Research
Active projects
GROW: groundwater Sustainability and Crop production
Funder: European Research Council Starting Grant, granted to Inge de Graaf.
Run time: sept 2022- sept 2027
Groundwater is the largest accessible source of freshwater and is of critical importance for humans and the environment. Irrigation is by far the largest user of groundwater worldwide and accounts for 17% of the global cropland area and 40% of the global food production. Currently groundwater is overused in various regions around the world and negative impacts are experienced. To reduce and prevent negative impacts of groundwater overuse, groundwater must be used more sustainably. At the same time, global food demands will rise and crop production has to increase to secure adequate food supply worldwide. A daunting global challenge lies ahead in how to use groundwater sustainable while at the same time sufficient crop production, to support regional and global food security, should be maintained. In GROW we aim to assess how much groundwater is sustainably available worldwide and to what extent this available groundwater supports sufficient crop production to meet current and future food demands.
people involved: Bryan Marinelli, Sida Liu, Fatemeh Karandish, Inge de Graaf.
Impacts of groundwater use on groundwater quality worldwide
Funder: WUR
Run time: 2023-2027
What is the impact of agricultural practices on groundwater quality? What is the contribution of groundwater to water quality in rivers, lakes and wetlands? How will groundwater quality change on future under climate change, increases in population and shifts in land use changes?
This are the type of questions we try to answer in this project. In this project we will integrate estimates of groundwater quality to groundwater quantity at the global scale to asses current and future groundwater quality and related impacts.
people involved: Floris Teuling, Nynke Hofstra, Inge de Graaf.
with this project we are involved in the ISIMIP water quality sector
VIC-WUR development
Development of new version of the model VIC-WUR. Aiming for efficient coding and coupling of model components and modules, efficient writing of data, running in parallel etc.
people involved: Lisanne Nauta, Karun Datadien, Sida Liu, Inge de Graaf.
ISIMIP Water and Groundwater sectors
ISIMIP Run time: 2023 -
Contribution to ISIMIPs Water and Groundwater sectors
With the model VIC-WUR we currently contribute to ISIMIPs water- and groundwater-sectors. Inge de Graaf is leading the Groundwater sector.
ISIMIP Groundwater protocol is now online!
a community paper on this is on its way
People involved: Lisanne Nauta, Karun Datadien, Inge de Graaf
Copernicus PROJECT: Global and European
COPERNICUS run time: 2025-2028
We are involved in the Copernicus seasonal forecast projects (funded by the European Commission, and implemented by ECMWF). In previous calls, we were involved in the European forecast. In the new call we will be involved in the European and Global forecasts (more details will follow).
People involved: Lisanne Nauta, Karun Datadien, Inge de Graaf
Finished projects
Estimating subsurface permeability of hardrock aquifers in Africa
Funder: DAAD (Germany)
Run time: 2017-2018
Hyper resolution groundwater modeling for CONUS
Inge's post-doc project at Colorado School of Mines
runtime: 2015 (oct)- 2017 (mar)
Limits to global groundwater pumping
Inge's PhD project done at Utrecht University
runtime: 2011 (sept)- 2015 (sept)