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Peter G. Cook is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia, focusing on research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work integrates several subfields, primarily environmental engineering, geochemistry and petrology, water science and technology, geophysics, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as groundwater flow and contamination studies, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, hydrology and watershed management studies, groundwater and watershed analysis, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, mine drainage and remediation techniques, and hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis.

Recent publications by Peter G. Cook include:

  • Conceptual uncertainties in groundwater and porewater fluxes estimated by radon and radium mass balances, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Drinking water quality from rural handpump-boreholes in Africa, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Controls on Interactions Between Surface Water, Groundwater, and Riverine Vegetation Along Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams in Arid Regions, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Environmental tracers to evaluate groundwater residence times and water quality risk in shallow unconfined aquifers in sub Saharan Africa, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Worth of hydraulic and water chemistry observation data in terms of the reliability of surface water-groundwater exchange flux predictions under varied flow conditions, 2020, Journal of Hydrology

Peter G. Cook often collaborates with other researchers, including Shawan Dogramaci, Craig T. Simmons, Ilka Wallis, Daniel Partington, and Eddie W. Banks. These repeated collaborations indicate a sustained research network within the domains of water resources and hydrology.

Publication venues where this researcher frequently contributes include Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Ground Water, Hydrogeology Journal, and Limnology and Oceanography.

In addition to journal articles, Peter G. Cook has authored books published by The Groundwater Project eBooks. These books are titled Introduction to Isotopes and Environmental Tracers as Indicators of Groundwater Flow (2020) and Quantification of Groundwater Recharge (2025).

Best Publications

  • Choosing appropriate techniques for quantifying groundwater recharge

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Richard W. Healy;Peter G. Cook

  • Using groundwater levels to estimate recharge

    Richard W. Healy;Peter G. Cook

  • Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology

    Peter G. Cook;Andrew Leslie Herczeg

  • Land clearance and river salinisation in the western Murray Basin, Australia

    G.B. Allison;P.G. Cook;S.R. Barnett;G.R. Walker

  • Field testing of modular borehole monitoring with simultaneous distributed acoustic sensing and geophone vertical seismic profiles at Citronelle, Alabama

    Thomas M Daley;Douglas E Miller;Kevin Dodds;Peter Cook

  • Determining natural groundwater influx to a tropical river using radon, chlorofluorocarbons and ionic environmental tracers

    P.G. Cook;G. Favreau;J.C. Dighton;S. Tickell

  • Determining Timescales for Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport

    Peter G. Cook;John-Karl Böhlke

  • Recent advances in dating young groundwater: chlorofluorocarbons, and 85Kr

    P.G. Cook;D.K. Solomon

  • Hydrogeologic controls on disconnection between surface water and groundwater

    Philip Andreas Brunner;Peter G Cook;Craig Trevor Simmons

  • 3H and 3He

    D. Kip Solomon;Peter G. Cook

  • The Response of the Northern Hemisphere Storm Tracks and Jet Streams to Climate Change in the CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 Climate Models

    B. J. Harvey;P. Cook;L. C. Shaffrey;R. Schiemann

  • Quantifying groundwater discharge to Cockburn River, southeastern Australia, using dissolved gas tracers 222Rn and SF6

    P. G. Cook;S. Lamontagne;D. Berhane;J. F. Clark

  • Transport of Atmospheric Trace Gases to the Water Table: Implications for Groundwater Dating with Chlorofluorocarbons and Krypton 85

    P. G. Cook;D. K. Solomon

  • Chlorofluorocarbons as Tracers of Groundwater Transport Processes in a Shallow, Silty Sand Aquifer

    P. G. Cook;D. K. Solomon;L. N. Plummer;E. Busenberg

  • Transmission losses, infiltration and groundwater recharge through ephemeral and intermittent streambeds: A review of applied methods

    Margaret Shanafield;Peter G. Cook;Peter G. Cook

  • Estimating groundwater discharge to rivers from river chemistry surveys

    Peter G. Cook;Peter G. Cook

  • Spatial variability of groundwater recharge in a semiarid region

    P.G. Cook;G.R. Walker;I.D. Jolly

  • Estimating paleorecharge and paleoclimate from unsaturated zone profiles

    P. G. Cook;W. M. Edmunds;C. B. Gaye

  • Ecohydrology: Vegetation Function, Water and Resource Management

    Derek Eamus;Tom Hatton;Peter Cook;Christine Colvin

  • Spatial and temporal variability of ground water recharge in central Australia: a tracer approach.

    Glenn A. Harrington;Peter G. Cook;Andrew L Herczeg

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig T. Simmons
Craig T. Simmons University of Newcastle Australia
Philip Brunner
Philip Brunner University of Neuchâtel
Thomas Stieglitz
Thomas Stieglitz University of Freiburg
Derek Eamus
Derek Eamus University of Technology Sydney
Anthony P. O'Grady
Anthony P. O'Grady Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Glen R. Walker
Glen R. Walker Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Okke Batelaan
Okke Batelaan Flinders University
Rolf Kipfer
Rolf Kipfer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Eurybiades Busenberg
Eurybiades Busenberg United States Geological Survey
Andrew L. Herczeg
Andrew L. Herczeg Flinders University

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