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Listening to a bouquet of articles: review papers

June 30, 2021
Listening to a bouquet of articles: review papers
Photo by Aleksander Vlad (from Unsplash)

Let me guess from which city in the world you are reading this post: Lima, Lahore or Louisville? It might be that you are modelling one of these rivers: Nile, Rhine or Lena? Or studying the Caribbean Sea, the Arabian Sea or the Caspian Sea? The country you live might be Uganda, Philippines or maybe Iceland and your home continent could well be Europe, Latin America or even Antarctica. I assume you ...[Read More]

Open teaching to navigate hydrology: how ready are we?

February 24, 2021
Open teaching to navigate hydrology: how ready are we?
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]

The Covid-19 pandemic cannot stop young change makers

and January 13, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic cannot stop young change makers

The Coronavirus pandemic demands creativity and flexibility from all of us when we cannot meet in person any longer and need to switch to online meetings and events. Just recently, 120 upper secondary school students (15-18 years old) of four different countries around the Baltic Sea — Finland (incl. Åland), Sweden, Latvia, and Estonia — attended an online Boot Camp to kick start one of the greate ...[Read More]

Hybrid field courses – a teaching format beyond emergency solution?

October 21, 2020
Hybrid field courses – a teaching format beyond emergency solution?
Field work in front of the computer - a new reality?

Conducting field courses in times of a pandemic can be challenging. In our case, we had to cancel a planned field trip in economic geography that would have taken 19 students and two advisors to the Valle Maira in the Italian province of Cuneo in the Piemont. We had planned to spend 10 days in this region to develop ideas for sustainable development of peripheral mountain regions. Students would h ...[Read More]