Chris Groves is an adjunct professor and currently works on a wide range of issues of hydrogeology, geochemistry, and water resources, particularly with regard to karst aquifer/landscape systems. A major part of this work involves development of methods to better understand and quantify the atmospheric carbon sink associated with carbonate mineral dissolution in karst regions. An evolving network to measure this sink has field sites in Kentucky, the California Sierras, southwest China, and a new site is under development in southeastern Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

Groves has also been active for nearly ten years in cooperative hydrogeologic research in southern China's karst regions, and is a member the China Environmental Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He currently serves as President of the Cave Research Foundation, as Project Leader of the United Nations scientific program Global Study of Karst Aquifers and Water Resources and as Director of Western Kentucky University's Hoffman Environmental Research Institute (http://hoffman.wku.edu).

Raeisi, E., C. Groves, and J. Meiman, in review, Effects of partial and full pipe flow on hydrochemographs of the Mammoth Cave karst aquifer, manuscript submitted to Journal of Hydrology.

Groves, C. and J. Meiman, in press, Weathering, geomorphic work, and karst landscape evolution in the Cave City groundwater basin, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. Invited manuscript accepted for publication by Geomorphology.

Groves, C., in press, Hydrologic techniques. Invited book chapter accepted for publication in Methods in Karst Hydrogeology. Dublin, Ireland: International Association of Hydrogeologists.

Groves, C., in press, Hydrology and hydrogeology. Invited book chapter accepted for publication in Essential Sources in Cave Science, British Cave Research Association Cave Studies Series.

Liu, Z., C. Groves, D. Yuan, J. Meiman, 2004, South China Karst Aquifer Storm-Scale Hydrochemistry, Ground Water, vol. 42, pp. 491-499.

Liu, Z., C. Groves, D. Yuan, J. Meiman, G. Jiang, S. He, and Q. Li, 2004, Hydrochemical variations during flood pulses in the south-west China peak cluster karst: impacts of CaCO3-H2O-CO2 Interactions, Hydrological Processes, vol. 18, pp. 2423-2437

Groves, C. and J. Meiman, 2004, Flooding, in Encyclopedia of Caves. New York: Elsevier, pp. 251-254.

Groves, C., J. Meiman, J. Despain, Z. Liu, and D. Yuan, 2002, Karst aquifers as atmospheric carbon sinks: An evolving global network of research sites. 2002 U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4174, pp. 32-39.

Glennon, J.A. and C. Groves, 2002, An examination of perennial stream drainage patterns within the Mammoth Cave watershed. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, vol. 64, pp. 82-91.

Groves, C, and J. Meiman, 2001, Inorganic carbon flux and aquifer evolution in the south central Kentucky karst, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4011, pp. 99-105.

Meiman, J., C. Groves, and S. Herstein, 2001, In-cave dye tracing and drainage basin divides in the Mammoth Cave karst aquifer, Kentucky, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4011, pp. 179-185