Application of Geophysical Methods for Hydrogeology—Second Edition
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 2835
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrogeology; water management; near-surface geophysics; groundwater resources; coastal aquifers; managed aquifer recharge
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Interests: groundwater resources; hydrogeochemistry and water quality; seawater intrusion; coastal aquifers; contamination of groundwater; vadose zone; hydrogeology of volcanic terrains; water–rock interaction
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Interests: geophysical prospecting; water management; near-surface geophysics; geophysical prospecting; groundwater resources; hydrogeochemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The characterization of the subsoil and its hydraulic properties is essential for groundwater and surface water management, but it is often difficult to evaluate from traditional borehole drilling, water well and piezometer pumping tests, and soil sampling techniques. Traditional soil sampling methods typically provide only data from the upper layers, and boreholes are expensive and only provide spotty information. The integration of geophysical data with direct hydrogeological measurements is a challenging issue that could help to characterize, monitor, and investigate hydrological parameters and processes in the shallow subsurface at a variety of resolutions and over many spatial scales in a minimally invasive manner.
This Special Issue of Water aims to gather research on advances and obstacles associated with using geophysical methods, with a special focus on case studies demonstrating their potential to improve our understanding of subsurface hydrogeological parameters and processes. Papers on novel data acquisition procedures and innovative hydrogeological mapping, hydrological parameter estimation, and monitoring of hydrological processes are welcome to be submitted. Papers focused on the integration of geophysical and hydrogeological measurements and petrographic relationships will also be appreciated.
Dr. Alex Sendros
Prof. Dr. María del Carmen Cabrera Santana
Prof. Dr. Albert Casas Ponsati
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogeophysics
- petrophysics
- hydrogeology
- water management
- near-surface geophysics
- groundwater resources
- coastal aquifers
- aquifer characterization
- vadose zone
- saturated zone
- Earth’s critical zone
- water–rock interaction
- contamination of groundwater
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