Adriana
PIÑA

Assistant professor | SECOND LEADER | JUNIOR RESEARCHER

Department of Civil and Agricultural Engineering

School of Engineering

Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Bogotá

education

B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering [2007]

@ Universidad Nacional de Colombia

M.Sc. Environmental Engineering [2011]

@Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Ph. D. Civil Engineering (Major in Water and Environment) [2019]

@Universidad Nacional de Colombia

contact

Email:

appinaf @ unal.edu.co

Phone:

+57 601 316 5566 | +57 601 316 5000 Ext. 13476 - 13472

Fax:

+57 601 316 5563 | +57 601 316 5000 Ext. 13473

Snail Mailing Address:

Luis Enrique Orduz Espinosa HallHydraulics Laboratory [Hall 409] - Room 310Avenida NQS (Carrera 30) 45 - 03 | University CityPostal Code 111321Bogota D.C. - COLOMBIA - SOUTH AMERICA

resume

Professional specialized in the water and environment line with more than 10 years of experience. Extensive background in hydrology and hydrogeology, with skills in numerical modeling in porous and fractured media, and hydrogeochemical and isotopic analysis.

Researcher in Research and Extension Projects on hydrogeological topics: (i) La Línea Tunnel (5 projects): For MAVDT (Today MADS-ANLA), For INVÍAS (Three projects), (ii) Hydrogeology of areas of mining interest - for MME – SGC and (iii) MEGIA Project (for MCTeI and ANH)

publications

Romero, P., & Piña, A. (2025). GRACE-based analysis of groundwater sustainability in the tropics. J. Hydrol. Reg. Stud, 62, 102756. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102756. ISSN: 2214-5818. Publindex Minciencias A1.

B Lora-Ariza, A Piña, LD Donado (2024). Assessment of groundwater quality for human consumption and its health risks in the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia. Scientific Reports 14.

JP Malagón, A Piña, S Argüello, LD Donado (2021). Análisis hidrogeoquímico-multivariado del agua subterránea del sistema acuífero del Valle Medio del Magdalena, Colombia: Estudio a escala regional. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 73.

A Piña, LD Donado, L Silva, J Pescador (2022). Seasonal and deep groundwater‐surface water interactions in the tropical Middle Magdalena River basin of Colombia. Hydrological Processes 36 (11), e14764

Piña, A., Cortés, D., Donado L.D. and Blessent, D. (2022). Embedded Discrete Fracture Networks to Analyze Groundwater Inflows during Tunnel Drilling. Ingeniería e Investigación 42 (1)

Piña, A., Donado L.D. and Blessent, D. (2019). Analysis of the scale-dependence of the hydraulic conductivity in complex fractured media. Journal of Hydrology, 569(2019)556-572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.12.006

Piña, A., Donado, L. D., Blake, S., & Cramer, T. (2018). Compositional multivariate statistical analysis of hydrogeochemical processes in a fractured massif: La Línea Tunnel project, Colombia. Applied Geochemistry, 95C, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2018.05.012

Poster presentation at the Joint Assembly AGU Fall Meeting Conference, 10-14- Dec 2018. “Hydraulic behavior of a fractured massif”.

Oral presentation at the International Conference on Groundwater – ICGW 2017, Bogotá, 28-31 August 2017. “Hydrogeochemical processes and isotopes analyses in a fractured massif: the La Línea Tunnel project, Colombia”

Oral presentation at the International Conference on Groundwater in Fractured Rocks – IAHR. Chaves, Portugal, 5-7 June 2017. “Grounwater inflow analysis in a highly fractured massif. Study case: the La Linea Tunnel project, Colombia”

Poster presentation at the Joint Assembly AGU, MAC, GAC, CGU. Montreal, Canadá, 3-7 May 2015. “Hydraulic behavior of a fractured massif”.

Oral presentation at the IAHR International Groundwater Symposium, held in Valencia, España. 22-24 September 2010. “Multi-specie reactive transport analysis in a calcium-carbonate system”