In the
realm of research,
academic hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the
traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.
Academic drawing, representation, and other forms of
traditional «craftsmanship» seemed inadequate for an advanced art, which artists in the twentieth century wanted to root in the
realm of feelings, sensations, and human experience (which opened the doors to abstraction).