Subsurface Environmental Processes
The main objective of our research is to quantify the links between the physical heterogeneity of subsurface environments, including porous and fractured media, the heterogeneity of the resulting flow fields, and the effective transport behavior, including solute dispersion, mixing, and (bio-)chemical reactions. We tackle these problems using both experiments — performed over scales ranging from micro to field scale — and (numerical and theoretical) modelling. The environmental and industrial applications of our research include the study of the impact of climate change on groundwater resources, remediation of polluted sites, nuclear waste storage, geothermal energy, geological sequestration of CO2, recovery of hydrocarbons, and hydraulic fracturing.
News from our Group
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New ETH Research Grant
July 3, 2020
The SEP group and the Stocker lab have been awarded an ETH Research Grant to work on microbial processes in soil, using microfluidics to create soil analogues. This award will support ... SEP Group will be convener at AGU
June 27, 2020
Dorothee and Joaquin will be conveners at AGU (December 7-11th, 2020) in the following sessions (click them for details):
Biochemical and hydrodynamic processes in biofilms and porous me... New publication
May 27, 2020
New paper on reactive transport at pore scale in collaboration with CSIC (Barcelona) published in Water Resources Research.