H33K:
Beyond Our Backyard: Understanding Groundwater Systems at Regional and Continental Scales II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Elco Luijendijk, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany and Jesus D Gomez-Velez, US Geological Survey, Herndon, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kevin M Befus, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Jesus D Gomez-Velez, US Geological Survey, Herndon, VA, United States, Elco Luijendijk, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany and Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, School of the Environment, Bedford Park, Australia
OSPA Liaisons:  Elco Luijendijk, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Sustainability of global groundwater and surface water use: past reconstruction and future projections
Yoshihide Wada, Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands and Marc FP Bierkens, Deltares, Utrecht, Netherlands
2:00 PM
 
Reconstruction of Groundwater Depletion Using a Global Scale Groundwater Model
Inge E.M. de Graaf1, Ludovicus P Van Beek2 and Marc FP Bierkens2, (1)Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
2:15 PM
 
Implications of Prospective Climate Change for Groundwater Recharge in the Western United States
Thomas Meixner1, Andrew H Manning2, David A Stonestrom3, Hoori Ajami4, Diana M Allen5, Kyle Blasch6, Andrea E Brookfield7, Christopher L Castro1, Jordan F Clark8, Alan L Flint9, Kirstin Neff10, Rewati Niraula1, Matthew Rodell11, Bridget R Scanlon12, Kamini Singha13 and Michelle A Walvoord14, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)USGS Colorado Water Science Center Lakewood, Lakewood, CO, United States, (3)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (6)USGS Montana Water Science Center, Helena, MT, United States, (7)Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States, (8)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (9)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, (10)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (11)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (13)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (14)USGS, Denver, CO, United States
2:30 PM
 
Some Large-Scale Patterns in Groundwater-Ecosystem Coupling
Ying Fan, Rutgers Univ, Piscataway, NJ, United States, Gonzalo Miguez-Macho, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Esteban G Jobbagy, National University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina, Haibin Li, ACE USA, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Yadu N Pokhrel, Michigan State University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
2:50 PM
 
Estimating the distribution of contemporary (<50 year old) groundwater on Earth
Kevin M Befus1, Thomas P Gleeson2, Elco Luijendijk3, Scott Jasechko4 and M. Bayani Cardenas1, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, (4)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States
3:05 PM
 
How fault zones impact regional permeability and groundwater systems: insights from global database of fault zone studies.
Jacek Scibek, Jeffrey M McKenzie and Tom Gleeson, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
3:20 PM
 
Where does the water table outcrop? Analysis of controlling factors across scales
Etienne Bresciani, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia and Okke Batelaan, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia
 
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