Alberich Rodriguez, Maria Carmen

Research Interests

• Groundwater management in arid regions
• Remote sensing of surface energy balance components
• Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry for topographic mapping
• Environmental tracers applied to hydrogeology
• Tracers of anthropogenic contamination in urban groundwater

Research Project

Groundwater as resource and as archive for environmental change

Academic Qualifications

• 1994 MSc in Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany;
• 1997 NDS Urban Water Management and Water Pollution Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
• 1998 Remote Sensing Applied to Earth Sciences, International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, The Netherlands.

Professional Experience

• 1998 - present: Institute of Hydromechanics and Water Resources Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.
  "Modelling of the Iullemeden Aquifer System. Combining numerical groundwater flow and transport models with remote sensing and environmental tracer information"
• 1998 - 10.1998: Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain.
  "Use of natural and anthropogenic tracers to discriminate sources of groundwater recharge in urban areas. Application to Barcelona (Spain)"
• 5.1995 - 10.1995: Institute for Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany.
  "Groundwater flow modelling for evaluation of a pollution hazard by chlorinated hydrocarbons";
  "Modelling of benchmark experiments for density flow in porous media".

Publications

Bauer P., Brunner P., Alberich C., Kinzelbach W., 2003. The use of remote sensing data in water resources management. Some examples of Africa and China. Proceedings of the TIGER Workshop, 6-8 October 2003, Rabat, Morroco.

Alberich C., Brunner P., Kinzelbach, W., 2003. Groundwater modeling and environmental tracer information. In: El agua y la ciudad sostenible: Hidrogeología urbana. Barcelona 23-25 October 2003. Publicaciones del Instituto Geológico y Minero de España. Serie: Hidrogeología y aguas subterráneas, no. 11.

Kinzelbach, W., Aeschbach, W., Alberich, C., Goni, I.B., Beyerle, U., Brunner, P., Chiang, W.H., Rueedi, J., Zoellmann, K., 2002. A survey of methods for groundwater recharge in arid and semi-arid regions. Early Warning and Assessment Reports Series, UNEP/DEWA/RS.02-2. UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya.

Vázquez-Suñé E., O. Castillo, X. Sánchez Vila, C. Alberich and J. Carrera, 2000. Chemical tracers to discriminate the sources of groundwater recharge in urban areas. Abstracts of XXIII General Assembly of European Geophysical Society, Nice, France. April 2000.

Vázquez-Suñé E., O. Castillo, X. Sánchez Vila, C. Alberich and J. Carrera, 2000. Use of natural and anthropogenic tracers to discriminate the sources of groundwater recharge in urban areas. Application to Barcelona. In: Tracers and modeling in hydrogeology. IAHS Publ. 262.