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Featured catchment series: The San Carlos Catchment in northeast Costa Rica, a multi-scale hydrological observatory to leapfrog data scarcity in the tropics

February 19, 2020
Featured catchment series: The San Carlos Catchment in northeast Costa Rica, a multi-scale hydrological observatory to leapfrog data scarcity in the tropics
The San Carlos Catchment in northeast Costa Rica, photograph taken at 660 m a.s.l. shows the active volcano Arenal and the catchment boundary formed by the hydropower reservoir Lake Arenal (dam is visible in the foreground), one of the sites for isotope and water quality monitoring in rivers. Photo credit: Christian Birkel

Tropical ecosystems are of major hydrological importance for regional and global climate systems and are characterized by greater energy inputs, higher rate of change and dynamics compared to other hydroclimatic regions. Nowadays, the anthropogenic influence in the climate crisis exerts enormous pressure on tropical hydrological systems. This growing pressure affects water quality and quantity, wh ...[Read More]

Andreas Hartmann (EGU ECS Awardee) on Doing What You Love Will Pay Off

January 8, 2020
Andreas Hartmann (EGU ECS Awardee) on Doing What You Love Will Pay Off

Andreas Hartmann makes a point to attend Hofer Filmtage – or the Hof International Film Festival – every year to keep up a tradition he started when he was 12. As a professor, he sets down research to make the yearly pilgrimage to his German hometown to visit with his best friends and family. This year, he couldn’t completely separate from work. After getting out of a film, he got a note saying th ...[Read More]

Science as Type II Fun

November 8, 2019
Science as Type II Fun

Autumn had finally arrived – the weather had cooled down enough to start rock climbing outside again in southern Arizona. I was working on scaling a mountain’s cliff face tall enough to be a skyscraper with nearly 15 fellow scientists climbing routes around me. My palms were sweaty with nerves and my muscles were starting to get tired. I questioned what possessed me to climb this huge rock. ...[Read More]

Featured catchment series: Disentangling the ecohydrology of a tropical hotspot!

October 23, 2019
Featured catchment series: Disentangling the ecohydrology of a tropical hotspot!
The tropical alpine, Páramo, grasslands of the Zhurucay Ecohydrological Observatory in south Ecuador. The SuperSite of the observatory shown in the picture, where climatological variables are monitored, is located at 3,780 m a.s.l, and is one of the highest elevation sites across the tropics where these variables are measured continuously. Photo Credit: Galo Carrillo-Rojas.

Zhurucay Ecohydrological Observatory: Critical zone observations at the top of the Andes! A natural laboratory of tropical alpine ecohydrology Tropical alpine ecosystems, known as the Páramo, extend to high elevations (3,000-5,000 m a.s.l.) mainly through the northern Andes of South America from Venezuela to northern Peru. Given their geographical location and elevation, Páramo areas are exposed t ...[Read More]