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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr P. Benettin
DTSTART:20210528T090000
DTEND:20210528T094500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Paolo Benettin\n09:00 – 09:45 – Dr P. Benettin\nResearc
 h Scientist at EPFL\, Switzerland\n\nTracing the water balance through tra
 nsport models and field experiments\n\nCatchments are the place where wate
 r interacts with the landscape to support terrestrial life\, including hum
 an’s. They can be seen as large and heterogeneous biogeochemical reactor
 s\, or as fundamental organizing structures for landforms and ecosystems. 
 From a water management point of view\, catchments are the ideal domain to
  formulate and close the water balance. But simply closing the water balan
 ce offers no insight into the actual time that water and solutes spend in 
 the subsurface before being evaporated or drained to a river network. Trac
 ing the water balance is the needed next step to understand which water su
 stains vegetation and feeds streams and to improve our management of water
  resources. This can be achieved by coupling transport models to experimen
 tal tracer data. This seminar will illustrate 1) what we learned in terms 
 of water age from the use of parsimonious transport models\, and 2) what w
 e learned from controlled experiments using water stable isotopes as trace
 rs. Taken together\, these results provide an integrated view of the next 
 experimental and theoretical challenges in catchment science and show that
  catchments are fertile land for new development and discoveries.\n\nShort
  bio:\nPaolo Benettin is a research scientist in the Laboratory of Ecohydr
 ology at EPFL. He owns a master and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering f
 rom University of Padova\, Italy. In 2010 he spent a semester at Wageninge
 n University\, NL and in 2014 he spent 7 months as visiting research fello
 w at the department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at 
 Virginia Tech University\, USA. In 2015 he joined EPFL\, first as a postdo
 c and then as research scientist. His main research field is catchment sci
 ence\, with special interest in hydrologic transport and travel time distr
 ibutions. His work aims at bridging theories of transport at catchment sca
 le with experimental evidence from field measurements. Recent work include
 s theoretical and experimental methods that involve water stable isotopes 
 as tracers.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/82302538446
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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