Category: News

A new educational and engaging publication! Thanks to Water Science Policy. The importance of agricultural practices in protecting groundwater - To drip or not to drip? Understanding nitrogen leaching in semi-arid Spain

Dorothee Kurz's paper is now published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. We present a microfluidic platform and the protocol of use to study biofilm development in quasi-2D porous media.

A new publication in Interface Focus in collaboration with Secchi's group on the role of biofilm matrix composition in controlling the expansion and morphology of the colonies.

New publication, with colleagues from the Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water at Eawag and collaborators from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, on the use of microfluidics, in combination with optical microscopy and X-ray spectroscopy, to investigate arsenic retention from zerovalent iron-based water treatment in Environmental Science & Technology.

Dorothee Kurz receives the Award for the best poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media. Congratulations!

Bacterial biofilms are found in many porous materials. Dorothee Kurz's paper is now published in Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences. In collaboration with colleagues from Princeton University, we show that the competition between hydrodynamics and microbial growth governs the opening and closing of preferential flow paths.

The project IRRIWAM, led by Dr. Sandra Pool (SEP Group), showed that irrigation technology is crucial. It contributes more than climate change to how much water evaporates and groundwater accumulates.This project has been funded through the World Food System Center (Competitive Center of ETH Zurich) with the economical support from Coop. See video

SEP Group is participating in the exhibition “Science on Your Plate” at the Mühlerama Museum for Food Culture in Zurich, with the project “Understanding the effects of irrigation modernization in water resources management – citrus production in the Jucar river basin, Spain”. Come and visit us on June 1st (from 18:00 until 21:00) at the event “Meet the Scientist”.

Welcome to our guest Xueyi Zhang from Hohai University! He will stay 1.5 years. We wish him a good time!

Sandra Pool's paper on the impact of irrigation modernization on groundwater recharge and nitrogen leaching under variable climatic conditions, in collaboration with colleagues from the Technical University of Valencia, is now published in Science of the Total Environment.