Hincapié, Ingrid, Dr.

ETH Zürich Dr. Ingrid Hincapié Institute for Environmental Engineering HIF C 42 Schafmattstr. 6 8093 Zurich Telefon: +41 44 633 49 92 Fax: +41 44 633 10 61 E-Mail:

Background

Research Activities & Interests

• Sustainability
• Environmental and Waste management
• Soil protection
• Behavior of organic compunds in landfills
• Transport of contaminants in soil and landfills
• Nanotechnology

Journal Publications

• Bestimmung der Austauschereigenschaften von Waldböden: Kostenoptimierung (Kurzmitteilung)
  Gasser U.; Gubler A.; Hincapié I.; Karagiannis-Voules D.-A.; Schwierz C.; Zimmermann S.
  BULLETIN BGS (Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft der Schweiz) 2011, 32, 51-52
• Water Content Wave Approach Applied to Neutron Radiographs of Finger Flow
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  Vadose Zone Journal 2010, 9, 278-284. DOI:10.2136/vzj2009.0102
• Gravity-Driven Viscous Flow in Sand Boxes
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  Vadose Zone Journal 2010, 8, 891-901. DOI:10.2136/vzj2009.0003
• Abstraction from Infiltrating Water Content Waves during Weak Viscous Flows
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  Vadose Zone Journal 2009, 8(4), 996-1003. DOI: 10.2136/?vzj2009.0012
• Impact of initial and boundary conditions on preferential flow
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 2008, 104(1-4), 67-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.10.001
• Rivulet approach to infiltration in sand boxes assessed with Neutron-Radiography
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  BULLETIN BGS (Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft der Schweiz) 2007
• Collapse of capillary head during infiltration
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  BULLETIN BGS (Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft der Schweiz) 2006

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

• Gravity– driven viscous flow in unsaturated sand assessed with neutron-radiography
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  International Conference on Preferential and Unstable Flow in Porous Media – From Water Infiltration to Gas Injection
  Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland 29. March – 3. April 2009
• Spatially Averaged Approach to Heterogeneous Flow in Sand Boxes assessed with Neutron Radiography
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.; Vontobel P.
  EGU – General Assembly Wien, 13.-18. April. 2008
• Solid waste management in Bogotá; Colombia
  Hincapié I.; Mantilla S.
  Specialized Session C. XI. International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, S. Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, Italy, 2007
• Analysis of VOC in the emissions of the biogas coming from Doña Juanas' Landfil, Bogotá, Colombia
  Hincapié I.; Estévez S.
  Specialized Session C. XI. International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, S. Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, Italy, 2007
• Validation of Rivulet approach to infiltration in sand boxes using Neutron-Radiography
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  AGU-Joint Assembly – Acapulco, Mexico 22 – 25 May 2007
• Rivulet approach to preferential infiltration in a soil column
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  EGU – General Assembly Wien, 16.-20. April. 2007
• Rivulet approach to infiltration in sand boxes assessed with Neutron-Radiography
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  Jahrestagung 2007 – Bern, Switzerland. 15.- 16. März 2007
• Collapse of capillary potential during infiltration in sandstone
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  Workshop - Multi-Scale Modelling of Flow and Transport in Porous Media. Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Switzerland. 7.- 12. April 2006
• Kollaps der Saugspannung während der Infiltration in porösen Medien
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  Jahrestagung 2006 – Stofftransport in Böden und Gewässern. Zürich, Schweiz. 30.- 31. März 2006
• Collapse of capillary potential in relation to the geometry of flow in non-saturated porous systems
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.; Helbling A.; Vadilonga T.
  3rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting - 4D Earth - views through space and time. Zürich, Switzerland.18.-19. November 2005
• Investigating collapse of capillary potential during infiltration
  Hincapié I.; Germann P.
  Cargèse Summer School on “Development, protection, management and sequestration of subsurface fluids (Transport in porous and fractured media), Cargèse, Corsica, 25. July - 6. August. 2005
• Investigating the vectors of subsurface storm flow in a hillslope
  Retter, M., Hincapié, I., Germann, P.
  EGU – General Assembly Wien, 24.-29. April. 2005
• Volatile organic compounds in landfill gas at the Colombian biggest municipal waste disposal site
  Hincapié I.; Estévez S.; Giraldo E.
  Air & Waste Management Association's 95th Annual Conference & Exhibition; session AB-2b Advances in Laboratory and Field Measurements. Baltimore, Maryland, 2002
• VOC's determination in biogas emissions from sanitary landfill Doña Juana using solid phase microextraction (SPME)
  Hincapié I.; Estévez S.; Giraldo E.
  III Latin-American Congress of Chromatography, Cartagena, Colombia, 2002
• VOC's emissions in sanitary landfill Doña Juana and its impact on urban quality air
  Hincapié I.; Estévez S.
  II Seminar of Air Quality Management in Latin America. Uniandes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2002