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Hydrological Sciences

Exploring the History of Hydrology – Join the Effort to Map Our Discipline Across the Centuries

August 2, 2023
Exploring the History of Hydrology – Join the Effort to Map Our Discipline Across the Centuries

The history of hydrology stretches back millennia: from the engineers of ancient high cultures over scientific pioneers like Da Vinci and Pallisy to modern groundbreaking modellers.  However, so far, few hydrologists have worked to systematically record the history of their discipline – especially in its more recent decades. That is a gap that the History of Hydrology working group of the In ...[Read More]

Ending a Decade of Hydrological Research – The IAHS’ Final Panta Rhei Symposium

July 26, 2023
The attendees of the final Panta Rhei symposium gathered at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam. Photo: Martin Ehmler, GFZ
The attendees of the final Panta Rhei symposium gathered at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam. Photo: Martin Ehmler, GFZ

On the 10th and 11th of July 2023, the final symposium for the scientific decade “Panta Rhei – Everything Flows: Change in Hydrology and Society” of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) took place at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam.  During these two days, 150 hydrologists, engineers, social scientists and practitioners from 32 countries gathere ...[Read More]

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

, , and July 12, 2023
Plenary discussion on the outcomes of one of the group discussions on “where does the water go in the glacierized landscape”?
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 ...[Read More]

Storm Gathering: An EGU Flow Regatta Adventure

and June 28, 2023
Storm Gathering: An EGU Flow Regatta Adventure

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 would become, as Tom Waits predicted, just more dirt in the ground. Storm clo ...[Read More]