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
    • Resources for instructors
    • How and what I teach

Passionate engineers and geoscientists committed to
​studying and protecting water.

current group members and projects

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Chinchu Mohan, Ph.D., Post-doc (2020 -- )
​Project: Redefining the freshwater planetary boundary.
@mohanchinchu
Recent work to check out:
  • IWRA online conference presentation
  • Mohan, C., et al. "Predicting groundwater recharge for varying land cover and climate conditions–a global meta-study." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 22.5 (2018): 2689-2703. ​

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Thomas Boerman, Ph.D. candidate (2016 -- )
​Project: Machine learning applications in hydrogeology.
@tcboerman
Recent work to check out:
  • Zipper, Samuel C., Tom Dallemagne, Tom Gleeson, Thomas C. Boerman, and Andreas Hartmann. "Groundwater pumping impacts on real stream networks: Testing the performance of simple management tools." Water Resources Research 54, no. 8 (2018): 5471-5486.​

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Xander Huggins, Ph.D. candidate (2019 -- )
​Project: Evaluating groundwater sustainability as a social-ecological system.
​@xander_huggins
Recent work to check out:
  • Huggins, X. et al. (2020 - preprint). "The social-ecological dimensions of changing global freshwater availability". EarthArXiv. ​
  • Huggins, X., et al. "Streamflow depletion modeling: Methods for an adaptable and conjunctive water management decision support tool." JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 54.5 (2018): 1024-1038.doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12659

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Ashley Van Acken, M.S.c. candidate (2019 -- )
​Project: Geothermal energy potential at Sloquet Hot Springs
#notwitter
Recent work to check out:
  • ​Van Acken, A. and T. Gleeson. "Preliminary Field Investigations of Sloquet Hot Springs, Southwestern British Columbia".  Summary of Activities 2019: Energy and Water; Geoscience BC Report. (2019).

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Kristina Disney, M.S.c. candidate (2021 -- )
​Project: Community-based watershed monitoring in the Koksilah Watershed, Vancouver Island
#notwitter
Recent work to check out:
  • ​Just joined our group! Welcome aboard, Kristina!

visiting colleagues, past and present
Magdalena Krol, Canada (2021)
Petra Döll, Germany (2020)
Ingo Fetzer, Sweden (2019)
Nils Moosdorf, Germany (2019)
Xiao-Wei Jiang, China (2016)
Mark Cuthbert, United Kingdom (2014)
Andreas Hartmann, Germany (2013)
Anne Van Loon, Netherlands (2012)

meet our community of past groundwater nerds!
(hover over picture for info; click on picture for link to a paper they wrote or check out their location on map below)
Qiang Li, Post-doc (2018 2018 - 2020)
Sam Zipper Postdoc (2017-2019)
Jacek Scibek, PhD (2012-2019)
Tara Forstner, MSc (2016-18), UVic.
Mikhail Smilovic, PhD student (2012-2017 ), McGill
Xander Huggins Visiting BEng (2016), Guelph
Tom Dallemange, visiting MSc (2017) Utrecht
Jordan Huscroft, visiting MSc (2017), McGill
Bas van Dijk, visiting MSc (2016), Utrecht
Leigh Borrett, BEng student (2016), UVic
Mark Ranjram (Master's, 2014-2016)
Erin Mundy (Master's, 2014-2016)
Ana Schneider (visiting PhD, 2015)
James Arambari (visiting undergraduate, 2015)
Andrea Popp (visiting masters, 2015)
Mark Cuthbert (visiting researcher, 2015)
Anne Van Loon (visiting postdoc, 2014)
Hillary Topps (Undergraduate, 2014)
Andreas Hartmann (visiting postdoc, 2014)
Elco Luijendijk (Postdoc, 2012-2014)
Yoshi Wada (visiting PhD, 2012)
Inge de Graaf (visitng PhD, 2013)
Laurent Esnault (Masters, 2012-2013)
Jessica Doyle (Masters, 2011-2013)
Juliette Malgrange (Masters, 2011-2013)
Claire Gassiat (Masters, 2011-2012)
Emily Anderson (Undergraduate, 2013)
Priyanka Pandey (Masters, 2011)
Mark Roberts (Undergraduate, 2012)
Liz Flanary (Undergraduate, 2012-2014)
Dawn Paszkowski (Masters, 2011)
Hilary Dugan (Masters, 2010)
Matt Herod (Undergraduate, 2009)
Richard Zavitz (Undergraduate, 2008)