Luka Vucinic

@luximus.bsky.social

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Environmental Assessment and Management at University of East Anglia. All opinions expressed here are only mine, and the typos even more so.

A slightly different piece of writing from me this time. I've written a guest opinion for the EGU Hydrological Sciences blog asking a question I didn't expect to be asking a few years ago: Has groundwater finally gone mainstream? You can find it here: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

Has groundwater finally gone mainstream?

Groundwater has always had an image problem. Throughout my career, I have lost count of how many times we have described groundwater as an “invisible resource” or similar. It is almost a cliché in hyd...

blogs.egu.eu

A slightly different piece of writing from me this time. I've written a guest opinion for the EGU Hydrological Sciences blog asking a question I didn't expect to be asking a few years ago: Has groundwater finally gone mainstream? You can find it here: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

Has groundwater finally gone mainstream?

Groundwater has always had an image problem. Throughout my career, I have lost count of how many times we have described groundwater as an “invisible resource” or similar. It is almost a cliché in hyd...

blogs.egu.eu

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.

The IAH EDIA Working Group are developing an Inclusive Hydrogeology Toolkit - a concise, practical resource to help hydrogeologists, educators, employers & conference organisers embed EDIA principles into their work & practice. If you would like to join us, please feel free to get in touch.

Title: Inclusive Hydrogeology Toolkit
Author: IAH EDIA WORKING GROUP

The IAH EDIA Working Group are developing an Inclusive Hydrogeology Toolkit - a concise, practical resource to help hydrogeologists, educators, employers & conference organisers embed EDIA principles into their work & practice. If you would like to join us, please feel free to get in touch.

Title: Inclusive Hydrogeology Toolkit
Author: IAH EDIA WORKING GROUP

My first job was DJing, starting in high school and occasionally into my 20s. Years later, I found electronic music tracks called “Groundwater.” That curiosity has now become a Media Spotlight article in Groundwater journal. In press.

Media Spotlight article in Groundwater journal. Underground hydromusicology: subjective interpretations of groundwater-inspired electronic music.

My first job was DJing, starting in high school and occasionally into my 20s. Years later, I found electronic music tracks called “Groundwater.” That curiosity has now become a Media Spotlight article in Groundwater journal. In press.

Media Spotlight article in Groundwater journal. Underground hydromusicology: subjective interpretations of groundwater-inspired electronic music.

I have submitted 2 abstracts to #EGU26 with a group of excellent co-authors: 1) Science-policy blind spots and challenges in wastewater infrastructure regulation under climate change; 2) Linking flow cytometry signatures with flow and transport behaviour in karst aquifer systems. 🫶 @egu.eu

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I have submitted 2 abstracts to #EGU26 with a group of excellent co-authors: 1) Science-policy blind spots and challenges in wastewater infrastructure regulation under climate change; 2) Linking flow cytometry signatures with flow and transport behaviour in karst aquifer systems. 🫶 @egu.eu

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I’m delighted to be working with colleagues and a former student from Sri Lanka on karst aquifers in the Jaffna Peninsula, which are vital for development yet increasingly threatened by saltwater intrusion and anthropogenic pressures. Photo: Nilavarai Well, exposing a limestone cavern.

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I’m delighted to be working with colleagues and a former student from Sri Lanka on karst aquifers in the Jaffna Peninsula, which are vital for development yet increasingly threatened by saltwater intrusion and anthropogenic pressures. Photo: Nilavarai Well, exposing a limestone cavern.

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The IAH December 2025 newsletter is now live and includes information on the activities of the EDIA Working Group, as well as our plans for 2026. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like to get involved and contribute. You can find the full newsletter here: iah.org/wp-content/u...

EDIA Working Group, part of the IAH Socio-Hydrogeology Network

The IAH December 2025 newsletter is now live and includes information on the activities of the EDIA Working Group, as well as our plans for 2026. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like to get involved and contribute. You can find the full newsletter here: iah.org/wp-content/u...

EDIA Working Group, part of the IAH Socio-Hydrogeology Network