GROUNDWATER SCIENCE + SUSTAINABILITY
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  • home
  • About
    • mission
    • equity, diversity, inclusion
    • people
    • prospective people
  • Engaging
    • in British Columbia
    • globally
    • with media
    • through stories
  • Research
    • research topics
    • publications
    • data
  • teaching

Supporting and leading global
groundwater science and sustainability initiatives.

We support and lead global groundwater science and sustainability initiatives to improve our understanding of groundwater and encourage governance change in different places since groundwater does not have a global governing body.
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Water ​Underground ​blog
​​Tom founded and currently leads this groundwater-nerd-blog written by a global collective of hydrogeologic researchers for water resource professionals, academics and anyone interested in groundwater research, teaching and supervision. Water Underground was the first first blog hosts on both AGU and EGU blog platforms.
Global groundwater sustainability statement
Tom initiated and led the international effort to write, release and promote the Global groundwater sustainability statement which was published in Nature in 2019. The statement has over 1,300 signatories from over 100 countries, was on the official agenda of a UN -Water and is building momentum towards the 2022 UN World Water Day.
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Invited talks, leading workshops & conferences
Tom gives 5-10 invited talks per year at conferences such as AGU, EGU and GSA and other venues including in the past: the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, ETH Zurich, MIT and Columbia.
He also organizes workshops such as at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Bristol University, and organizes conferences such as the AGU Chapman conference in Valencia, Spain.
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Water
​Underground Talks

A series of videos of groundwater experts from around the world to share their passions and their latest research with a critical yet positive and forward-looking perspective. We are partnering with various organizations including  
IGRAC, UNESCO,  IAH, 
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GRIPP and GIWS to help raise the profile of this initiative and distribute the videos.