Catchment hydrology

HydroTalks Podcast: Prof. Jan Seibert about hydrological models, experimental catchments and advice for early career scientists

Melissa Reidy and Archita Bhattacharyya December 4, 2025

For this episode, we’re thrilled to welcome Prof. Jan Seibert, based at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich. His research focuses on hydrological modelling under landscape change, citizen science through the CrowdWater app, and large-scale modelling studies. He is also the Henry Darcy medal winner of 2025. You can check out the podcast below, or read the interview summary in this blo ...[Read More]

ROBIN: Tracking Climate Change Through the World’s Most Natural Rivers

Sayali Pawar and Steve Turner November 27, 2025

Distribution of countries participating in the first Phase of the ROBIN Network (blue shading). Black dots are stations included in the first iteration of the ROBIN dataset. Reproduced from Turner et. al. (2025)

Hydrological change is one of the clearest signals of climate variability and human impact on the environment. Yet detecting these changes reliably requires robust, long-term data from river basins that are as close to “natural” as possible, with little influence from dams, abstractions, land use change or any other human influences. That’s where the ROBIN project comes in. ROBIN, or the Referenc ...[Read More]

On finding my water temperature community

Maria H. Grundmann June 26, 2025

Credit: Maria Grundmann

Walking the halls of the EGU General Assembly 2025 a few weeks ago, I was full of child-like curiosity. Being surrounded by people doing fascinating, creative, and innovative research felt like a dream come true. New faces every day, big talks on small advances and complicated methodologies. I learned about mountain ecology and failing snow-models, and I was captured by graphs and animations ̵ ...[Read More]

The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

Christophe Lambiel June 11, 2025

View on the Blatten landslide from downstream, with the Lonza river finding its way through the landslide; (03 June 2025), credit: Christophe Lambiel

In the morning of May 28, 2025, the picturesque Swiss alpine village of Blatten sat quiet and serene in the Lötschen Valley. Exceptionally quiet, in fact, as the village was evacuated on May 19th after a local Natural Hazards expert spotted a worrisome change in a local mountain looming about the village, the Kleines Nesthorn: it was collapsing faster. The Kleines Nesthorn is a 3,341-meter peak wi ...[Read More]