Main Responsibilities

Currently Dr. Kupfersberger oversees several projects dealing with different aspects of numerical groundwater modeling. Furthermore, he is involved in international water resources management projects.

Career

Dr. Kupfersberger studied civil engineering at the Technical Universities of Aachen, Berlin and Vienna. In 1994 he completed his Ph.D. in the area of data
integration to improve groundwater modeling. After spending two years as a researcher at Stanford University Dr. Kupfersberger joined the Institute of Hydrogeology and Geothermics of the JOANNEUM RESEARCH.

His main interests include numerical modeling in porous and fractured aquifers and the application of geostatistical methods to hydrologic problems.

Dr. Kupfersberger is the principal author of more than 10 peer reviewed papers in international journals and is member of the American Geophysical Union, the National Ground Water Association and the International Association for Mathematical Geology.

Teaching activity

Dr. Kupfersberger has taught individual classes in the area of water resources management, hydraulics and groundwater management at the TU Vienna and in the area of reservoir characterization at Stanford University. Additionally he was a co-instructor of the university course "Introduction to Groundwater Modeling" and has lectured on several topics within the UNESCO Postgraduate Training Course on Groundwater Tracing Techniques and the IAEA Training Course on Isotope Hydrology.

• Auxiliary information for estimating aquifer
• Deriving Constraints on Small-Scale Variograms due to Variograms of Large-Scale Data
• Determination of 3-D Variogram Models from Analogue Information
• Die Bewirtschaftung des Versuchsfeldes Wagna – Auswirkungen auf die Grundwassersituation
• Drava River Basin Project - Integrated Regional Environmental Strategy Concept / Water Resources and Waste Water Management. (Projektbericht)
• Erarbeitung grundwasserverträglicher ackerbaulicher Bewirtschaftungsformen auf Basis von Langzeit-Modellierungen
• Estimating Aquifer Transmissivities – on the value of auxiliary data
• Estimating the change of fracture volume with depth at the Koralm Massive, Austria
• Estimation of regional distribution of extreme groundwater levels in the Marchfeld, Austria
• Gekoppelte Klima-Hydrologie Modellierung in der Steiermark
• Groundwater dependent ecosystems. Part I: Hydroecological status and trends.
• Groundwater dependent ecosystems. Part II: Ecosystem services and management in Europe under risk of climate change and land use intensification
• Hilfe für Kroatien: Das “Drava River Project”
• Hydraulik der Grundwasserströmung in seichtliegenden Porenaquifersystemen
• Integrating different types of information for estimating aquifer transmissivities with the sequential indicator cosimulation method
• Methodology for Integrating Analog Geologic Data in 3-D Variogram Modeling
• Modeling the groundwater flow over four years in a small crystalline headwater catchment
• Modellierung des Stickstoffaustrags aus der ungesättigten Zone am Versuchsfeld Wagna
• Numerical delineation of transient capture zones
• Optimierung der Landnutzungsinformation als Input-Parameter für die Bodenwasserhaushalts- und Stofftransportmodellierung
• Ranking Stochastic Realizations for Improved Aquifer Response Management
• Revision of submitted manuscript – Numerical delineation of transient capture zones
• Securing the drinking water supply for the City of Graz by extending artificial groundwater recharge facilities
• Simulating aquifer transmissivities with a two step approach considering sedimentological structure
• Systematic Guideline for the Implementation of Environmental Infrastructure Measures in the Water and Waste Management Sector for EU, Eastern and South-Eastern European Countries. (Projektbericht)
• Work Package 1.2.1. Artificial Groundwater Recharge