Paolo Benettin

paolo.benettin@epfl.ch

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Nationality: italian

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Website: https://perl.epfl.ch

Expertise

Hydrology, solute transport, travel time distributions, modeling

Current work

I am currently conducting my research on the following subjects:

Understanding and modeling the transport of solutes in hydrologic systems, with special regard to anthropized landscapes;
Estimating water age and its variations in time for various catchments worldwide;
Monitoring solute concentration in rivers during storms and developing new low-cost methodologies to measure at high-frequency;
Numerical development of models for solute transport in rivers;
Use of stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in the water molecule to trace ecohydrological processes;
Experiments on hydrologic and solute mass balance in large lysimeters;

Biography Publications Teaching & PhD

I am currently Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne. I will keep an affiliation with EPFL until my current projects based at EPFL have been completed.
I have a background in Environmental Engineering (Bachelor and Master studies) from the University of Padova, Italy. I hold a Ph.D. from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Padova. My Ph.D. thesis focused on hydrologic transport and travel time distributions at the catchment scale. During my Ph.D., I also spent 7 months as visiting research fellow at Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, USA). In 2015 I moved to EPFL first as a postdoc and then in 2017.

Education

PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences

2012 – 2015 University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Bachelor and Master in Environmental Engineering

2005 – 2011 University of Padova, Padova, Italy

InfoScience

[38] Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations

F. Miele; P. Benettin; S. Wang; I. Retti; M. Asadollahi et al.

Water Resources Research. 2023-02-16. DOI : 10.1029/2022WR032328.

Paolo Benettin

Expertise

Current work

Education

PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences

Bachelor and Master in Environmental Engineering

InfoScience

[38] Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations

[37] Isotope Ratio - Discharge Relationships of Solutes Derived From Weathering Reactions

[36] Using continuous electrical conductivity measurements to derive major solute concentrations in karst systems

[35] Deriving Major Ion Concentrations at High Resolution from Continuous Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Karst Systems

[34] Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions

[33] Monitoring evapotranspiration changes in a vegetated soil

[32] Phloem water isotopically different to xylem water: Potential causes and implications for ecohydrological tracing

[31] Instructive Surprises in the Hydrological Functioning of Landscapes

[30] Toward a Closure of Catchment Mass Balance: Insight on the Missing Link From a Vegetated Lysimeter

[29] Improved framework to estimate travel time and derived distributions in hydrological control volumes

[28] Precipitation fate and transport in a Mediterranean catchment through models calibrated on plant and stream water isotope data

[27] Using water age to explore hydrological processes in contrasting environments

[26] A Note on the Role of Seasonal Expansions and Contractions of the Flowing Fluvial Network on Metapopulation Persistence

[25] Tracing and Closing the Water Balance in a Vegetated Lysimeter

[24] On the use of leaf water to determine plant water source: A proof of concept

[23] Tree water deficit and dynamic source water partitioning

[22] Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories

[21] Transport and Water Age Dynamics in Soils: A Comparative Study of Spatially Integrated and Spatially Explicit Models

[20] Nitrate removal and young stream water fractions at the catchment scale

[19] Multimodal water age distributions and the challenge of complex hydrological landscapes

[18] The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone

[17] Velocities, Residence Times, Tracer Breakthroughs in a Vegetated Lysimeter: A Multitracer Experiment

[16] Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes - challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective

[15] tran-SAS v1.0: a numerical model to compute catchment-scale hydrologic transport using StorAge Selection functions

[14] Effects of climatic seasonality on the isotopic composition of evaporating soil waters

[13] Decomposing the Bulk Electrical Conductivity of Streamflow To Recover Individual Solute Concentrations at High Frequency

[12] Searching for patterns in the electrical conductivity signal of stream waters

[11] Young runoff fractions control streamwater age and solute concentration dynamics

[10] Using SAS functions and high-resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments

[9] Reply to comment by Porporato and Calabrese on "Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes''

[8] Transit times-the link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale

[7] Tracking residence times in hydrological systems: forward and backward formulations

[6] Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA

[5] Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales

[4] Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes

[3] Transport of fluorobenzoate tracers in a vegetated hydrologic control volume: 2. Theoretical inferences and modeling

[2] Kinematics of age mixing in advection-dispersion models

[1] Chloride circulation in a lowland catchment and the formulation of transport by travel time distributions

Teaching & PhD

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector