CRC 1253 CAMPOS - Catchments as Reactors: Metabolism of Pollutants on the Landscape Scale (2017-2021)

The Collaborative Research Center CAMPOS (2017-2021) was a multidisciplinary research project focussing on pollution research at the catchment scale.

Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Peter Grathwohl

Contact:

Dr. Hermann Rügner, University of Tübingen, Center of Geo- and Environmental Research (GUZ), Schnarrenbergstraße 94-96, 72076 Tübingen,  +49 7071-29-75041, h.ruegnerspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Research Focus:

Diffuse pollution of soils, surface waters, and groundwater by a multitude of anthropogenic organic and inorganic compounds is a growing global concern. Despite decades of pollutant research, serious knowledge gaps exist concerning the fate and behavior of these pollutants on the landscape scale and their impact on water quality, ecology, and human health.

The overall aims of CAMPOS:

1. Identification of the landscape elements controling storage, biogeochemical transformation, or elimination of pollutants,
2. Identification of the processes relavant for pollutant transformation in different environmental compartments and their dynamics,
3. Development of a new modeling framework to simulate and predict reactive transport and pollutant behavior on the landscape scale.