Ground Water
 

Bureau of Rural Sciences - Land and Water Sciences Division - Australia - Covers a wide range of areas including dryland salinity, natural resource management, greenhouse climate issues. Groundwater is a particular focus, including the Great Artesian Basin and subsidence associated with mining and petroleum extraction.

CMI Aquifers Group - Describes research on the behavior of carbon dioxide in hydrogeologic systems, aimed at developing systems for storing carbon in saline aquifers.

Distributed Aquifer Recharge Enhancements in Arid Zones - Paper describes a modeling study to explore possible options for enhancing natural recharge.

Downthedrain.org - Public information about preventing groundwater pollution from subsurface disposal of wastes. Simple explanations and lots of drawings and links. Prepared by Friends of the Earth in cooperation with US EPA.

Dye Tracing Home Page - Dye tracing is being used for a variety of applications including Cave Tracing, Contaminated Groundwater Tracing, Wellhead/Springhead Protection Programs, Source Area Delineation, Locating Sewer Leaks, and Mapping Pipelines. Provides information about the technique, and case histories.

Edwards Aquifer Research and Data Center - General information about groundwater and its protection, plus extensive description and current data on the Edwards Aquifer, a fragile karst aquifer that supplies San Antonio and surrounding areas of Texas.

Elango's Home Page - Faculty member of Anna University, Chennai, India describes research and teaching in hydrogeology, groundwater modeling and hydrogeochemistry.

Environment Canada: Groundwater - A thorough introduction to the topic of ground water and its management. Part of Environment Canada's "Fresh Water" web site.

Geoprobe Systems - Environmental geology machinery and services

George F. Pinder - Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont. Information about past and present research in groundwater modeling, including mathematical evaluation of contamination problems.

Ground Water Modelling Discussion Group - A forum for technical discussions; announcement of new software; calls for abstracts and papers; conference and workshop announcements; and summaries of research results, recent publications, and case studies.

The Groundwater Foundation - Dedicated to the education about and preservation of our most important natural resource.

Groundwater Geochemistry and Remediation, University of Waterloo - Summaries of research activities on the fate, transport and remediation of dissolved metals, metalloids and nutrients in groundwater, as well as development and application of in situ permeable reactive barrier technologies and reactive transport modelling.

Groundwater in British Columbia - B.C. ministry site, with general ground water information, water well data, information on groundwater consultants, and links.

Groundwater Pollution Primer - Virginia Tech University online primer covers pollution sources, contaminant types, transport and fate, monitoring, modeling, remediation, and legal aspects.

Ground-Water Remediation Technologies Analysis Center - Information on innovative groundwater remediation technologies. GWRTAC prepares reports by technical teams selectively chosen from Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), the University of Pittsburgh, and other supporting institutions.

Groundwater Tracing Unit, University College London - British research group. Describes current activities and capabilities in the use of tracers in hydrogeology, provides background on this technology and it history, lists consultancy capabilities, and lists links to related sites.

Groundwater.Com - Basic information and a directory of online resources related to groundwater, including job listings, links to publications, and an active mailing list.

Henry Darcy and His Law - About Henri Darcy and his contributions to understanding flow in porous media. Includes biography, discussions of basic concepts and the Darcy-Weisbach equation, and a lab procedure for falling-head permeability tests.

The Hydrogeologist's Home Page - Collection of hundreds of links to hydrogeological organizations, software and data repositories, publications, and other resources.

Hydrogeology Research Group, University of Birmingham, UK - Hydrogeology research including groundwater resources, numerical modelling, geochemistry, g/w contamination and remediation. Taught programmes include hydrogeology and hydroinformatics MSc courses, CPD modules and short courses.

Hydrogeology Research Group, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Conducts research on contaminant transport in groundwater and age-dating of groundwater.

King County (Washington) Groundwater Management - Generic and local information on the occurrence, movement, and management of ground water.

National Centre for Groundwater Management, UTS (Sydney, Australia) - Consultancy and training in groundwater and environmental applications. Information about courses, distance learning (including online), research and consultancy interests, and links.

Organic Compounds in Near Surface Environments - Describes USGS studies of organic contaminants in groundwater, including landfill leachate and petroleum spills. Focus is on biological and chemical processes that control contaminant fate.

Publications of C. P. Kumar - Technical papers of Mr. C. P. Kumar, Scientist, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee - 247667 (Uttaranchal), India.

SaltNet: Saltwater Intrusion Resources Network - Bibliography, computer codes, directory of researchers, and other information resources related to salt water intrusion into coastal groundwater aquifers.

Smithville Phase IV Bedrock Remediation Program - The web site should be of use to anyone located near the project site (in Ontario, Canada) or interested in the remediation of DNAPL contaminated sites in fractured bedrock environments.

UK Groundwater Forum - Source of information and a platform for information exchange on groundwater topics in and for the UK.

Understanding Groundwater - A primer on the subject, covering definitions, movement, storage, uses, contamination, and protection. Includes glossary of terms and extensive information on groundwater science and issues in Portage County, Wisconsin.

The University of Arizona Contaminant Transport Group - Publications lists and other information from the Brusseau research group, which investigates the fate and transport of contaminants in the subsurface.

Water Framework Directive - Groundwater Statistics - Report from a European Union project to develop statistical methods for data aggregation for assessment of groundwater quality status, including trend assessment.