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
Carrera Ramírez, Jesús
932557561 - 1437
Dentz, Marco
437730
Jurado Elices, Anna
437720
Queralt Mitjans, Ignasi
932557548 - int: 437716
Soler Matamala, Josep Maria
437726
Vázquez Suñé, Enric
934006144 - int: 437729
Vilarrasa Riaño, Víctor
437731
Postdoc Researchers
Ben-Noah, Ilan
437736
Dell'Oca, Aronne
437736
Hanson-Hedgecock, Sara
437731
Joulin, Clément
437731
Lapeyre, Gerald John
437714
Puyguiraud, Alexandre
437736
Rahimzadeh Kivi, Iman
437731
Rodríguez Dono, Alfonso
437742
Rusiñol Arantegui, Marta
437733
Scheiber Pagès, Laura
437733
Soler Sagarra, Joaquim
437728
PhD Students
Benhammadi, Rima
437713
Botey Bassols, Joan
437713
Boyet, Aurégan
437731
Bulboa Foronda, Ignacio
437728
Gutiérrez León, Joan
437720
Hanckmann, Wout Jan Frans
437714
Hassanzadeh, Ashkan
437748
Nepal, Animesh
437732
Ortiz Montealegre, Sara
437734
Pérez Hueros, Paloma
437713
Sciandra, Dario
437731
Vaezi Anzeha, Iman
437731
Vafaie, Atefeh
437731
Valdivielso Mijangos, Sonia
437728
Walter, Linus
437731
Technical
Bellés Felip, Jordi
437754-437718
Administration
Communication and Outreach
Projects and Fundraising
ASSET-WATER
Assessing Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems efficiency to reduce urban runoff water contamination
Due to the current global change, there is a need to look for improved urban water management. Especially in urban areas, where most of the population is concentrated. These high dense areas require improvements in water quantity and quality, and Barcelona city is not an exception. Barcelona City Council installed different green infrastructures called Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems. These installations reduce the extreme runoff events by promoting and facilitating the recharge of the aquifers. The installation of these systems is increasing, but there is a lack of knowledge and understanding of the quality of the water infiltrated in the aquifer and their effects on the state of the groundwater bodies of the city, which can reduce the current quality of groundwater.
The main objective of ASSET-WATER is to evaluate the Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems implemented in the city of Barcelona and provide improvements so that these systems are more efficient and fulfill the purpose of said facilities and advance toward efficient and sustainable use of water, improving the adaptation capacity of the city to the current Climate Change and promoting the use of green infrastructures in their urban plans.
Funding institution: Barcelona City Council (Àrea de Cultura, Educació, Ciència i Comunitat). Premis de Recerca científica "Fons COVID"
Start Date: 26/10/2021 – End Date: 26/10/2022
Project Leader: Marc Teixidó Planes , Laura Scheiber Pagès , Rotman A. Criollo Manjarrez
Funding: Regional Project
https://assetwater.wixsite.com/my-site-2
NATURE
Nature-based solutions to reduce antibiotics, pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance in aquatic ecosystems
An array of nature-based solutions including conventional and high-end constructed wetlands, river re-naturalization, and restoration of wetlands will cover the continuum from urban sources to coastal biota in estuaries. We propose a comprehensive quantification of the fate of antibiotics, pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance in these systems together with ecotoxicological and human health assessments. Nature-based solutions performance will be analyzed using multivariate modeling techniques to identify parameters with the greatest empirical influence on the attenuation of targeted pollutants.
Start Date: 01/09/2021 – End Date: 30/08/2024
Project Leader: Víctor Matamoros Mercadal
Researchers: Josep Maria Bayona Termens , Mònica Escolà Casas , Enric Vázquez Suñé
Funding: European Project
https://natureproject.eu/
CoPerMix
European training network on control prediction and learning in mixing processes
The CoPeRMix network brings together a collection of experts at the European scale from academia and industry, who have all adopted new angles of attack to the problem of mixing according to their needs and fields of application, in order to foster the emergence of a unified viewpoint, through intensive collaboration between different schools of thought and methods. This effort builds up on existing collaborations between several participants, and lectures or courses delivered by some of us in various university curricula in their own institution, and abroad. More precisely, this training network is the emanation of the “Mixing Days” organized by the consortium on a yearly basis (Marseille in 2016, Rennes in 2017, Barcelona in 2018 and Brussels in 2019), which have been the opportunity to conceive and share a new methodology: the lamellar description of mixing.
It consists in viewing a mixture as a set of elongated lamellae and sheets and understanding how they are stretched and dispersed by the stirring flow. This first step provides the necessary information to address the stirring/molecular diffusion coupling, leading to the complete statistical description of the mixing process i.e. the full concentration distribution. This disruptive vision has prompted new numerical (Diffusive Strip Method) and experimental methods. They offer an unprecedented opportunity of accurately describe Stirring protocols which is the ground to understanding and model- ling Mixing and its Impact in a diversity of fields. This lamellar description of mixing provides a consistent and invertible theoretical framework giving us also the opportunity to Learn from mixed scalar fields.
Very promising outcomes are expected as the CoPerMix programme unites leading academic and industrial partners with a broad expertise in the fundamentals and applications of mixing in a very wide range of fields.
Start Date: 01/01/2021 – End Date: 31/12/2025
Project Leader: Marco Dentz , Juan José Hidalgo González
Funding: European Project
https://www.copermix-itn.eu/
HydroPore
A new upscaling approach for multiphase flow, mechanical deformation, and hydrodynamic transport in permeable media
The main objective of the project is to uncover and quantify the mechanisms and laws that govern multiphase flow, mechanical deformation and hydrodynamic transport in permeable media, from the pore to the regional scales. To achieve this goal, HydroPore proposes a multidisciplinary and integrated research strategy that combines a new theoretical upscaling framework with novel experimental protocols and cutting-edge numerical simulation techniques
Start Date: 01/06/2020 – End Date: 31/05/2023
Project Leader: Marco Dentz , Juan José Hidalgo González
Funding: National Project
http://hydropore.es/
LOGIC
PLataforma agregadora de mOdelos para la Gestión óptima de cuencas hidrográfICas (LOGIC)
El Proyecto LOGIC pretende proporcionar unos servicios innovadores para mejorar el programa de monitoreo de las masas de agua, y así hacerlo más eficiente, flexible y robusto. El objetivo de los programas de monitoreo es conocer el estado de las masas de agua. La aportación del IDAEA al proyecto es desarrollar y verificar herramientas de cálculo del transporte reactivo en ríos, de manera que se pueda conocer no solo su estado en el momento y lugar de la toma de muestras, sino también cómo se prevé que la calidad de agua evolucione a lo largo del tiempo y varíe en el espacio. Para ello, se aprovecha la experiencia en transporte reactivo de los investigadores del IDAEA. Una de las singularidades del proyecto es reconocer el intercambio "hiporreico" (agua del río que pasa al acuífero aluvial en un meandro y retorna al río uno o dos meandros aguas abajo). Este intercambio es fundamental para que el rio pueda prestar servicios ambientales y pueda llegar a considerarse en "buen estado".
Convocatoria: Retos-Colaboración 2019 (RTC2019-007484-5)
Partners:
LABAQUA, Coordinación Técnica: Ana Conty.
CETAQUA, Laurent Pouget.
CSIC, Jesús Carrera, adscrito al IDAEA-CSIC
Start Date: 01/06/2020 – End Date: 31/03/2023
Researchers: Jesús Carrera Ramírez
Funding: National Project
GEoREST (ERC StG)
GEoREST aims at developing a novel methodology to predict and mitigate induced seismicity.
GEoREST aims at developing a novel methodology to predict and mitigate induced seismicity. Fluid injection related to underground resources has become widespread, causing numerous cases of induced seismicity. If felt, induced seismicity has a negative effect on public perception and may jeopardise wellbore stability and infrastructure, which has led to the cancellation of several projects. Therefore, forecasting injection-induced earthquakes is a big challenge that must be overcome to deploy geo-energies to significantly reduce CO2 emissions and thus mitigate climate change and reduce related health issues.
Start Date: 01/02/2019 – End Date: 31/01/2024
Project Leader: Víctor Vilarrasa Riaño
Researchers: Dario Sciandra , Iman Vaezi Anzeha , Iman Rahimzadeh Kivi , Francesco Parisio , Linus Walter , Sara Hanson-Hedgecock , Aurégan Boyet , Clément Joulin
Funding: European Project
https://www.georest.eu/
ENFORCE
European network for chemical elemental analysis by total reflection X-Ray fluorescence
This project aims to coordinate research and building capacity in the field of elemental analysis by total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to develop and assess new tools, protocols, methodologies, and instrumentation for screening and accurate determination of potentially toxic elements, for health and safety reasons, as well as nutrients and beneficial ones for quality control.
Start Date: 01/02/2019 – End Date: 12/03/2023
Researchers: Ignasi Queralt Mitjans
Funding: European Project
Free and open source, QGIS-integrated interface for planning and management of water resources, with specific attention to groundwater
The software platform (QUIMET) was developed to improve the sorting, analysis, calculations, visualizations, and interpretations of hydrogeochemical data in a GIS environment.
Development of innovative software to analyze pumping tests in a GIS platform to support the hydraulic parameterization of groundwater flow and transport models
Creation of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that automatically generates the input and reads the output of PHREEQC for a specific water mixing analysis
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