Is groundwater flow a source of pharmaceutical pollution for the Swedish coast?

This project aims to better understand the role that coastal groundwater discharge plays in delivering pharmaceuticals to the Swedish coast and Baltic Sea. We will do this through a combination of field and lab studies using geochemical tracers. We also plan to construct machine learning model that predicts groundwater and pharmaceutical flow to the coast. We aim to not only quantify the pharmaceutical flow to the Baltic, but also better understand the role of coastal groundwater discharge and the interplay between land-use, geology, and other environmental factors in terms of the concentrations and types of pharmaceuticals we see in different locations.