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Nico Goldscheider is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research predominantly lies within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing to a total of 73 and 50 publications respectively. Their work focuses heavily on subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, Water Science and Technology, and Atmospheric Science.

The primary topics covered by Goldscheider include Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Groundwater and Watershed Analysis, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Hydrological Forecasting Using AI.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Goldscheider and frequently cited in academic literature are:

  • Global distribution of carbonate rocks and karst water resources (2020), Hydrogeology Journal
  • Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Global karst springs hydrograph dataset for research and management of the world's fastest-flowing groundwater (2020), Scientific Data
  • Experimental field evidence for transport of microplastic tracers over large distances in an alluvial aquifer (2020), Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Experimental and modeling evidence of kilometer-scale anomalous tracer transport in an alpine karst aquifer (2020), Water Research

Goldscheider has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Nadine Goeppert
  • Zhao Chen
  • Tanja Liesch
  • Nataša Ravbar
  • Hervé Jourde

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Hydrogeology Journal
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Grundwasser
  • Scientific Data

In addition to journal articles, Goldscheider has contributed to book publications, notably with The Groundwater Project eBooks. A recent work is titled Karst: Environment and Management of Aquifers published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Karst water resources in a changing world: Review of hydrological modeling approaches

    Andreas J Hartmann;N. Goldscheider;Thorsten Wagener;J. Lange

  • Global distribution of carbonate rocks and karst water resources

    Nico Goldscheider;Zhao Chen;Augusto S. Auler;Michel Bakalowicz

  • Methods in Karst Hydrogeology: IAH: International Contributions to Hydrogeology, 26

    Nico Goldscheider;David Drew

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

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

  • The PI method - a GIS-based approach to mapping groundwater vulnerability with special consideration of karst aquifers

    N Goldscheider;M Klute;S Sturm;H Hotzl

  • The World Karst Aquifer Mapping project: concept, mapping procedure and map of Europe

    Zhao Chen;Augusto S. Auler;Michel Bakalowicz;David Drew

  • Groundwater dependent ecosystems : Part I: Hydroecological status and trends

    Bjørn Kløve;Pertti Ala-aho;Guillaume Bertrand;Zuzana Boukalova

  • Methods in Karst Hydrogeology

    Nico Goldscheider;David Drew

  • Tracer tests in karst hydrogeology and speleology

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  • Review: Thermal water resources in carbonate rock aquifers

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

    Nicola Goldscheider;Daniel Hunkeler;Pierre Rossi

  • Karst groundwater vulnerability mapping: application of a new method in the Swabian Alb, Germany

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  • Karst groundwater protection: First application of a Pan-European Approach to vulnerability, hazard and risk mapping in the Sierra de Líbar (Southern Spain)

    Bartolomé Andreo;Nicola Goldscheider;Iñaki Vadillo;Jesús María Vías

  • Solute and Colloid Transport in Karst Conduits under Low‐ and High‐Flow Conditions

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  • Dynamics and interaction of organic carbon, turbidity and bacteria in a karst aquifer system

    Michiel Pronk;Nicola Goldscheider;Jakob Zopfi

  • Particle-Size Distribution As Indicator for Fecal Bacteria Contamination of Drinking Water from Karst Springs

    Michiel Pronk;Nico Goldscheider;Jakob Zopfi

  • Proposed Methodology of Vulnerability and Contamination Risk Mapping for the Protection of Karst Aquifers in Slovenia

    Nataša Ravbar;Nico Goldscheider

  • Percolation and particle transport in the unsaturated zone of a karst aquifer.

    Michiel Pronk;Nicola Goldscheider;Jakob Zopfi;François Zwahlen

  • Groundwater dependent ecosystems. Part II. Ecosystem services and management in Europe under risk of climate change and land use intensification

    Bjørn Kløve;Andrew Allan;Guillaume Bertrand;Elzbieta Druzynska

  • Uranium in groundwater — Fertilizers versus geogenic sources

    Tanja Liesch;Sören Hinrichsen;Nico Goldscheider

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

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

  • Modeling spatially and temporally varied hydraulic behavior of a folded karst system with dominant conduit drainage at catchment scale, Hochifen-Gottesacker, Alps

    Zhao Chen;Nico Goldscheider

  • Use of artificial and natural tracers to assess groundwater transit-time distribution and flow systems in a high-alpine karst system (Wetterstein Mountains, Germany)

    Ute Lauber;Nico Goldscheider

  • 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

  • Radionuclides as natural tracers for the characterization of fluids in regional discharge areas, Buda Thermal Karst, Hungary

    Anita Erőss;Judit Mádl-Szőnyi;Heinz Surbeck;Ákos Horváth

  • Groundwater dependent ecosystems

    Bj Kløve;Andrew Allan;Guillaume Bertrand;Elzbieta Druzynska

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Sauter
Martin Sauter University of Göttingen
Zaihua Liu
Zaihua Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hervé Jourde
Hervé Jourde University of Montpellier
Bartolomé Andreo
Bartolomé Andreo University of Malaga
Daniel Hunkeler
Daniel Hunkeler University of Neuchâtel
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Jakob Zopfi
Jakob Zopfi University of Basel
Ty P. A. Ferré
Ty P. A. Ferré University of Arizona
Harald Kunstmann
Harald Kunstmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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