Hydrological Sciences

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]

YHS interview Serena Ceola: shedding light on interrelations between human impacts and river networks

Sina Khatami October 9, 2019

In its “Hallway Conversations” series, the Young Hydrologic Society has recently published an interview with Serena Ceola, who is a senior assistant professor at University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering. The interview was conducted by Sina Khatami, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne. With their agreement, we reproduce the interview, w ...[Read More]

Hydrologists Join Youth-Led #GlobalClimateStrike

Matthias Sprenger September 24, 2019

In a powerful sign of solidarity, adults from across an estimated 185 countries took to the streets to join last Friday’s youth-led Global Climate Strike, the largest climate protest in history. Among those in attendance were hydrologists from around the world, who stood shoulder to shoulder with young people to support their calls for immediate climate action. As a hydrologist who participa ...[Read More]

YHS interview Martyn P. Clark: “rainfall-runoff modelling, per se, is dead”

Sina Khatami September 11, 2019

In its “Hallway Conversations” series, the Young Hydrologic Society has recently published an interview with Martyn P. Clark, who is currently professor and the Associate Director of Centre for Hydrology and Canmore Coldwater Lab, at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. The interview was conducted by Sina Khatami, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne. With their agreement, we reproduce ...[Read More]