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Hydrological Sciences

How far can we take the DORA rules?

How far can we take the DORA rules?

DORA stands for Declaration on Research Assessment, also known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. The declaration was developed back in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco and has become a worldwide initiative since then. The country where you are currently reading this post has most probably signed the declaration (the cou ...[Read More]

Join the IAHS’ New Scientific Decade: Science for Water Solutions – HELPING

Join the IAHS’ New Scientific Decade: Science for Water Solutions – HELPING

What are the most pressing research topics in the international community of hydrologists? What are people working on? And how can you become involved?  Many hydrologists, especially early career scientists, struggle to find answers to these questions.  That is where the scientific decades of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) come in. Specifically, its latest one – ...[Read More]

Ma Terre en 180 Minutes: reducing our carbon footprint with concrete actions

Ma Terre en 180 Minutes: reducing our carbon footprint with concrete actions

As with all professional activities, one of the greatest challenges for us, geoscientists, is how to reduce our own CO2 emissions linked to our research activities over the coming decades. A collective of 57 researchers came together in 2021-2022 to promote awareness and concrete action to decarbonize scientific activities: it was the birth of Ma Terre en 180 Minutes, whose title is inspired by Ma ...[Read More]

Floods and droughts: two sides of the same hydrological coin

Floods and droughts: two sides of the same hydrological coin

This is not (only) a flood. Inspired by Magritte’s painting: ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’ After an alarming dry winter, the European continent has been enduring weeks of a record-breaking heatwave across the southern regions, while coping with scattered, intense precipitation and flash floods. In Zaragoza (Spain), recent flash floods swiftly transformed the previously dry landscape into raging rivers ...[Read More]