Emerging groundwater contaminants: A comprehensive review on their health hazards and remediation technologies

B Pradhan, S Chand, S Chand, PR Rout… - Groundwater for …, 2023 - Elsevier
Most of the water systems that sustain the ecosystems and feed the growing human
population are decreasing or stressed day by day. Groundwater is considered a reliable …

Tidal pumping drives nutrient and dissolved organic matter dynamics in a Gulf of Mexico subterranean estuary

IR Santos, WC Burnett, T Dittmar… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009 - Elsevier
We hypothesize that nutrient cycling in a Gulf of Mexico subterranean estuary (STE) is fueled
by oxygen and labile organic matter supplied by tidal pumping of seawater into the coastal …

The contribution of groundwater discharge to the overall water budget of two typical Boreal lakes in Alberta/Canada estimated from a radon mass balance

A Schmidt, JJ Gibson, IR Santos… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2010 - hess.copernicus.org
Radon-222, a naturally-occurring radioisotope with a half-life of 3.8 days, was used to
estimate groundwater discharge to small lakes in wetland-dominated basins in the vicinity of …

Evaluating groundwater discharge to tidal rivers based on a Rn-222 time-series approach

RN Peterson, IR Santos, WC Burnett - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2010 - Elsevier
The natural flux of groundwater into coastal water bodies has recently been shown to
contribute significant quantities of nutrients and trace metals to the coastal ocean …

Groundwater and porewater as major sources of alkalinity to a fringing coral reef lagoon (Muri Lagoon, Cook Islands)

T Cyronak, IR Santos, DV Erler, BD Eyre - Biogeosciences, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
To better predict how ocean acidification will affect coral reefs, it is important to understand
how biogeochemical cycles on reefs alter carbonate chemistry over various temporal and …

Extended time series measurements of submarine groundwater discharge tracers (222Rn and CH4) at a coastal site in Florida

IR Santos, N Dimova, RN Peterson, B Mwashote… - Marine Chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
We report the results of an experiment in which we measured 222Rn (15,000 observations),
CH4 (40,000 observations), and associated variables in seawater nearly continuously at a …

Evaluation of hydrogeochemical processes and groundwater quality for suitability of drinking and irrigation purposes: a case study in the Aosta Valley region, Italy

AK Tiwari, R Ghione, M De Maio, M Lavy - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2017 - Springer
The present study aims to discuss the hydrogeochemical processes in the Aosta Valley
region and assess the quality of its groundwater for suitability of drinking and irrigation …

Estuarine canal estate waters: hotspots of CO2 outgassing driven by enhanced groundwater discharge?

PA Macklin, DT Maher, IR Santos - Marine Chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Increased water-to-air carbon dioxide fluxes are a potentially important, but as yet
unquantified, consequence of canal estate developments in estuaries surrounded by coastal …

Significant lateral inputs of fresh groundwater into a stratified tropical estuary: evidence from radon and radium isotopes

IR Santos, RN Peterson, BD Eyre, WC Burnett - Marine Chemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
River discharges are usually gauged at sites farther upstream than estuarine tidal reaches.
As a result, global estimates of river water and nutrient fluxes to the ocean are likely …

Groundwater discharge rates and uncertainties in a coastal lagoon using a radon mass balance

KM Coluccio, IR Santos, LC Jeffrey, LK Morgan - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Coastal lagoons face anthropogenic pressures worldwide, and understanding groundwater
discharge to these sensitive environments can enable better management of water budgets …