Hydrological Sciences

HydroTalks Podcast: Prof. Jan Seibert about hydrological models, experimental catchments and advice for early career scientists

Melissa Reidy and Archita Bhattacharyya December 4, 2025

For this episode, we’re thrilled to welcome Prof. Jan Seibert, based at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich. His research focuses on hydrological modelling under landscape change, citizen science through the CrowdWater app, and large-scale modelling studies. He is also the Henry Darcy medal winner of 2025. You can check out the podcast below, or read the interview summary in this blo ...[Read More]

Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group

Giulio Castelli, Natalie Ceperley, Ben Howard and Wouter Buytaert December 3, 2025

HELPING and the co-creation of a working group In 2023, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), inaugurated a new Scientific Decade, called HELPING – IAHS Science for Solutions decade, with Hydrology Engaging Local People IN one Global world. This third decade was established through a bottom-up process, by investigating the interests and the urgency of local hydrolo ...[Read More]

ROBIN: Tracking Climate Change Through the World’s Most Natural Rivers

Sayali Pawar and Steve Turner November 27, 2025

Distribution of countries participating in the first Phase of the ROBIN Network (blue shading). Black dots are stations included in the first iteration of the ROBIN dataset. Reproduced from Turner et. al. (2025)

Hydrological change is one of the clearest signals of climate variability and human impact on the environment. Yet detecting these changes reliably requires robust, long-term data from river basins that are as close to “natural” as possible, with little influence from dams, abstractions, land use change or any other human influences. That’s where the ROBIN project comes in. ROBIN, or the Referenc ...[Read More]

Where The River Feeds The Wells: A Story Of Smart Monitoring For Safe Drinking Water Supply

Krzysztof Janik, Arno Rein and Sławomir Sitek November 13, 2025

When a river becomes your drinking water When you open the tap in Tarnów, a charming city in southern Poland with a history dating back to the Middle Ages, chances are that most of the water you are about to drink once flowed in the nearby Dunajec River. Yet between the river and your glass lies an invisible world: a network of sand and gravel that filters, delays, and transforms the river’s wate ...[Read More]