HS
Hydrological Sciences

Early Career Scientists

Meet your ECS Rep – Melissa Reidy

May 8, 2025
Meet your ECS Rep – Melissa Reidy
Melissa and co-representative Archita Bhattacharyya at the EGU GA 2025

Melissa Reidy is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. For 2025, she is the Early Career Scientist Representative for the Hydrological Sciences division. Can you tell us about the focus of your research?  A common theme throughout all my research has been connections between land and water. What has been different is the ecosystems that I’ve s ...[Read More]

HydroTalks:  Dr. Ilja Van Meerveld and Sara Blanco on Landscape-Vegetation Interactions, Citizen Science, and CrowdWater

April 3, 2025
HydroTalks:  Dr. Ilja Van Meerveld and Sara Blanco on Landscape-Vegetation Interactions, Citizen Science, and CrowdWater

Welcome to HydroTalks, the EGU HS division’s podcast series where we discuss advancements, challenges, and opportunities in hydrology.  In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Ilja van Meerveld, a Group Leader at the University of Zurich, focusing on hydrological processes, landscape, and vegetation and one of the coordinators of the CrowdWater Citizen Science project. We were also joined by Sar ...[Read More]

Your top 3 must-reads for a new PhD student in hydrology

and March 27, 2025
Your top 3 must-reads for a new PhD student in hydrology
Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham phdcomics.com

Starting a PhD can feel overwhelming. Objectives and deadlines pile up, making it seem like you are juggling a thousand tasks at once. However, there are a few steps that do help you navigate this experience. One of the very first steps is to perform your literature review, which will serve as the foundation for your research. To help other early career scientists tackle this activity at the begin ...[Read More]

Looking Back at the First HS Campfire Events: Meet the 2024 Award-Winners & Explore the Evolution of Socio-hydrology

February 27, 2025
Looking Back at the First HS Campfire Events: Meet the 2024 Award-Winners & Explore the Evolution of Socio-hydrology

In December and February, the first-ever HS Division Campfire Events took place online!  For our premiere, we invited the 2024 Division award winners to join, present their work, and talk about their personal journeys as researchers. And in January, we took a look back at how socio-hydrology has evolved as a discipline since its inception over 10 years ago.  Let’s take a look at the first two HS C ...[Read More]