Duties: Preserving or restoring water quality is one of the great environmental challenges of our time. This challenge includes work with many different water quality problems. Common to many water issues is the need to define the flow pathways and transit times of water. Hydrologists have striven to provide a sound basis for biogeochemical modeling, but face the complexity of catchment flow systems that defy complete description of catchment flow paths.
This project will develop an innovative new predictive model of soil and hillslope hydrology, transport and transit times based on the concept of multiple interacting pathways (MIPs) (Davies et al., 2011[1]). The model will be used to test different rules for particle movements within a multiple working hypothesis framework for water and solute fluxes using carefully posed, hillslope scale tracer experiments. In this proposed project we will also evaluate MIPs models using detailed isotope data.
The PhD student will use the Multiple Interactive Flowpaths Model approach to define plausible descriptions of high resolution flow paths through soil profiles, hillslopes and small catchments The outcome of this thesis will be an improved understanding of catchment hydrology. Connections will be explored to the biogeochemical modeling of both weathering and carbon balances.
PhD student in Hydrological Modeling with the Multiple Interactive Flowpaths Model
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2012-08-17, 00:00
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2025-09-29, 17:00
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Catan Andreea Corina
