Boris van Breukelen, Ph.D.

Assistant professor

International Master Program in Hydrology

Critical Zone Hydrology Group

Department of Earth Sciences

Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences (FALW)
VU University Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1085
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-20-5987393
Fax: +31-20-5989940
e-mail: b dot m dot van dot breukelen at vu dot nl

 

 

 

Reactive Transport Modeling Course / PHREEQC Course

Phreeqc - Phast - Python - Pest Hydrogeochemical Transport Modeling Course: Berlin, October 8-11, 2013

Research activities

ˇ        Biogeochemistry and monitored natural attenuation (MNA) of landfill leachate, chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons, and petroleum hydrocarbon plumes

·        Green technologies for aquifer use: heat and cold storage (ATES); managed aquifer recharge (MAR); artificial recharge and recovery (ASR); subsurface iron and arsenic removal (SIR and SAR)

ˇ        Reactive transport modeling (PHREEQC, PHT3D, PHAST)

ˇ        Applications of isotopes in soil and groundwater pollution research

ˇ        Microbial ecology in relation to biogeochemistry

Projects

Teaching

ˇ        Hydrochemistry

ˇ        Transport processes in groundwater

ˇ        Field courses (The Netherlands & Portugal)

Ph.D. thesis (2003)

Natural Attenuation of Landfill Leachate: a Combined Biogeochemical Process Analysis and Microbial Ecology Approach

Publications

2013   Antoniou, E.A., Stuyfzand, P.J., van Breukelen, B.M.. Reactive transport modeling of an aquifer storage & recovery (ASR) pilot to assess long-term water quality improvements and potential solutions. Applied Geochemistry, in press.
2013   Bonte, M., van Breukelen, B.M., Stuyfzand, P.J., 2013. Temperature-induced impacts on groundwater quality and arsenic mobility in anoxic aquifer sediments used for both drinking water and shallow geothermal energy production. Water Research, in press.
2013   Bonte, M., van Breukelen, B.M., Stuyfzand, P.J., 2013. Environmental impacts of aquifer thermal energy storage investigated by field and laboratory experiments. Journal of Water and Climate Change, in press.
2013   Bustos Medina, D., van den Berg, G., van Breukelen, B.M., Juhasz-Holterman, M., Stuyfzand, P.J., 2013. Iron hydroxide clogging of public supply wells receiving artificial recharge: Near-well and in-well hydrological and hydrochemical observations. Hydrogeology Journal, in press.
2013   Brad, T., Obergfell, C., van Breukelen, B.M., van Straalen, N., Roling, W.F.M. Spatiotemporal variations in microbial communities in a landfill leachate plume. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation, in press
2013   Zuurbier, K.G., Hartog, N., Valstar, J., Post, V.E.A., van Breukelen, B.M., 2013. The impact of low-temperature seasonal aquifer thermal energy storage (SATES) systems on chlorinated solvent contaminated groundwater: Modeling of spreading and degradation. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 147: 1-13.
2012   Antoniou, E. A., van Breukelen, B. M., Putters, B., Stuyfzand, P. J., 2012. Hydrogeochemical patterns, processes and mass transfers during aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) in an anoxic sandy aquifer. Applied Geochemistry, 27 (12), 2435-2452.
2012  

van Breukelen, B.M., Rolle, M., 2012. Transverse hydrodynamic dispersion effects on isotope signals in groundwater chlorinated solvents’ plumes. Environmental Science and Technology, 46, 7700-7708
2012  

Karlsen, R.H., Smits, F. J. C., Stuyfzand, P.J., Olsthoorn, T.N., van Breukelen, B.M., 2012. A Post audit and inverse modeling in reactive transport: 50 years of artificial recharge in the Amsterdam water supply dunes. Journal of Hydrology, 454-455: 7-25

2009

 

Hunkeler, D., van Breukelen, B.M., Elsner, M., 2009. Modeling chlorine isotope trends during sequential transformation of chlorinated ethenes. Environmental Science and Technology, 43(17), 6750–6756.

2009

 

Mangimbulude, J.C., van Breukelen, B.M., Krave, A.S., van Straalen N.M., Röling, W.F.M., 2009. Seasonal dynamics in leachate hydrochemistry and natural attenuation in surface run-off water from a tropical landfill. Waste Management, 29(2): 829-838.

2008

 

Brad, T., van Breukelen, B.M., Braster, M., van Straalen, N.M. and Roling, W.F.M., 2008. Spatial heterogeneity in sediment-associated bacterial and eukaryotic communities in a landfill leachate-contaminated aquifer. Fems Microbiology Ecology, 65(3): 534-543.

2008

 

Brad, T., Braster, M., van Breukelen, B.M., van Straalen , N.M. and Roling, W.F.M., 2008. Eukaryotic diversity in an anaerobic aquifer polluted with landfill leachate. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(13): 3959-3968.

2008

 

van Breukelen, B.M., Prommer, H., 2008. Beyond the Rayleigh equation: reactive transport modeling of isotope fractionation effects to improve quantification of biodegradation. Environmental Science and Technology, 42(7), 2457-2463.

2007

 

van Breukelen, B.M., 2007. Quantifying the degradation and dilution contribution to natural attenuation of contaminants by means of an open system Rayleigh equation. Environmental Science and Technology, 41(14), 4980-4985.

2007

 

van Breukelen, B.M., 2007. Extending the Rayleigh equation to allow competing isotope fractionating pathways to improve quantification of biodegradation. Environmental Science and Technology, 41(11), 4004-4010.

2007

 

Lin, B., Braster, M., Röling, W.F.M., van Breukelen, B.M.,  2007. Iron-reducing microorganisms in a landfill leachate-polluted aquifer: complementing culture-independent information with enrichments and isolations. Geomicrobiology Journal, 24: 283-294.

2007

 

Röling, W.F.M., van Breukelen, B.M., Bruggeman, F.J., Westerhoff, H.V., 2007. Ecological control analysis: Being(s) in control of mass flux and metabolite concentrations in anaerobic degradation processes. Environmental Microbiology, 9(2), 500-511.

2005

 

Mouser, P.J., Rizzo, D.M., Röling, W.F.M., van Breukelen, B.M., 2005. A multivariate statistical approach to spatial representation of groundwater contamination using hydrochemistry and microbial community profiles. Environmental Science and Technology, 39(19), 7551- 7559.

2005

 

Lin, B., Braster, M., van Breukelen, B.M., van Verseveld, H.W., Westerhoff, H.V., Röling, W.F.M., 2005. Geobacteraceae community composition is related to hydrochemistry and biodegradation in an iron-reducing aquifer polluted by a neighboring landfill. Applied and Environmental. Microbiology, 71(10): 5983-5991.

2005

 

van Breukelen, B.M., Hunkeler, D., Volkering, F., 2005. Quantification of sequential chlorinated ethene degradation by use of a reactive transport model incorporating isotope fractionation. Environmental Science and Technology, 39(11): 4189-4197.

2004

 

van Breukelen, B.M., Griffioen, J., 2004. Biogeochemical processes at the fringe of a landfill leachate pollution plume: potential for dissolved organic carbon, Fe(II), Mn(II), NH4 and CH4 oxidation. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 73(1-4): 181-205.

2004

 

van Breukelen, B.M., Griffioen, J., Röling, W.F.M., Van Verseveld, H.W., 2004. Reactive transport modelling of biogeochemical processes and carbon isotope geochemistry inside a landfill leachate plume. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 70(3-4): 249-269.

2003

 

van Breukelen, B.M., Röling, W.F.M., Groen, J., Griffioen, J., Van Verseveld, H.W., 2003. Biogeochemistry and isotope geochemistry of a landfill leachate plume. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 65(3-4): 245-268.

2002

 

Mancini, S.A., Lacrampe-Couloume, G., Jonker, H., van Breukelen, B.M., Groen, J., Volkering, F., Lollar, B.S., 2002. Hydrogen isotopic enrichment: An indicator of biodegradation at a petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated field site. Environmental Science & Technology, 36(11): 2464-2470.

2001

 

Röling, W.F.M., van Breukelen, B.M., Braster, M., Lin, B., Van Verseveld, H.W., 2001. Relationships between microbial community structure and hydrochemistry in a landfill leachate-polluted aquifer. Applied and Environmental. Microbiology, 67(10): 4619-4629.

2000

 

Röling, W.F.M., van Breukelen, B.M., Braster, M., Goeltom, M.T., Groen, J., Van Verseveld, H.W., 2000. Analysis of microbial communities in a landfill leachate polluted aquifer using a new method for anaerobic physiological profiling and 16S rDNA based fingerprinting. Microbial Ecology, 40(3): 177-188.

2000

 

Röling, W.F.M., van Breukelen, B.M., Braster, M., Van Verseveld, H.W., 2000. Linking microbial community structure to pollution: Biolog-substrate utilization in and near a landfill leachate plume. Water Science and Technology, 41(12): 47-53.

1998

 

van Breukelen, B.M., Appelo, C.A.J., Olsthoorn, T.N., 1998. Hydrogeochemical transport modeling of 24 years of Rhine water infiltration in the dunes of the Amsterdam water supply. Journal of Hydrology, 209(1-4): 281-296.

Other Publications [in Dutch]

2007

Volkering, F., van Breukelen, B.M., Gemoets, J., Veld, H., 2007. Nieuwe inzichten in de natuurlijke afbraak van chloorkoolwaterstoffen. Bodem, 17(4): 169-171. [In Dutch]

2007

Drijver, B., Kappelhof, J., Polman, E., van Breukelen, B.M., 2007. Methaanwinning uit grondwater: duurzaam alternatief met economisch perspectief. H2O, 40(19): 52-55. [In Dutch]

Selection of Reports [in Dutch]

2005

van Breukelen, B.M., 2005. Het zelfreinigend vermogen van de bodem als beheersmaatregel voor afstromend wegwater. In opdracht van Rijkswaterstaat. [in Dutch]

2002

Jonker, H., van Breukelen, B.M., Groen, J., Volkering, F., 2002. Isotopen analyse bij onderzoek naar bodem- en grondwaterverontreinigingen. SV-206, SKB, Gouda, the Netherlands. [in Dutch]

 

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