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Bernhard Mayer
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Latest papers
Diffusion-Controlled Solute and Isotope Transport in the Milk River Aquifer System, Alberta, Canada: Implications for Dating Old Groundwater.
ACS earth & space chemistry · 2026
Elucidating groundwater anthropogenic contamination sources in an agricultural area impacted by urban stressors - A multi-isotope approach combined with emerging organic compounds.
Environmental research · 2026
An isotope mixing-based clustering approach for an improved apportionment of nitrate sources in groundwater systems.
The Science of the total environment · 2026
Latest funding
- $368,582
Shaping Evolution: The Geoenvironmental, Biological, and Technological Contexts of Homo habilis and Homo erectus at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $1,700,000
Optimizing In-situ Central Processing Facility operating conditions to improve reliability and reduce the environmental footprint of steam generation in Canada's oil sands industry
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $140,000
Novel insights into contaminant degradation and greenhouse gas formation processes in aquatic systems on the continents
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
35 publications.
Diffusion-Controlled Solute and Isotope Transport in the Milk River Aquifer System, Alberta, Canada: Implications for Dating Old Groundwater.
Musy SL, Purtschert R, Sturchio NC, Heraty LJ, Mueller P, Lantis J, Bishof MN, Vockenhuber C, Date A, Mayer B, Yokochi R
Elucidating groundwater anthropogenic contamination sources in an agricultural area impacted by urban stressors - A multi-isotope approach combined with emerging organic compounds.
Boumaiza L, Chesnaux R, Huneau F, Mayer B, Bougherira N, Johannesson KH, Fryar AE, Masse-Dufresne J, Lapworth DJ, Stotler RL, Guzman CD, Schüth C, Knöller K, Stumpp C
An isotope mixing-based clustering approach for an improved apportionment of nitrate sources in groundwater systems.
Boumaiza L, Ben Ammar S, Chesnaux R, Mayer B, Sacchi E, Huneau F, Garel É, Johannesson KH, Stotler RL, Khouatmia M, Nlend B, Knöller K, Stumpp C
Multiple environmental tracers combined with a constrained Bayesian isotope mixing model to elucidate nitrate and sulfate contamination in a coastal groundwater system.
Boumaiza L, Chesnaux R, Stotler RL, Zahi F, Mayer B, Leybourne MI, Otero N, Johannesson KH, Huneau F, Schüth C, Knöller K, Ortega L, Stumpp C
Proteomic evidence for aerobic methane production in groundwater by methylotrophic Methylotenera.
Li S, Dong X, Humez P, Borecki J, Birks J, McClain C, Mayer B, Strous M, Diao M
Distribution, sources, and fate of nitrate in groundwater in agricultural areas of Southern Alberta, Canada.
Plata I, Humez P, Wilson L, Nightingale M, McClain C, Mayer B
Effect of intensive seasonal pumping and recharge on sulfur biogeochemistry in groundwater of agricultural riparian zones.
Shin WJ, Koh DC, Mayer B, Kwon HI, Kim JH, Lee KS
The effects of heavy rain on the fate of urban and agricultural pollutants in the riverside area around weirs using multi-isotope, microbial data and numerical simulation.
Kaown D, Lee E, Koh DC, Mayer B, Mahlknecht J, Park DK, Yoon YY, Kim RH, Lee KK
High diversity, abundance, and expression of hydrogenases in groundwater.
Li S, Mosier D, Kouris A, Humez P, Mayer B, Strous M, Diao M
Field investigation of the transport and attenuation of fugitive methane in shallow groundwater around an oil and gas well with gas migration.
Morais TA, Fleming NA, Attalage D, Mayer B, Mayer KU, Ryan MC
Shaping Evolution: The Geoenvironmental, Biological, and Technological Contexts of Homo habilis and Homo erectus at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Principal investigators: Mercader, Julio
Optimizing In-situ Central Processing Facility operating conditions to improve reliability and reduce the environmental footprint of steam generation in Canada's oil sands industry
Principal investigators: Mayer, Bernhard
Keywords: Energy resources (including production, exploration, processing, distribution and use); Oil, gas and coal
Novel insights into contaminant degradation and greenhouse gas formation processes in aquatic systems on the continents
Principal investigators: Mayer, Bernhard
Keywords: groundwater; surface waters; springs; contaminants; element cycles; dissolved gases; greenhouse gases; aqueous geochemistry; stable isotopes (including clumped and site-specific); microbiological and metagenomic techniques
Baseline Groundwater Monitoring in the Transboundary Liard Basin for Source Water Protection
Principal investigators: Parker, Beth BL
Keywords: bedrock; borehole logging; field studies; fractures; geochemistry; groundwater; monitoring; rock matrix properties; shale gas; water resources
Advancing scientific knowledge on fouling, erosion and corrosion in Once Through Steam Generators (OTSGs)
Principal investigators: Mayer, Bernhard B
Responsible Development of Low-Permeability Hydrocarbon Resources (ReDeveLoP)
Principal investigators: Eaton, David WS
Impacts of stray gas migration on shallow groundwater: insights from laboratory experiments and numerical modelling
Principal investigators: Mumford, Kevin
Innovative multifaceted approaches for tracing the sources and fate of nutrients and contaminants in watersheds
Principal investigators: Mayer, Bernhard
Field investigation of surface casing vent flow and gas migration around leaky petroleum wells
Principal investigators: Ryan, Cathryn
Oil-Sands Produced Water Treatment by Electrocoagulation
Principal investigators: Roberts, Edward
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Bernhard Mayer and Marc Strous: 5 shared papers
- Romain Chesnaux and Bernhard Mayer: 4 shared papers
- Jana Levison and Romain Chesnaux: 1 shared paper
- Jana Levison and Bernhard Mayer: 1 shared paper
- Bernhard Mayer and Ken Drouillard: 1 shared paper
- Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment
- Geoscience
- Sciences appliquées
- Engineering, School of
- Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research
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