Dr. Barbara Herbstritt
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Professur für Hydrologie
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Friedrichstraße 39
79098 Freiburg
Raum-Nr: 01.021
Tel: 0761 – 203 3539


Forschungsinteressen
Isotopenhydrologie, Tracerhydrologie, Hydrogeochemie, Methodenentwicklung, Experimentelle Hydrologie
Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte
- Isotopenanalytik für stabile Wasserisotope mit Massenspektrometrie (IRMS) und Laserabsorptionsspektrometrie (CRDS)
- Ionenchromatographie
- Fluoreszenzspektrometrie
- Labormanagement
- Lehre: Hydrochemisches Laborpraktikum (B.Sc., M.Sc.)
Anstellungen
| seit 08/2008 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Professur bzw. am Institut für Hydrologie, Universität Freiburg |
| 2002 – 2008 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der GIT Hydrosconsult GmbH, Freiburg Aufbereitung gewässerspezifischer Themen mit Smallworld-GIS und ArcView Kundenschulung Konvertierung und Bereitstellung von GIS-Daten für hydrologische Modellierungen |
| 1998 – 2002 | Freiberufliche Tätigkeit für Consulting-Büros und am Landesamt für Geologie, Rohstoffe und Bergbau (LGRB) Freiburg. Schwerpunkt: GIS-Daten-Aufbereitung hydrogeologischer/ geologischer Themen mit ArcInfo und ArcView |
Ausbildung
| 2019 | Dissertation: „Membrane-based approaches for direct and continuous water stable isotope measurements“, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg |
| 1992 – 1998 | Diplom-Hydrologie an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg Nebenfächer: Geologie, Meteorologie Diplomarbeit-Thema: „Optimierung eines Rohwassermessnetzes – Anwendung geostatistischer und raumbezogener Ansätze“ |
Research Gate
Publikationen auf FreiDok plus
-
Hübner, C., Paulsen, H., Herbstritt, B., König, F., & Weiler, M. (2025). Developing an in-situ monitoring system for groundwater recharge flux, nitrate and DOC concentrations. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-3824
-
Meyer Oliveira, A., Floriancic, M., Moreira Gianasi, F., Herbstritt, B., Vieira Pompeu, P., de Carvalho Araújo, F., Maciel Silva‐Sene, A., Gama Reis, M., Farrapo, C., Aparecido Silva Ferreira, L., dos Santos, R., & Meerveld, I. van. (2025). Isotopic composition of soil and xylem water across six seasonal floodplain forests in southeastern Brazil. Ecohydrology, 18(5), e70076. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.70076
-
Pyschik, J., Seeger, S., Herbstritt, B., & Weiler, M. (2025). Technical note: a fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29(2), 525–534. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-525-2025
-
Pyschik, J., Seeger, S., Herbstritt, B., & Weiler, M. (2024). Supplementary material to “technical note: a fast and objective autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements” [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-528-supplement
-
Pyschik, J., Seeger, S., Herbstritt, B., & Weiler, M. (2024). Technical note: a fast and objective autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements. Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-528
-
Anys, M., Herbstritt, B., & Weiler, M. (2024). Stable water isotope dataset of precipitation, groundwater, soil water, stemflow and throughfall water, and xylem water of Norway maple (Acer platanoides) and small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata) growing at different urban sites in the city of Freiburg, Germany [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.6094/UNIFR/260667
-
Herbstritt, B., Wengeler, L., & Orlowski, N. (2024). Coping with spectral interferences when measuring water stable isotopes of vegetables. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 38(22), e9907. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9907
-
Loose, L., Lange, J., Budde, A., Herbstritt, B., Fohrer, N., & Ulrich, U. (2024). A multi‐method approach for the identification and quantification of water balance components of two lentic small water bodies. Hydrological Processes, 38(1), e15058. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15058
-
Herbstritt, B., Gralher, B., Seeger, S., Rinderer, M., & Weiler, M. (2023). Technical note: discrete in situ vapor sampling for subsequent lab-based water stable isotope analysis. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27(20), 3701–3718. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3701-2023
-
Herbstritt, B., Gralher, B., Seeger, S., Rinderer, M., & Weiler, M. (2022). Mobile, discrete vapor sampling for in-situ measurements of matrix-bound water stable isotopes.
-
Magh, R.-K., Gralher, B., Herbstritt, B., Kübert, A., Lim, H., Lundmark, T., & Marshall, J. D. (2022). Technical note: conservative storage of water vapour – practical in situ sampling of stable isotopes in tree stems. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(13), 3573–3587. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3573-2022
-
Santos Pires, S., Herbstritt, B., Stumpp, C., Weiler, M., & Stockinger, M. P. (2022). Influence of sample preparation procedures on water stable isotopes in plant organs using the water‐vapour equilibrium method. Ecohydrology, 15(4), e2444. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2444
-
Gralher, B., Herbstritt, B., & Weiler, M. (2021). Technical note: Unresolved aspects of the direct vapor equilibration method for stable isotope analysis ([sigma]18O, [sigma]2H) of matrix-bound water: unifying protocols through empirical and mathematical scrutiny. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 5219–5235. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5219-2021
-
Geßler, A., Bächli, L., Treydte, K., Saurer, M., Haeni, M., Zweifel, R., Rigling, A., Schaub, M., Seeger, S., Herbstritt, B., Weiler, M., & Meusburger, K. (2020). Where does the water come from? Variations in soil water uptake depth in a beech forest during the 2018 drought. Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-3451
-
Staudinger, M., Seeger, S., Herbstritt, B., Stölzle, M., Seibert, J., Stahl, K., & Weiler, M. (2020). The CH-IRP data set: a decade of fortnightly data of δ 2 H and δ 18 O in streamflow and precipitation in Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-27
-
Staudinger, M., Seeger, S., Herbstritt, B., Stölzle, M., Seibert, J., Stahl, K., & Weiler, M. (2020). The CH-IRP data set: a decade of fortnightly data on δ2H and δ18O in streamflow and precipitation in Switzerland. Earth System Science Data, 12(4), 3057–3066. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3057-2020
-
Gralher, B., Herbstritt, B., Weiler, M., Wassenaar, L. I., & Stumpp, C. (2019). Identifying and correcting the gas matrix effects on a cavity ring-down water stable isotope analyzer. IAEA International Symposium on Isotope Hydrology (CN-271).
-
Herbstritt, B., Seeger, S., Rinderer, M., & Weiler, M. (2019). Continuous real-time analysis of water stable isotopes in ecohydrology. IAEA International Symposium on Isotope Hydrology (CN-271).
-
Rinderer, M., Seeger, S., Herbstritt, B., & Weiler, M. (2019a). Isotopes and water flow dynamics – Is the thrill already gone? The addedvalue of high-frequent isotope data for understanding soil water flow. EGU General Assembly, 21.
-
Rinderer, M., Seeger, S., Herbstritt, B., & Weiler, M. (2019b). Wasser und Phosphor auf der Spur: Neue Messverfahren zur zeitlich hochaufgelösten Beobachtung von Wasser- und Nährstoffflüssen in Waldstandorten. Tag Der Hydrologie.