GAMA-PBP Academy

Trend Monitoring

Identifying and explaining trends in groundwater quality is one of the goals of the GAMA-PBP work. This page highlights products that describe monitoring program design elements for trend sampling, as well as discussions of specific trends in specific places.

Products

A partial exponential lumped parameter model to evaluate groundwater age distributions and nitrate trends in long-screened wells

Jurgens, B.C., Bohlke, J.K., Kauffman, L.J., Belitz, K., and Esser, B.K., 2016, Journal of Hydrology, v. 543, no. A, p. 109-126

Triennial changes in groundwater quality in aquifers used for public supply in California: utility as indicators of temporal trends

Kent, R., and Landon, M.K., 2016, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, v. 188, article 610

Identifying areas of degrading and improving groundwater-quality conditions in the State of California, USA, 1974-2014

Jurgens, B.C., Fram, M.S., Rutledge, J., and Bennett, G.L., 2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, v. 192, article 250

Quantifying anthropogenic contributions to century-scale groundwater salinity changes, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA

Hansen, J.A., Jurgens, B., and Fram, M.S., 2018, Science of the Total Environment, v. 642, p. 125-136

Trends in concentrations of nitrate and total dissolved solids in public supply wells of the Bunker Hill, Lytle, Rialto, and Colton groundwater Subbasins, San Bernardino County, California: Influence of legacy land use

Kent, R.H., and Landon, M.K., 2013, Science of The Total Environment, v. 452-453, p. 125-136

Variations on a method for evaluating decadal-scale changes in the groundwater quality of two GAMA coastal study units 2004-14, California GAMA Priority Basin Project

Kent, R., 2018, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5088, 90 p.

Status and trends of orthophosphate concentrations in groundwater used for public supply in California

Kent, R., Johnson, T.D., and Rosen, M.R., 2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, v. 192, article 550