H2K News Archive
23.10.2017
Coming out soon: the new open access online course (MOOC) about "Water in Switzerland" is soon getting online. Watch the trailer now.
Our crowdwater project and further citizen science projects were advertised in the daily newspaper Tagesanzeiger as participatory projects presented at the UZH event Scientifica.
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- From left to right: Katharina Liechti (WSL), Marco Borga (University of Padova), Manuel Antonetti, Jan Seibert, Massimiliano Zappa (WSL)
25.08.2017
Manuel Antonetti successfully defended his PhD thesis about “Runoff Generation during Heavy Rainfall Events: Integrating Expert Knowledge about Dominant Runoff Processes in Conceptual Hydrological Models” on 25th of August, 2017.
11.11.2016
Florian Lustenberger recieved the Semesterpreis for his outstanding BSc thesis in H2K (Supervision Ilja van Meerveld).
26.08.2016
Nans Addor's paper "Robust changes and sources of uncertainty in the projected hydrological regimes of Swiss catchments" is among the top 5 most cited papers among all papers published in WRR in the last two years.
28.06.2016
The second SwimSci event (Swim and Science) took place on a warm and sunny summer day, allowing for a cooling swimm after a day full of presentations about hydrological modelling, field work and future plans.
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- From left to right: Jan Seibert, Benjamin Fischer, Jerome Latron (IDAEA, Barcelona) and Manfred Stähli (WSL, Zurich).
26.05.2016
Benjamin Fischer successfully defended his PhD thesis about “spatial and temporal runoff generation processes in a Swiss pre-alpine headwater catchment” on 26th of May, 2016.
29.06.2015
After having a SkiSci (Ski and Science) event in winter, we now had our first SwimSci (Swim and Science) afternoon with presentations about our current work, followed by swimming in the cool Limmat.
25.06.2015
Our publication ‘Smiling in the rain: Seven reasons to be positive about uncertainty in hydrological modelling’, has been recognized as the top cited Invited Commentary published in Hydrological Processes in 2013.
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- From left to right: Reinhard Furrer (University of Zurich), Rob Wilby (Loughborough University Leicestershire), Jan Seibert, Nans Addor and Reto Knutti (ETH Zurich).
11.06.2015
Nans Addor successfully defended his PhD thesis about “Impacts of Climate Change on Discharge in Switzerland: Cascading Uncertainties and Robustness in Models” on 10th of June, 2015.
12.05.2015
This year's SOLA was as always a lot of fun!
06.05.2015
Philipp Schneider does research on the quantity and quality of alpine groundwater in the area of Tiefenbach glacier (Uri). In the UZH News article of 5th of May, he provides a brief look into his interesting research.
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- From left to right: Laurent Pfister (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology), Jan Seibert, Michael Rinderer and Ilja van Meerveld.
23.03.2015
Michael Rinderer successfully defended his PhD thesis about “Assessing key controls of catchment functioning by investigating distributed groundwater dynamics, hydrological connectivity and runoff response on different spatial scales” on 20th of March, 2015.
18.03.2015
Our latest e-learning films are now online.
Snow measurement in the Waegital
07.03.2015
Welcome to Dr. April James, associate professor at Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada, who visits H2K from March 6-April 18.
19.12.2014
Our latest e-learning film about snow hydrology is now online. You can watch it using this link.
15.12.2014
Michael Rinderer awarded a SNF - Early Postdoc. Mobility fellowship on his project: "ICaRus - Investigating Catchment Runoff Response by Assessing Spatial Patterns of Groundwater Dynamics" at Duke University, North Carolina, USA