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The Boussinesq Center organizes international prestigious lectures. Leading hydrological
scientists will be invited to deliver the yearly Boussinesq
Lecture, addressing important hydrological themes of relevance
to the Center’s research programme.
Date: October 27, 2009. 13:30 – 17:00h
Speaker: prof Witold F. Krajewski, University of Iowa
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Amsterdam, Tinbergenzaal
Subject: Advances in hydrometry
Other speakers: Nick van de Giessen (TUDelft) and Hidde Leijnse (Wageningen Universiteit)
Note that the Boussinesq Lecture is preceded by the 2009 Ph.D meeting of the Boussinesq Center.
Please register by sending an email to Roel Dijksma
PROGRAM:
09.00 Opening PhD event with coffee and tea for PhD students
09.30 PhD event
12.30 Lunch for PhD students
13.30 Opening Boussinesq lecture with coffee and tea
14.00 Introduction by chairman
14.10 Witold F. Krajewski: "Hydrologic measurements and flood forecasting: issues of scale and uncertainty"
15.00 Coffee break
15.15 Nick van de Giessen: "Distributed temperature sensing: what temperature can tell us about water systems?"
15.45 Hidde Leijnse: "Rainfall measurements as by-products of other activities"
16.15 Closure by chairman
16.30 Drinks
Date: October 23, 2008
Speaker: Prof. Andrea Rinaldo, Laboratory of Ecohydrology ECHO/ISTE/ENAC Ecole Polytechnique Fèdèrale (EPFL) Lausanne (CH)
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Subject: Connections between hydrology, river morphology and ecosystems
13.30 Opening with coffee
14.00 Introduction by chairman
14.10 Prof. Andrea Rinaldo (EPFL, Lausanne, CH): River networks as ecological corridors: hydrologic controls on biodiversity, population migrations, spreading of waterborn disease
15.00 break
15.15 Dr. Maarten Kleinhans (University Utrecht): River pattern transitions: the role of floodplain sediment and vegetation
15.45 Dr. Patrick Bogaart (Wageningen University): Landscape Form, hydrological response and their interaction
16.15 Closure by chairman
16.30 drinks
Note that the Boussinesq Lecture is preceded by the 2008 Ph.D meeting of the Boussinesq Center. See below.
Date: October 23, 2008
Time: 9:30 - 12.30
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Organization: Joachim Rozemeijer, Martijn Westhoff, and Dimmie Hendriks
The Boussinesq PhD meeting aims at bringing together young hydrology researchers from universities and research institutes in the Netherlands to discus current research questions in hydrology.
The meeting will be interactive and based on a questionnaire that will be emailed to you before the meeting. Hydrological case studies will be explored in groups and presented at the end of the meeting.
The results of the Ph.D. meeting can be found here.
Date: October 22, 2007
Speaker: Prof. Jim Shuttleworth, University of Arizona, USA
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Subject: The global hydrological cycle: feedbacks between land cover and climate
13:30 Opening with coffee
14:00 Introduction by chairman
14:10 Prof. Jim Shuttleworth (Univ. of Arizona, USA): For sure the land
must lend a hand... influences of land cover on weather and climate
15:00 Break
15:15 Dr. Richard de Jeu (Free University Amsterdam): Down to Earth with Soil Moisture from Space
15:45 Ir. Hessel Winsemius (Delft University of Technology): modelling the ungauged Luangwa river basin using new data sources
16:15 Closure by chairman
16:30 Drinks
Note that the Boussinesq Lecture is preceded by the 2007 Ph.D. Meeting of the Boussinesq Center (see below)!
Click here for the invitation
Date: October 22, 2007
Time: 10.00 - 12.30
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Collaboration between different hydrological research groups in the Netherlands has been formalized
through establishment of the Boussinesq Center. Within this framework, joint lectures, master classes,
summer schools and symposia have been organized and the research leaders have had frequent contact.
On a operational basis, however, the research of the universities/institutes has been conducted primarily
separate from the other members. To promote the joint research activities between Boussinesq members, a
meeting has been scheduled for Ph.D candidates to broaden their view on hydrological research in the
Netherlands, and to ultimately formulate a scientific basis for an enhanced cooperation in research projects
among the members.
The meeting will take place on October 22nd in the morning prior to the Boussinesq lecture. The idea of
this workshop is to encourage the exchange of ideas between the Ph.D candidates from the different member
organizations. The meeting will take place in the form of a workshop, focusing on the formulation of an
virtual hydrological field experiment. Through interaction among participants with different backgrounds and
disciplines, the experiment will be designed, defining science objectives, types of field measurements,
requirements for the study area and observation period.
For this workshop, a large number of participants is required from all Boussinesq member organizations.
Therefore, the organization of the workshop would like to know how many people are going to attend.
If you are interested, please sign up by clicking the link below.
Date: September 1, 2006
Speaker: Prof. Jacob Bear, Technion-Israel institute of Technology, Israel
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Subject: 150 years of Darcy
13:30 Opening with coffee
14:00 Introduction by chairman
14:10 Prof. Jacob Bear (Israel): Darcy's Law Revisited (Click to download the lecture sheets)
15:00 Break
15:15 Prof. Majid Hassanizadeh (UU): Fundamentals of Darcy's Law (Click to download the lecture sheets)
15:35 Dr. Jacques Huyghe (TUE): Darcy's Law in Human Bodies
16:10 Closure by chairman
16:20 Drinks
Click here for the invitation
Date: October 17, 2005
Speaker: Prof. Rafael Bras, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Subject: Frontiers in Hydrological Research: Complexity and Organization in Earth Systems
13:30 Opening with coffee
14:00 Welcome
14:30 Opening, and Kick Off Boussinesq Centre for Hydrology by Prof. Peter Troch, Chairman
15:00 Frontiers in Hydrologic Research: Complexity and Organization in Earth Systems by Prof. Rafael Bras, MIT
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Salinity and Tides in Alluvial Estuaries by Prof. Huub Savenije, Delft University of Technology
16:50 Spatio-temporal dynamics of soil, water and vegetation in
groundwater dependent ecosystems, by Prof. Mark Bierkens, Utrecht
University
17:10 Drinks
18:00 End of the meeting
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