Possible MSc Topics
Please be aware that the topics listed here are current ideas/suggestions and are often related to ongoing research projects in our group. Therefore, possible topics might be adapted to changed opportunities in these larger projects and to your specific interests. Please contact us for more information. Usually it useful to meet early with the potential supervisor(s) to discuss the scope of the project.
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Tracing catchment-wide erosion using Pu-isotopes: Explorative tests in the Erlenbach (Alptal) watershed |
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The sound of rivers: Streamflow gauging based on sound level measurements |
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Quantifying the soil water distribution on an arable field with keyline design (joint Master's thesis with WSL) |
Manfred Stähli (WSL) |
Spatial analyses of the CrowdWater data collected by citizen scientists (joint Master's thesis in Geocomputation and Hydrology) |
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Greenhouse gas evasion from ephemeral streams in Northern Sweden |
Ilja van Meerveld |
What is the optimal number of donor catchments for parameter regionalization in hydrology? |
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Think multidimensionally: How well do we sample the parameter space when searching for optimal parameter sets in hydrological modelling? |
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Groundwater flow in a pre-Alpine wetland |
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Tree water uptake depth for seasonally flooded forests in the Pantanal |
Ilja van Meerveld |
Intermittent stream monitoring in protected areas in Poland based on citizen science approaches |
Ilja van Meerveld |
| Reconstruction of streamflow and turbidity based on reports from kayakers | |
| Crowd-based observation approaches in hydrology | Jan Seibert |
| What is the spatial variation in soil depth and bedrock topography in the Studibach catchment? | Ilja van Meerveld |
| Topographic wetness indices to describe spatial variations of soil moisture | Jan Seibert |
| Value of different types of hydrological data (snow, groundwater, soil moisture) in hydrological modelling | Jan Seibert |
| How does information content change from a data source to the input data of a model? Information theory approach | Maria Staudinger |
| Appropriate time resolution of precipitation data for flood estimation in small catchments | Maria Staudinger Daniel Viviroli |
| Emme flood in summer 2022 – feasibility study integrating radar precipitation data for event simulation | Maria Staudinger Daniel Viviroli |