Global warming arises from an energy imbalance where increased radiative forcing from greenhouse gases traps additional heat in the Earth system. Over recent decades, more than 90% of this heat has gone into the ocean, causing thermal expansion that leads to sea level rise. Addi…
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The importance of Indian Ocean circulation dynamics to the regional and global weather signatures is increasingly recognized at large partly due to improved ocean observations in the last few decades. Observational and modeling efforts are directed towards understanding the impa…
Prior studies of groundwater systems have associated increasing salinity and anoxic conditions with increasing radium (Ra) activities in water due to the decreasing effectiveness of Ra removal processes. However, the components of salinity (e.g. Ca vs. Na and SO42- vs. Cl-domina…
The Indus Basin of Pakistan has the largest contiguous canal irrigation system in the world. However, the canal system, as important as it is, has overshadowed the equally important supplementary source of irrigation in the Basin--the groundwater. Today, over 40% of the annual i…
Soil salinization is increasing in Morocco as a result of irrigation of agricultural land. The argan forest in the Souss Valley region has been negatively impacted by urban expansion and the increase in agricultural land. Additionally, both artificial and natural regeneration ef…
The rise in level and increase in salinity of groundwater are causing accelerated deterioration of stone foundations of visible temples and monuments at Luxor, southern Egypt. Elevated groundwater is thought to cause a loss of cohesion and breakdown of the stone, while pressure …
The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, has a complex life-cycle involving migrations between the Sargasso Sea and the river systems of Europe and North Africa. The requirement to move across large salinity gradients presents a significant physiological challenge and the developmen…
The common sandpiper is an Afro-Palearctic migrant that is declining across Europe. Studies have suggested that environmental conditions during winter are likely to be important determinants of their population trends, but these trends differ between breeding regions suggesting …
Over several decades of water flooding development, quite a few Minnelusa reservoirs are getting close to the economic limit of the secondary recovery. High heterogeneity, the typical characteristic of the Minnelusa reservoirs plus complex salinity distribution is challenging th…
The Caloosahatchee River and Estuary in Southwest Florida has a history of human driven alterations by dredging, channelization, construction of several lock and dams, and an artificial connection to Lake Okeechobee. Water management has changed the quality and quantity of disch…
Many marine crustacean larvae develop in a relatively stable pelagic environment; therefore, they are likely to be sensitive to perturbations in their surrounding environmental conditions. Ocean Acidification (OA) is occurring on a globalised scale and may cause disruptions to c…