Paolo Benettin

paolo.benettin@epfl.ch 41 21 693 80 76
Nationalité : italian
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Local: GR C1 532
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Biography
I was born in Padova, Italy, in 1986. After high school, I started the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Padova (Bachelor and Master), where I followed the 'soil protection' curriculum. During my Master studies I spent a semester as Erasmus student at Wageningen University (Wageningen, the Netherlands) to follow courses in Hydrology. After graduation, I decided to bring my education further and I started a Ph.D. at 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. My contribution to the subject included both new theoretical formulations and extensive numerical applications to real catchments. During my Ph.D., I also spent 7 months as visiting research fellow at Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, USA). Since I arrived at EPFL as post-doc in 2015, I started being involved in field and experimental activities, which allowed me to learn about practical experimental problems. In 2017 I had the opportunity to by hired by the ECHO laboratory as a permanent scientist, conducting research in the field of catchment hydrology.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;
-Experiments on hydrologic and solute mass balance in large lysimeters;
Formation
PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
January 2012 - January 2015
Bachelor and Master in Environmental Engineering
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
September 2005 - October 2011
Publications
Publications Infoscience
InfoScience
[23] Tree water deficit and dynamic source water partitioning
Hydrological Processes. 2020-12-21. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.14004.[22] Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water. 2020-12-03. DOI : 10.1002/wat2.1495.[21] Nitrate removal and young stream water fractions at the catchment scale
Hydrological Processes. 2020-05-05. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.13781.[20] Multimodal water age distributions and the challenge of complex hydrological landscapes
Hydrological Processes. 2020-04-29. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.13770.[19] Transport and Water Age Dynamics in Soils: A Comparative Study of Spatially Integrated and Spatially Explicit Models
Water Resources Research. 2020-03-01. DOI : 10.1029/2019WR025539.[18] The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone
Reviews Of Geophysics. 2019-09-01. DOI : 10.1029/2018RG000633.[17] Velocities, Residence Times, Tracer Breakthroughs in a Vegetated Lysimeter: A Multitracer Experiment
Water Resources Research. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.1029/2018WR023894.[16] Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes - challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective
Biogeosciences. 2018-10-30. DOI : 10.5194/bg-15-6399-2018.[15] tran-SAS v1.0: a numerical model to compute catchment-scale hydrologic transport using StorAge Selection functions
GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT. 2018. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-11-1627-2018.[14] Effects of climatic seasonality on the isotopic composition of evaporating soil waters
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES. 2018. DOI : 10.5194/hess-22-2881-2018.[13] Decomposing the Bulk Electrical Conductivity of Streamflow To Recover Individual Solute Concentrations at High Frequency
Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00472.[12] Young runoff fractions control streamwater age and solute concentration dynamics
Hydrological Processes. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.11243.[11] Using SAS functions and high-resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments
Water Resources Research. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2016Wr020117.[10] Reply to comment by Porporato and Calabrese on "Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes''
Water Resources Research. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/2015Wr018045.[9] Transit times-the link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/wat2.1155.[8] Tracking residence times in hydrological systems: forward and backward formulations
Hydrological Processes. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.10513.[7] Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2015WR017552.[6] Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2014Wr016600.[5] Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2015Wr017273.[4] Transport of fluorobenzoate tracers in a vegetated hydrologic control volume: 2. Theoretical inferences and modeling
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2014WR016508.[3] Kinematics of age mixing in advection-dispersion models
Water Resources Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/2013Wr014708.[2] Chloride circulation in a lowland catchment and the formulation of transport by travel time distributions
Water Resources Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/wrcr.20309.[1] Searching for patterns in the electrical conductivity signal of stream waters
Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
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