Hydrological Sciences

Featured catchment: Hydrometeorological observations in an agricultural landscape in the Czech Republic

EGU Guest blogger May 26, 2021

Figure 1. View of the Nučice catchment. Photo credit: Tailin Li

The Nučice experimental catchment (0.531 km2) is located 30 km east of Prague in an agricultural landscape in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic (Figs. 1 and 2). The cultivated landscape and climatic conditions are representative of farmlands of the Czech Republic. To understand water balance, rainfall-runoff and soil erosion processes on the cultivated landscape, we started hydrological ...[Read More]

Post #vEGU21 hydrological reflections

Maria-Helena Ramos May 5, 2021

Collage based on artworks by Freepik, www.freepik.com

#vEGU21 is over and it was an intense two-week period for many of us. Whether you occasionally zapped in or kept your whole last week free to join online, you certainly have heard a lot about it. Here I have collected a few reflections from the events related to the hydrological sciences division. The conference first week The first week presented several Union-wide debates and sessions. We learne ...[Read More]

Getting hydrologically ready for #vEGU21 Gather Online

Maria-Helena Ramos April 15, 2021

Next week the vEGU General Assembly will start gathering its members online for its annual general assembly. Who would have imagined ten or five years ago that there would be two consecutive editions of EGU online? SGO Sharing Geoscience Online EGU2020 and now vEGU21 Last year, we only had six weeks to move from a traditional GA in Vienna in April to an online alternative. We learned a lot and ref ...[Read More]

How do you picture female scientists?

Bettina Schaefli March 31, 2021

Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash

You might have heard about the film “Picture a scientist” by Sharon Shattuck & Ian Cheney. It shows the personal struggle of three women to overcome gender barriers in science. In doing so, it highlights three key issues: prejudices and biases against women related directly to the history of the university that have never been challenged (this part of the film is subtly underlined by the histo ...[Read More]