Hans Peter Broers

Hans Peters’ research is primarily directed towards the relationship between human activities in and on the subsurface and the quality of groundwater and surface water. This research is important to maintain a proper balance between the variety of functions that the subsurface provides, and the preservation of the quality and quantity of groundwater resources and associated surface water and ecosystems. He studies the transport of diffuse contaminants, such as nutrients, pesticides, and emerging contaminants, including veterinary antibiotics and PFAS. His expertise includes groundwater age dating and monitoring of ground and surface water, for example, relating to travel time distributions and water quality forecasts for drinking water supply. He supervised PhD students on groundwater age dating, groundwater-surface water interaction, statistical trend analyses, transport of emerging contaminants, and hydrogeochemistry of diffuse contaminants in groundwater.