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Christine Stumpp

Christine Stumpp

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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
6123
World Ranking
6111
National Ranking
29

Overview

Christine Stumpp is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria, working primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on several specialized subfields including Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within environmental science, especially centered on hydrology and groundwater studies. Main topics include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Groundwater and Watershed Analysis, and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing.

Christine Stumpp has contributed to numerous scientific publications, producing research papers featured in notable academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences

Several recent papers by Christine Stumpp illustrate the scope and depth of their research interests:

  • Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reduction of vegetation-accessible water storage capacity after deforestation affects catchment travel time distributions and increases young water fractions in a headwater catchment, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Identifying groundwater degradation sources in a Mediterranean coastal area experiencing significant multi-origin stresses, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Transport and Water Age Dynamics in Soils: A Comparative Study of Spatially Integrated and Spatially Explicit Models, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • The coupled socio-ecohydrological evolution of river systems: Towards an integrative perspective of river systems in the 21st century, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Collaborations are part of Christine Stumpp's research activities, involving frequent co-authors such as Michael Stockinger, Lamine Boumaiza, Romain Chesnaux, Giuseppe Brunetti, and Christian Griebler. These collaborations underline a sustained engagement with peers across related fields.

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • The demographics of water: A review of water ages in the critical zone

    Matthias Sprenger;Matthias Sprenger;Matthias Sprenger;Christine Stumpp;Markus Weiler;Werner Aeschbach

  • Biodegradation: Updating the Concepts of Control for Microbial Cleanup in Contaminated Aquifers

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Martin Elsner;Christian Griebler;Tillmann Lueders

  • Analysis of long-term stable isotopic composition in German precipitation

    C. Stumpp;J. Klaus;W. Stichler

  • Water droplets in oil are microhabitats for microbial life

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Frederick von Netzer;Christine Stumpp;Tillmann Lueders

  • Inter-laboratory comparison of cryogenic water extraction systems for stable isotope analysis of soil water

    Natalie Orlowski;Natalie Orlowski;Lutz Breuer;Nicolas Angeli;Pascal Boeckx

  • Tracking water pathways in steep hillslopes by δ18O depth profiles of soil water

    Matthias H. Mueller;Abdallah Alaoui;Christoph Kuells;Hannes Leistert

  • Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers

    Andreas Hartmann;Andreas Hartmann;Scott Jasechko;Tom Gleeson;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada

  • Quantification of preferential flow and flow heterogeneities in an unsaturated soil planted with different crops using the environmental isotope δ18O

    Christine Stumpp;Piotr Maloszewski

  • Toward operational methods for the assessment of intrinsic groundwater vulnerability: A review

    Przemysław Wachniew;Anna J. Zurek;Christine Stumpp;Alexandra Gemitzi

  • Estimating groundwater recharge from water isotope (δ2H, δ18O) depth profiles in the Densu River basin, Ghana

    D. Adomako;P. Maloszewski;C. Stumpp;S. Osae

  • Effects of Land Cover and Fertilization Method on Water Flow and Solute Transport in Five Lysimeters: A Long-Term Study Using Stable Water Isotopes

    C. Stumpp;W. Stichler;M. Kandolf;J. Šimůnek

  • Potential impacts of geothermal energy use and storage of heat on groundwater quality, biodiversity, and ecosystem processes

    Christian Griebler;Heike Brielmann;Christina M. Haberer;Sigrid Kaschuba

  • Snow and frost: implications for spatiotemporal infiltration patterns ‐ a review

    Angela Lundberg;Pertti Otto Antero Ala-Aho;Olemartin Eklo;Björn Klöve

  • Inverse Estimation of Soil Hydraulic and Transport Parameters of Layered Soils from Water Stable Isotope and Lysimeter Data

    Jannis Groh;Christine Stumpp;Andreas Lücke;Thomas Pütz

  • Spatial and temporal dynamics of water flow and solute transport in a heterogeneous glacial till: The application of high-resolution profiles of δ18O and δ2H in pore waters

    Christine Stumpp;M. Jim Hendry

  • Environmental isotope (δ18O) and hydrological data to assess water flow in unsaturated soils planted with different crops: Case study lysimeter station Wagna (Austria)

    C. Stumpp;P. Maloszewski;W. Stichler;J. Fank

  • Long-term data set analysis of stable isotopic composition in German rivers.

    Anne Reckerth;Willibald Stichler;Axel Schmidt;Christine Stumpp

  • Reduction of vegetation-accessible water storage capacity after deforestation affects catchment travel time distributions and increases young water fractions in a headwater catchment

    M. Hrachowitz;M. Stockinger;M. Stockinger;Miriam Coenders-Gerrits;R.J. van der Ent

  • Application of the environmental isotope δ18O to study water flow in unsaturated soils planted with different crops: case study of a weighable lysimeter from the research field in Neuherberg, Germany.

    Christine Stumpp;Willibald Stichler;Piotr Maloszewski

  • Source identification of nitrate contamination in the urban aquifer of Mashhad, Iran

    Mohammad Zendehbad;Peter Cepuder;Willibald Loiskandl;Christine Stumpp

Frequent Co-Authors

Piotr Maloszewski
Piotr Maloszewski AGH University of Science and Technology
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna
Andreas Lücke
Andreas Lücke Forschungszentrum Jülich
Markus Weiler
Markus Weiler University of Freiburg
Martin Elsner
Martin Elsner Technical University of Munich
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Tillmann Lueders
Tillmann Lueders University of Bayreuth
Markus Hrachowitz
Markus Hrachowitz Delft University of Technology
Heye Bogena
Heye Bogena Forschungszentrum Jülich
Harald Kunstmann
Harald Kunstmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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