Aquatic Physics

The Aquatic Physics Group at Eawag Kastanienbaum studies physical processes mainly in lakes, reservoirs and rivers. We have two approaches:

• Investigation of turbulence and microstructure to study mixing in stratified natural waters to infer turbulent fluxes; and
• Analysis of entire lakes systems and in particular the anthropogenic influences on geochemical fluxes and biological implications.

Projects

• Turbulence and fluxes in stratified waters [...]
• Bubbles in natural waters [...]
  
• Baikal deep water mixing and fluxes of methane and nutrients [...]
• Lake sediments and sub-aquatic sources of Lake Kivu [...]
• Methane and carbon cycling in Lake Kivu [...]
• Methane emission from lakes and reservoirs [...]
  
• Dams in Africa project (ADAPT) [...]
• Lake system analysis
  
  • Double diffusion in Lake Kivu [...]
  • Nutrient fluxes to lake Ohrid [...]
  • Oligotrophication and turbidity of Lake Brienz [...]
    
  • Degassing and Double diffusion in Lake Nyos [...]
    

Team

• Alfred Wüest, group leader
• Michael Schurter, technician
• Gabriel Fink, postdoc
  
• Daniel Odermatt, postdoc
• Jaime Pitarch, postdoc
• Tobias Sommer, PhD student
• Elisabeth Eder, PhD Student
• Angelika Hess, intern
• Julia Stumpf, intern
  
• Jeff Carpenter, guest scientist