The book "Karst: Environment and Management of Aquifers" was published as part of "The Groundwater Project" and is available for free. The book provides an introduction to karst and is aimed at a broad audience to provide a deeper understanding of karst areas.

Prof Goldscheider was appointed an Honorary Member of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in 2024. This programme was established by the GSA Council in 1909 and since then one or more honorary members have been appointed each year. Honorary members are international geoscientists who have made outstanding contributions to science.

We have been cooperating with colleagues from Israel for many years and declare our full solidarity with our friends in Israel in this terrible situation. We therefore support the statement on the situation in Israel that KIT published as part of the Alliance of Science Organizations.

On 20.08.2023, the ZDF show "Terra X" dealt with the question of the origin and importance of water as a resource. Among other things, the tracer marking experiments carried out by the KIT in the Blautopf cave system on the Swabian Alb were featured (from minute 15:50).

The TV station SWR has also published an article focusing on increasing groundwater extraction as a result of climate change. The article gets to the bottom of the question of how much various user groups want to extract today today and in the future, and how this may be campatible with sustainability.

The radio station SWR2 published a podcast on the (ground-)water shortage in Germany due to climate change. In a detailed interview with Prof. Nico Goldscheider, upcoming problems for water supply, regional challenges and individually implementable mitigation measures are addressed. (audio, 8 min.)

The current cover story of the SPIEGEL (30/2023) is about water shortages in Germany. Prof. Nico Goldscheider is quoted several times in connection with our cooperation with the state water supply in Langenau, which supplies 3 million people with drinking water, as well as with general statements about groundwater, water availability and the nitrate problem. (Article unfortunately behind paywall)

Dr. Andreas Wunsch receives the Hermann-Billing-Prize for his dissertation on "Leveraging Artificial Neural Networks for Modeling Hydrogeological Time Series". The award is confered at KIT since 1985 for outstanding doctoral theses and commemorates the Karlsruhe architect and university teacher Hermann Billing (1867–1946). On the occasion of the award ceremony, a public ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. in the Egon Eiermann lecture hall of the Faculty of Architecture at KIT.

A podcast about fountains was published in the radio series "Radiowissen" of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Initially, the focus is on archaeological and historical aspects, but from minute 13:36 onwards the focus switches to hydrogeological questions, with contributions by Prof. Dr. Nico Goldscheider and three other colleagues from a well construction company and our partners from the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR).

KIT and BGR Develop Forecast Models on the Future Development of Groundwater Levels Based on Artificial Intelligence

On Thursday, September 23, 2021, from 10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Prof. Dr. Nico Goldscheider will take part in the GeoKarlsruhe 2021 panel discussion on "Groundwater and Drinking Water - Challenges due to Climate Change and Land Use".

Hydrogeologen des KIT untersuchen die Wasserqualität am Blautopf in Blaubeueren, um Erkenntnisse für Karstaquifere weltweit zu gewinnen. Das im August 2020 begonnene Projekt IMPART ist auf drei Jahre ausgelegt.

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Prof. Nico Goldscheider can be seen in a report on the P.M. Wissen programme on Servus TV. Here he gives insights into our research in Kleinwalsertal in Austria, one of the test regions of our KARMA project. The World Karstaquifer Map (WOKAM) can also be seen.

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