Kingston Free Library, Potter Hall (upstairs lecture hall) Free Event

2605 Kingstown Rd, Kingston, RI 02881

Free Event

URI is a tour stop on the 2023 Henry Darcy Groundwater Lecture Series!

Alicia Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of Hydrogeology and Director of the School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina specializes in coastal hydrogeology, with a particular focus on coastal ecohydrology and submarine groundwater exchange.

In this event, Dr. Wilson shares how the field of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) was launched in the 1990s by the remarkable discovery, via naturally occurring isotopic tracers, that saline groundwater was discharging to the South Atlantic Bight in very large volumes. Subsequent studies confirmed that saline groundwater discharges to the Atlantic Ocean in volumes that rival river discharge. All available evidence indicates that this saline groundwater is highly enriched in nutrients compared to river water, so the nutrient contributions of this submarine discharge exceed that of river discharge. This talk investigates this decades-long investigation, including recent discoveries that suggest that it may be time to rewrite chemical budgets for the coastal ocean.

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We are meeting in person in Potter Hall and will stream via zoom for all interested persons!

https://uri-edu.zoom.us/j/94476267530?pwd=OVBzSmF6TDNpclZUWXMveUNBcVA3UT09 

 

Meeting ID: 944 7626 7530

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