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Hydrological Sciences

Natalie Ceperley

Natalie Ceperley is a senior scientist at the University of Bern. Her career doing field work started as a biologist documenting the behavior of the common loon (Gavia immer) on a lake in Northern Minnesota (USA) and took her to diverse parts of the USA (California, Alaska, Iowa), Belize, Senegal, Mauritania, Benin, Burkina Faso, and currently, Switzerland. She also evolved from a biologist to a hydrologist via dry-land ecohydrology and now mostly can be found sampling water and snow for stable isotope analysis in the Swiss Alps.

Overlooked tips for the lost art of fieldwork

Overlooked tips for the lost art of fieldwork

Not so long ago, almost all hydrologic data depended almost exclusively on fieldwork.  Today, sure, you can download data from repositories, there are satellites that beam you magic numbers that you can interpret to give you almost any variable, and some (less than we might hope) long-term monitoring has been outsourced to governments (or in some cases to citizens with sensors).  But somewhere in ...[Read More]