This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering the role detention basins play in protecting groundwater, contributing factors in well integrity failures, and AI’s data-driven probabilistic flood mapping.
Category: think+water
think+water: Plastics in bays, plastics in rivers, and arsenic in urine
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering microplastics in bays and estuaries, microplastics in Texas rivers, and arsenic concentrations in Texas aquifers.
think+water: Hydrogen and water use, elevated E. coli, and remedial oysters
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering water requirements for hydrogen production, elevated E. coli concentrations in Texas recreational waters, and the economic value of oyster agriculture in the gulf.
think+water: Land use change on the Rio Grande, groundwater sustainability in Texas, and the Texas Water Observatory
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering quantifying land-use change in the Rio Grande Basin, using a systems approach to address groundwater sustainability with ecosystems, and observing the Brazos River Corridor’s water, energy, and carbon cycles at different spatial and time scales
think+water: A new (free!) book on freshwater inflows to bays and estuaries in Texas
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores several chapters of a new open-access book from Springer’s “Estuaries of the World” series, focusing on environmental flows to the state’s bays and estuaries.