Congratulations to Ulrike Mausolf, our former Master student, on the successful completion of her studies and the publication of her Master thesis in Groundwater Dimensions.

This thesis examines the negotiation of groundwater futures in the Mansfeld-Südharz district in Germany, initiated by the junior research group regulate. As part of the research, qualitative, guideline based interviews were conducted with stakeholders in groundwater management in Mansfeld-Südharz and with researchers from regulate. Additionally, fieldnotes from participant observation at joint workshops were included in the material. In the analysis, this material is made productive with theories from the fields of temporalities, complexity, and planning. The work highlights how uncertain and threatening futures are narrated around groundwater, the ways in which indeterminacy is inscribed in the subject of groundwater in the past, present and future, how desirable futures for groundwater are articulated and, in turn, uncertainties and indeterminacies in planning come to the fore. The analysis contributes to ethnographic groundwater research and the examination of anthropocene futures between narratives of
urgency and postponements.

We are happy that Ulrike published her thesis here in the Groundwater Dimensions Series.