Research Question: To what extent can temperature be used to characterise karst
aquifer hydrogeology on scales from stalagmite forming drip waters to regional
springs? Heat is potentially a powerful tracer in karstified aquifers, since
preferential flow paths, characteristic of karstic aquifers, may carry surface
temperature variations to considerable depth in short timeframes during recharge
events. Thus heat can be used to characterise hydrogeological processes at a
variety of scales from regional recharge and discharge to individual drip waters
in caves. At low discharges responsible for speleothems formation, temperature
measurements at suitable temporal resolution and precision have rarely been
made
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