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  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Olaf A. Cirpka is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of environmental science, with a strong emphasis on groundwater and hydrogeological processes.

The scientist's work spans several main fields and subfields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Pollution

Their major topics of research cover the following areas:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Olaf A. Cirpka has published extensively in respected scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Hydrogeology Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories" (2020), published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • "AQDS and Redox-Active NOM Enables Microbial Fe(III)-Mineral Reduction at cm-Scales" (2020), Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Spatial and temporal evolution of groundwater arsenic contamination in the Red River delta, Vietnam: Interplay of mobilisation and retardation processes" (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Arsenic mobilization by anaerobic iron-dependent methane oxidation" (2020), Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Combining implicit geological modeling, field surveys, and hydrogeological modeling to describe groundwater flow in a karst aquifer" (2020), Hydrogeology Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include Adrian Mellage, Johan Alexander Huisman, Carsten Leven, Li Li, and Cora Strobel.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Olaf A. Cirpka was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Pilot-scale in situ bioremedation of uranium in a highly contaminated aquifer. 2. Reduction of u(VI) and geochemical control of u(VI) bioavailability.

    Wei-Min Wu;Jack Carley;Terry Gentry;Matthew A. Ginder-Vogel

  • Estimation of seepage rates in a losing stream by means of fiber-optic high-resolution vertical temperature profiling

    Tobias Vogt;Philipp Schneider;Lisa Hahn-Woernle;Olaf A. Cirpka

  • Numerical simulation of biodegradation controlled by transverse mixing

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Emil O. Frind;Rainer Helmig

  • Enhancement of dilution and transverse reactive mixing in porous media: experiments and model-based interpretation.

    Massimo Rolle;Christina Eberhardt;Gabriele Chiogna;Olaf A. Cirpka

  • Characterization of mixing and dilution in heterogeneous aquifers by means of local temporal moments

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Peter K. Kitanidis

  • Pilot-scale in situ bioremediation of uranium in a highly contaminated aquifer. 1. Conditioning of a treatment zone.

    Wei-Min Wu;Jack Carley;Michael Fienen;Tonia Mehlhorn

  • Enhanced mixing and reaction through flow focusing in heterogeneous porous media

    Charles J. Werth;Olaf A. Cirpka;Peter Grathwohl

  • Two-dimensional concentration distribution for mixing-controlled bioreactive transport in steady state

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Groundwater dynamics and arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh assessed using noble gases and tritium.

    Stephan Klump;Rolf Kipfer;Olaf A. Cirpka;Charles F. Harvey

  • Arsenic release from paddy soils during monsoon flooding

    Linda C. Roberts;Linda C. Roberts;Stephan J. Hug;Jessica Dittmar;Andreas Voegelin;Andreas Voegelin

  • Analyzing bank filtration by deconvoluting time series of electric conductivity.

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Michael N. Fienen;Markus Hofer;Eduard Hoehn

  • Fluctuations of electrical conductivity as a natural tracer for bank filtration in a losing stream

    Tobias Vogt;Eduard Hoehn;Philipp Schneider;Anja Freund

  • Adsorption as a cause for iron isotope fractionation in reduced groundwater

    Nadya Teutsch;Nadya Teutsch;Urs von Gunten;Don Porcelli;Olaf A. Cirpka

  • Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories

    Li Li;Pamela L. Sullivan;Paolo Benettin;Olaf A. Cirpka

  • Shift in Mass Transfer of Wastewater Contaminants from Microplastics in the Presence of Dissolved Substances

    Sven Seidensticker;Christiane Zarfl;Olaf Arie Cirpka;Greta Fellenberg

  • Evidence of compound-dependent hydrodynamic and mechanical transverse dispersion by multitracer laboratory experiments.

    Gabriele Chiogna;Christina Eberhardt;Peter Grathwohl;Olaf A. Cirpka

  • Two-dimensional characterization of hydraulic heterogeneity by multiple pumping tests

    Wei Li;Andreas Englert;Olaf A. Cirpka;Jan Vanderborght

  • Determination of Transverse Dispersion Coefficients from Reactive Plume Lengths

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Åsa Olsson;Qingsong Ju;Md. Arifur Rahman

  • Magnetostratigraphy of deep drilling core SG-1 in the western Qaidam Basin (NE Tibetan Plateau) and its tectonic implications

    Weilin Zhang;Weilin Zhang;Erwin Appel;Xiaomin Fang;Chunhui Song

  • An advective-dispersive stream tube approach for the transfer of conservative-tracer data to reactive transport.

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Peter K. Kitanidis

  • Streamline-oriented grid generation for transport modelling in two-dimensional domains including wells

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Olaf A. Cirpka;Emil O. Frind;Rainer Helmig;Rainer Helmig

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo Rolle
Massimo Rolle Technical University of Darmstadt
Peter Grathwohl
Peter Grathwohl University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Nowak
Wolfgang Nowak University of Stuttgart
Peter K. Kitanidis
Peter K. Kitanidis Stanford University
Mario Schirmer
Mario Schirmer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen
Martin Elsner
Martin Elsner Technical University of Munich
Rainer Helmig
Rainer Helmig University of Stuttgart
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna
Christiane Zarfl
Christiane Zarfl University of Tübingen

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