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Victor F. Bense is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research largely focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The primary topics of Victor F. Bense's work center on climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, and hydrology and watershed management studies. Other main areas include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, groundwater flow and contamination studies, and flood risk assessment and management.

Their recent publications include:

  • Permafrost Degradation and Its Hydrogeological Impacts, 2022, Water
  • Hydrothermal processes of near-surface warm permafrost in response to strong precipitation events in the Headwater Area of the Yellow River, Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Geoderma
  • Modeling Reactive Solute Transport in Permafrost-Affected Groundwater Systems, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Invited perspective: What lies beneath a changing Arctic?, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • Estimating water balance components and their uncertainty bounds in highly groundwater-dependent and data-scarce area: An example for the Upper Citarum basin, 2021, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Victor F. Bense include Barret L. Kurylyk, Huijun Jin, Aaron A. Mohammed, Christophe Hissler, and Martine van der Ploeg.

The scientist regularly publishes in several journals, with a higher number of articles appearing in:

  • Hydrogeology Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water

Best Publications

  • Fault zone hydrogeology

    Victor Bense;Tom Gleeson;Sian Loveless;Olivier Bour

  • Faults as conduit-barrier systems to fluid flow in siliciclastic sedimentary aquifers

    V. F. Bense;M. A. Person

  • Evolution of shallow groundwater flow systems in areas of degrading permafrost

    V. F. Bense;G. Ferguson;H. Kooi

  • Permafrost degradation as a control on hydrogeological regime shifts in a warming climate

    V. F. Bense;H. Kooi;G. Ferguson;T. Read

  • Pleistocene hydrology of North America: The role of ice sheets in reorganizing groundwater flow systems

    Mark Person;Jennifer McIntosh;Victor Bense;V. H. Remenda

  • Deformation mechanisms and hydraulic properties of fault zones in unconsolidated sediments; the Roer Valley Rift System, The Netherlands

    V. F. Bense;E. H. Van den Berg;R. T. Van Balen

  • Characterizing groundwater flow and heat transport in fractured rock using fiber‐optic distributed temperature sensing

    T. Read;O. Bour;V. Bense;T. Le Borgne

  • Groundwater flow and heat transport for systems undergoing freeze-thaw : Intercomparison of numerical simulators for 2D test cases

    Christophe Grenier;Hauke Anbergen;Victor Bense;Quentin Chanzy

  • Permafrost Degradation and Its Hydrogeological Impacts

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  • Distributed Temperature Sensing as a downhole tool in hydrogeology

    V. F. Bense;T. Read;O. Bour;T. Le Borgne

  • Thermal regime of warm-dry permafrost in relation to ground surface temperature in the Source Areas of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, SW China

    Dongliang Luo;Huijun Jin;Qingbai Wu;Victor F. Bense

  • Assessment of basin-scale hydrologic impacts of CO2 sequestration, Illinois basin

    Mark Person;Amlan Banerjee;John Rupp;Cristian Medina

  • Transient hydrodynamics within intercratonic sedimentary basins during glacial cycles

    V. F. Bense;M. A. Person

  • Temporal and spatial variations of shallow subsurface temperature as a record of lateral variations in groundwater flow

    V. F. Bense;H. Kooi

  • The effect of fault relay and clay smearing on groundwater flow patterns in the Lower Rhine Embayment

    Victor F. Bense;Ronald Van Balen

  • Active-Distributed Temperature Sensing to continuously quantify vertical flow in boreholes

    T. Read;O. Bour;J. S. Selker;V. F. Bense

  • The impact of faults on the hydrogeological conditions in the Roer Valley Rift System: an overview

    V.F. Bense;R.T. Van Balen;J.J. De Vries

  • Theory, tools, and multidisciplinary applications for tracing groundwater fluxes from temperature profiles

    Barret L. Kurylyk;Dylan J. Irvine;Victor F. Bense

  • Impacts of degrading permafrost on streamflow in the source area of Yellow River on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

    Qiang Ma;Hui-Jun Jin;Hui-Jun Jin;Victor F. Bense;Victor F. Bense;Dong-Liang Luo

  • Hydrothermal processes of near-surface warm permafrost in response to strong precipitation events in the Headwater Area of the Yellow River, Tibetan Plateau

    Dongliang Luo;Huijun Jin;Huijun Jin;Victor F. Bense;Victor F. Bense;Xiaoying Jin

  • Thermal anomalies indicate preferential flow along faults in unconsolidated sedimentary aquifers

    V. F. Bense;M. A. Person;M. A. Person;K. Chaudhary;Y. You

  • Uncertainty in 1D Heat-Flow Analysis to Estimate Groundwater Discharge to a Stream

    Grant Ferguson;Victor Bense

Frequent Co-Authors

Barret L. Kurylyk
Barret L. Kurylyk Dalhousie University
Huijun Jin
Huijun Jin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Olivier Bour
Olivier Bour University of Rennes
John S. Selker
John S. Selker Oregon State University
Mark Person
Mark Person New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Grant Ferguson
Grant Ferguson University of Saskatchewan
Jeffrey M. McKenzie
Jeffrey M. McKenzie McGill University
Michelle Ann Walvoord
Michelle Ann Walvoord United States Geological Survey
Jennifer C. McIntosh
Jennifer C. McIntosh University of Arizona
Albrecht Weerts
Albrecht Weerts Wageningen University & Research

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