- E-mailelco.luijendijk@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 35 15
- Visitor AddressAllégaten 41Realfagbygget5007 BergenRoom2G12a - 2149
- Postal AddressPostboks 78035020 Bergen
I am a hydrogeologist interested in the interaction of groundwater systems with geological and environmental processes and the effects of climate change on global groundwater resources
Recent interests include:
- Global groundwater recharge and climate (Berghuijs et al. 2022, Berghuijs et al. 2024)
- The role of groundwater in landscape evolution (Luijendijk, 2022)
- Global coastal groundwater discharge (Luijendijk et al. 2020)
- Thermal springs, groundwater flow and tectonics in fault zones (Luijendijk et al. 2020, Louis et al. 2019, Luijendijk 2019)
See my google scholar profile for more publications
I specialize in designing new open-source geoscientific model codes. Examples include:
- beo: a model of fluid flow, heat flow and thermochronology in hydrothermal systems
- goemod: a coupled groundwater, overland flow & erosion model
- grompy-couple: a coupled groundwater flow & solute transport model of coastal groundwater systems
- pybasin: a model of the burial and thermal history of sedimentary basins
see my GitHub account for more model & data analysis codes
- Opinion piece in Dagavisen, 15 april 2023: Forvaltningen av grunnvann ligger med brukket ryggrad: Seks avgjørende tiltak for å sikre grunnvannet vårt for framtiden
- Editor's highlight in EOS, 23 jan. 2023: Global Models Underestimated Groundwater Recharge and Discharge
- EOS newsletter, 20 dec. 2023: Groundwater Replenishes Much Faster Than Scientists Previously Though
- Youtube video lecture on Coastal groundwater discharge at a global scale and its effects in the Source-to-sink online seminar
- Autumn 2024: GEOV181, Introduction to Earth Science and Informatics (with Ann Rowan and Ben Robson)
- Spring 2023: GEOV104, Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics (with Joachim Jacobs) (parental leave in spring 2024, will teach this again in spring 2025)
- Spring 2014 to 2020 at the University of Göttingen: M.Geo.239: Fluids in the crust, MSc level course with free lecture slides and exercises to build simple models of crustal fluid and heat flow in Excel and Python available at GitHub
see my google scholar profile or ORCID profile for a list of publications
- (2024). Increasing seasonal variation in the extent of rivers and lakes from 1984 to 2022. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS). 1653-1663.
- (2024). Groundwater recharge is sensitive to changing long-term aridity. Nature Climate Change. 357-363.
- (2023). TransPyREnd: a code for modelling the transport of radionuclides on geological timescales. Advances in Geosciences. 109-119.
- (2023). Constraining the 3-D Geometry of Fold-Thrust Belts Using Section Balancing vs. 3-D Interpolative Structural and Probabilistic Modeling. Tektonika.
- (2023). Application of in-situ gamma spectrometry for radiogenic heat production estimation in the Western Himalaya, Kohistan, and Karakoram in northern Pakistan. Geothermal Energy.
- (2022). Global Recharge Data Set Indicates Strengthened Groundwater Connection to Surface Fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
PhD research projects:
- Josse van den Berg (2023-): Global groundwater volumes through geological history
MSc research projects:
- Kristel Kaselaan (2023-): Detecting desalinisation in quick clays: Geochemical analysis and interpretation of porewater data
- Martin Borgen (2023-, co-supervised): The influence of fault complexities in fault permeabilities: Learning from history matching at Njord
- Arjuman Banu (2023-): Analysis of the relation between recharge, climate, and water-table depth in a global recharge dataset
- Lars Marius Lyngstadaas Søvik (2023-): Evaluation of the transport of radionuclides by diffusion and fluid flow in subsea shales in Norway.
Follow this link for a list of supervised MSc students & links to MSc theses they've published during my time in Göttingen, Germany (2014-2021)
Fields of competence