Women in Science: The Race for Groundwater - A Shrinking Resource by Jen McIntosh
Jen McIntosh continues the UA Science Cafe Series on "Women in Science" at Magpies Pizza on October 16, 2018. Presenter: Jen McIntosh, Professor & UA Distinguished Scholar, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona Her presentation is titled, The Race for Groundwater: A Shrinking Resource. All over the world, vast stores of water called “groundwater” lie deep below the surface. However, those groundwater supplies are shrinking rapidly, pumped out from the ‘top-down’ for human consumption, and from the ‘bottom up’ by the energy industry when it uses huge quantities of water for extraction of oil and gas. On every continent, humans are consuming groundwater resources faster than they are being replenished. In this Café, Dr. McIntosh will discuss the shrinking supply and intense competition for remaining deep groundwater resources in the United States. The talk will also highlight a prominent scientist, Dr. Barbara Sherwood-Lollar from the University of Toronto, who discovered deep, billion-year-old water resources in the earth’s crust and the microbial life that lives there. Dr. Sherwood-Lollar inspires Dr. McIntosh own career as a hydrogeologist. To discover more science, please visit www.flandrau.org.
Jen McIntosh continues the UA Science Cafe Series on "Women in Science" at Magpies Pizza on October 16, 2018. Presenter: Jen McIntosh, Professor & UA Distinguished Scholar, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona Her presentation is titled, The Race for Groundwater: A Shrinking Resource. All over the world, vast stores of water called “groundwater” lie deep below the surface. However, those groundwater supplies are shrinking rapidly, pumped out from the ‘top-down’ for human consumption, and from the ‘bottom up’ by the energy industry when it uses huge quantities of water for extraction of oil and gas. On every continent, humans are consuming groundwater resources faster than they are being replenished. In this Café, Dr. McIntosh will discuss the shrinking supply and intense competition for remaining deep groundwater resources in the United States. The talk will also highlight a prominent scientist, Dr. Barbara Sherwood-Lollar from the University of Toronto, who discovered deep, billion-year-old water resources in the earth’s crust and the microbial life that lives there. Dr. Sherwood-Lollar inspires Dr. McIntosh own career as a hydrogeologist. To discover more science, please visit www.flandrau.org.