Mark O. Cuthbert

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the dynamic timescales of groundwater system responses to climate change and found that nearly half of global groundwater fluxes could equilibrate with recharge variations due to climate changes on human (~100 year) timescale, and areas where water tables are most sensitive to changes in recharge are also those that have the longest groundwater response times.

TL;DR: The results show that MICP can be successfully manipulated under field conditions to reduce the permeability of fractured rock and suggest that an MICP-based technique, informed by numerical models, may form the basis of viable solutions to aid pollution mitigation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the urea hydrolysis and calcite precipitation rates for the model bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii under conditions required to precipitate large volumes of calcite (up to 50 g L−1).

TL;DR: It is shown that levels of aridity dictate the predominant recharge processes, whereas local hydrogeology influences the type and sensitivity of precipitation–recharge relationships, and that a drier climate does not necessarily mean less recharge.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine groundwater from three different but related perspectives of sustainability science, natural resource governance and management, and Earth Systems science, and propose that groundwater sustainability can be defined with a direct link with observable data, governance, and management as well as the crucial functions and services of groundwater.