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New address (since 12/06)
Department of Forest Engineering
204 Peavy Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
USA
Tel.: +1-541-737-4149
email: Luisa.Hopp@oregonstate.edu
web: http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fe/watershd
Since January 2006 working on the project Emission functions for major ions and heavy metals (1.1.-30.9.2006) that is part of the Taskforce Emission Functions established to evaluate the results of the BMBF Focus Program Groundwater Risk Assessment. The main goal is the development of mathematical functions that describe the temporal leaching behaviour of solutes from contaminated materials. These functions can then be used as input information for a transport model within the scope of a groundwater risk assessment.
2005 Ph.D. (Dr. rer.nat.) at the Department of Hydrology, University of Bayreuth, Germany. The Ph.D. thesis, entitled Environmental fate of arsenic and chromium in a soil contaminated by wood preservatives, focused on: (1) the characterisation of the partitioning of arsenic and chromium to soil solid phases, (2) characterisation of the mobility and release kinetics by batch and column tests, (3) the analysis of arsenic and chromium in soil water and groundwater of a former wood preserving site and the evaluation of temporal and spatial variability of the concentrations.
2000-2005 Research Assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Hydrology, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Scientific and administrative work within the research project Optimisation of groundwater risk assessment procedures: Implementation of column experiments, batch tests, soil water sampling and transport models, funded by the Bavarian State Department of Environment. Focused on the investigation and the comparison of the leaching behaviour of heavy metals and arsenic from various contaminated soil materials by means of batch and column experiments.
Preparation of a guideline for sampling techniques and the analysis of hydrogen in groundwater, on behalf of the State Office for Environment and Geology of Hesse, Germany.
2000 Dipl.-Ing. agr., University of Kiel, Germany. Afterwards worked as an occupational trainee for six months at CSIRO, Division of Tropical Agriculture, Brisbane, Australia, within the research project Assessing the possibility for N pollution in groundwaters in sugar growing areas in north Queensland. Tasks: the analysis of the spatial distribution of nitrate in coastal agricultural areas, using a GIS, and of groundwater nitrate data sets for temporal trends.
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