Murugan Ramasamy

Murugan Ramasamy

Dr. Murugan Ramasamy

Senior Scientist

Programmbereich: Programmbereich 3 - Land-Ozean Flüsse und Transformation
Arbeitsgruppe: AG Submariner Grundwasserabfluss

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Office: Fahrenheitstr. 6, Anbau
28359 Bremen
Room: 2216 (2. Etage)

Forschungsinteressen

- Hydrology and hydrogeology
- Surface–subsurface water and solute dynamics
- Land–ocean connectivity
- Reactive transport modelling

Publications

International Peer Reviewed Journals

  • Yao, W., Morganti, T. M., Wu, J., Borchers, M., Anschütz, A., Bednarz, L. K., ...Ramasamy, M... & Mengis, N. (2025). Exploring Site‐Specific Carbon Dioxide Removal Options With Storage or Sequestration in the Marine Environment–The 10 Mt CO2 yr− 1 Removal Challenge for Germany. Earth's Future, 13(4), e2024EF004902.

  • Ramasamy, M., Amann, T., & Moosdorf, N. (2024). Regional potential of coastal ocean alkalinization with olivine within 100 years. Environmental Research Letters, 19(6), 064030.

  • McKenzie, T., Moody, A., Barreira, J., Guo, X., Cohen, A., Wilson, S. J., & Ramasamy, M. (2024). Metals in coastal groundwater systems under anthropogenic pressure: a synthesis of behavior, drivers, and emerging threats. Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

  • Lino, Y., Udayashankar, H. N., Babu, D. S. S., Ramasamy, M., & Balakrishna, K. (2023). Large submarine groundwater discharges to the Arabian Sea from tropical southwestern Indian Coast: Measurements from seepage meters deployed during the low tide. Journal of Hydrology, 620, 129394.

  • Unnikrishnan, P., Srinivas, R., Ramasamy, M., & Babu, D. S. (2021). Computation of submarine groundwater discharge from geomorphologically different coastal catchments of SW India using numerical modeling. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 47, 101963.

  • Murugan Ramasamy, Remya R., Reji Srinivas and D.S.Suresh Babu (2021). Role of Submarine Groundwater Discharge in Coastal Aquifer Management. Journal of Geological Society of India
  • Till Oehler, Murugan Ramasamy, Mintu E. George, Suresh Babu DS, Kirstin Dähnke, Markus Ankele, Michael E. Böttcher, Isaac R. Santos, Nils Moosdorf (2021). Tropical Beaches Attenuate Groundwater Nitrogen Pollution Flowing to the Ocean. Environmental Science & Technology 2021 55 (12), 8432-8438
  • Jesuraja, K., Selvam, S., & Murugan, R. (2021). GIS-based assessment of groundwater quality index (DWQI and AWQI) in Tiruchendur Coastal City, Southern Tamil Nadu, India. Environmental Earth Sciences, 80(7), 1-17.
  • S Selvam, P Muthukumar, Sruthy Sajeev, S Venkatramanan, SY Chung, K Brindha, DS Suresh Babu, & R Murugan (2020). Quantification of Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) using radon, radium tracers and nutrient inputs in Punnakayal, South coast of India. Geoscience Frontiers 12(1), 29-38.
  • Ramasamy, M., Power, C. (2019). Evolution of Acid Mine Drainage from a Coal Waste Rock Pile Reclaimed with a Simple Soil Cover. Hydrology2019, 6(4), 83.
  • Saravanakumar, B., Radhakrishnan, C., Ramasamy, M., Kaliaperumal, R., Britten, A. J., & Mkandawire, M. (2019). Copper oxide/mesoporous carbon nanocomposite synthesis, morphology and electrochemical properties for gel polymer-based asymmetric supercapacitors. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry,852, 113504.
  • Saravanakumar, B., Radhakrishnan, C., Ramasamy, M., Kaliaperumal, R., Britten, A. J., & Mkandawire, M. (2019). Surfactant determines the morphology, structure and energy storage features of CuO nanostructures. Results in Physics,13, 102185.
  • Ramasamy, M., Power, C., Mkandawire, M (2018). Numerical prediction of the long-term evolution of acid mine drainage at a waste rock pile site remediated with an HDPE-lined cover system. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 216, 10-26.
  • Power, C., Ramasamy, M., Mkandawire, M. (2018) Performance assessment of a single-layer moisture store-and-release cover system at a mine waste rock pile in a seasonally humid region (Nova Scotia, Canada). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 190(4), 186.
  • Power, C., Tsourlos, P., Ramasamy, M., Nivorlis, A, Mkandawire, M. (2018) Combined DC resistivity and induced polarization (DC-IP) for mapping the internal composition of a mine waste rock pile in Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 150, 40-51.
  • Power, C., Ramasamy, M., Mkandawire, M., MacAskill, D. MacPhee, J., Shea, J. Mayich, D., Baechler, F. (2017) Five-year performance monitoring of a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) cover system at a reclaimed mine waste rock pile in the Sydney Coalfield (Nova Scotia, Canada). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24(34), 26744-26762.
  • Brindha, K., Rajesh, R., Murugan, R. and Elango, L. (2012) Nitrate pollution in groundwater in some rural areas of Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering, 54(1), 64-70.
  • Elango, L, Brindha, K, Kalpana, L, Faby Sunny, Nair, R. N. and Murugan, R. (2012) Groundwater flow and radionuclide decay-chain transport modelling around a proposed uranium tailings pond in India, Hydrogeology Journal, 20(4): 797–812.
  • Rajesh, R., Brindha, K., Murugan, R. and Elango, L. (2012) Influence of hydrogeochemical processes on temporal changes in groundwater quality in a part of Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 65, 1203-1213.
  • Brindha, K., Rajesh, R., Murugan, R. and Elango, L. (2011) Fluoride contamination in groundwater in parts of Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh, India, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 172, 481 – 492.

Book chapters/Edited Volumes

  • Ramasamy, M., George, M. E., Babu, D. S., & Moosdorf, N. (2025). Assessing submarine groundwater discharge and nutrient fluxes along the southwest coast of India. In Ecohydrology of Kerala (pp. 191-207). Elsevier.
  • K. Sreelash and R. Murugan. Adaptation work of Groundwater Hydrology, 3ed by David K. Todd, Larry W. Mays.Type of work: Chapter Review and Content Development for Adaptation of the book. Wiley India Adaptation. ISBN: 978-81-947263-3-3.