Hydrological Sciences

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to Learning Hydrology?

Taylor Maavara and Lewis Alcott April 5, 2023

Image generated with dreamstudio.ai, prompt "breath of the wild video game with Link that teaches the player about river hydrology"

Can we learn about hydrology through video games? Plenty of educational video games exist specifically to teach scientific concepts, but lots of these games are not particularly fun. But can popular commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) video games fulfill the same function of teaching players scientific concepts through tangential learning as a secondary benefit to enjoying the game? Existing peer revi ...[Read More]

Where should hydrology go?

Harro Jongen and Tessa van Hateren March 1, 2023

Thanks to Janneke Remmers for the photo

In 1965, UNESCO launched the first International Hydrological Decade to promote hydrology as an independent scientific discipline. This initiative has since grown into a global movement boosting hydrological research around a changing theme: the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Scientific Decades. The last two decades have shown that community efforts can shape the field o ...[Read More]

Scientific disobedience: where are our catchment boundaries?

Sylvain Kuppel December 16, 2022

Road block in central Munich (Odeonplatz) on Oct 26th, 2022. Photo: Scientist Rebellion

On the night preceding Halloween, somewhere in the main police station of Munich, 15 people appeared one by one before a judge of the local court who notified them their deprivation of liberty, deemed as “indispensable in order to prevent the imminent commission/continuation of a criminal/orderly offence of considerable importance for the general public”. For most of them this preventive custody w ...[Read More]

Imagining Water Differently: Reflections from the Perspective of Critical Geography

Daanish Mustafa November 16, 2022

A canyon the right banks of the Indus River upstream from the sight of the proposed Kalabagh dam.

For us humans, the world, before it is lived, has to be imagined. There is, however, something wrong with the way we have imagined the world if we consider where we are today, in particular in the face of global climate change. Let’s review how we have imagined water from the point of view of critical geography. How we have imagined water so far So far, we have imagined water through the lens of t ...[Read More]