Elco Luijendijk
Junior lecturer
Department of Structural Geology and Geodynamics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Research Interests
I am a numerical modeller who focuses on the evolution of fluid flow systems and sedimentary basins on large spatial scales and/or geological timescales. I study these systems by integrating various datasets, such as groundwater isotopes, subsurface temperature and low-temperature thermochronology data with a series of existing and newly developed numerical models (see GitHub for some of the codes). I also utilize large-scale geospatial datasets to extrapolate results of groundwater and heatflow models from local to continental scales. I also help manage the Geodynamics and Geofluids modelling laboratory
Teaching
M.Geo.239: Fluids in the crust (course description) (syllabus)
Graduate students and student assistants
Recent publications
Befus, K.M., Jasechko, S., Luijendijk, E., Gleeson, T., Bayani Cardenas, M., (2017). The rapid yet uneven turnover of Earth’s groundwater. Geophys. Res. Lett. 44, 5511–5520. doi:10.1002/2017GL073322. link
Scott Jasechko, Debra Perrone, Kevin M. Befus, M. Bayani Cardenas, Grant Ferguson, Tom Gleeson, Elco Luijendijk, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Richard G. Taylor, Yoshihide Wada & James W. Kirchner (2017), Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2943.link
Gleeson, Tom, Kevin M Befus, Scott Jasechko, Elco Luijendijk, and M Bayani Cardenas (2016), The Global Volume and Distribution of Modern Groundwater, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2590.link