Murgulet Coastal Hydrogeology Lab

🌧️ 🌧️ Did the Recent Rains End Our Drought? 💧
Not quite.

While the recent rainfall has brought short-term relief to plants and lawns, it hasn’t ended the drought where it matters most — in our water supply reservoirs and aquifers.

📉 The Corpus Christi and Choke Canyon reservoirs — our region’s key surface water sources — remain well below normal capacity.
📉 Our groundwater levels are also slow to respond. It often takes months or even years for rainfall to meaningfully recharge aquifers, especially in semi-arid regions like South Texas.

You can track our surface water supply in real time:
🔹 Corpus Christi Reservoir: https://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/corpus-christi

https://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/corpus-christi
🔹 Choke Canyon Reservoir: https://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/choke-canyon

https://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/choke-canyon

💡 Why it matters: Even if the grass is green today, our long-term water security depends on deeper sources — and those recover much more slowly. Rainfall doesn’t automatically translate into water we can use.

✅ Takeaway: Every drop still counts. Keep conserving and stay informed.

Water Data For Texas The elevation-storage rating curve used to produce the storage hydrograph is made of two segments: (1) the segment up to the conservation pool top (below the red line) is based on measured data, and (2) the segment in the flood pool (above the red line) is an extrapolation from the first segment and...

All the water in all the world 💧

One of my favourite images from my book Knowledge is Beautiful (HarperCollins 2014).

source: US Geological Survey, Food & Agriculture Org of the United Nations (FAO) & others.

Murgulet Lab announces a new grant: "Quenching Thirst: TAMU-CC Researchers, Powered by $2.5M Grant, Work to Bring Clean Water to rural areas"
https://www.tamucc.edu/news/2024/09/quenching-thirst-tamu-cc-researchers-powered-by-2.5m-epa-grant-work-to-bring-clean-water-to-coastal-colonias.php
https://www.gilmermirror.com/2024/09/18/epa-announces-2-5-million-grant-to-advance-environmental-justice-in-south-texas-coastal-colonias/

Quenching Thirst: TAMU-CC Researchers, Powered by $2.5M EPA Grant, Work to Bring Clean Water to Coastal Colonias After decades of water insecurity for those living in Texas coastal colonias, hope is finally on the horizon. A research team from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Center for Water Supply Studies (CWSS) has launched the “Quenching Thirst: Water Equity in Coastal Colonias” initiative, fund...

The Murgulet Lab has been making headlines recently for our work on improving water quality and water equity throughout Texas coastal communities.

How A&M-Corpus Christi research program aims to improve water quality in colonias Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi researchers have secured U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funding to improve colonia drinking water.

Arizona State University Ten Across - Application Gallery Positioned on the front lines of demographic, social, economic, and climate change, the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor (including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida) presents the challenges of the 21st century in their most extreme. Ten Across recommend...

With this summer's heat, we're feeling these words from Jacques Cousteau on a whole new level. Stay hydrated, everyone!

Not Your Childhood Water Cycle
The USGS just debuted a complete remaking of the water cycle diagram—with humans as headliners.

Not Your Childhood Water Cycle - Eos The USGS just debuted a complete remaking of the water cycle diagram—with humans as headliners.

Very proud of our group's work on the influence of negative storm surge (in this case associated with Hurricane Harvey) on groundwater–surface water interactions and associated nutrient inputs and composition on estuaries.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.961206/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Marine_Science&id=961206

Product of Center for Water Supply Studies including Dr. Audrey Douglas (former PhD student). Dr. Dorina Murgulet, Meghan Greige (Undergraduate Research Assistant and McNair scholar). Dr. Joseph Felix and Dr. Hussain Abdulla

Organic matter composition and inorganic nitrogen response to Hurricane Harvey’s negative storm surge in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas Extreme weather events, such as tropical storms and hurricanes, are known to deliver large amounts of freshwater (surface runoff) and associated inorganic and organic nutrients to estuaries and the coastal ocean, affecting water quality and nutrient budgets. However, while Hurricane Harvey produced....

Hello everyone!
We have a great, new opportunity at TAMU-CC for stakeholder-guided interdisciplinary research. Check it out (https://tinyurl.com/3ew2w8af) and spread the word.

Proud of our collaborator Dr. Vikram Kapoor from UTSA!!

Learn from his interview with NPR about how "Wastewater testing could help control COVID's spread. Why isn't it happening across America?
🔊 Listen Now:
https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1093964231:1093964233
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Petrie Dish from Texas Public Radio on NPR One | 27:0

🔊 Listen Now: Wastewater testing could help control COVID's spread. Why isn't it happening across America? Petrie Dish from Texas Public Radio on NPR One | 27:00