Peter Ulrich Lehmann Grunder: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2020 |
| Name | Herr Dr. Peter Ulrich Lehmann Grunder |
| Adresse | Physik der Böden u. terr. Ökosys. ETH Zürich, CHN E 35.1 Universitätstrasse 16 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telefon | +41 44 632 63 45 |
| peter.lehmann@env.ethz.ch | |
| Departement | Umweltsystemwissenschaften |
| Beziehung | Dozent |
| Nummer | Titel | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
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| 061-0101-00L | Climate / Water / Soil   Only for Landscape Architecture MSc. Course languages are English and German. | 2 KP | 3G | H. Joos, R. Kretzschmar, R. Weingartner, N. Bluvshtein, E. L. Davin, S. Dötterl, A. Frossard, T. Galí-Izard, R. Knutti, P. U. Lehmann Grunder, T. Peter, S. Schemm, J. Schwaab, C. Steger, H. Wernli | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | Lectures, exercises and excursions serve as an introduction to atmospheric sciences, hydrology and soil science. Students gain a broad vision of the cutting edge topics that are being researched and studied at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH, Eawag, WSL a.o. This will be the base for a future dialog between the field of landscape architecture and the field of sciences. | ||||
| Lernziel | Students acquire basic knowledge in atmospheric sciences, hydrology and soil science: - Understanding basic chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere that influence weather and climate - Knowledge of water balance, principles of integral water management and climatic factors in the field of hydrology - Fundamentals about the classification of soils, soil-forming processes, physical and chemical soil properties, soil biology and ecology, soil degradation and protection Students develop an understanding of the relevance of these topics in the field of landscape architecture. Temporal and physical scale, research methods, units of measurement, lexicon, modes of representation and critical literature form the framework for the joint discourse. Students will develop a graphic language in order to integrate this knowledge into design. | ||||
| Inhalt | The course unit consists of the three courses "Climate", "Water" and "Soil", which are organized in modules. Module 1 “Climate”, 14.–18.09.2020 - Atmospheric dynamics: weather conditions, precipitation formation, weather forecast - Climate physics: past and future changes in global climate and scenarios for Switzerland - Land-climate dynamics: interaction between the land surface and the climate system - Hydrology and water cycle: extreme precipitation, influence of climate change on the cryosphere - Atmospheric chemistry: aerosols, greenhouse gases, air pollution Module 2 “Water”, 21.–25.09.2020 - Water balance: theoretical fundamentals; water balance; central importance of runoff; blue, green and grey water - Water as a resource: Switzerland's water resources, water supply, hydropower use - Water as a hazard and risk: floods, flood protection, urban drainage - Water protection: qualitative and quantitative water protection, water and landscape - Water and climate change: basics, situation in Switzerland with focus on the Alpine region Module 3 “Soil”, 28.09.–2.10.20 - Introduction to soils: definition, function, formation, classification and mapping - Soil physics: soil texture, soil structure, soil water potentials, hydraulic conductivity - Soil chemistry and fertility: clay minerals and oxides, cation exange capacity, soil pH, essential plant nutrients - Soil biology and ecology: soil fauna and microflora, fungi, bacteria, food web, organic matter - Soil degradation and threats to soil resources: erosion, compactation, sealing, contamination, salinization - Practical aspects of soil protection | ||||
| Skript | Course material will be provided. | ||||
| Literatur | The course material includes a reading list. | ||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The courses "Climate", "Water" and "Soil" are organized with the Fundamental Studio I as joint one-week modules. The weekly schedules will be provided with the course materials. Module 1 "Climate", 14-18.09.2020 Module 2 "Water", 21-25.09.2020 Module 3 "Soil", 28.09.-2.10.20 - The courses are held in English or German. - The written session examination covers all three courses "Climate", "Water" and "Soil". - During the excursions there will be at least one external overnight stay. | ||||
| 102-0527-00L | Experimental and Computer Laboratory I (Year Course) | 0 KP | 6P | D. Braun, L. Biolley, F. Evers, M. Floriancic, P. U. Lehmann Grunder, B. Lüthi, S. Pfister, D. A. Silva Conde, A. Stritih, D. F. Vetsch, L. von Känel | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | In the Experimental and Computer Laboratory students are introduced to research and good scientific practice. Experiments are conducted in different disciplines of environmental engineering. Data collected during experiments are compared to the corresponding numeric simulations. The results are documented in reports or presentations. | ||||
| Lernziel | The student will learn the following skills: basic scientific work, planning and conducting scientific experiments, uncertainty estimations of measurements, applied numerical simulations, modern sensor technology, writing reports. | ||||
| Inhalt | The Experimental and Computer Laboratory is building on courses in the corresponding modules. Material from these courses is a prerequisite or co-requisite (as specified below) for participating in the Experimental and Computer Laboratory (MODULE: Project in the Experimental and Computer Laboratory): - WatInfra: Water Network Management - UWM: SysUWM + ProcUWM: Operation of Lab-WWTP - AIR: Air Quality Measurements - WasteBio: Anaerobic Digestion - WasteRec: Plastic Recycling - ESD: Environmental Assessment - GROUND: Groundwater Field Course Kappelen - WRM: Modelling Optimal Water Allocation - FLOW: 1D Open Channel Flow Modelling - LAND: Landscape Planning and Environmental Systems - RIVER: Discharge Measurements - HydEngr: Hydraulic Experiments - RemSens: Earth Observation and Landscape Planning - SOIL: Soil and Environmental Measurements Lab | ||||
| Skript | Written material will be available. | ||||
| 701-0535-00L | Environmental Soil Physics/Vadose Zone Hydrology | 3 KP | 2G + 2U | P. U. Lehmann Grunder | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | The course provides theoretical and practical foundations for understanding and characterizing physical and transport properties of soils/ near-surface earth materials, and quantifying hydrological processes and fluxes of mass and energy at multiple scales. | ||||
| Lernziel | Students are able to - characterize porous media at different scales - parameterize structural, flow and transport properties of partially-saturated porous media - quantify driving forces and resulting fluxes of water, solute, and heat in soils - explain links between physical processes in the vadose-zone and major societal and environmental challenges | ||||
| Inhalt | Weeks 1 to 3: Physical Properties of Soils and Other Porous Media – Units and dimensions, definitions and basic mass-volume relationships between the solid, liquid and gaseous phases; soil texture; particle size distributions; surface area; soil structure. Soil colloids and clay behavior Soil Water Content and its Measurement - Definitions; measurement methods - gravimetric, neutron scattering, gamma attenuation; and time domain reflectometry; soil water storage and water balance. Weeks 4 to 5: Soil Water Retention and Potential (Hydrostatics) - The energy state of soil water; total water potential and its components; properties of water (molecular, surface tension, and capillary rise); modern aspects of capillarity in porous media; units and calculations and measurement of equilibrium soil water potential components; soil water characteristic curves definitions and measurements; parametric models; hysteresis. Modern aspects of capillarity Weeks 6 to 9: Water Flow in Soil - Hydrodynamics: Part 1 - Laminar flow in tubes (Poiseuille's Law); Darcy's Law, conditions and states of flow; saturated flow; hydraulic conductivity and its measurement. Part 2 - Unsaturated steady state flow; unsaturated hydraulic conductivity models and applications; non-steady flow and Richards equation; approximate solutions to infiltration (Green-Ampt, Philip); field methods for estimating soil hydraulic properties. Part 3 - Use of Hydrus model for simulation of unsaturated flow Week 10: Solute Transport in Soils; Transport mechanisms of solutes in porous media; breakthrough curves; convection-dispersion equation; solutions for pulse and step solute application; parameter estimation; salt balance. Week 11: Gas transport in soil and biological processes; gas diffusion as function of water content, Fickian law, biological activity and respiration; root water uptake; soil structure Week 12 to 13: Energy Balance and Land Atmosphere Interactions - Radiation and energy balance; evapotranspiration definitions and estimation; transpiration, plant development and transpirtation coefficients; small and large scale influences on hydrological cycle; surface evaporation. Week 14: Temperature and Heat Flow in Porous Media - Soil thermal properties; steady state heat flow; nonsteady heat flow; estimation of thermal properties; engineering applications. | ||||
| Skript | Classnotes: Vadose Zone Hydrology, by Or D., J.M. Wraith, and M. Tuller (available at the beginning of the semester) | ||||
| Literatur | Supplemental textbook (not mandatory) -Environmental Soil Physics, by: D. Hillel | ||||
| 701-1673-00L | Environmental Measurement Laboratory Number of participants limited to 26. General safety regulations for this course: -Whenever possible the distance rules have to be respected -All students have to wear masks throughout the course (keep reserve masks ready) -The installation and activation of the Swiss Covid-App is highly encouraged -Any additional rules for individual courses have to be respected -Students showing any COVID-19 symptoms are not allowed to enter ETH buildings and have to inform the course responsible | 5 KP | 4G | P. U. Lehmann Grunder | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | Measurements are the the sole judge of scientific truth and provide access to unpredictable information, enabling the characterization and monitoring of complex terrestrial systems. Based on lectures and field- and laboratory training the students learn to apply modern methods to determine forest inventory parameters and to measure subsurface properties and processes. | ||||
| Lernziel | The students will be able to: - explain measurement principles that are used for characterization of landscapes and terrestrial systems - select appropriate measurement methods and sampling design to quantify key variables and processes in the subsurface - deploy sensors in the field - interpret collected laboratory and field data and report main conclusions deduced from measurements | ||||
| Inhalt | 1) Measurement Science, datalogging (Lecture) and sensor calibration: Data Logging, basic data logger programming; overview of soil sensor types and sensor calibration; including programming in the laboratory 2) Field installation of sensors and field experiment; data collection for a few days 3) Geophysical methods on Subsurface Characterization: Basic principles of ERT, GPR, and EM; 4) Demonstration and application of geophysical methods in the field; 5) Soil and Groundwater Direct Sampling (Lab): Soil physical sampling; profile characterization, disturbed and undisturbed soil sampling, direct-push geoprobe sampling; soil water content profiles and transects; 6) Field sample analysis in the lab (particle sizes, hydraulic conductivity, soil water retention) 7 & 8) Eddy covariance methods -Principles for field measurement of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and energy exchange between terrestrial surfaces and the atmosphere; Analysis of measured time series to determine evaporation rate and CO2-fluxes 9 & 10) Forest characterization/ inventory: Principles of LIDAR; structures and features of the tree crowns, size/volume of the leaf area tree positions and diameters at breast height 11 & 12) Ecohydrological and Soil Monitoring Networks: Data management for long term monitoring networks, soil structure and critical zone observatories 13) Analysis of soil and vegetation relationship at global scale using remote sensing data | ||||
| Literatur | Lecture material will be online for registered students using moodle | ||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The details of the schedule will be optimized based on the number of students; some blocks of the course will be offered as well to students of Environmental Engineering | ||||