climate change

HydroTalks: Prof. Sally E. Thompson on ecohydrology, vegetation, climate change and working across continents

Archita Bhatt, Archita Bhattacharyya, Melissa Reidy and Christina Anna Orieschnig February 19, 2026

In episode 7 of the Hydrotalks podcast, our guest was Dr. Sally Thompson (Sally Thompson – the UWA Profiles and Research Repository). She is a Professor at the University of Western Australia, and the Co-Director of the Centre for Water and Spatial Science. Her research spans ecohydrology, surface hydrology, and Critical Zone Science, exploring how vegetation and ecosystems interact with wat ...[Read More]

Using rainy day temperatures to predict the future of 100-year downpours

Daniel B. Wright May 3, 2024

It’s hard to overstate the importance of so-called “rainfall frequency analysis,” or the estimation of rare rainfall probabilities such as the 100-year storm. Billions of euros worth of infrastructure and planning decisions are made every year around the world based on such statistics. Unfortunately, extreme short-duration rainfall—meaning very high rainfall rates over a few minutes to a few hour ...[Read More]

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

Team "Ma Terre en 180 Minutes" August 31, 2023

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]