Monitoring Migration Pathways in the Subsurface Using Tailored Polymer Tracer Libraries (C05)

• Subject Area: Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management ; Soil Sciences ; Preparatory and Physical Chemistry of Polymers
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 218627073

Project C05 will reconstruct the flow paths that connect the surface and subsurface compartments by the application of “tailored polymer colloids” as non-conventional tracers of reactive transport. With additional chain-end functionalities of the polymers that target biota, we aim to move from the laboratory to the field scale in AquaDiva's joint multi-tracer experiments. The results will allow to generate a framework of colloidal transport processes to understand the migration pathways of natural soil solution constituents and colloids.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1076: AquaDiva: Understanding the Links between Surface and Subsurface Biogeosphere
• Applicant Institution: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
• Project Heads: Dr. Thomas Ritschel, since 7/2021; Professor Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert; Professor Dr. Kai Uwe Totsche, until 6/2021