What are the most pressing research topics in the international community of hydrologists? What are people working on? And how can you become involved? Many hydrologists, especially early career scientists, struggle to find answers to these questions. That is where the scientific decades of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) come in. Specifically, its latest one – ...[Read More]
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]
It is common to hear that a good illustration is better than a lengthy textual explanation, and we fully agree with that statement. We are used to retrieving information and understanding things through visual illustrations. In the scientific community, any paper comes with a number of plots to show the data, and diagrams to explain concepts, ideas or workflows. For example, a typical plot that hy ...[Read More]
