An Quanshun is visiting the Chair of Hydrogeology for a one-year research stay. He is doing his PhD thesis at the China Agricultural University, Beijing, supervised by Prof. Pan Canping. During his research stay, Quanshun works on the further development on dynamic plant uptake models and the… [read more]

Based on maybe the most complete and extensive data set on scalings in geothermal systems, Berhard successfully defended his thesis at the Institute of Hydrochemistry. [read more]

The Chair's quaternary hydrogeological datasets and potential evaluations on the thermal use of groundwater have been published on the City's main geoportal. [read more]

New scientific paper with the Research Unit for Environmental Genomics at the Helmholtz Center Munich [read more]

Using Thermal Springs to Quantify Deep Groundwater Flow and Its Thermal Footprint in the Alps and a Comparison With North American Orogens [read more]

This paper is the first one in a planned series of papers that focuses on the hydrogeology and water chemistry of the deep Upper Jurassic groundwater system in the South German Molasse Basin. This aquifer represents a drinking water resource for cities, but is also important for its geothermal use. … [read more]

The properties of nanoparticles in the environment might be masked by other molecules covering the nanoparticle surface. The dynamic changes were recorded with Raman microscopy. It turns out, that the most stable/attractive coating is replacing previous coatings. [read more]

The Chair of Hydrogeology has recently published a paper in Biogeosciences exploring the the link between the anaerobic methane oxidation with nitrate and the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in a stratified lake. The occurrence of the two coupled biogeochemical pathways in aquatic… [read more]

Most of the scales in geothermal facilities in the North Alpine Foreland Basin are carbonates and the community has developed a pretty good forensic understanding of the processes and hydrogeochemical conditions leading to the precipitates. What has been missing was a data based overview over the… [read more]

uja_faultzones is a Python tool to quickly investigate the hydraulic influence of a fault zone on a geothermal wells flow regime and productivity index for a given set of reservoir properties. [read more]

On the Limitations and Implications of Modeling Heat Transport in Porous Aquifers by Assuming Local Thermal Equilibrium, Water Resources Research [read more]

Ripples are well known from sandy beaches and river sediments. The Geofluids group took a close look at cemented ripples from a geothermal power plant. Here, precipitates with ripple structures accumulated before the heat exchangers and caused additional downtime. The structures revealed that the… [read more]

Markus and his colleagues paper on the "Assessment of the heterogeneity of hydraulic properties in gravelly outwash plains: a regionally scaled sedimentological analysis in the Munich gravel plain, Germany" is now published in the Hydrogeology Journal.They used sedimentological analysis at 12 gravel… [read more]

The Chair's work was presented in a documentation about the scientific monitoring of Munich's Geothermal Energy. [read more]

As a part of the activities within the Interreg Central Europe DEEPWATER-CE project we have launched a NATIONAL VIRTUAL SQUARE on LinkedIn. The Virtual Square is a place for everyone who is interested in hydrogeological topics, who wants to learn more about Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) and who… [read more]

Porosity–permeability relationship derived from Upper Jurassic carbonate rock cores to assess the regional hydraulic matrix properties of the Malm reservoir in the South German Molasse Basin [read more]

Congratulations to Lisa! [read more]

Geostatistische Reliefmodellierung der quartären Grundwasserleiterbasis in der Münchener Schotterebene unter Verwendung von Massendaten, German Journal of Geology [read more]

The Biogeochemistry Group of the Chair of Hydrogeology has successfully applied for a Picarro G5131-i isotopic and gas concentration analyzer that enables simultaneous measurements of site specific and bulk δ15N and δ18O in N2O.  The new instrument is financed by DFG and will allow working on… [read more]

Im Rahmen des Praxisforum Geothermie.Bayern 2019 wurde dieses Jahr zum zweiten Mal der Christian-Hecht-Preis für die beste nachwuchswissenschaftliche Arbeit in der tiefen Geothermie ausgezeichnet.Wir gratulieren unserem Doktoranden Florian Heine zu dem Gewinn des Preises für seine Arbeit zur „Hydro-… [read more]