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Alain Dassargues

Alain Dassargues

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
7373
World Ranking
4933
National Ranking
35

Overview

Alain Dassargues is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium and has contributed extensively to environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, including environmental engineering, geophysics, civil and structural engineering, geochemistry and petrology, and water science and technology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics such as groundwater flow and contamination studies, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, soil and unsaturated flow, groundwater and watershed analysis, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, geothermal energy systems and applications, and CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions.

Recent publications by Dassargues cover diverse subjects and have appeared in various scientific journals. Selected papers include: "Site-selection criteria for the Einstein Telescope" (2020, Review of Scientific Instruments), "Underground Pumped-Storage Hydropower (UPSH) at the Martelange Mine (Belgium): Underground Reservoir Hydraulics" (2020, Energies), "Continuous Dissolved Gas Tracing of Fracture-Matrix Exchanges" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters), "Underground Pumped-Storage Hydropower (UPSH) at the Martelange Mine (Belgium): Interactions with Groundwater Flow" (2020, Energies), and "Heat Tracing in a Fractured Aquifer with Injection of Hot and Cold Water" (2021, Ground Water).

Coauthorship is a significant aspect of their research activity. Frequent collaborators include Philippe Orban, Pascal Goderniaux, Richard Hoffmann, Estanislao Pujades, and Agathe Defourny. These partnerships have contributed to advancing knowledge across the environmental and earth sciences.

Dassargues publishes regularly in specialized venues, with multiple contributions to the Open Repository and Bibliography of the University of Liège, Energies, Geological Society London Special Publications, Water, and Ground Water. This distribution highlights a consistent engagement with interdisciplinary and applied research outlets.

  • Site-selection criteria for the Einstein Telescope (2020, Review of Scientific Instruments)
  • Underground Pumped-Storage Hydropower (UPSH) at the Martelange Mine (Belgium): Underground Reservoir Hydraulics (2020, Energies)
  • Continuous Dissolved Gas Tracing of Fracture-Matrix Exchanges (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Underground Pumped-Storage Hydropower (UPSH) at the Martelange Mine (Belgium): Interactions with Groundwater Flow (2020, Energies)
  • Heat Tracing in a Fractured Aquifer with Injection of Hot and Cold Water (2021, Ground Water)

  • Philippe Orban
  • Pascal Goderniaux
  • Richard Hoffmann
  • Estanislao Pujades
  • Agathe Defourny

  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège)
  • Energies
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Water
  • Ground Water

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Engineering

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Geophysics
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Water Science and Technology

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Best Publications

  • Current trends and future challenges in groundwater vulnerability assessment using overlay and index methods

    RC Gogu;Alain Dassargues

  • Main concepts of the "European approach" to karst-groundwater-vulnerability assessment and mapping

    Donald Daly;Alain Dassargues;David Drew;S. Dunne

  • Large scale surface – subsurface hydrological model to assess climate change impacts on groundwater reserves

    Pascal Goderniaux;Serge Brouyère;Hayley J. Fowler;Stephen Blenkinsop

  • GIS-based hydrogeological databases and groundwater modelling

    Radu Constantin Gogu;Guy Carabin;Vincent Hallet;Valérie Peters

  • Climate change impacts on groundwater resources: modelled deficits in a chalky aquifer, Geer basin, Belgium

    Serge Brouyère;Guy Carabin;Alain Dassargues;Alain Dassargues

  • Conceptual model uncertainty in groundwater modeling: Combining generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation and Bayesian model averaging

    Rodrigo Rojas;Luc Feyen;Alain Dassargues;Alain Dassargues

  • Review of the use of Péclet numbers to determine the relative importance of advection and diffusion in low permeability environments

    Marijke Huysmans;Alain Dassargues

  • Comparison of aquifer vulnerability assessment techniques. Application to the Néblon river basin (Belgium)

    Radu Constantin Gogu;Vincent Hallet;Alain Dassargues;Alain Dassargues

  • Application of a multimodel approach to account for conceptual model and scenario uncertainties in groundwater modelling

    Rodriguo Rojas;Samalie Kahunde;Luk Peeters;Okke Batelaan

  • Application of multiple-point geostatistics on modelling groundwater flow and transport in a cross-bedded aquifer (Belgium)

    Marijke Huysmans;Alain Dassargues

  • Sensitivity analysis for the EPIK method of vulnerability assessment in a small karstic aquifer, southern Belgium

    Radu Constantin Gogu;Alain Dassargues

  • Quantitative temperature monitoring of a heat tracing experiment using cross-borehole ERT

    Thomas Hermans;Samuel Wildemeersch;Pierre Jamin;Philippe Orban

  • Assessing the contribution of electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and self-potential (SP) methods for a water well drilling program in fractured/karstified limestones

    Tanguy Robert;Alain Dassargues;Serge Brouyère;Olivier Kaufmann

  • Modeling climate change impacts on groundwater resources using transient stochastic climatic scenarios

    Pascal Goderniaux;Pascal Goderniaux;Serge Brouyère;Stephen Blenkinsop;Aidan Burton

  • Migration of contaminants through the unsaturated zone overlying the Hesbaye chalky aquifer in Belgium: a field investigation.

    Serge Brouyère;Alain Dassargues;Vincent Hallet

  • Hydrogeological investigations at the Membach station, Belgium, and application to correct long periodic gravity variations

    M. Van Camp;Marnik Vanclooster;O. Crommen;T. Petermans

  • Underground pumped storage hydropower plants using open pit mines: How do groundwater exchanges influence the efficiency?

    Estanislao Pujades;Philippe Orban;Sarah Bodeux;Pierre Archambeau

  • Groundwater flow modelling of the regional aquifer of the Pampa del Tamarugal, northern Chile

    Rodrigo Rojas;Alain Dassargues;Alain Dassargues

  • Uncertainty Quantification of Medium‐Term Heat Storage From Short‐Term Geophysical Experiments Using Bayesian Evidential Learning

    Thomas Hermans;Frédéric Nguyen;Maria Klepikova;Alain Dassargues

  • Identification of groundwater quality trends in a chalk aquifer threatened by intensive agriculture in Belgium

    Jordi Batlle Aguilar;Philippe Orban;Alain Dassargues;Serge Brouyère

  • Migration of contaminants through the unsaturated zone overlying the Hesbaye chalky aquifer in Belgium : a field investigation. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology.72. Pp. 135-164.

    S Brouyere;A Dassargues;Vincent Hallet

Frequent Co-Authors

Okke Batelaan
Okke Batelaan Flinders University
Dirk Mallants
Dirk Mallants Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Frédéric Nguyen
Frédéric Nguyen University of Liège
Marnik Vanclooster
Marnik Vanclooster Université Catholique de Louvain
Luc Feyen
Luc Feyen Stanford University
René Therrien
René Therrien Université Laval
Hayley J. Fowler
Hayley J. Fowler Newcastle University
Ludo Diels
Ludo Diels Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Stephen Blenkinsop
Stephen Blenkinsop Newcastle University
Daniel Hunkeler
Daniel Hunkeler University of Neuchâtel

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