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07/2023
publication

See our new open access paper on strategies for heat management in groundwater involving managed aquifer recharge for climate change adaptation, which has been published in the high-impact journal Water Research:

Epting, J., Råman Vinnå, C. L., Affolter, A., Scheidler, S. & Schilling, O. S.: (2023) Climate change adaptation and mitigation measures for alluvial aquifers - Solution approaches based on the thermal exploitation of managed aquifer (MAR) and surface water recharge (MSWR). Water Res.238, 119988, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.119988

06/2023
publication

See our new report about recommendations for a systematic quantification of the uncertainty of groundwater models in Aqua&Gas: Epting., J.,Raman Vinna, C.L., Affolter, A., Scheidler, S., andSchilling, O.S.(2023). Anpassungsstrategien an den Klimawandel - Lösungsansätze zum Wärmemanagement von Grund- und Oberflächenwasserressourcen.Aqua & Gas 06/2023.

04/2023
team

It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr. Stéphanie Musyto our team in Basel. Dr. Musy holds a PhD in Climate Sciences from University of Bern and is an expert on radio-noble gas analysis and tracer hydrogeology. She is leading the research in our SNSF-JSPS Strategic Japanese-Swiss Science and Technology Programme (SJSSTP)-funded research project "Resilient water management in tectonically active, intensely used watersheds – Combining online tracer & seismic monitoring with integrated hydrological modelling of climate change & water use" (SNSF project IZLJZ2_214048), which we conduct in close collaboration with Kochi University, Japan.

4/2023 presentation

EGU 2023: Mustafa, S.M.T.,..., Schilling, O.S., et. al.: Making water models more inclusive and interdisciplinary to underpin sustainable development, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-16122, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16122, 2023.

4/2023 presentation

EGU 2023: Tang, Q., Delottier, H., Schilling, O.S., Kurtz, W., and Brunner, P.: A coupled data assimilation framework with an integrated surface and subsurface hydrological model, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-15189, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15189, 2023.

4/2023 presentation

EGU 2023: Imtiaz, A., Panzera, F., Hallo, M., Dresmann, H., Steiner, B., and Fäh, D.: Developing an urban-scale 3D geophysical model for Basel, Switzerland, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-3505, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-3505, 2023.

01/2023
team

We are excited to welcome Dr. Jared van Rooyento our team. Dr. van Rooyen, who will be based at Eawag, is an expert on water isotope analyses and will focus in his project on the development of state-of-the-art tritium, stable water isotope and noble gas tracer techniques for the online quantification and management of managed aquifer recharge systems.

01/2023
team

Friederike Currle successfully obtained a travel & research grant from the Canadian Sentinel Nord research program. She will visit Prof. René Therrien at Université Laval in Québec, Canada, for a 2-months research stay in February and March 2023, where she will implement modified colloid filtration algorithms for explicit simulations of microbial transport on the wellfield scale in the integrated hydrological model HydroGeoSphere.

10/2022
media

On 20. October 21:05-21:50 SRFaired an episode of SRF Einstein titled"Kann die Forschung unser Wasser retten". In this episode, Annette Affolter and Oliver Schilling present two managed aquifer recharge (MAR) systems used for drinking water production in the city and region of Basel and discuss its potential to tackle and mitigate climate change and water pollution related water issues. SRF Einstein:

10/2022
event

Meet us on 19th November 2022 at the 20th Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Lausanne. We will hold 2 oral and X poster presentations in the Hydrology and Hydrogeology session. https://geoscience-meeting.ch/sgm2022/program/session-program/

10/2022
team

We are happy to welcome two new MSc students in our team:
Daniel Namendorf will investigate in his MSc thesis the impact of river restoration measures on microbial transport at the surface water-groundwater interface and develop a methodology to conduct continuous online flow cytometry directly in the field even under high sediment loading/turbidity.
Merhawi Solomon will investigate in his MSc thesis the sources of pumped groundwater at an urban riverbank filtration site with different environmental tracer techniques, and quantify the impact of ongoing river restoration measures on surface water-groundwater mixing dynamics.

09/2022
publication

Our new paper on the explicit transport simulation of reactive environmental gas tracers (²²²Rn,³⁷Ar, ⁴He) with the integrated surface-subsurface hydrological model HydroGeoSphere has now been published as part of the 'Advances and emerging methods in tracer hydrogeology' special issue of Frontiers in Water:

Delottier, H., Schilling, O. S., Musy, S., Purtschert, R., & Brunner, P. (2022). Explicit simulation of environmental gas tracers with integrated surface and subsurface hydrological models. Front. Water, 4, 980030. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.980030

09/2022
news

Online seminar onFriday, 4.11.22, 12:30,about "Thermal management of groundwater resources - climate change, thermal potentials and opportunities" by PD Dr. Jannis Epting. (Seminar Link)

09/2022
field work

Yama Tomonaga and Oliver Schilling presented research and participated in the Pallas Symposium at the Pallas atmosphere-ecosystem supersite on the northern edge of the Boreal forests in northern Finland. After the symposium, we conducted a two day field sampling campaign in Pallas with our good friend Pertti Ala-Aho of Oulu University and analysed dissolved gases directly on site with one of our miniRUEDIs, accompanied by some water and eDNA sampling for microbial analyses. Check out some photos: https://tomonaga.ch/yama/?p=906

08/2022
team

We say our farewells to Dr. Martin Binder, who has conducted research on the model- and tracer-based detection of leaky sewers in complex urban environment. Dr. Martin Binder stayed with us for half a year as part of his DAAD funded postdoc fellowship.

07/2022
team

We are excited to welcome Dr. Qi Tangto our team. Dr. Tang, who will be based at Université de Neuchâtel, is a an expert on data assimilation and real-time modelling with integrated surface-subsurface hydrological models and will focus in her project on the development of a modular platform for data assimilation with HydroGeoSphere based on the Parallel Data Assimilation Framework (PDAF). She will do her research as part of the H2020 Wateragri Project.

07/2022
team

We are excited to welcome ournew PhD student Friederike Currle to our team. Friederike Currle will focus on the development of coupled solute and microbial transport algorithms in integrated surface-subsurface hydrological models (ISSHM) and on the application of data assimilation approaches for continuous tracer data.

06/2022
team

We published a new paper on buried paleo-channel detection with tracers, integrated modelling and a novel inverse method in Geophysical Research Letters: Schilling, O. S., Partington, D. J., Doherty, J., Kipfer, R., Hunkeler, D., & Brunner, P. (2022). Buried paleo-channel detection with a groundwater model, tracer-based observations, and spatially varying, preferred anisotropy pilot point calibration. Geophys. Res. Lett. 49(14), e2022GL098944. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098944

06/2022
publication

See our new report about recommendations for a systematic quantification of the uncertainty of groundwater models in Aqua&Gas: Moeck, C., Schilling, O. S., Künze, R., Brunner, P., & Schirmer, M. (2022). Grundwassermodellierung - Warum auch Modellunsicherheiten quantifiziert werden sollten. Aqua & Gas 7+8. https://www.aquaetgas.ch/wasser/trinkwasser-grundwasser/20220628_ag7_warum-modellunsicherheiten-quantifiziert-werden-sollten/

05/2022
team

We are excited to welcome Dr. Yama Tomonaga to our team. Dr. Tomonaga is a leading noble gas geochemist and tracer expert and will be in charge of our analytical experiments and responsible for our field equipment & installations.

04/2022
team

We are excited to welcome Dr. Carl Love Råman Vinnå to our team. Dr. Råman Vinnå conducts research in the “Future River temperatures in Switzerland under climate change” project, for which he obtained funding for from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN).

04/2022
publication

Read in this new reportabout the diverse research and applications that the Applied and Environmental Geology group (AUG)is working on in the Regio Basiliensis special about the Geosciences at University of Basel. Affolter, A., Dresmann, H., & Epting, J. (2022) Undercover Investigations Forschung für eine nachhaltige Planung urbaner Infrastruktur im Raum Basel. Regio Basiliensis 63/1 2022 S. 75-86 www.gegbasel.ch