On Nov. 21st-23rd I collected my first gas samples from the Full-Scale Emplacement (FE) Experiment in the Mt. Terri Rock Laboratory. As each sample required about 2 hours of gas circulation, I spent 3 days working in the tunnel. The absence of sunlight was compensated by local products from St. Ursanne.
Accepted – Article on the AlpTransit Ceneri Base Tunnel
The work related to our investigations in the AlpTransit Ceneri Base Tunnel has been accepted for publication! The un-edited version of the manuscript is already on-line.
Tomonaga, Y., Marzocchi, R., Pera, S., Pfeifer, H. – R., Kipfer, R., Decrouy, L., et al. Using noble-gas and stable-isotope data to determine groundwater origin and flow regimes: application to the Ceneri Base Tunnel (Switzerland). J. Hydrol., doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.11.043.
COST FLOWS MC Meeting in Barcelona
Here some impressions of the COST FLOWS Management Committee (MC) Meeting organized in Barcelona (Nov. 15th-18th 2016).