Minnesota Groundwater Tracing Database

Journal publications

• Hydrogeology Journal – Published 16 January 2025

  • Informing nitrate concentration trends: estimating groundwater residence time in a karstic, multi-aquifer system using anthropogenic tracers (Minnesota, USA)

• Hydrogeology Journal – Published 15 March 2023

  • Synthesizing multifaceted characterization techniques to refine a conceptual model of groundwater sources to springs in valley settings (Minnesota, USA)

• Carbonates and Evaporites - Volume 27, Issue 2, June 2012

  • Karst Conduit Flow in the Cambrian St. Lawrence Confining Unit, Southeastern Minnesota

• Sedimentary Geology - Volume 184, Issues 3-4, February 2006

  • Evidence for hydraulic heterogeneity and anisotropy in the mostly carbonate Prairie du Chien Group, Southeastern Minnesota

• International Journal of Speleology - Volume 5, Issues 3-4, December 1973

  • Fluorescent Dye Determination of Groundwater Movement and Contamination in Permeable Rock Strata

Conference proceedings

• 2023: 17th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Comparing and contrasting standard dye tracing monitoring techniques (pp. 179–188)

  • Identifying recharge and flow in fractured crystalline rock using karst characterization methods (pp. 189–200) 
     

• 2020: 16th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Combining high resolution spring monitoring, dye tracing, watershed analysis, and outcrop and borehole observations to characterize the Galena Karst, Southeast Minnesota, USA

  • Development of karst landscape unit maps for Houston County Minnesota, U.S.A.

• 2018: 15th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Coupling Dye Tracing, Water Chemistry, and Passive Geophysics to Characterize a Siliciclastic Pseudokarst Aquifer, Southeastern Minnesota

  • Electronic Access to Minnesota Springs, Karst Features and Groundwater Tracing Information

    • Poster Presentation

• 2015: 14th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Goliath's Cave, Minnesota: Epigenic Modification and Extension of Preexisting Hypogenic Conduits

  • Case Studies of Animal Feedlots on Karst in Olmsted County, Minnesota

  • Conduit Flow in the Cambrian Lone Rock Formation, Southeastern Minnesota

  • Creation of a Map of Paleozoic Bedrock Springsheds in Southeastern Minnesota

  • Ordovician Karst of Southeast Minnesota Field Trip Guidebook

• 2013: 13th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Deep Time Origins of Sinkhole Collapse Failures in Sewage Lagoons in Southeastern Minnesota

• 2008: 11th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Dye Tracing Within the St. Lawrence Confining Unit in Southeastern Minnesota

  • Spring Characterization Methods & Springshed Mapping

• 2005: 10th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Springshed Mapping in Support of Watershed Management

  • Dye Tracing Sewage Lagoon Discharge in a Sandstone Karst, Askov, Minnesota

  • Spectral Deconvolution and Quantification of Natural Organic Material and Fluorescent Tracer Dyes

• 2003: 9th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Quarrying Impacts on Groundwater Flow Paths

• 1995: 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst

  • Sinkhole treatment to improve water quality and control erosion in southeastern Minnesota

  • Sinkhole Distribution in Winona County, Minnesota revisited

• 1995: Proceeding of the International Association of Hydrogeologists XXVI International Congress

  • Optical Brightener Screening for Sewage Contamination of Water Table Aquifers in Southeastern Minnesota

  • Optical Brighteners: Sorption Behavior, Detection, Septic System Tracer Applications

• 1991: 3rd Conference on Hydrogeology, Ecology, Monitoring and Management of Ground Water in Karst Terranes

  • Lewiston Sinkhole Collapse Report 1991 (p. 715 - 724)

  • The Oronoco Landfill Dye Trace III: Results From a Superfund Remedial Investigation in a Glaciated, Diffuse-Flow Karst (p. 417–429)

• 1986: Environmental Problems in Karst Terranes and Their Solutions Conference

  • Dye Tracing Studies of the Fountain, Minnesota Sewage System

• 1986: 5th International Symposium on Underground Water Tracing

  • Dye Tracing Through Thick Unsaturated Zones

• 1984: 1st Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes

  • Altura Minnesota Lagoon Collapses

  • Sinkhole Distribution in Winona County, Minnesota

Miscellaneous

• 2020 (May–June): Minnesota Conservation Volunteer

  • The Farmer who went underground

• 2016: Minnesota Conservation Volunteer

  • Mapping Subterranean Waters: A Seven-Year Project to Learn More about Southeastern Minnesota's Hydrology Brings New Awareness to the Interconnectedness of Land and Water

• 2005: Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources Report

  • Hydraulic Impacts of Quarries and Gravel Pits

• 1994: Mystery Cave Resource Evaluation (Groundwater) - Interpretive Report

  • The Waters of Mystery Cave: Forestville State Park

• 1983: National Speleological Society Bulletin

  • Clastic Sediments in Mystery Cave, Southeastern Minnesota

• 1983: Journal of Freshwater

  • Groundwater: Hidden Questions, Hidden Answers

Related Information

• Springshed Assessment Methods for Paleozoic Bedrock Springs of Southeastern Minnesota

  • Report of Methods

  • Springshed Map

Questions?

• John Barry, Department of Natural Resources, 651-259-5660