Technical discussions hydrogeology and engineering geology

The technical discussion invites speakers from research & practice on topics related to engineering and hydrogeology. It takes place during the lecture period every Thursday from 10:00 to 11:00. The dates in the winter semester take place in presence (Geb. 11.40, Raum 231) as well as online.
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Students can print out the attendance list here: Attendance_Specialist_conversation_22_23.doc

Technical discussions WS 22/23
Date	Title	Speaker	Time	Place
27.10.2022	General safety instruction	Dr. Erich Moos	10:00 a.m.	Only for employees
03.11.2022	Lecture engineering geology	Mayukh Talukdar [KIT]	10:00 a.m.	Building 11.40 Room 231
10.11.2022	Lecture engineering geology	Saoirse Goodwin [KIT]	10:00 a.m.
17.11.2022	Investigation of the hydrogeological function of a fine-grained valley fill.	Dr. Carsten Leven [Universität Tübingen]	10:00 a.m.	Building 11.40 Room 231
24.11.2022	Rehabilitation of the wells of a drinking water intake of the state water supply - hydrogeological, technical and operational challenges.	Dipl.Ing. Rainer Scheck [Zweckverband Landeswasserversorgung]	10:00 a.m.	Building 11.40 Room 231
01.12.2022	Revealing the physics of erosion-deposition in geophysical mass flows: Depth-averaged approach	Dr. Mohammad Nikooei [Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hong Kong]	10:00 a.m.	Building 11.40 Room 231 (Hybrid)
08.12.2022	Groundwater modeling in practice	Dr.-Ing. Philipp Joswig [Joswig Ingenieure GmbH Karlsruhe]	10:00 a.m.	Building 11.40 Room 231
15.12.2022	Engineered and nature-based solutions against landslide hazards	Dr. Clarence Edward Choi [HKU]	10:00 a.m.	virtual (Zoom)
12.01.2023	Radioactivity in groundwater	Dr. Nils Michelsen [TU Darmstadt]	10:00 a.m.	Building 11.40 Room 231
19.01.2023	Lecture engineering geology			n/a
26.01.2023	The National Water Strategy - Emergence, Components, Implementation	Carla Schönfelder [team ewen]	10:00 a.m.	n/a
02.02.2023	Lecture engineering geology	Dr. Johaness Miocic [University of Groningen]	10:00 a.m.	Building 11.40 Room 231
09.02.2023	The boundaries of fluvial hydraulics	Prof. Dr. Mario Franca [IWG, KIT]	10:00 a.m.	Building 11.40 Room 231
16.02.2023	Physical modeling of fast moving landslides	Prof. Clarence Choi [University of Hong Kong]	10:00 a.m.	virtual (Zoom)

Technical discussions summer semester 2022
Title	Name	Author	Speaker
Stable isotope analyses for the identification of origin and composition of groundwaters			Dr.-Ing. Diana Burghardt
Coupled THMC processes in porous and fractured rocks.			Prof. Dr. Philipp Blum [KIT]
How catchments store and release solutes: Combining data-driven assessments with explorative modeling			Dr. Andreas Musolff
Blackout prevention in the state water supply - a challenge			Dr. Martin Emmert Zweckverband Landeswasserversorgung
Local and regional case studies of anthropogenic groundwater warming.			Maximilian Noethen
Holiday
Lecture engineering geology cancelled
Pentecost week (lecture-free)
Holiday
Recent advances in DEM modeling and simulation of rocks			Luc Scholtès [Universität Clermont-Auvergne]
Birdsall Dreiss Lecture			Dr. Abe Springer
Structural controls on karst development and landscape within the Burren Limestones (Ireland)			Prof. John Walsh
Impacts of climate change on our water resources - two examples from water scarce regions.			Stephan Schulz
Lecture engineering geology
Adaptive water conveyance system in hybrid operation with a conventional hydropower plant using the example of a karst region in the north of Vietnam			Dr. Katrin Trautwein [KIT] Institut für Wasser und Gewässerentwicklung (IWG)

Geological Colloquium winter semester 2021/22
Datum	Titel	Referent	Zeit	Ort
21.10.2021	Mapping the global threat of land subsidence due to groundwater depletion	Dr. Pablo Ezquerro Martín [Geological Survey of Spain (IGME)]	10:00	virtual
28.10.2021	Rätselhafte Wasserbilanz in einem kleinen alpinen Einzugsgebiet – Resultat eines ungewöhnlichen Zusammenspiels von Verkarstung und Blockgletschern?	Dr. Rafael Schäffer [TU Darmstadt]	10:00	virtual
04.11.2021	Life down under – current research on the diversity, importance and human impacts on groundwater ecosystem health	Dr. Kathryn Korbel [Macquarie University, Australia]	10:00	virtual
11.11.2021	KI-Anwendungen in der Hydro- und Ingenieurgeologie – Aktuelle Arbeiten und Möglichkeiten der Kooperation	PhD students of Hydro- and Engineering Geology	10:00	virtual
18.11.2021	ATES Erfahrungen in Berlin insbesondere Fasanenstrasse, Spandau und Adlershof	Dr.-Ing. Guido Blöcher [GFZ Potsdam, Germany]	10:00	virtual
25.11.2021	Entfällt
02.12.2021	Advancement of geothermal reservoir engineering	Dr. Anna Suzuki [Tohoku University, Japan]	10:00	virtual
09.12.2021	Umgang mit den Herausforderungen für die sichere Wasserversorgung von morgen – Praxisberichte aus der Arbeit des TZW	Dipl.-Geoökol. Sebastian Sturm [TZW, Abteilungsleitung Wasserversorgung]	10:00	virtual
16.12.2021	Applications of 3D micro-tomography imaging to study reactive flow in porous and fractured rock	Assoc. Prof. Catherine Noiriel [UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER - TOULOUSE III, Frankreich]	10:00	virtual
13.01.2022	Entfällt
20.01.2022	Informationen und Datenprodukte des DWD zur Anwendung in der Hydrogeologie in Deutschland	Dr. Andreas Paxian [Deutscher Wetterdienst DWD]	10:00	virtual
27.01.2022	t.b.a.	Dr. Martin Bloemendal [TU Delft, The Netherlands]	10:00	virtual
03.02.2022	Agricultural impacts on groundwater in Ireland	Dr. Catherine Coxon [Trinity College, Dublin]	10:00	virtual
10.02.2022	Using InSAR ground movement information to improve hydrogeological knowledge	Dr. Carolina Guardiola-Albert [IGMES (Spanish Geological Survery), Spain]	10:00	virtual

Geological Colloquium summer semester 2021
Datum	Titel	Referent	Zeit	Ort
15.04.2021	Pockmarks as hot spots of sublacustrine groundwater discharge in Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland	Dr. Stefanie Wirth [GEOTEST AG, Schweiz]	10:00	virtual
22.04.2021	Subsurface Pressure Waves: A kinematic explanation to explain the Old Water - New Water paradox	Prof. Todd Rasmussen [University of Georgia, USA]	10:00	virtual
29.04.2021	Working in an engineering office - insights into the practical work of a geologist	Dr. Verena Herrmann [GMP – Geotechnik GmbH Co. KG]	10:00	virtual
06.05.2021	Allgemeine Sicherheitsunterweisung		10:00	virtual
20.05.2021	Formation and hydrology of freshwater lenses using the example of Spiekeroog's eastern plateau	Prof. Gudrun Massmann [Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg]	10:00	virtual
10.06.2021	Modeling and simulation of solute transport with mineral precipitation and dissolution in porous media	Jun.-Prof. Carina Bringedal [Universität Stuttgart]	10:00	virtual
17.06.2021	Fluorescent dye tracing in saturated karst systems: from field experiments to breakthrough curves modelling	Dr. Lorraine Dewaide [University of Namur, Belgium]	10:00	virtual
24.06.2021	Groundwater Ecology Reasearch – Current activities and future frontiers	Prof. Dr. Christian Griebler [Universität Wien]	10:00	virtual
01.07.2021	Transport of PFAS from groundwater to streams in North Carolina	Dr. Marie-Amélie Pétré [University of North Carolina, USA]	10:00	virtual
08.07.2021	Understanding subsurface temperature impacts of groundwater flow, urbanisation and global warming	Prof. Dr. Victor Bense [Wageningen University, The Netherlands]	10:00	virtual
15.07.2021	The impact of the benthic biolayer on whole-stream reactive transport / Flow dependent motility determines dispersion of microbes in a porous medium	Prof. Marco Dentz [Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona]	10:00	virtual

Geological Colloquium WS 20/21
Datum	Titel	Referent	Zeit	Ort
05.11.2020	Dealing with geological heterogeneity and uncertainty in groundwater modelling: challenges and lessons learnt	Prof. Dr. Marijke Huysmans [Uni Brüssel]	10:00	virtual
12.11.2020	Surface water groundwater interactions down-under and implications for water quality and ecology	Dr. Martin Andersen [UNSW Sydney, Australia]	10:00	virtual
19.11.2020	Analysis of (deep) groundwater circulation by means of sinter precipitation	Dr. Tobias Kluge (AGW – Aquatische Geochemie)	10:00	virtual
03.12.2020	BGR Technical Cooperation in Jordan	Dr. Falk Lindenmaier [BGR]	10:00	virtual
17.12.2020	Using radon-222 to quantify groundwater fluxes and hyporheic nitrate turnover in streams	Dr. Ben Gilfedder [Uni Bayreuth]	10:00	virtual
07.01.2021	Investigation of the local thermal equilibrium assumption when modeling heat transport in porous aquifers using laboratory experiments and numerical modeling	Manuel Gossler [Technische Universität München]	10:00 Uhr	virtuell
14.01.2021	Quellfauna in süddeutschen Mittelgebirgen und in den Alpen - Verbreitungsmuster und mögliche Veränderungen	Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gerecke [Uni Tübingen]	10:00 Uhr	virtuell
21.01.2021	On the interaction between groundwater and underground constructions	Estanislao Pujades	10:00	virtual
28.01.2021	Digg’n deeper – the state of mining hydrogeology	Dr. Wendy Timms [Deakin University, Australia]	10:00	virtual
04.02.2021	Urban underground climate change modelling and quantifications	Dr. Asal Bidarmaghz [UNSW Sydney, Australia]	10:00	virtual
11.02.2021	Monitoring of water quality and quantity with machine learning methods	Dr. Martin Wagner (TZW)	10:00	virtual
18.02.2021	Flood warning in the catchment area of the Lauchert (Swabian Alb)	Prof. Dr. Traugott Scheytt [TU Freiberg]	10:00	virtual

Past geological colloquiums

Attached is a list of all past geological colloquiums:

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