Groundwater Environment Evolution and Early Risk-Warning
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 918
Special Issue Editors
Interests: groundwater quality evolution; migration and transformation mechanism; ecological impacts of groundwater; groundwater-mediated soil carbon sink; climate change; anthropogenic activities
Interests: interaction between surface water and groundwater; contaminant transport and transformation; riverbank infiltration zone; organic matter–mineral–microbe interactions; PAHs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Groundwater quantity, quality, and ecology are key components of a groundwater environment. The evolution of a groundwater environment results from the interaction and co-evolution of hydrological processes, groundwater quality, and the groundwater ecology. It involves multi-interface, variable, and process coupling, and is dually influenced by climate change and human activities. Deterioration of a groundwater environment can easily trigger a series of ecological and environmental crises. However, under changing conditions, the driving mechanisms of groundwater environment evolution, the coupling processes across multiple interfaces, and the trends in risk evolution remain incompletely understood.
This Special Issue focuses on how groundwater systems respond to climate change and human activities from microscopic to macroscopic scales. It aims to reveal the groundwater-driven soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling and salt transport processes, water quality and ecological effects of multi-interface processes, and transport and transformation processes of highly toxic pollutants such as organic compounds and heavy metals in complex media under changing environmental conditions by integrating field observations, molecular-scale analyses, and reactive transport modeling. It also welcomes research on the construction of technical frameworks for groundwater environmental risk assessment in specific regions, as well as quantitative risk evaluation.
Dr. Tiejun Song
Dr. Xiaofang Shen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- groundwater environment
- global changes
- interface processes
- contaminants
- nutrients
- vegetation succession
- soil substances
- early risk warning
- risk management
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