The end of the year is approaching, and the papers and pre-prints are still coming from the groundwater and climate research team here and our collaborators. Here is a summary of our outputs the last three months of the year. All are open-access, with links provided below
Most recently, my photo made the cover of the Eos Buzz Newsletter, where Stacey Priestley (CSIRO) led this article with myself, Wendy Timms (Deakin), Margaret Shanafield (Flinders) and Martin Andersen (UNSW). Read on if you want to find out about how counting drips in caves is helping reveal how much rainfall is needed to replenish groundwater:
Priestley, S., A. Baker, M. Shanafield, W. Timms, and M. Andersen (2025), When does rainfall become recharge?, Eos, 106, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EO250452.
A few weeks before, Danyang Sun had a pre-print published on the ESS Open Archive on the classification of cave drip water time series. This is the first output from her PhD, and is co-authored by myself, Martin Andersen and Akhilesh Kumar (UNSW), Liza McDonough (ANSTO) and Margaret Shanafield (Flinders), and we are seeking feedback:
Danyang Sun, Andy Baker, Martin S Andersen, et al. Classification and Conceptualization of Karst Recharge Processes Through Spectral and Change Point Analysis of Drip Water Dynamics. ESS Open Archive . November 25, 2025. DOI: 10.22541/essoar.176409105.50240514/v1
And in September, UNSW alumnus Christina Song led this paper published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences: “Rainfall recharge thresholds decrease after an intense fire over a near-surface cave at Wombeyan, Australia”. This collaboration with Dr Micha Campbell (MPIC) can be read here:
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