Hydrological Sciences

Brian Berkowitz (2021 John Dalton Medallist) on modelling fluid flow and chemical transport in hydrology: complexity vs. simplicity

Brian Berkowitz June 2, 2021

Simplicity vs Complexity - Composition with photos by Daniele Levis Pelusi and Eleventh Wave on Unsplash

The EGU 2021 John Dalton Medal of the EGU Division on Hydrological Sciences was awarded to Brian Berkowitz for his seminal contributions to analysis of flow and anomalous transport in natural porous and fractured media, with pioneering experimental methods and novel conceptual frameworks. His medal lecture was presented at the online vEGU 2021 meeting. We invited Brian to contribute a blog post to ...[Read More]

How do you picture female scientists?

Bettina Schaefli March 31, 2021

Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash

You might have heard about the film “Picture a scientist” by Sharon Shattuck & Ian Cheney. It shows the personal struggle of three women to overcome gender barriers in science. In doing so, it highlights three key issues: prejudices and biases against women related directly to the history of the university that have never been challenged (this part of the film is subtly underlined by the histo ...[Read More]

Open your heart, science and data – and welcome Res. 42 by WMO

Nilay Dogulu March 17, 2021

Boundaries and limits. Everyone had a pleasant and rich (hopefully) taste of these concepts in 2020. Time-wise, workwise, and heart-wise among many others. Openness, tolerance and love. Everyone rightfully acknowledged the dearness of these feelings (probably) at the utmost level, again in 2020 – a year quite likely to be remembered as one of those soul-shattering years in the human history. Why d ...[Read More]

Open teaching to navigate hydrology: how ready are we?

Bettina Schaefli February 24, 2021

Photo by Austin Prock, https://unsplash.com/@prock on Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/

Around a year ago, I all of a sudden had to find a quick solution to do online teaching. The timing was perfect: start of the semester, start of online teaching, video conference infrastructure unavailable, three kids at home and me, a hydrology teacher who has never produced any kind of video exceeding a 20s cell phone video. Being the kind of person who always has to find a solution, I produced ...[Read More]