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Spatial & temporal dynamics in a tar oil contaminated aquifer: Focus on microbial activities - Softcover

Bayer, Anne

 
9783838123530: Spatial & temporal dynamics in a tar oil contaminated aquifer: Focus on microbial activities

Synopsis

When organic compounds, e.g. toluene or naphthalene, reach the soil and groundwater, contamination plumes with steep characteristic redox gradients are built. With a regularly conducted vertically high resolved analysis of groundwater as well as of sediment samples at a site in Düsseldorf over 4 years, dynamics of the vertical expansion of the contaminant plume and the maximal contaminant concentrations could be revealed, although when only small fluctuations of the groundwater table took place. Even within a very short time span (2 weeks), small changes in the contaminant distribution with accompanied sulfide occurrence, a degradation product, could be detected, that shows an unexpected fast adaption possibility of the microorganisms. However, 2008 a collapse of toluene biodegradation was observed, supporting the assumption that dynamics inhibiting the microbial degradation rather than enhancing as soon as they are stronger.

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About the Author

Anne Bayer studied biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. She did her doctoral thesis in the Institute of Groundwater Ecology at the Helmholtz Center, Munich. Now she works as a project manager at the Bavarian Environmental Agency (LfU), Wielenbach.

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