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Overview

Daniel Hunkeler is affiliated with the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Philip Brunner
  • Rolf Kipfer
  • Fabien Cochand
  • Morgan Peel
  • Oliver S. Schilling

Daniel Hunkeler has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Chromatography A
  • Water Research
  • HydroShare Resources

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Influence of surface water - groundwater interactions on the spatial distribution of pesticide metabolites in groundwater, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Low-flow behavior of alpine catchments with varying quaternary cover under current and future climatic conditions, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • A Framework for Untangling Transient Groundwater Mixing and Travel Times, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Perspectives of compound-specific isotope analysis of organic contaminants for assessing environmental fate and managing chemical pollution, 2024, Nature Water
  • Triple-Element Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analysis (3D-CSIA): Added Value of Cl Isotope Ratios to Assess Herbicide Degradation, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Life cycle assessment: Part 1: Framework, goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, and applications

    G Rebitzer;Tomas Ekvall;R Frischknecht;D Hunkeler

  • A new concept linking observable stable isotope fractionation to transformation pathways of organic pollutants.

    Martin Elsner;Luc Zwank;Daniel Hunkeler;René P. Schwarzenbach

  • Monitoring Microbial Dechlorination of Tetrachloroethene (PCE) in Groundwater Using Compound-Specific Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios: Microcosm and Field Studies

    Daniel Hunkeler;R Aravena;B.J Butler

  • Carbon Isotope Fractionation during Microbial Dechlorination of Trichloroethene, cis-1,2-Dichloroethene, and Vinyl Chloride: Implications for Assessment of Natural Attenuation

    Y Bloom;R Aravena;Daniel Hunkeler;E Edwards

  • Current challenges in compound-specific stable isotope analysis of environmental organic contaminants

    Martin Elsner;Maik A. Jochmann;Thomas B. Hofstetter;Daniel Hunkeler

  • Review : Microbial biocenoses in pristine aquifers and an assessment of investigative methods

    Nicola Goldscheider;Daniel Hunkeler;Pierre Rossi

  • Environmental Isotopes in Biodegradation and Bioremediation

    C Aelion;Patrick Höhener;Daniel Hunkeler;Ramon Aravena

  • Hydrogen and carbon isotope fractionation during aerobic biodegradation of benzene.

    D Hunkeler;N Andersen;R Aravena;S M Bernasconi

  • Carbon and chlorine isotope fractionation during aerobic oxidation and reductive dechlorination of vinyl chloride and cis-1,2-dichloroethene

    Yumiko Abe;Ramon Aravena;Jakob Zopfi;O Shouakar-Stash

  • Does the Rayleigh equation apply to evaluate field isotope data in contaminant hydrogeology

    Yumiko Abe;Daniel Hunkeler

  • Monitoring Biodegradation of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) Using Compound-Specific Carbon Isotope Analysis

    Daniel Hunkeler;B.J Butler;R Aravena;J.F Barker

  • Review: From multi-scale conceptualization to a classification system for inland groundwater-dependent ecosystems

    Guillaume Bertrand;Nico Goldscheider;Jean-Michel Gobat;Daniel Hunkeler

  • Assessment of degradation pathways in an aquifer with mixed chlorinated hydrocarbon contamination using stable isotope analysis.

    Daniel Hunkeler;Ramon Aravena;Karen Berry-Spark;Evan Cox

  • Determination of Compound-Specific Carbon Isotope Ratios of Chlorinated Methanes, Ethanes, and Ethenes in Aqueous Samples

    Daniel Hunkeler;Ramon Aravena

  • Compound-specific chlorine isotope analysis: a comparison of gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry and gas chromatography/quadrupole mass spectrometry methods in an interlaboratory study.

    Anat Bernstein;Orfan Shouakar-Stash;Karin Ebert;Christine Laskov

  • Effect of source variability and transport processes on carbon isotope ratios of TCE and PCE in two sandy aquifers

    Daniel Hunkeler;N Chollet;X. Pittet;R Aravena

  • Carbon isotopes as a tool to evaluate the origin and fate of vinyl chloride: laboratory experiments and modeling of isotope evolution.

    Daniel Hunkeler;Ramon Aravena;Evan Cox

  • Groundwater-surface water interaction and its role on TCE groundwater plume attenuation.

    Steven W. Chapman;Beth L. Parker;John A. Cherry;Ramon Aravena

  • Quantification of Sequential Chlorinated Ethene Degradation by Use of a Reactive Transport Model Incorporating Isotope Fractionation

    Boris M. Van Breukelen;Daniel Hunkeler;Frank Volkering

  • 222Rn as a Partitioning Tracer To Detect Diesel Fuel Contamination in Aquifers: Laboratory Study and Field Observations

    Daniel Hunkeler;Eduard Hoehn;Patrick Höhener;Josef Zeyer

  • Determination of spatiotemporal variability of tree water uptake using stable isotopes (δ18O, δ2H) in an alluvial system supplied by a high‐altitude watershed, Pfyn forest, Switzerland

    Guillaume Bertrand;Jean Masini;Nico Goldscheider;Jessica Meeks

  • Intrinsic bioremediation of a petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated aquifer and assessment of mineralization based on stable carbon isotopes.

    Christof Bolliger;Patrick Höhener;Daniel Hunkeler;Katharina Häberli

  • Groundwater Storage in High Alpine Catchments and Its Contribution to Streamflow

    M. Cochand;P. Christe;P. Ornstein;D. Hunkeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramon Aravena
Ramon Aravena University of Waterloo
Martin Elsner
Martin Elsner Technical University of Munich
Patrick Höhener
Patrick Höhener Aix-Marseille University
Philip Brunner
Philip Brunner University of Neuchâtel
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg Technical University of Denmark
Carsten S. Jacobsen
Carsten S. Jacobsen Aarhus University
Josef Zeyer
Josef Zeyer ETH Zurich
Thomas B. Hofstetter
Thomas B. Hofstetter Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Philip John Binning
Philip John Binning Technical University of Denmark
Albert Soler
Albert Soler University of Barcelona

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