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HydroTraP Group Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach

Contact Details

Heidelberg University 
Institute of Environmental Physics
Im Neuenheimer Feld 229
Room 434
69120 Heidelberg 

Tel: 06221 - 54 6331
Mail: werner.aeschbach@uni-heidelberg.de

Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach

Research interests

  • Tracers and isotopes in hydro(geo)logy, limnology, oceanography, and glaciology
  • Physics of aquatic systems, groundwater science, water resources research
  • Paleoclimatology, noble gas thermometry, noble gas geochemistry
  • Development and application of new methods and models (major achievements: CE-model for excess air, inverse modeling software for noble gas data interpretation, first noble gas temperatures from speleothem fluid inclusions, first 39Ar-ATTA applications)

Short CV

Research

  • since 2020: Speaker of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Physics (HGSFP)
  • 2012-2017: Director of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE)
  • since 2003: Professor, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg. Research areas: Aquatic systems, groundwater, paleoclimate, tracer and isotope methods.
  • 1996 - 2002: Research Scientist, Dept. of Environmental Physics, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich and Environmental Isotope Group, EAWAG (Swiss Federal Inst. of Environmental Science & Technology), Dübendorf, Switzerland. Research on groundwater, lakes, and paleoclimate.
  • 1994 - 1996: Postdoc, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY. Groundwater and paleoclimate research with Prof. P. Schlosser and Dr. M. Stute.>
  • 1990 - 1994: Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences (ETH Zurich). Ph.D. thesis about "Helium and tritium as tracers for physical processes in lakes", supervised by Prof. D. M. Imboden, Department for Environmental Physics, EAWAG.

Education

  • 1989: Diploma (M.Sc.) in experimental physics, ETH Zurich. Diploma thesis about trace gas analysis in air.
  • 1983: Matura in Zurich.

Awards

  • Dec. 1994: Medal of the ETH for excellent Ph.D. thesis.

Projects and Outreach

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Klimaphysik meets BNE
Continuing education for teachers on climate at HdA (lecturer)
Local Conference of Youth (lecturer)
Reality Check (former blog)
Scientists for Future (member of advisory board)
Water research network Baden-Württemberg (member of advisory board)
Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE, founding member, former director)
Heidelberg Graduate School for Physics (HGSFP, former member of the directorate)
Fachverband Umweltphysik of DPG (former member of advisory committee)
Marsilius-Kolleg (ex-fellow)
TANGR2018 - Tracer Applications of Noble Gas Radionuclides in the Geosciences (invited speaker)
TANGR2015 - Tracer Applications of Noble Gas Radionuclides in the Geosciences (co-organiser)

Selected publications

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Feng, Z., P. Bohleber, S. Ebser, L. Ringena, M. Schmidt, A .Kersting, P. Hopkins, H. Hoffmann, A. Fischer, W. Aeschbach, and M. K. Oberthaler
2019
Dating glacier ice of the last millennium by quantum technology
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116: 8781–8786
Ebser, S., A. Kersting, T. Stoven, Z. Feng, L. Ringena, M.Schmidt, T. Tanhua, W. Aeschbach, M. K. Oberthaler
2018
39Ar dating with small samples provides new key constraints on ocean ventilation
Nat. Commun. 9: 5046
Jung, M., W. Aeschbach
2018
A new software tool for the analysis of noble gas data sets from (ground)water
Environ. Modell. Software 103: 120–13
Ritterbusch, F., S. Ebser, J. Welte, T. Reichel, A. Kersting, R. Purtschert, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, M. K. Oberthaler
2014
Groundwater dating with Atom Trap Trace Analysis of 39Ar
Geophys. Res. Lett. 41: 6758–6764
Aeschbach-Hertig, W. and D.K. Solomon
2013
Noble gas thermometry in groundwater hydrology
Burnard, P. (Ed.), The noble gases as geochemical tracers. Advances in Isotope Geochemistry. Springer Verlag, pp. 81-122
Aeschbach-Hertig, W., and T. Gleeson
2012
Regional strategies for the accelerating global problem of groundwater depletion
Nature Geoscience 5: 853-86
Corcho Alvarado, J. A., F. Barbecot, R. Purtschert, M. Gillon, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, and R. Kipfer
2009
European climate variations over the past half-millennium reconstructed from groundwater
Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L15703
Kluge, T., T. Marx, D. Scholz, S. Niggemann, A. Mangini, and W. Aeschbach-Hertig
2008
A new tool for palaeoclimate reconstruction: Noble gas temperatures from fluid inclusions in speleothems
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 269: 407–414
Corcho Alvarado, J. A., R. Purtschert, F. Barbecot, C. Chabault, J. Ruedi, V. Schneider, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, R. Kipfer, and H.H. Loosli
2007
Constraining the age distribution of highly mixed groundwater using 39Ar: a multiple environmental tracer (3H/3He, 85Kr, 39Ar and 14C) study in the semi-confined Fontainebleau Sands aquifer (France)
Water Resour. Res. 43, W03427
Kipfer, R., W. Aeschbach-Hertig, F. Peeters, and M. Stute
2002
Noble gases in lakes and ground waters
Porcelli, D., C. Ballentine, R. Wieler (eds.), Noble gases in geochemistry and cosmochemistry. Rev. Mineral. Geochem 47: 615–700
Aeschbach-Hertig, W., F. Peeters, U. Beyerle, and R. Kipfer
2000
Palaeotemperature reconstruction from noble gases in ground water taking into account equilibration with entrapped air
Nature 405: 1040–1044
Beyerle, U., W. Aeschbach-Hertig, D. M. Imboden, H. Baur, T. Graf, and R. Kipfer
2000
A mass spectrometric system for the analysis of noble gases and tritium from water samples
Environ. Sci. Technol. 34: 2042–2050
Weyhenmeyer, C. E., S. J. Burns, H. N. Waber, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, R. Kipfer, H. H. Loosli, and A. Matter
2000
Cool glacial temperatures and changes in moisture source recorded in Oman groundwaters
Science 287: 842–845
Aeschbach-Hertig, W., F. Peeters, U. Beyerle, and R. Kipfer
1999
Interpretation of dissolved atmospheric noble gases in natural waters
Water Resour. Res. 35: 2779–2792
Beyerle, U., R. Purtschert, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, D.M. Imboden, H.H. Loosli, R. Wieler, and R. Kipfer
1998
Climate and groundwater recharge during the last glaciation in an ice-covered region
Science 282: 731–734

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