{"id":257574,"date":"2017-08-04T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=257574"},"modified":"2017-08-04T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:00:14","slug":"uog-research-shows-2-3m-gallons-fresh-water-flowing-guam-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-research-shows-2-3m-gallons-fresh-water-flowing-guam-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG research shows 2.3M gallons of fresh water flowing to Guam sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-257574 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-research-shows-2-3m-gallons-fresh-water-flowing-guam-sea\/ida-shalilian-mug\/'>Ida-Shalilian-mug<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-257577'>\n\t\t\t\tShalilian\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-research-shows-2-3m-gallons-fresh-water-flowing-guam-sea\/uog-pix-23\/'>UOG-pix<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-257578'>\n\t\t\t\tEnvironmental Science students from the University of Guam take measurements from Ayuyu Cave earlier this summer to gather information on the volume of fresh water discharging into the ocean.  (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Over several weeks this summer, University of Guam scientists and graduate students measured the freshwater outflow from Ayuyu Cave to gather information on the volume of fresh water discharging into the ocean from Guam\u2019s primary aquifer.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that 2.3 million gallons of freshwater flows daily into the ocean from Ayuyu Cave, located on the island\u2019s rocky northwestern coast. This significant finding was part of Ida Shalilian\u2019s thesis research for her master\u2019s degree in Environmental Science<\/p>\n<p>Shalilian defended her thesis in January and returned to Guam to gather more data after receiving a travel grant from the Research Corp. of the University of Guam. She graduated with a Master of Science in Environmental Science in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Shalilian presented her updated research findings as well as related information on associated geological features to Guam Waterworks Authority professionals on June 8, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe freshwater discharge from Ayuyu Cave can only be measured during the low tides of May and June, which is the end of Guam\u2019s dry season,\u201d said Dr. John Jenson, director of the Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific. \u201cRainy seasons may produce higher volumes of freshwater discharge, so this finding is of significant value to Guam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freshwater resources are critically important to island communities. Information about the natural plumbing of the northern Guam aquifer provides local resource managers, such as GWA, with valuable insights<\/p>\n<p>This information will be published in a WERI technical report, a refereed research paper, and made available to the public on WERI\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIda\u2019s work is just one example of the valuable research produced by graduates of the Environmental Science program at UOG,\u201d Jenson said<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Jenson at\u00a0jjenson@triton.uog.edu. <strong>(UOG)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over several weeks this summer, University of Guam scientists and graduate students measured the freshwater&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":257577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[17833,606,17834,2674],"class_list":["post-257574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific","tag-ayuyu-cave","tag-environmental-science","tag-guam-waterworks-authority","tag-weri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}