk will show how water flowing through these sediments can carry solutes from the land to the sea, and how these flowpaths are impacted by the ocean, changing sea levels, and what happens on land.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A fellow of the Geological Society of America, Wilson specializes in coastal hydrogeology with a focus on coastal ecohydrology and submarine groundwater exchange. She is chair of the society\u2019s Hydrogeology Division. Wilson holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, a master\u2019s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Jan. 27, 2023 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Biological and Environmental Sciences Colloquium will host Alicia Wilson, professor of hydrogeology and director of the School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 1 p.m. in Potter Hall at the Kingston Free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83010,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008\/revisions\/83010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}