Hydrological Sciences

SciArt & Hydrology: how about having an art exhibition as part of your hydrology PhD thesis?

Maria-Helena Ramos December 4, 2019

On November 1st 2019, Louise Arnal, a PhD candidate at the University of Reading and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), had her art exhibition opening event at The Museum of English Rural Life (Reading, UK). This exhibition was part of her PhD thesis on hydrology, and was called “Gambling with floods?” For me, it was the first time I saw a PhD thesis in hydrology that ...[Read More]

Featured catchment series: The Rio Vauz catchment – long-term hydrologic observations in the Dolomites

Giulia Zuecco November 20, 2019

The high-elevation Rio Vauz Catchment in the Dolomites (Italy). Alpine grassland covers the lower part of the catchment (below 2200 m a.s.l.), while vertical rock cliffs are typical of higher elevations. Photo credit: Giulia Zuecco.

Dolomitic landscapes are characterized by vertical rock cliffs and soil-mantled hillslopes originated from glacial or colluvial deposits, which hide a complex subsurface aquifer due to the permeability of the dolomitic rocks. To improve the understanding of the hydrological functioning of such complex hydrogeological systems, the hydrology group of the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture ...[Read More]

Science as Type II Fun

EGU Guest blogger November 8, 2019

Autumn had finally arrived – the weather had cooled down enough to start rock climbing outside again in southern Arizona. I was working on scaling a mountain’s cliff face tall enough to be a skyscraper with nearly 15 fellow scientists climbing routes around me. My palms were sweaty with nerves and my muscles were starting to get tired. I questioned what possessed me to climb this huge rock. ...[Read More]

Featured catchment series: Disentangling the ecohydrology of a tropical hotspot!

EGU Guest blogger October 23, 2019

The tropical alpine, Páramo, grasslands of the Zhurucay Ecohydrological Observatory in south Ecuador. The SuperSite of the observatory shown in the picture, where climatological variables are monitored, is located at 3,780 m a.s.l, and is one of the highest elevation sites across the tropics where these variables are measured continuously. Photo Credit: Galo Carrillo-Rojas.

Zhurucay Ecohydrological Observatory: Critical zone observations at the top of the Andes! A natural laboratory of tropical alpine ecohydrology Tropical alpine ecosystems, known as the Páramo, extend to high elevations (3,000-5,000 m a.s.l.) mainly through the northern Andes of South America from Venezuela to northern Peru. Given their geographical location and elevation, Páramo areas are exposed t ...[Read More]