Marine controlled-source electromagnetic survey for deep imaging of submarine groundwater systems
“Marine Electromagnetic Imaging and Volumetric Estimation of Freshwater Plumes Offshore Hawai’i”. In this paper, we present electromagnetic imaging of seafloor-to-ocean surface freshwater plumes (Attias et al., 2021, GRL: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL091249).
University of Hawai’i news article:
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/03/31/first-images-of-freshwater-plumes-at-sea/
Summary video of the project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0rqJXhgWas
The discovery of large freshwater reservoirs off Hawaii suggests that other volcanic islands may have similar resources, which could help meet water demands amid population growth and climate change.
By Eric Attias, Steven Constable, Brian Taylor, and Donald Thomas
Eos – Science News by AGU
Star-Advertiser newspaper reports our discovery of submarine freshwater reservoirs offshore Hawai’i: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/11/25/breaking-news/uh-study-suggests-hawaii-has-double-the-freshwater/
University of Hawai’i News press release about the the Science Advances paper related to this marine IkeWai research: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/11/25/offshore-freshwater-discovery/
