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GSA CONNECTS 2022
T131. Coastal Aquifers: Investigations of Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Geoinformatics, Geoscience and
Submarine and Coastal Groundwater Discharge Public Policy
Endorsers: GSA Karst Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Advocates: Misty E. Porter; Andrea E. Brookfield; Jessica Ayers
Geoscience Division Anthropogenic activities impact the hydrologic cycle, affecting
Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Marine/Coastal Science, water quality and quantity. Effective management requires science-
Environmental Geoscience informed decisions.
Advocates: Lorenzo Deprado; Rene Price
This session focuses on recent advances in the transport of T135. Making Groundwater Knowledge Accessible
water and constituents and biogeochemical reactions related to through Visual and Experiential Learning
coastal groundwater discharge and submarine groundwater dis- Endorsers: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and Society
charge. All types of research are encouraged, including field, Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; The Groundwater
laboratory, modeling, remote sensing, machine learning. Project; GroundwaterU; Integrated GroundWater Modeling
Center; Department of Geology, Earth, Energy, and Environment
T132. Groundwater for the Present and Future Center, University of Kansas; GSA Energy Geology Division
in the Mississippi Embayment Aquifer System, Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Geoscience Education, Geoscience
South-Central Untied States Information/Communication
Endorsers: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and Advocates: Eileen Poeter; Ineke Kalwij
Society Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA This session presents innovative methods and tools that facili-
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA tate spatial/temporal thinking for developing a deeper understand-
Geophysics and Geodynamics Division ing of groundwater science, which is essential for practitioners to
Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Geochemistry, Sediments, Clastic solve local- and global-scale groundwater problems.
Advocates: Dan Larsen; Katherine Knierim; Burke Minsley
This session will highlight recent studies of the combined T136. Uranium Fate and Transport in the
Mississippi River Valley alluvial and Mississippi embayment Environment
aquifer system, water resources, and structural and stratigraphic Endorsers: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and
aspects of this groundwater basin. Health Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology
Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; Geochemical
T133. Groundwater Security Toward Sustainable Society; GSA Energy Geology Division
Development Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Geology and Health, Geochemistry
Endorsers: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA International; Advocates: Raymond Johnson; Charles Paradis; Johanna Blake;
GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Environmental and Martin Dangelmayr
Engineering Geology Division; GSA Geoinformatics and Data Due to the complexities of uranium geochemistry and its impor-
Science Division; GSA Geology and Health Division; International tance as a contaminant, this session aims at bringing together
Association of Hydrogeologists; International Society of researchers from multiple disciplines in better understanding ura-
Groundwater for Sustainable Development; GSA Karst Division nium fate and transport mechanisms in the environment.
Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Environmental Geoscience,
Geoscience and Public Policy T137. Using 3D Geological Models to Explore
Advocates: Abhijit Mukherjee; Alice Aureli; Prosun Bhattacharya; Geologic Processes, Assess Natural Resources
David Kreamer; Alan MacDonald; Roger Sathre and Hazards, and Meet Societal Needs
This session seeks topical interdisciplinary studies that bridges Endorsers: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
groundwater quantification and pollution to solutions and sustain- Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division
ability, from science to policy, from technology to clean water and Disciplines: Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology, Economic
food, through pathways of transforming groundwater knowledge Geology
to policy and governance Advocates: Brad T. Gooch; Donald Sweetkind; Ryan Gall;
Laila Sturgis
T134. Human Impacts on the Hydrologic Cycle 3D geological models are used to explore geologic processes,
Endorsers: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geology and assess natural resources and hazards, and meet societal needs.
Society Division; GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Soils and Soil Abstracts should relate to 3D geologic model development and
Processes Division usage, including public communication of published models.

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