Last May, the Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group organized a tour along several European hydrological institutes in an attempt to compensate for the negative impact of the covid pandemic on networking and scientific exchange. During the tour, discussions were held to discuss the future of hydrology from the perspective …
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Boussinesq award for drought research
The Boussinesq Board has recently announced that Ryan Teuling is the Boussinesq Awardee 2021. Every two years the Boussinesq Center for Hydrology awards this Boussinesq Award to a mid-career scientist who contributed with innovative research of great importance for the further development of hydrology as a scientific discipline. According to …
Continue readingPhD defense Joost Buitink
On 20 October 2021, Joost Buitink will defend his PhD thesis entitled “Capturing hydrological variability – Spatio-temporal aspects of the Rhine basin” Dealing with spatio-temporal variability in hydrological processes and states is a major challenge in hydrology. In his thesis, Joost has investigated different elements of variability, with emphasis on …
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On 13 April 2021, Jasper Foets will be defending his PhD thesis entitled “Ecohydrological characterization of terrestrial diatoms”. Diatoms are microscopic, single-celled algae living in almost all moist and aquatic environments with sufficient light. Recently, diatoms living on soils have been explored as tracers of water flow-paths during rainfall-runoff events. …
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