Steven Gorelick
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Steven Gorelick
Senior Fellow - Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in the School of Earth Sciences
Type:
Senior Fellow
School:
Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences
Additional Information:
Global Freshwater Initiative and Water, Health and Development
Research Area(s):
Freshwater, Climate
Biography
Steven Gorelick's research spans both scientific and engineering aspects of groundwater resources. Investigations typically involve field sites and focus on topics ranging from the analysis of environmental remediation schemes to the study of paleoclimate and paleohydrology. The scales of physical processes studied range from small pores to vast regional subsurface flow systems. Among all of these different scales, Dr. Gorelick is developing conceptual and quantitative predictive models. Such models enhance our understanding of groundwater flow behavior and provide means for resource evaluation and management.
Selected Publications by this Author
News & Press Releases
![A tanker truck illegally takes water from a river in Jordan. A tanker truck illegally takes water from a river in Jordan.](https://swap.stanford.edu/was/20170911010949im_/https://woods.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/images/news/truck.jpg?itok=dsMz_Yxd)
Jordan Faces More Frequent Long and Severe Droughts »
Jordan is among the world’s most water-poor nations, and a new, comprehensive analysis of regional drought and land-use changes in upstream Syria suggests the conditions could get significantly worse.
By Rob Jordan,
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Media Coverage
Climate change, refugees worsen Jordan's water woes: scientists »
Steven Gorelick co-authors study looking into the links that climate change and refugee rates have on the ever growing drought issue in Jordan.
By Chris Arsenault,
How the Syrian refugee crisis affected land use and shared transboundary freshwater resources »
Global Freshwater Initiative researchers discuss their investigation of the relationship among civil conflict, land use and water consumption.
By Steven Gorelick, Marc Muller and Jim Yoon,
Is Freshwater Supply More Dependent on Good Governance Than Geography? »
Discusses findings of study co-authored by Woods Senior Fellows Steven Gorelick (Earth System Science), Barton Thompson (Law) and Scott Fendorf (Earth System Science)