Hydrological Sciences

Organizing a Workshop as an ECS: Lessons learned from “Cryosphere-groundwater interactions: a missing link in mountain water research”

Marit van Tiel, Lauren Somers, Caroline Aubry-Wake and Franzi Koch July 12, 2023

Plenary discussion on the outcomes of one of the group discussions on “where does the water go in the glacierized landscape”?

Despite the importance of mountains for downstream water supply, there are large gaps in our scientific understanding of how snow and ice meltwater travels through the landscape, specifically which flowpaths meltwater takes below the surface. Plus, existing knowledge is scattered throughout various sub-disciplines of mountain hydrology: glaciology, snow science, hydrogeology, and surface hydrology. That is …[Read More]

Storm Gathering: An EGU Flow Regatta Adventure

Gabe Sentlinger and Salvador Peña-Haro June 28, 2023

A Vulture circled over the motley crew of hydrometricians that had gathered for the showdown at Liesingbach for the 2nd EGU Flow Regatta on April 24th, 2023. The call had gone out far and wide: the winner of the showdown would achieve everlasting glory, songs would be sung, their name echoing through legend. The losers …[Read More]

How has ChatGPT changed the way you teach hydrology?

Bettina Schaefli June 14, 2023

Have you ever used ChatGPT to teach hydrology? If so, when did you start? I opened my account on openai.com in November 2022, out of curiosity, to test GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer generation 3). This was shortly before ChatGPT was launched (30 November 2022). Now, I even have a paid account to speed up the …[Read More]

International initiatives to solve the challenges to trace sediment and contaminant in river systems

Olivier Evrard and Sabine Kraushaar May 23, 2023

Soil and water resources that are essential to human and aquatic life are increasingly threatened by human activities and the impacts of land use and climate change. Sediments play hereby a key role, particularly fine sediments with sediment-associated pollutants, which can lead to a substantial degradation of water body quality, such as in rivers and …[Read More]

Wrapping up EGU23: A Hydrologist’s Look Back

Christina Anna Orieschnig and Bettina Schaefli May 3, 2023

Summarising such a week is almost an impossible task. First, it is worth highlighting that, on-site, we were back to a format with oral presentations, PICOs, and posters. Virtual participants could join the oral sessions and the PICO pitches via Zoom. Virtual boards were also available for the online poster sessions and PICOs. The format …[Read More]

Urban streams can provide water sources for climate change mitigation

Helene Mueller April 26, 2023

With advancing climate change, mitigation measures are necessary to fight urban heat islands. Reactivating urban streams as blue-green infrastructures can contribute to this mitigation, and serve as an invaluable water resource. Urban streams – banned to the underground In urban areas, hydrological conditions have been modified, impacted or completely changed for centuries. Rivers and streams …[Read More]

Heads Up: Early Career Hydrologists Highlights at EGU 2023

Christina Orieschnig April 20, 2023

The upcoming annual EGU General assembly in Vienna is a fantastic opportunity for early career scientists (ECS) to engage with the international hydrological community, present their work, and build their networks. But with the multitude of sessions, events, and lectures, it can be tricky to assemble your personal program – especially if it’s your first …[Read More]

Citizen Scientists wanted for a project on hydrological data in Italy: SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts)

Miriam Bertola and Paola Mazzoglio April 19, 2023

The SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts) project aims to digitize the historical series of daily flows by crowd-sourcing the recovery of hydrological measurements from historical Hydrological Yearbooks and to produce a consistent dataset. With your help, we can save Italy’s hydrological measurements and keep up the data flow! In Italy, hydro-meteorological data collection has been …[Read More]

A lot of hydrology at EGU23, again!

Maria-Helena Ramos and Alberto Viglione April 12, 2023

EGU General Assembly 2023 is coming soon, 23–28 April 2023, with more than 16,000 presentations (orals, posters, and PICOs) that will be delivered and viewed both onsite in Vienna (Austria Center Vienna) and virtually (through Gather.Town). Great news this year: The poster sessions are back, and all formats (orals, posters and PICOs) will have a …[Read More]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to Learning Hydrology?

Taylor Maavara and Lewis Alcott April 5, 2023

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? …[Read More]