Novel Approaches in Contaminant Hydrology and Groundwater Remediation, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Hydrology (ISSN 2306-5338). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Waters and Groundwaters".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 218
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hydrogeology; machine learning; artificial intelligence; groundwater; clustering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Quality of surface and groundwater are of the most important elements of water systems around the world. Over-exploration, urbanization, climate change, and anthropogenic activities are linked to water degradation and lead to extreme threats for wildlife at a local or global scale. Various remediation techniques have recently been introduced in the literature, representing a significant research trend. Recently novel approaches such as machine learning, remote sensing, and optimization methods have been used extensively by different researchers to monitor, control, maintain, and remediate contaminant. Additionally, there has been a specific trend in contaminant-based research topics to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Although there is a clear increase in the number of studies in this area of study, topics such as PFAS, contaminant management, and medical contaminants have been overlooked or received less attention. Thus, this Special Issue has been designed to focus on the different aspects of contaminant hydrology and groundwater remediation with an emphasis on novel methods.
More specifically, the main purpose of this Special Issue is to introduce, apply, and compare different novel and cutting-edge science in the area of surface and groundwater contamination.
For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of research articles related to water contamination, including but not limited to:
- Study of contaminant mitigation;
- Petroleum contamination and PFAS;
- Risk, hazard, and vulnerability assessment;
- Management and modeling of water contamination;
- Environmental planning toward water remediation;
- Economic and social models and impact assessment;
- Implications of water contamination on ecology and wildlife;
- Implications of water contamination on agriculture and food supply;
- Surface and groundwater contamination and Sustainable Development Goals;
- Development of monitoring tools for observing and monitoring contamination.
Dr. Meysam Vadiati
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- modeling and monitoring
- climate change
- contaminant management
- natural degradation
- impacts natural hazards
- sustainable development goal
- wildfire
- effect of water quality
- PFAS
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