Groundwater
With our numerous years of experience and expertise in hydrogeology and water management, the Groundwater group focuses on sustainably managing groundwater resources, determining how climate change affects drinking water production, and performing health risk assessments for groundwater and well management. We focus on groundwater as a resource, and in particular how it interacts with surface water through bank filtration.
We collect field data and develop monitoring concepts tailored to the respective issue. With the help of data analyses and modelling, we simulate qualitative and quantitative processes and calculate the impact on groundwater. Using our expertise, we aim to improve understanding of the importance of groundwater.
Overview of Core Competencies:
Sustainable management of groundwater resources
Analysis of climate change impacts on drinking water extraction
Assessment of health risks associated with groundwater
Well management and optimisation
Interactions between groundwater and surface water (e.g., bank filtration)
Development of customised monitoring concepts for specific challenges
Data collection, analysis, and modelling to simulate qualitative and quantitative groundwater processes
Raising awareness of the importance of groundwater through expert knowledge
Research themes
Projects
Selected Publications
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) for setting health-based performance targets during soil aquifer treatment
- Assessment of Full-Scale Indirect Potable Water Reuse in El Port de la Selva, Spain
- Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge
- Einfluss von Standortfaktoren auf die Brunnenalterung: Klassifizierung der Berliner Trinkwasserbrunnen und Quantifizierung ihres Alterungspotentials
- Best data handling practices in water-related research