Hydrological Sciences

Hybrid field courses – a teaching format beyond emergency solution?

Heike Mayer and Miriam Hug October 21, 2020

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]

Virtual Meetings: Hypnotic sedative or effective stimulant?

Astrid Björnsen Gurung October 14, 2020

Visualization of the 3 biggest fears of digital workshop moderators. (A. Björnsen, June 2020).

Some people claim that teaching online courses or virtual workshops is not very different from face-to-face meetings. In my experience, however, it is much harder to sneak away secretly from a half-occupied seminar room than to withdraw from a virtual meeting where you simply mute the speaker to work on your emails located only one mouse click away. And that’s not all! In contrast to physically pr ...[Read More]

Why social inequalities matter for hydrologists?

Elisa Savelli September 30, 2020

After a few years spent at an Earth Science department researching social inequalities and hydrological extremes — i.e. floods and droughts — I have often been asked these rhetorical questions: “Isn’t it obvious that the weakest individuals or social groups suffer the most in case of extreme hydrological events? So, why should we study these inequalities?” Driven by these questions, and the years ...[Read More]

Do you know about the 3MT competition? What a challenging experience for a PhD student!

EGU Guest blogger September 23, 2020

The one slide presented by K. Zahra during the 3 Minutes thesis (3MT) competition

Effective communication plays a vital role in our PhD life. We spend significant amount of time working on a desk or in a lab performing our research for many years. However, if we do not effectively communicate our results and ideas to other scientists and researchers, our research will be unacknowledged. Of course, we all learn how to give scientific talks, via PhD concept talks, final defenses ...[Read More]