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SMART - Sustainable Management of Offshore Groundwater Resources

Figure 1. Cartoon depicting the differences between active (connected) and fossil (disconnected) offshore aquifers. The modern day active aquifers are recharged by precipitation (green arrows). Fossil aquifers are no longer fed by meteoric water and are subject to saltwater intrusion (red arrows).

Chief Scientists: Dr. Bradley Weymer (GEOMAR), Prof. Dr. Christian Berndt (GEOMAR), Dr. Marion Jegen (GEOMAR), Dr. Mark Schmidt (GEOMAR) and Prof. Dr. Aaron Micallef (University of Malta)

Collaborators: Dr. Christian Hensen (GEOMAR), Dr. Volker Liebetrau (GEOMAR), Dr. Amir Haroon (GEOMAR), Prof. Dr. Mark Everett (Texas A&M University), Dr. Dionisis Patiris (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research)
Project period: 01.01-2019 - 31.12.2021
Sponsored by: Helmholtz European Partnering Fund
Participating institutions: University of Malta, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Texas A&M University, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

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