Groundwater and Hydrogeochemistry

The Groundwater and Hydrogeochemistry group studies the hydraulic, chemical, thermal and mechanical processes that take place in porous media from pore to regional scale. The group employs mathematical and numerical approaches as well as laboratory and field scale experiments and sampling methods (using hydraulic, hydro-geochemical and environmental isotope data sampled directly or through specifically designed tests).

The group is active in the development of numerical and mathematical models and modelling techniques for complex porous media processes across spatial and temporal scales, laboratory and field scale experimentation and sampling and data analysis. This includes geospatial data and information management.

Applications include the assessment and management of groundwater resources, groundwater and soil remediation, the management of urban aquifers, the study of emerging pollutants in urban aquifers and artificial recharge facilities, the study of wetlands, seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers, water management in mining operations, civil works, storage of waste and/or its recovery, water decontamination methodologies, the study of the unsaturated zone, the study of the hydro-thermo-mechanical and chemical processes associated with the injection and extraction of fluids at great depth (storage of CO2, storage of nuclear waste, geothermal energy, shale gas, induced seismicity).

  • Artificial recharge
  • Emerging contaminants in groundwater
  • Environmental Geochemistry
  • Geochemical modeling
  • Geologic carbon storage
  • Geomechanics
  • Geothermics
  • Groundwater modeling and inverse problem
  • Hydrogeochemistry
  • Hydrogeology in mining areas and civil works
  • Induced seismicity
  • Low temperature geochemistry
  • Multiphase flow in porous media
  • Heterogeneity
  • Flow and reactive transport in porous media
  • Mixing and dispersion in porous media
  • Reactive mixing in porous media
  • Stochastic modeling and upscaling of porous media processes
  • Tools and software development
  • Urban hydrogeology

Permanent Researchers

Cama i Robert, Jordi

934006176 - int: 437727

Martí Molist, Joan

932557548 - int: 437716

Queralt Mitjans, Ignasi

932557548 - int: 437716

Vázquez Suñé, Enric

934006144 - int: 437729

Postdoc Researchers

Carrero Romero, Sergio

Funded by Severo Ochoa project

437725

De Simone, Silvia

Ramon y Cajal fellow (RYC2021-032780-I)

437728

Hidalgo González, Juan José

Ramon y Cajal fellow (RYC-2017-22300)

437714

Parisio, Francesco

Maria Curie fellow

437731

Pujades Garnes, Estanislao

Ramon y Cajal fellow (RYC2020-029225-I)

437714

Rahimzadeh Kivi, Iman

Maria Curie fellow

437731

Teixidó Planes, Marc

Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow

437714

Administration

Communication and Outreach

Projects and Fundraising

FREEWAT

Free and open source, QGIS-integrated interface for planning and management of water resources, with specific attention to groundwater


AkvaGIS

An open source tool for water quantity and quality management


QUIMET

The software platform (QUIMET) was developed to improve the sorting, analysis, calculations, visualizations, and interpretations of hydrogeochemical data in a GIS environment.


HEROS

Generation of 3D geological models of sedimentary media for hydrogeological modelling


Pumpit-MJ

Development of innovative software to analyze pumping tests in a GIS platform to support the hydraulic parameterization of groundwater flow and transport models


BrineMIX

Creation of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that automatically generates the input and reads the output of PHREEQC for a specific water mixing analysis


Mix

Mixing calculations involve computing the ratios in which two or more end-members are mixed in a sample. Mixing calculations are useful for a number of tasks in hydrology, such as hydrograph separation, water or solute mass balances, and identification of groundwater recharge sources


EasyBal

Evaluation of water balance per unit of soil area as a function of precipitation, the potential evapotranspiration (or ETP), temperature and irrigation


EasyQuim

Improving the sorting, analysis, calculation, visualization, and interpretation of hydrochemical data


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