In this one hour lecture, discover how contaminant hydrogeology has grown from its earliest beginnings in the mid-1960’s to an advanced domain. This lecture is given by one of the pioneers of the discipline, Prof. John Cherry (Univ. of Guelph, Canada).
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Recording date: 2015/10/30
Recording location: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Production: David Vieille
Editing: David Vieille, Iuliia Shirinkina, Sylvain Tissot
Thanks to: Daniel Hunkeler, SITEL, Unine
Sponsor: University of Neuchâtel
- Introduction
- 1960's - the birth of Contaminant Hydrogeology
- The paradigm of attenuation capacity
- Importance of weak transverse dispersion
- Sewage systems
- Winnipeg and the tritium mystery
- Diffusion processes in clays
- 1980's - discovery of chlorinated solvents in groundwater
- Aquitard doesn't leak water, but leaks DNAPL
- The multilevel monitoring system
- The threat of shale gas
- The conventional textbooks are not helpful
- Conclusion
- Discussion with the audience