Keywords:
Radon-222 (Emanation) Water Age,
Radon-220/Radon-222 Ratio à
Mixing With Alluvial Groundwater,
Artificial Recharge,
Detection of NAPLs;
Problems Studied:
Residence time of hyporheic ground water: < 15 days,
Fate of downwelling Trace Contaminants,
NAPL plume characterization,
Radon-220 (Thoron) as a groundwater tracer,
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD);
Team:
Rolf
Kipfer, Michael Berg, Tom Gonser;
Projects:
• Continuous
Radon Monitoring (since 2002);
External
Project Partner: Univ. Neuchâtel,
Switzerland (Dr. Heinz Surbeck) NUCFILM,
• Hyporheic
habitat, Flathead River (since 2003);
External
Project Partners: Universitiy of Montana, Pinawa (Prof.
W.W.Woessner; Prof.
J.A. Stanford),
• Detection
of tetrachloroethylene (PER) plumes in ground water (since 2004),
• SGD
at Elkhorn Slough, CA (since 2006) ;
External
Project Partner: Stanford University (Prof. A. Paytan), PAYTANGROUP.
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Ground Water Tracer Studies
Keywords:
Stimulus-Response Principle,
Residence Times and Mixing;
Problems Studied:
Radionuclide transport,
Transport behavior of rhodamine water tracer (RWT);
Team:
Urs von Gunten, Rolf Kipfer;
Projects:
• In-situ
oxygenation of ground water (KTI; 1997-2002),
• Radionuclide
Transport (NSF-SCOPES-JRP, 2000-2003;
Project
Partners: Dr. Vyacheslav Rumynin, Russian Academy of Sciences,
St. Petersburg Div. ;
Prof. Vyacheslav Shestopalov,
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev) ;
ITC-Workshop on „Case Studies
of Subsurface Radionuclide Migration, May 5 – 7, 2004;
• RWT
as a proxy for the attenuation of tracer organic contaminants;
Project
Partner: Stanford
University (Prof. Martin Reinhard), REINHARDGROUP.
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Contaminated Sites/Wastes
Disposal/Geogenic Groundwater Contaminant
Keywords:
Contaminant Transport, Solid-Liquid Interactions;
Problems Studied:
Site Management;
Team:
Annette Johnson;
Projects:
• Water
Resources Management (since 2004): WRQ
Uranium
as a geogenic groundwater contaminant, ;
detection
with airborne gamma-ray spectroscopy (AGS);
• Clean-Up
of Sondermülldeponie Kölliken SMDK.
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Major
peer-reviewed publications
Exchange
Between Ground Water and Surface Water
Fette, M., R. Kipfer, C.J. Schubert, E. Hoehn, &
B. Wehrli, 2005, Assessing river–groundwater exchange in the regulated Rhone
River (Switzerland) using stable isotopes and geochemical tracers, Appl.
Geochem. 20, 701–712. doi:10,1016/j.apgeochem.2004.11.006
Huggenberger, P., E. Hoehn, R.
Beschta, and W. Woessner, 1998, Abiotic aspects of channels and floodplains in
riparian ecology, Freshwater Biol. 40(3), 407-426. {22 cit. SCI,
2005}. .pdf
Von Gunten, H.R., G.
Karametaxas, U. Krähenbühl, M. Kuslys, R. Giovanoli, E. Hoehn, and R. Keil,
1991, Seasonal biogeochemical cycles in riverborne groundwater, Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta 55(12), 3597-3609. {56 cit. SCI, 2005}.
Hoehn, E., and P.H. Santschi,
1987, Interpretation of tracer displacement during infiltration of river water
to groundwater, Water Resour. Res. 23(4), 633-640.
Schwarzenbach, R.P., W. Giger,
E. Hoehn, and J.K. Schneider, 1983, Behavior of organic pollutants during
infiltration of river water to groundwater. Field studies, Environ. Sci.
Technol. 17(8), 472-479 {127 cit. SCI, 2005}.
Radon
in Ground Water
Hunkeler, D., E. Hoehn, P. Höhener,
and J. Zeyer, 1997, Rn-222 as a partitioning tracer to detect diesel fuel
contamination in aquifers: Laboratory experiments and field study, Environ.
Sci. Technol.31(11), 3180-3187. {20 cit. SCI, 2005}. doi:10.1021/es970163w
Hoehn, E., H.R. von Gunten, F.
Stauffer and Th. Dracos, 1992, Radon-222 as a groundwater tracer - A laboratory
study, Environ. Sci. Technol., 26(4), 734-738.
Hoehn, E. and H.R. von Gunten,
1989, Radon in groundwater - a tool to assess infiltration from surface waters
to aquifers, Water Resour. Res. 25(8), 1795-1803. {47 cit. SCI, 2005}.
Ground-Water
Tracer Studies
Eduard Hoehn and Olaf A. Cirpka,
Assessing hyporheic zone dynamics in two aluvial flood plains of the Southern
Alps using water temperature and tracers, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
(HESS), 10, 553-563. pdf
Ammann, A.A., E. Hoehn, and S.
Koch, 2003, Ground water pollution by roof runoff infiltration evidenced with
multi-tracer experiments, Water Research 37, 1143–1153. doi:10,1016/S0043-1354(02)00442-6
Mettler, S., P. Weidler, M.
Abdelmoula, R. Schoenenberger, E. Hoehn and U. von Gunten, 2001,
Characterization of iron and manganese precipitates from an in situ ground water
treatment plant, Ground Water 39(6), 921-930. .pdf
Hoehn, E., J. Eikenberg, T. Fierz,
W. Drost and E. Reichlmayr, 1998, The Grimsel Migration Experiment: Field
injection-withdrawal experiments in fractured rock with sorbing radionuclides,
J. Contam. Hydrol., 34, 85-106. doi:10,1016/S0169-7722(98)0083-7
Santschi, P.H., E. Hoehn, A.
Lück, and K. Farrenkothen, 1987, Tritium as a tracer for the movement of surface
water and groundwater in the Glatt valley, Switzerland, Environ. Sci.
Technol. 21(9), 909-916.
Hoehn, E., and P.V. Roberts,
1982, Advection-dispersion interpretation of tracer observations in an aquifer,
Ground Water 20(4), 457-465. {12 cit. SCI, 2003}.
Contaminated
Sites / Wastes Disposal
Rumynin, V.G., P.K. Konosavsky &
E. Hoehn, 2004,
Experimental and modeling study of adsorption–desorption processes with
application to a deep-well injection radioactive waste disposal site, J.
Contamin. Hydrol. 76(1/2), 19-46. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2004.07.008
Hoehn, E., C.A. Johnson, P.
Huggenberger, A. Amirbahman, A. Peter, and H.R. Zweifel, 2000, Investigative
strategies and risk assessment of old unlined municipal solid waste landfills, Waste
Manag. Res. 18, 1-14.
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Edi's Links
·
EawagIAHS/ICGW
·
oekostrom
·
AGU
·
CHGeol.
·
EurGeol
·
Flathead Research Station
·
University of Montana, U.S.A.
·
Geologie ETH
·
SGH
·
Schweiz.
Hydrol. Komm.
·
Rhone-Thur Project
·
Russian Academy of Science,
Institut of Environmental Geology, St. Petersburg Division, Petersburg,
Russia
·
Ukranian Academy of Science, Institute of
Geological Sciences, Radioecological Center, Kiyv, Ukraine
·
ITC _ The School of Underground Waste Storage
and Disposal
·
NUCFILM - Natural Radionuclides
·
Prof.
Peter Huggenberger, University
Basel
·
SNF, Swiss National Science Foundation
·
Canton
Thurgau
·
Prof. Martin Reinhard,
Stanford University
·
Prof. Adina
Paytan, Stanford University
·
Prof. Steven Gorelick,
Stanford University
·
Prof. Antoine Kies,
Université de Luxembourg
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CV, excerpt
Scientific Research
Topics:
- Solute exchange between
ground water and surface water
- Radon in ground water
(Rn-222, Rn-220)
- Ground-Water Tracers
- Contaminated Sites.
Project Management:
- Protection of drinking-water
wells,
- Environmental impact
assessment: hydropower operations, and remediation of contaminated sites.
International Relationships:
- Europäische Akademie
Bozen/Accademia Europea Bolzano, Alpine Umwelt (Prof. Ulrike Tappeiner)
- TU Wien, Inst. für
Abfallwirtschaft (Prof. Paul Brunner)
- Flathead Biological Research
Station (Prof. Jack A. Stanford),
- University of Montana,
U.S.A. (Prof. William W. Woessner)
- Stanford University, Dept.
of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Prof. Martin Reinhard),
- Stanford University, Dept.
of Earth Sciences (Prof. Adina Paytan, Prof. Steven M. Gorelick)
- U.S.G.S. Menlo Park, CA,
U.S.A. (Dr. Matthias Kohler, Dr. James A. Davis, Dr. David Stonestrom)
- Université de Luxembourg
(Prof. Antoine Kies).
Membership,
International Scientific Organizations:
- AGU, American Geophysical
Union
- EGU, European Geophysical
Union
- IAHS, International
Association of Hydrological Sciences
Membership, National
Scientific and Professional Organizations:
- EurGeol., Association of
European Geologists
- SGH, Schweiz. Gesellschaft
für Hydrogeologie
- SGG, Schweiz. Geologische
Gesellschaft
- SGHL, Schweiz. Gesellschaft
für Hydrologie und Limnologie
- CHGeol, Schweiz.
Geologenverband.
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