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Volume 33, Issue 8
  • ISSN: 0263-5046
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2397

Abstract

The relevance of groundwater-based ecosystem servic¬es (MEA 2005) for mankind is largely recognized in the scientific community, but also among profession¬als and regulators. The engines of decision support tools for managing, protecting and restoring groundwater resources are predictive models of groundwater flow and sol¬ute transport, possibly integrated with monitoring networks and with tools for the modelling and monitoring of surface waters and surface/ground water interactions. Despite the availability of very complex numerical models, reliable predictions depend on the knowledge of the geological and hydrostratigraphic structure and of the heterogeneity of the subsurface at different scales. A contribution of paramount importance to such a characterization comes from hydro¬geophysics (see, e.g., Rubin and Hubbard, 2006), i.e., from the application of geophysical exploration methods to the reconstruction of the hydrostratigraphic structure and to the determination of the hydrodynamic (e.g., hydraulic conduc¬tivity) and hydrodispersive (e.g., dispersivity) parameters. An advance on hydrostratigraphic characterization at different scales has been proposed by the integration of field (geological and geophysical) surveys, geostatistical analysis and simulations, numerical modelling of ground¬water flow and solute transport (Giudici et al., 2012). This multi-disciplinary and multi-scale approach is fundamental to obtaining a picture of the processes that control water circulation in the subsoil and of the evolution of solute plumes in the subsurface. The goal of this paper is to show some of the activities performed within this framework at the ‘Laboratory of Hydrogeophysics’ of the Department of Earth Sciences at Università degli Studi di Milano.

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