EGU 2026 - Ecosystem restoration for aquifer recharge, groundwater quality, and climate resilience
Julia Derx
Dear colleagues,
This is to invite you to submit your work to the following EGU 2026 session:
HS 8.1.7. Ecosystem
restoration for aquifer
recharge, groundwater quality, and climate resilience
Co-organized by BG4/SSS6
Conveners: Julia Derx, Ali Obeid, Sondra Klitzke, Margaret Ellen Stevenson,
Yakov Pachepsky
Abstract submission deadline:
15 January 2026, 13:00 CET
Link: https://www.egu26.eu/session/56914
Session description:
Climate change, land degradation, and
biodiversity
loss increasingly threaten aquifer recharge and groundwater
quality. Ecosystem
restoration offers multiple pathways to address these challenges
by improving
soil structure, reducing erosion and pollutant loads, and
enhancing
infiltration and groundwater replenishment. Restoration measures
such as soil
amendments, erosion control, river and floodplain
rehabilitation, and wetland
restoration can improve groundwater safety and resilience to
climate extremes,
including floods and droughts.
This session invites contributions on the hydrological and water
quality
impacts of restoration interventions, with emphasis on:
(i) groundwater recharge enhancement under current and future
climates,
(ii) effects on chemical and microbiological groundwater quality
and safety,
including nutrients, trace contaminants, and pathogens,
(iii) biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration, and other
ecosystem
co-benefits, and
(iv) monitoring and modelling approaches for assessing long-term
sustainability
and scalability.
We welcome field, laboratory, modelling, and socio-hydrological
studies that
bridge hydrology with soil science, ecology, water quality, and
environmental
health, and that explore the role of ecosystems and restoration
interventions
in supporting sustainable groundwater management under climate
change.
Keynote:
Prof. Zhi Li,
Northwest
A&F University
Precipitation-soil water-groundwater connectivity under changed
vegetation in China's Loess Plateau
On behalf of the conveners,
Julia Derx
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Julia Derx Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management (www.hydro.tuwien.ac.at) Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & Health (www.waterandhealth.at) TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien Tel.: +43 1 58801 22326