Tag: Hydrology and Land Surface Processes

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde provided comments for a recent article posted on the Tech Explorist web site titled, “Double whammy of groundwater in India- Decrease in reserve and increasing carbon emissions.” The article discusses new findings that groundwater extraction in India is responsible for 2-7% of the country’s annual estimated carbon dioxide emissions. Murtugudde noted that every human activity has multiple impacts and can have unintended consequences.  He also …

ESSIC / CICS-MD Associate Professor Sujay Kaushal recently co-authored an article titled “Episodic salinization and freshwater salinization syndrome mobilize base cations, carbon, and nutrients to streams across urban regions” published in Biogeochemistry. The article discusses the effects of episodic salinization and freshwater salinization syndrome on the water quality of 12 watersheds along the East Coast.  The results suggest the two factors can affect nutrient mobilization, shifting …

ESSIC / CICS-MD Associate Professor Sujay Kaushal recently co-authored an article accepted in Science of the Total Environment titled “Regenerative stormwater conveyance (RSC) for reducing nutrients in urban stormwater runoff depends upon carbon quantity and quality”. Dr. Shuiwang Duan, Department of Geology Assistant Research Scientist and former ESSIC Research Scientist, was lead author on the publication. The study examined two local regenerative stormwater conveyances (RSCs), sites …

ESSIC assistant research scientist Bailing Li is a recipient of the NASA/GSFC 2018 Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics (HBG) Annual Peer Awards Scientific Achievement Award. Her recognized efforts include research on assimilating terrestrial water storage (TWS)–derived from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite system–into the NASA Catchment land surface model (CLSM) at the global-scale.  She has also developed drought indicators based on the assimilation …