This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering water’s role in indigenous cosmology, biochar’s ability to boost saturated hydraulic conductivity, and an invasive beetle species wreaking havoc on ash tree populations.
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think+water: Cities sinking, lakes sedimenting, and lower albedo’ing
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering land subsidence in surprising Texan cities, sedimentation’s effects on reservoir firm yields, and low planetary albedo’s connection to aerosols and increased temperatures.
think+water: Detention basins, well integrity, and AI-driven flood statistics
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.
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.