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Peter Huggenberger

Peter Huggenberger

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
4551
World Ranking
6949
National Ranking
152

Overview

Peter Huggenberger is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Earth-Surface Processes, Geochemistry and Petrology, Water Science and Technology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's research focuses strongly on topics related to karst systems and hydrogeology, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, and groundwater flow and contamination studies. Additional topics covered in their work include groundwater and watershed analysis, hydrology and watershed management studies, landslides and related hazards, and geophysical methods and applications.

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter Huggenberger demonstrate these focus areas. These include:

  • Global karst springs hydrograph dataset for research and management of the world's fastest-flowing groundwater (2020), published in Scientific Data
  • Climate change effects on groundwater recharge and temperatures in Swiss alluvial aquifers (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology X
  • Assessment of the heterogeneity of hydraulic properties in gravelly outwash plains: a regionally scaled sedimentological analysis in the Munich gravel plain, Germany (2020), published in Hydrogeology Journal
  • Regional groundwater flow and karst evolution-theoretical approach and example from Switzerland (2021), published in Environmental Earth Sciences
  • Author Correction: Global karst springs hydrograph dataset for research and management of the world's fastest-flowing groundwater (2020), published in Scientific Data

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, notably Jannis Epting, Tunde Olarinoye, Tom Gleeson, Vera Marx, and Stefan Seeger.

Academic publishing venues where Peter Huggenberger has contributed multiple works include Scientific Data, Journal of Hydrology X, Hydrogeology Journal, Environmental Earth Sciences, and edoc (University of Basel).

Best Publications

  • Using two- and three-dimensional georadar methods to characterize glaciofluvial architecture

    Milan Beres;Peter Huggenberger;Alan G Green;Heinrich Horstmeyer

  • Mapping the architecture of glaciofluvial sediments with three-dimensional georadar

    M. Beres;A. Green;P. Huggenberger;H. Horstmeyer

  • Active normal faulting in the upper Rhine graben and paleoseismic identification of the 1356 Basel earthquake.

    Mustapha Meghraoui;Bertrand Delouis;Matthieu Ferry;Domenico Giardini

  • Pleistocene Rhine gravel: deposits of a braided river system with dominant pool preservation

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  • Three-dimensional high resolution fluvio-glacial aquifer analog: Part 1: Field study

    P. Bayer;P. Huggenberger;Philippe Renard;Alessandro Comunian

  • Abiotic aspects of channels and floodplains in riparian ecology

    P. Huggenberger;E. Hoehn;R. Beschta;W. Woessner

  • Radar facies: recognition of facies patterns and heterogeneities within Pleistocene Rhine gravels, NE Switzerland

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  • Particle transport in a karst aquifer: natural and artificial tracer experiments with bacteria, bacteriophages and microspheres.

    A. Auckenthaler;G. Raso;P. Huggenberger

  • Unraveling the heat island effect observed in urban groundwater bodies – Definition of a potential natural state

    Jannis Epting;Peter Huggenberger

  • Thermal management of an unconsolidated shallow urban groundwater body

    J. Epting;F. Händel;F. Händel;P. Huggenberger

  • Intrinsic vulnerability assessment in karst areas : a numerical modeling approach

    Christoph Butscher;Peter Huggenberger

  • Process-based karst modelling to relate hydrodynamic and hydrochemical characteristics to system properties

    A. Hartmann;A. Hartmann;M. Weiler;T. Wagener;J. Lange

  • Introduction to the special issue on aquifer-sedimentology: problems, perspectives and modern approaches

    Peter Huggenberger;Tom Aigner

  • Climate change effects on groundwater recharge and temperatures in Swiss alluvial aquifers

    Jannis Epting;Adrien Michel;Annette Affolter;Peter Huggenberger

  • Global karst springs hydrograph dataset for research and management of the world’s fastest-flowing groundwater

    Tunde Olarinoye;Tom Gleeson;Vera Marx;Stefan Seeger

  • Modeling the Temporal Variability of Karst Groundwater Vulnerability, with Implications for Climate Change

    Christoph Butscher;Peter Huggenberger

  • Ground-probing radar as a tool for heterogeneity estimation in gravel deposits: advances in data-processing and facies analysis

    Peter Huggenberger;Edi Meier;André Pugin

  • Online flow cytometry reveals microbial dynamics influenced by concurrent natural and operational events in groundwater used for drinking water treatment.

    Michael D. Besmer;Michael D. Besmer;Jannis Epting;Rebecca M. Page;Jürg A. Sigrist

  • Comprehensive micropollutant screening using LC-HRMS/MS at three riverbank filtration sites to assess natural attenuation and potential implications for human health.

    Juliane Hollender;Judith Rothardt;Dirk Radny;Martin Loos

  • Mesozoïc subsidence history of the European marginal shelves of the alpine Tethys (Helvetic realm, Swiss Plateau and Jura)

    Walter Wildi;Hanspeter Funk;Bernard François Robert Loup;Edgardo Amato

  • Numerical modelling of finite-amplitude similar folds developing under general deformation histories

    M. Casey;P. Huggenberger

  • Combining monitoring and modelling tools as a basis for city-scale concepts for a sustainable thermal management of urban groundwater resources.

    Matthias H. Mueller;Peter Huggenberger;Jannis Epting

  • Development of concepts for the management of thermal resources in urban areas – Assessment of transferability from the Basel (Switzerland) and Zaragoza (Spain) case studies

    Jannis Epting;Alejandro García-Gil;Peter Huggenberger;Enric Vázquez-Suñe

  • Interpretation of drill-core and georadar data of coarse gravel deposits

    Christian Regli;Peter Huggenberger;Martin Rauber

Frequent Co-Authors

Anis Younes
Anis Younes University of Strasbourg
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen
Juliane Hollender
Juliane Hollender Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Mario Schirmer
Mario Schirmer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Alan G. Green
Alan G. Green ETH Zurich
Bartolomé Andreo
Bartolomé Andreo University of Malaga
Gunnar Lischeid
Gunnar Lischeid University of Potsdam
Frederik Hammes
Frederik Hammes Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Walter Wildi
Walter Wildi University of Geneva

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