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Topics
Within the framework of the International Conference WAPO2 the following topics will be discussed:
Alternative methods and indicators of water quality in natural porous media.
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New methodologies for characterizing pollution levels and contamination hazards (methods other than classical physical-chemical approaches) |
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Indicator approaches for assessing water quality and for supporting decision making in water management |
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Cost-effective monitoring schemes for water quality |
Biogeochemical processes from soil to groundwater.
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Sorption, mobility and persistence of pollutants in a natural environment |
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Complexity of reactions that pollutants undergo in soils and groundwater |
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Role of organic matter and micro-organisms |
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Laboratory experiments, their design and comparability |
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Evaluation of experimental results regarding their transferability to field sites at different scales |
Numerical simulation of pollutant transport and interaction in soil and subsoil techniques, problems and case study.
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Numerical simulations concerning D/L NAPLs contamination: source localization and quantification, source mobility |
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Reactive transport models addressing contaminant mobility and interactions in soils and groundwater. |
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