{"id":173770,"date":"2021-07-08T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=173770"},"modified":"2021-08-02T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:42:27","slug":"groundwater","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/groundwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundwater in Coastal Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero fullwidth   cl-has-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><div class=\"block\"><h1>Groundwater in Coastal Environments<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/snep-Survey2-sm.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls-container\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-icon\" title=\"Accessibility controls\">Accessibility controls<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-motion-control cl-accessibility-control-hidden\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Pause motion\">Pause motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">On<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Play motion\">Play motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Off<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-contrast-control\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Increase text contrast\">Increase text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Standard<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Reset text contrast\">Reset text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">High<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-system-setting\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle\" title=\"Apply my preferences site-wide\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle-label\">Apply site-wide<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"Groundwater\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-groundwater-bar\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-173786\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-173786\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/groundwater\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-173785\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-173785\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/groundwater\/project-description\/\">Project Description<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-173817\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-173817\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/groundwater\/findings\/\">Findings<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-173816\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-173816\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/groundwater\/videos\/\">Videos<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-173815\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-173815\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/groundwater\/other-resources\/\">Other Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-173814\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-173814\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/groundwater\/funding\/\">Funding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section><\/p>\n<h2>Project<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<p>An Integrated Observational and Modeling Approach to Estimation of the Groundwater Contribution to the Water and Nutrient Budgets in Coastal Environments; <i>Case Studies \u00ad\u2013 Greenwich Bay and Southern Rhode Island Coastal Lagoons<\/i><\/p>\n<h2><b>Motivation<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a significant source of dissolved constituents, including nutrients and pollutants, to coastal waters yet it remains poorly estimated or largely ignored in studies of nutrient budgets and resulting environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Goals<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>To estimate submarine groundwater discharge to Greenwich Bay and Ninigret \/ Green Hill coastal ponds and development of groundwater, surface water, and nutrient transport models.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Quantification of SGD to Greenwich Bay and Ninigret and Green Hill coastal ponds in southern Rhode Island.<\/li>\n<li>Development of groundwater, surface water, and nutrient transport models.<\/li>\n<li>Provide data to relevant stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a monitoring model for future work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<h2><b>Project Team<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>University of Rhode Island (URI) Lead Principal Investigator<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/rebecca-s-robinson\/\"><b>Dr. Rebecca S. Robinson<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:rebecca_r@uri.edu\">rebecca_r@uri.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>URI Team<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/john-king\/\">John King<\/a>, Graduate School of Oceanography<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/m-reza-hashemi\/\">Reza Hashemi<\/a>, Ocean Engineering<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/geo\/soni-pradhanang\/\">Soni Pradhanang<\/a>, Geosciences<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/teresa-crean\/\">Teresa Crean<\/a>, Coastal Resources Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>Coastal Carolina University<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastal.edu\/academics\/facultyprofiles\/science\/richardpeterson\/\">Richard Peterson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastal.edu\/academics\/facultyprofiles\/science\/richviso\/\">Richard Viso<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>Partners<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/estuaries.org\/\">Restore America\u2019s Estuaries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/\">Environmental Protection Agency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crmc.ri.gov\/\">RI Coastal Resources Management Council<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Natural Resources Conservation Service, Rhode Island Office<\/li>\n<li>Towns of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlestownri.org\/\">Charlestown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southkingstownri.com\/\">South Kingstown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warwickri.gov\/\">City of Warwick<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>Funder<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/estuaries.org\/snepgrantprogram\/\">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Southern New England Program (SNEP) 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project An Integrated Observational and Modeling Approach to Estimation of the Groundwater Contribution to the Water and Nutrient Budgets in Coastal Environments; Case Studies \u00ad\u2013 Greenwich Bay and Southern Rhode Island Coastal Lagoons Motivation Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a significant source of dissolved constituents, including nutrients and pollutants, to coastal waters yet it remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":0,"parent":114905,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-173770","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173770"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174001,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173770\/revisions\/174001"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}