Tag Archives: hydrogeology

Installation of a superconducting gravimeter at the Strengbach site (OHGE)

03 July 2017 A new generation superconducting gravimeter was installed by the EOST / IPG Strasbourg gravimetry team in a building of the TDF antenna on the summit of the Strengbach watershed in the Vosges Mountains (Observatoire HydroGéochimique de l’Environnement, OHGE). This instrument is one of the three superconducting gravimeters acquired as part of the CRITEX Excellence project, which also […]

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Neutrally buoyant tracers in hydrogeophysics: Field demonstration in fractured rock

Electrical and electromagnetic methods are extensively used to map electrically conductive tracers within hydrogeologic systems. Often, the tracers used consist of dissolved salt in water, leading to a denser mixture than the ambient formation water. Density effects are often ignored and rarely modeled but can dramatically affect transport behavior and introduce dynamics that are unrepresentative of the response obtained with […]

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Passive temperature tomography experiments to characterize transmissivity and connectivity of preferential flow paths in fractured media

The detection of preferential flow paths and the characterization of their hydraulic properties are major challenges in fractured rock hydrology. In this study, we propose to use temperature as a passive tracer to characterize fracture connectivity and hydraulic properties. In particular, we propose a new temperature tomography field method in which borehole temperature profiles are measured under different pumping conditions […]

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pyGrav, a Python-based program for handling and processing relative gravity data

Papers - Publications scientifiques

pyGrav is a Python-based open-source software dedicated to the complete processing of relative-gravity data. It is particularly suited for time-lapse gravity surveys where high precision is sought. Its purpose is to bind together single-task processing codes in a user friendly interface for handy and fast treatment of raw gravity data from many stations of a network. The intuitive object-based implementation […]

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Distributed Temperature Sensing as a down-hole tool in hydrogeology

Papers - Publications scientifiques

Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) technology enables down-hole temperature monitoring to study hydrogeological processes at unprecedentedly high frequency and spatial resolution. DTS has been widely applied in passive mode in site investigations of groundwater ow, in-well flow, and subsurface thermal property estimation. However, recent years have seen the further development of the use of DTS in an active mode (A-DTS) for which heat sources are deployed. […]

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3rd AGU-SEG Hydrogeophysics Workshop: Imaging the Critical Zone

  The 3rd AGU-SEG Hydrogeophysics Workshop – Imaging the Critical Zone – will be held in Stanford, California, next 24-27 July 2017.   The Critical Zone (CZ) is a dynamic region where rock, soil, water, air, and living biota interact to shape Earth’s surface. The Critical Zone ranges from the tops of the trees to the bottom of groundwater. The field […]

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ENIGMA Innovative Training Network: 15 PhD positions available

The ENIGMA ITN (European training Network for in situ imaGing of dynaMic processes in heterogeneous subsurfAce environments) aims at training a new generation of young researchers in the development of innovative methods for imaging process dynamics in subsurface hydrosystems, in order to enhance understanding and predictive modelling capacities and to transfer these innovations to the economic sector. Scientific and technological […]

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Inferring field-scale properties of a fractured aquifer from ground surface deformation during a well test

Papers - Publications scientifiques

Fractured aquifers which bear valuable water resources are often difficult to characterize  with classical hydrogeological tools due to their intrinsic heterogeneities. Here we implement ground surface deformation tools (tiltmetry and optical leveling) to monitor groundwater pressure changes induced by a classical hydraulic test at the Ploemeur observatory. By jointly analyzing complementary time constraining data (tilt) and spatially constraining data (vertical […]

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