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PDF of a presentation I made recently at a UCSC-City of Watsonville event on Ground water conditions and opportunities in the Pajaro Valley.

Learn more about The Recharge Initiative, a comprehensive research, teaching and service effort to enhance and protect ground water resoruces throughout the region.

	Recent publications from the UCSC Hydrogeology research group - please download a preprint or see all available papers on the Publications page:
former student	Hutnak, M., A. T. Fisher, R. Harris, C. Stein, K. Wang, G. Spinelli, M. Schindler, H. Villinger, and E. Silver (2008), Large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo264, 2008. Hutnak, M. and Fisher, A. T., The influence of sedimentation, local and regional hydrothermal circulation, and thermal rebound on measurements of heat flux from young seafloor, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B12101, doi:10.1029/2007JB005022, 2007. Hutnak, M., A. T. Fisher, L. Zuhlsdorff, V. Spiess, P. Stauffer, and C. W. Gable, Hydrothermal recharge and discharge guided by basement outcrops on 0.2-3.6 Ma seafloor east of the Juan de Fuca Ridge: observations and numerical models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7, Q07O02, doi:10.1029/2006GC001242, 2006.
former student	Ruehl, C., Fisher, A. T., Hatch, C., Los Huertos, M., Stemler, G., and Shennan, C., Differential gauging and tracer tests resolve seepage fluxes in a strongly-losing stream, J. Hydrology, 300: 235-248, 2006. Ruehl, C., Fisher, A. T., Los Huertos, M., Wankel, S., Kendall, C., Hatch, C., and Shennan, C., Nitrate dynamics within the Pajaro River, a nutrient-rich, losing stream, J. N. Am. Benthological Soc., 26(2): 191-206, 2007.
former student	Hatch, C. E., A. T. Fisher, J. S. Revenaugh, J. Constantz, and C. Ruehl, Quantifying surface water - ground water interactions using time series analysis of streambed thermal records: method development. Water Resources Research, 42(10): 10.1029/2005WR004787, 2006.
etc., etc.	Fisher, A. T.,Davis, E. E., Becker, K., Borehole-to-borehole hydrologic response across 2.4 km in the upper oceanic crust: implications for crustal scale properties, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JB005447, 2008. Becker, K., Fisher A. T., Borehole packer tests at multiple depths resolve distinct hydrologic intervals in 3.5 Ma upper oceanic crust, eastern flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JB005446, 2008. Wheat, C. G. and A. T. Fisher, Seawater recharge along an eastern bounding fault in Middle Valley, northern Juan de Fuca Ridge, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L20602, doi:10.1029/2007GL031347, 2007 .

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