Gualbert Oude Essink

Biographic Data

ID6821571
NAMEGualbert Oude Essink
GIVEN NAMESGualbert Oude
FAMILY NAMEEssink
SIGNATUREESSINK G O
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0003-0931-6944
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Controls on coastal saline groundwater across North America

    Open AccessDaniel Kretschmer, Holly A Michael et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Groundwater is crucial to sustaining coastal freshwater needs. About 32 million people in the coastal USA rely on groundwater as their primary water source. With rapidly growing coastal communities and increasing demands for fresh groundwater, understanding controls of continental-scale coastal groundwater salinity is critical. To investigate what hydrogeological factors (e.g. topography, hydraulic conductivity) control coastal saline groundwater…

  • Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth

    Open AccessRobert Reinecke, Sebastian Gnann et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Knowing the depth at which groundwater can be found below the land surface is critical for understanding its potential accessibility by ecosystems and society. Uncertainty in global scale water table depth (WTD) limits our ability to assess groundwater’s role in a water cycle altered by changing climate, land cover, and human water use. Global groundwater models offer a top–down pathway to gain this knowledge, but their uncertainty is currently p…

  • Sustainability of fresh groundwater resources in fifteen major deltas around the world

    Open AccessJoeri van Engelen, Gualbert Oude Essink et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Population growth, urbanization and intensification of irrigated agriculture in the world’s deltas boost the demand for fresh water, with extensive groundwater extraction as a result. This, in turn, leads to salt water intrusion and upconing, which poses a threat to freshwater and food security. Managing fresh groundwater resources in deltas requires accurate knowledge about the current status and behaviour of their fresh groundwater resources. H…

  • Offshore fresh groundwater in coastal unconsolidated sediment systems as a potential fresh water source in the 21st century

    Open AccessDaniel Zamrsky, Gualbert Oude Essink et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Coastal areas worldwide are often densely populated and host regional agricultural and industrial hubs. Strict water quality requirements for agricultural, industrial and domestic use are regularly not satisfied by surface waters in coastal areas and consequently lead to over-exploitation of local fresh groundwater resources. Additional pressure by both climate change and population growth further intensifies the upcoming water stress and raise t…

  • A practical quantification of error sources in regional-scale airborne groundwater salinity mapping

    Open AccessJude King, Gualbert Oude Essink et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Hosting over 10% of the world’s population, low elevation (<10 m above mean sea-level) coastal zones are susceptible to saline groundwater intrusion—making fresh groundwater an often scarce and threatened commodity. To inform suitable coastal groundwater management strategies, regional-scale mapping of fresh and saline groundwater occurrence is extremely beneficial. This mapping is usually based on conventional ground-based methods. However, thes…

  • Adaptation to uncertain sea-level rise; how uncertainty in Antarctic mass-loss impacts the coastal adaptation strategy of the Netherlands

    Open AccessMarjolijn Haasnoot, Jaap Kwadijk et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Uncertainties in the rate and magnitude of sea-level rise (SLR) complicate decision making on coastal adaptation. Large uncertainty arises from potential ice mass-loss from Antarctica that could rapidly increase SLR in the second half of this century. The implications of SLR may be existential for a low-lying country like the Netherlands and warrant exploration of high-impact low-likelihood scenarios. To deal with uncertain SLR, the Netherlands h…

  • Large-scale, probabilistic salinity mapping using airborne electromagnetics for groundwater management in Zeeland, the Netherlands

    Open AccessJoost Delsman, Esther S van Baaren et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Seawater intrusion has often resulted in scarce fresh groundwater resources in coastal lowlands. Careful management is essential to avoid the overexploitation of these vulnerable fresh groundwater resources, requiring detailed information on their spatial occurrence. Airborne electromagnetics (EM) has proved a valuable tool for efficient mapping of ground conductivity, as a proxy for fresh groundwater resources. Stakeholders are, however, interes…