Approach and Methodologies

The network activities encompass research projects and training events, some of which are open to researchers from outside the network. Research methodologies fall into three main categories:

• Aquifer case studies
• Laboratory- based research
• Modeling techniques

A range of groundwater vulnerability issues will be investigated in a series of case study aquifers, laboratory experiments will provide controlled conditions under which specific processes can be closely observed and of a range of modeling techniques will be developed and applied to further the understanding of the physical, chemical and biological processes important for groundwater vulnerability issues.

Training includes formal academic and transferable skills courses at host institutions, a series of network wide summer schools, workshops and field trips, annual network meetings, end-of-network conference, placements with associated partners in industry, and exchange visits to other partners and associated partners throughout the network. Some of the summer schools and workshops and the end-of-network conference will be open to researchers from outside the network.