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Introduction
Hydrogeologist. My work explores different fields such as recharge evaluation, isotopic environmental tracers and Climate Change impact in both, alpine hydrologic systems and groundwater depending wetlands
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March 2014 - present
Geological Survey of Spain (IGME),
Position
- Permanent Researcher and IGME Zaragoza Director.
December 2008 - February 2014
Geological Survey of Spain (IGME),
Position
- Permanent Researcher
March 2004 - November 2008
Geological Survey of Spain (IGME)
Position
- Permanent Technical Researcher
Education
September 1994 - December 1997
Fundación Centro Internacional de Hidrología Subterránea
Field of study
- Máster en Hidrología Subterránea
January 1994 - July 1994
Fundación Centro Internacional de Hidrología Subterránea
Field of study
- XXVIII Curso Internacional de Hidrología Subterránea
September 1988 - June 1993
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Publications (131)
Ice-free areas of the South Shetland Islands are within a region which has experienced the most rapid temperature rises in the Southern Hemisphere. The change in climatic conditions impacts the hydrological cycle, erosion processes, nutrient fluxes and sediment distribution and affects the surficial and groundwater flow interactions due to permafro...
Study region: Sierra Nevada, Spain. Study focus: The local communities of the Sierra Nevada mountain range adapted to recurrent dry periods by spreading water along hillslopes with unlined channels that deviate surface runoff from headstreams during high flow periods. However, the impact of the so-called careo practice on river regimes in Sierra Ne...
Central Chile is undergoing its most severe drought since 2010, affecting ecosystems, water supply, agriculture, and industrial uses. The government's short-term measures, such as increasing groundwater extraction (by 383 % from 1997 to 2022), are exacerbating the situation, leading to long-term hydrological deterioration. The objective of this res...
En la IX Jornada de Investigación celebrada el 14 de diciembre en el Centro de Visitantes del Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (Torla-Ordesa) se presentó un avance de las actividades y resultados obtenidos en el marco del proyecto de investigación científica en la Red de Parques Nacionales (SPIP2021-02741): “Impacto, seguimiento y evaluaci...
Conclusions learned on groundwater management and governance through the application to selected Spanish areas
Groundwater management and governance in the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (Spain)
WATER - Call for papers: Mountain Karst Aquifers Characterization
You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline (31 August 2023).
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Careo channels are ancestral Nature-Based Solutions for water management that are used to recharge aquifers in the watershed of the Sierra Nevada Mountain massif (Spain). These hand-dug channels divert snowmelt from the headwaters of rivers and let it infiltrate into the upper parts of the hill slopes and by that increase the water resources availa...
La recarga artificial de acuíferos mediante acequias de careo es una solución tecnológica orientada a la gestión integral del recurso hídrico, la cual puede ayudar a paliar la creciente inseguridad hídrica de muchas regiones del mundo. Pese a su interés, el desarrollo de las técnicas de recarga artificial en zonas de alta montaña ha sido muy limita...
El régimen de comportamiento de los ríos de alta montaña en zonas semiáridas es muy sensible a los procesos de cambio climático, cuestión que tiene una especial repercusión en los ecosistemas acuáticos asociados. El aumento de la temperatura media del aire, en las cuencas hidrológicas de Sierra Nevada en el sur de España, está adelantando el pico n...
Nature-Based Solutions for Integrated Water Resources Management (NbS-IWRM) involve natural, or nature-mimicking, processes used to improve water availability in quantity and quality sustainably, reduce the risks of water-related disasters, enhance adaptation to climate change and increase both biodiversity and the social-ecological system's resili...
Mountainous areas are an important source of water resources, especially in the Mediterranean. The PIRAGUA project aims at assessing the water resources of the Pyrenees in the past and in the future. To this aim, different modelling approaches were used in order to assess the water resources of the Pyrenees and their future evolution. In this study...
The Pyrenees range is a transboundary mountain region shared by Spain, France and Andorra. As many other mountain regions, the Pyrenees host the upper catchments and recharge zones of the region's main river basins and aquifers. Therefore, it is the main source of water resources that are used in a much larger area that includes important urban con...
The acequias de careo are ancestral water channels excavated during the early Al-Andalus period (8th–10th centuries), which are used to recharge aquifers in the watersheds of the Sierra Nevada mountain range (Southeastern Spain). The water channels are maintained by local communities, and their main function is collecting snowmelt, but also runoff...
Las zonas de alta montaña generan la mayor parte de recursos hídricos de los que se abastecen los ecosistemas ubicados en las zonas bajas. Cuando las montañas constituyen en sí un acuífero, el agua recargada permanece más tiempo en la cuenca, proporcionando así un recurso hídrico estratégico en las estaciones secas. Esto es especialmente importante...
La disposición geológica y tectónica de los carbonatos terciarios observada en la cabecera del río Arazas, Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (PNOMP), con pliegues tumbados separados por cabalgamientos en varios niveles, se refleja en el desarrollo endokárstico, con una repetición vertical de patrones de cavernamiento. Las redes kársticas se...
The Port del Comte Massif (SE, Pyrenees) contains one of the most important vulnerable and strategic karst aquifers for supplying freshwater to the city of Barcelona (Spain). It is a fragile system, whose possible environmental impact is highly conditioned by land use. To improve the hydrogeological knowledge of the system, between September 2013 a...
The objective of this work is to characterize the impact of climate change in the karst aquifer of the Port del Comte Massif (PCM). Six regional climate models (RCMs) from CLYM'PY Project are used to analyse the magnitude and trends of changes on precipitation and temperature (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios) and how these changes propagate through the...
Studying the magnetic fabric in volcanic edifices, particularly lava flows from recent eruptions, allows us to understand the orientation distribution of the minerals related to the flow direction and properly characterize older and/or eroded flows. In this work, the magnetic fabric from recent (Quaternary) lava flows (slightly inclined in seven si...
In the Mediterranean, mountainous areas are an important source of water resources. Not only do mountains generate most of runoff, but they also store water in soils, as groundwater in aquifers and as snowpack which melts in spring where it can be diverted and used for agriculture. However, climate change and local anthropic processes are changing...
Climate change is expected to have a significant impact on water resources in mountain areas, as it is the case of the Pyrenees range between France, Spain and Andorre. Independently of future changes on rainfall patterns, global temperature rise is likely to provoke larger and earlier snowmelt, and enhanced precipitation deficits during the dry su...
This study is focussed on the geomorphological characterization and the processes driving the evolution of the highest karst system in Western Europe, which is located in the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (PNOMP), in the central-southern Pyrenees. The karst system does not seem to have a well-developed epikarst. The studied area shows a ka...
The hydrogeological processes driving the hydrochemical composition of groundwater in the alpine pristine aquifer system of the Port del Comte Massif (PCM) are characterized through the multivariate statistical techniques Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) in the framework of Compositional Data (CoDa) analysis. Als...
Time series of environmental tracers (groundwater stable isotope composition, electrical conductivity and temperature) and concentration breakthrough curves of artificial tracers (uranine, eosine, amino-G and naphtionate) have been analyzed to characterize fast preferential and slow matrix in-transit recharge flows in the Paleocene-Eocene limestone...
Water resources in high mountain karst aquifers are usually characterized by high precipitation than in the surrounding lowlands, with significant recharge and discharge that assure the sustainability of the downstream ecosystems. Consequently, these hydrogeological systems are highly vulnerable to the climate change. The mean transit time (MTT) is...
Most of the athalassic saline and hypersaline lakes are located in arid and semiarid regions where water availability drives the hydrological dynamics of the lake itself and the associated ecosystems. This is the case of the Salada de Chiprana Lake, in the Ebro River basin (Spain). It is the only athalassic permanent hypersaline lake in Western Eur...
RESUMEN La Laguna Tuyajto es un lago salino ubicado en la zona meridional de la reserva nacional de los flamencos (Atacama, Chile), en el Altiplano Andino del Norte de Chile. Esta laguna se encuentra a los pies del volcán Tuyajto. Está alimentada por una serie de manantiales que se encuentran en la zona Norte y Este de la lagu-na, que descargan agu...
RESUMEN El Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (PNOMP) constituye el mayor macizo montañoso calcáreo de Europa Occidental. En él se encuentra el karst de mayor altitud de toda Europa. El agua subterránea resulta esencial en la génesis, desarrollo y evolución del Parque. Se obtiene una distribución espacial de la capaci-dad de infiltración apl...
The European project EFA 210/16 PIRAGUA deals with the characterization of the hydrological cycle in the Pyrenees to improve the adaptability of the territories to the challenges imposed by climate change and to support the investment aimed at this adaptation (https://www.opcc-ctp.org/es/piragua). PIRAGUA is aligned with the strategy of cross-borde...
El proyecto PIRAGUA, financiado por el Programa Interreg POCTEFA de la UE, aborda la evaluación del ciclo hidrológico de los Pirineos en el contexto del cambio climático. El período de tiempo del proyecto es 2018-2020.
Los objetivos del proyecto son unificar y homogeneizar la información existente, evaluar escenarios futuros, desarrollar indicadore...
High mountain karst aquifers located in pristine zones are often an important source of water supply downstream. These hydrological systems with typically short transit times are very vulnerable and there is a general consensus regarding the necessity of their protection. Despite of that, most of these high-mountain hydrogeological systems are not...
The Pyrenees range is a transboundary region shared by Spain, France and Andorre whose water resources are diverse (snowmelt and rainfall runoff in a topographically variable context, groundwater in complex and heterogeneous aquifers) and poorly known. As many other mountain regions, this territory is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of clima...
High mountain karst aquifers located in pristine zones are often an important source of water supply downstream. These hydrological systems with typically short transit times are very vulnerable and there is a general consensus regarding the necessity of their protection. Despite of that, most of these high-mountain hydrogeological systems are not...
High mountain karst aquifers generate important natural water resources that are used in the low zones to satisfy the demand of both the users depending on this resource and the existing downstream ecosystems. These hydrological systems are highly vulnerable, especially those located in the drought-prone Mediterranean area, where climate change is...
The Pyrenees range is a transboundary region shared by Spain, France and Andorre whose water resources are diverse (snowmelt and rainfall runoff in a topographically variable context, groundwater in complex and heterogeneous aquifers) and poorly known. As many other mountain regions, this territory is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of clima...
WATER BALANCE ESTIMATION To estimate the PNOMP water balance in ARB an HBV model is used (Fig.2A). To this end two vegetation zones are considered, (1) open areas and areas with mountain meadows corresponding to zones of both poor or no soils where karst landforms are well developed and (2) areas with alpine forest with moderate to well-developed s...
The Pyrenees range is a transboundary region shared by Spain, France and Andorre. As many other mountain regions, it is excedentary in water resources that are used in a much larger area that includes important urban concentrations and productive rural areas. This territory is particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. The PIRAG...
Water resources in high mountain karst aquifers are usually characterized by high rainfall, recharge and discharge that lead to the sustainability of the downstream ecosystems. Nevertheless, these hydrological systems are vulnerable to the global change impact. The mean transit time (MTT) is a key parameter to describe the behavior of these hydrolo...
En el presente trabajo se estima el tiempo de tránsito del agua subterránea que descarga por los manantiales principales del Macizo del Port del Comte. Para ello se utilizan dos métodos diferentes: (1) la aproximación clásica que estudia cómo se amortigua en el agua de descarga la amplitud de la variación estacional del contenido isotópico de la re...
En el presente trabajo se comparan los tiempos de tránsito del agua subterránea que descarga por los manantiales principales del Macizo del Port del Comte (NE Pirineo Oriental) cuando estos se obtienen mediante (1) un modelo analítico basado en la amortiguación de la amplitud de la variación estacional del contenido isotópico de la recarga observad...
Se ha estudiado la descarga de agua subterránea en los márgenes de la laguna Tuyajto, en un área con precipitaciones menores a 200 mm/año. Corresponde a pequeños humedales, localmente denominados bofedales que están ubicados en el borde norte y oriental de la laguna, en la cuenca homónima en el Altiplano del norte de Chile Las mediciones del nivel...
El Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (PNOMP) constituye el mayor macizo montañoso calcáreo de Europa Occidental. En él se encuentra el karst de mayor altitud de toda Europa. El agua subterránea resulta esencial en la génesis, desarrollo y evolución del Parque. Se obtiene una estimación preliminar de la recarga promedio entre el 72% y 77% de...
En la presente comunicación se presentan las actividades realizadas para monitorizar el humedal dependiente de las aguas subterráneas de las Lagunas de Estaña. Se ha implementado una red de control en el área de influencia y se han monitorizado las variables climatológicas (precipitación, temperatura, evaporación en tanque, etc.) e hidrológicas (ni...
Se presenta una síntesis de las investigaciones hidrogeológicas y resultados más significativos obtenidos hasta el momento. El Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (PNOMP) constituye el mayor macizo montañoso calcáreo de Europa Occidental. En él se encuentra el karst de mayor altitud de toda Europa. El agua subterránea resulta esencial en la g...
Assessing water resources in high mountain semi-arid zones is essential to be able to manage and plan the use of these resources downstream where they are used. However, it is not easy to manage an unknown resource, a situation that is common in the vast majority of high mountain hydrological basins. In the present work, the discharge flow in an un...
Aquifers in permeable formations developed in high-mountain watersheds slow down the transfer of snowmelt to rivers, modifying rivers' flow pattern. To gain insight into the processes that control the hydrologic response of such systems the role played by groundwater in an alpine basin located at the southeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula is in...
The time series of stable water isotope composition relative to meteorological stations and springs located in the high mountainous zone of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park are analyzed in order to study how the seasonal isotopic content of precipitation propagates through the hydrogeological system in terms of the aquifer recharge zone e...
El Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (PNOMP) constituye el mayor macizo carbonatado de Europa occidental y el karst de mayor altitud de toda Europa. Presenta un clima frío con estación seca, veranos templados y frescos e importantes variaciones altitudinales. La temperatura promedio anual es de 4,9ºC y la precipitación media es de 1650 mm/a...
Resumen:
Se estima la recarga al acuífero carbonatado del Paleoceno-Eoceno-Cretácico, en el Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (PNOMP), mediante el código HBV y los niveles medidos en el piezómetro de Torla (Valle de Bujaruelo). Se utilizan las series de precipitación y temperatura de la estación meteorológica de Góriz, a cota 2200 m. El PNO...
Karst aquifers present particular hydrological features, such as a high heterogeneity generated by the endokarstic network, a high-speed water transit and therefore a short residence time. When these aquifers are located in high mountain areas, such as the National Park Ordesa and Monte Perdido, the hydrological response is also affected by the eff...
The water isotopic content measured by the relative deviation with respect the seawater standard decreases with decreasing average environmental temperature. This is also a decrease with increasing altitude. The average water isotopic vertical gradient commonly varies from 2 to 7 δ18 O‰/km. To determine it several rainfall sampling stations at diff...
Autor que presenta la comunicación: Félix Rubio
RESUMEN: El complejo lagunar de las Saladas de Chiprana se ubica en el sector suroriental de la provincia de Zaragoza. Para su estudio hidrogeológico, se han efectuado una serie de campañas geofísicas entre agosto y noviembre de 2015. Se midieron 13 perfiles eléctricos en 8 emplazamientos alrededor de...
Se estima la recarga al acuífero carbonatado del Paleoceno-Eoceno-Cretácico, en el Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido, mediante el código HBV y los niveles medidos en el piezómetro de Torla (Valle de Bujaruelo), usando las series de precipitación y temperatura de la estación meteorológica de Góriz, en el interior del Parque a cota 2200 m. Pa...
The time series of stable water isotope composition relative to IAEA-GNIP meteorological stations located in alpine zones are analyzed in order to study how the amplitude of the seasonal isotopic composition of precipitation (Aδ) varies along a vertical transect. A clear relationship between Aδ and local evaporation is obtained, with slopes of − 0....
Laguna Tuyajto is a small, shallow saline water lake in the Andean Altiplano of northern Chile. In the eastern side it is fed by springs that discharge groundwater of the nearby volcanic aquifers. The area is arid: rainfall does not exceed 200mm/year in the rainiest parts. The stable isotopic content of spring water shows that the recharge is origi...
This work studies how to include both point and areal measurements when estimating gaussian fields by kriging. To achieve this objective three geostatistical approaches are considered for the areal distributed data: (A) regionalized measurements that are geographically referenced by their centroid as if they were point measurements (B) regionalized...
Flow accumulation algorithms (FAAs) predict the cumulative upstream drainage but each FAA generates a different map and this uncertainty still remains unsolved. This study makes advances in flow path research by testing 8 FAAs and analyzing the uncertainties of 15 simulations. The DR2-2013© SAGAv1.0 hydrological software is presented in a study car...
This work presents the analytical solution to the convolution integral by taking into account the most widely used lumped parameter hydrogeological models (Piston, Exponential, combined Exponential-Piston and Dispersion model) and the eight most typical input tracer functions (Constant; Sinusoidal with linear trend; Sinusoidal with combined sinusoi...
The Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, located in the Southern Pyrenees, constitutes the highest karst system in Western Europe. No previous studies regarding its geochemical and isotopic groundwater characterization are available in this area. This work presents the results of field and sampling campaigns carried out between July 2007 and Sep...
The Spanish National Ecosystem Assessment (SNEA), supported by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Environment, is the first analysis conducted on the status and trends of ecosystem services in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of Spain. The results of the SNEA are expected to help build bridges between interdisciplinary scientific know...
The study area is located in the Marginal Pyrenean Sierras, which include the Hydrogeological Unit Estopiñán Syncline, consisting of two permeable levels: Upper Cretaceous and Eocene, and Hydrogeological Unit Estaña where endorheic and karstic Estaña Lakes are located. This work introduces the first results obtained from the hydrogeochemical and is...
El Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido constituye el mayor macizo montañoso calcáreo de Europa Occidental y en él se encuentra el karst de mayor altitud de toda Europa. El agua subterránea resulta esencial en la génesis, desarrollo y evolución del Parque. En este trabajo se aborda por primera vez un estudio sobre su funcionamiento hidrogeológ...
The Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park constitutes the largest calcareous mountain range of Western Europe, where the highest altitude karst of Europe is found. No previous studies regarding groundwater isotopic characterization in this area are known. This work presents the results of two preliminary campaigns carried out during July 2007 and...
El Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido constituye el mayor macizo montañoso calcáreo de Europa Occidental y en él se encuentra el karst de mayor altitud de toda Europa, En este trabajo se aborda, por primera vez, un estudio sobre su funcionamiento hidrogeológico a partir de la composición química del agua subterránea. Para ello se presentan l...
RESUMEN: El Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido constituye un macizo permeable de alta montaña en un clima frío con estación seca y veranos templados y frescos. En el área se encuentra el karst de mayor altitud de toda Europa, con cuevas que alcanzan desarrollos verticales superiores a los 1000 m y longitudes de decenas de kilómetros. El agua...
The geophysical characterization of a previously unstudied endorheic karstic system is presented. The studied area, known as the Estaña Lakes, is located in the Pyrenean Marginal Sierras, northern Spain. The Estaña Lakes are a set of natural water ponds on a bedrock of Triassic evaporites, lutites and carbonates. This wetland is included in the Nat...
The objective of this study was to test the applicability of groundwater sustainability indicators defined by UNESCO, together
with the International Academy of Environmental Sciences (IAES), the International Association of Hydrogeology (IAH) Group
on Groundwater Indicators and the Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), to the aquifer scale. We select...
La biodiversidad es esencial para la supervivencia del ser humano en la Tierra. Del buen funcionamiento de los ecosistemas acuáticos y terrestres españoles y de la biodiversidad que albergan, depende en buena medida el futuro social, cultural y económico de la población, ya que constituyen el capital natural de nuestro país. El bienestar humano en...
