Author: Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez

New paper, in collaboration with Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu from UC Berkeley, Luis Cueto from Technical University of Madrid, Ruben Juanes from MIT and collaborators at Los Alamos National Lab, on how crustal fingering facilitates free-gas methane migration through the hydrate stability zone, accepted in PNAS.

Marta Botella's paper, with collaborators at University of Cadiz, on the structural control of non-ionic surfactants on their sorption and degradation in soils, published in Environmental Pollution.

The paper, in collaboration with Denise Mitrano from ETH, on the transport of particulate plastics in unsaturated soils, listed as one of the Top Cited Articles Published in 2018 - 2020 by Environmental Science and Technology.

New paper in Advances in Water Resources on a multiple point statistics method to generate phases distributions within porous media and their control on solute transport and chemical reactions. This has been done in collaboration with the group of Philippe Renard from University of Neuchatel.

New paper on the local viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids flowing in porous media in collaboration with Markus Holzner' group (WSL and Eawag) published in Scientific Reports.

We are seeking two dynamic and motivated doctoral students for a project to study microbial ecology in soil analogues. The positions are funded by two recently awarded grants, an EU - Innovative Training Network (ITN) Grant (CoPerMix) and an ETH Research Grant. Apply now! through the Eawag system or ETH Zurich system

The SEP group and the Stocker lab have been awarded an ETH Research Grant to work on microbial processes in soil, using microfluidics to create soil analogues. This award will support a PhD student and will strengthen the collaboration between the two groups.

Dorothee and Joaquin will be conveners at AGU (December 7-11th, 2020) in the following sessions (click them for details): Biochemical and hydrodynamic processes in biofilms and porous media Experimental and theoretical strategies for quantifying the impact of small-scale heterogeneity on effective fluxes within the unsaturated zone and across interfaces with the atmosphere and saturated zone Deadline for abstracts submission July 29th, 2020!

New paper on reactive transport at pore scale in collaboration with CSIC (Barcelona) published in Water Resources Research.

We’re part of a newly awarded EU Innovative Training Network (ITN) grants to collaborate with researchers across Europe to work on the role of incomplete mixing in microbial behaviour. We look forward to further strengthening our links with colleagues across Europe and to contributing to the education of the next generation of PhD students in these fields. Exciting times!