Paolo Benettin

paolo.benettin@epfl.ch +41 21 693 80 76
Citizenship: italian
EPFL ENAC IIE ECHO
GR C1 532 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 80 76
+41 21 693 37 73
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Fields of expertise
Biography
I have a background in Environmental Engineering started with my Bachelor and Master studies from the University of Padova, Italy. 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. 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;
- 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;
Education
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
Infoscience publications
InfoScience
[35] Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations
Water Resources Research. 2023-02-16. DOI : 10.1029/2022WR032328.[34] Deriving Major Ion Concentrations at High Resolution from Continuous Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Karst Systems
2023-01-01. 3rd European Bi-Annual Conference on the Hydrogeology of Karst and Carbonate Reservoirs (Eurokarst), Malaga, SPAIN, Jun 22-25, 2022. p. 93-99. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-16879-6_14.[33] Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions
Water Resources Research. 2022-11-01. DOI : 10.1029/2022WR033096.[32] Precipitation fate and transport in a Mediterranean catchment through models calibrated on plant and stream water isotope data
Hydrology And Earth System Sciences. 2022-08-05. DOI : 10.5194/hess-26-4093-2022.[31] Phloem water isotopically different to xylem water: Potential causes and implications for ecohydrological tracing
Ecohydrology. 2022-03-25. DOI : 10.1002/eco.2417.[30] Using water age to explore hydrological processes in contrasting environments
Hydrological Processes. 2022-03-01. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.14524.[29] Instructive Surprises in the Hydrological Functioning of Landscapes
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 2022. DOI : 10.1146/annurev-earth-071822-100356.[28] Toward a Closure of Catchment Mass Balance: Insight on the Missing Link From a Vegetated Lysimeter
Water Resources Research. 2022. DOI : 10.1029/2021WR030698.[27] Improved framework to estimate travel time and derived distributions in hydrological control volumes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9684.[26] A Note on the Role of Seasonal Expansions and Contractions of the Flowing Fluvial Network on Metapopulation Persistence
Water Resources Research. 2021-11-01. DOI : 10.1029/2021WR029813.[25] Tracing and Closing the Water Balance in a Vegetated Lysimeter
Water Resources Research. 2021-04-01. DOI : 10.1029/2020WR029049.[24] On the use of leaf water to determine plant water source: A proof of concept
Hydrological Processes. 2021-03-01. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.14073.[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] Searching for patterns in the electrical conductivity signal of stream waters
2017[11] Young runoff fractions control streamwater age and solute concentration dynamics
Hydrological Processes. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.11243.[10] Using SAS functions and high-resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments
Water Resources Research. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2016Wr020117.[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''
Water Resources Research. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/2015Wr018045.[8] Transit times-the link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/wat2.1155.[7] Tracking residence times in hydrological systems: forward and backward formulations
Hydrological Processes. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.10513.[6] Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2015WR017552.[5] Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2014Wr016600.[4] Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2015Wr017273.[3] Transport of fluorobenzoate tracers in a vegetated hydrologic control volume: 2. Theoretical inferences and modeling
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2014WR016508.[2] Kinematics of age mixing in advection-dispersion models
Water Resources Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/2013Wr014708.[1] Chloride circulation in a lowland catchment and the formulation of transport by travel time distributions
Water Resources Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/wrcr.20309.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
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