Boussinesq Center

Training Course on “Regional Experiments For Land-atmosphere EXchanges”

Miriam Coenders — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:45:10 +0000

Date: 18-28 July 2012
Location: Albacete, Spain
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International Workshop on Catchment Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation

Miriam Coenders — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:39:07 +0000

Date: 8-13 July, 2012
Location: Faculty of Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation of the University of Twente, Enschede

The 5th International Workshop on Catchment Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA-V) is a follow-up to the successful CAHMDA-I workshop held in Wageningen (2001), CAHMDA-II workshop held in Princeton (2004), CAHMDA-III workshop held in Melbourne (2008), and the CAHMDA-IV workshop held in Lhasa (2010). The objective of the workshop is to assess recent advances in modeling, observing, and data assimilation approaches to improve understanding, observing and predicting hydrological processes and catchment evolutions. Particular attention will be given to the quantification and attribution of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptations in river basins. New observing systems and new theories and the use of data assimilation are probed in setting the research agenda in hydrological researches for the coming decade. Invited key notes, short poster presentations and extensive discussions will be main forms of the workshop. Pre-workshop data assimilation training course and post-workshop excursions will be organized.

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Boussinesq Lecture 2012

Miriam Coenders — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:31 +0000

Date: October 11, 2012
Speaker: Dani Or, ETH Zürich
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Amsterdam, Tinbergenzaal
Subject: Subsurface Hydrology
Other speakers: Mark Bakker (TU Delft), Boris van Breukelen (VU Amsterdam), and Yijan Zeng (ITC, University of Twente)

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 (see below)
12.00 Lunch for PhD students

13.00 Opening Boussinesq lecture with coffee and tea
13.30 Introduction by chairman
13.40 Dani Or: “Microhydrological controls of life in the subsurface”
14.30 Coffee break
14.45 Mark Bakker: “Analytic modeling of transient multi-layer flow, no grid or time-stepping needed”
15.15 Boris van Breukelen: “Modeling reactive transport processes to optimize use of the
subsurface environment”
15.45 Yijnan Zeng: “Coupled dynamics in soil: understanding the transport
mechanisms by field experiments and numerical simulation”
16.15 Closure by chairman
16.30 Drinks

During the whole day there will be te possibility to show posters, all coffee breaks are poster sessions

Note that the Boussinesq Lecture is preceded by the 2012 Ph.D meeting of the Boussinesq Center. The Boussinesq PhD meeting aims at bringing together young hydrology researchers from universities and research institutes in the Netherlands to discuss current research questions in hydrology.

Program PhD-meeting:

09.00 Opening PhD event with coffee and tea for PhD students
09.30 PhD student Mark Bierkens Group
09.45 PhD student Majid Hassanizadeh Group
10.00 PhD student Han Dolman Group
10.15 PhD student Remko Uijlenhoet Group
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 PhD student Huub Savenije Group
11.15 PhD student Nick van de Giesen Group
11.30 PhD student Stefan Uhlenbrook Group
11.45 PhD student Bob Su Group

International Winter School: “Remote Sensing of Precipitation Using Microwave Links: Techniques and Applications”

Miriam Coenders — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:26:38 +0000

27.2-2.3.2012, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

The Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology invites young scientists to join leading researchers in the field of precipitation quantification by microwave attenuation for a winter school.

A flyer summarising all information can be found here

Background
For the improved understanding of all aspects of the regional water cycle, knowledge of the spatio-temporal distribution of precipitation is of crucial importance. Improved and scientifically sound water availability information, however, still suffers from the limited quality of available spatial rainfall products. Why is spatial rainfall estimation still so problematic? Traditional rain gauges provide good local measurements but their spatial representativeness is very low. In contrast, radar reflectivity measurements provide spatial pattern information but the transformation of reflectivity to rain rate values is accompanied by large uncertainties. The need for additional measurements has inspired the use of microwave links, which have been proven to provide more accurate rainfall estimates at the near-surface level.

Aim
The winter school will introduce the new technique of precipitation remote sensing using terrestrial microwave links to young researchers. The potential and limitations of the new technique, as well as solutions and practical examples will be presented by leading scientists in this field.

Covered Topics
Theory
·      EM-Theory of microwave propagation
·      Effects of rain and humidity
Methodology
·      Baseline determination
·      Error estimation
Microwave hardware
·      High frequency hardware in a nutshell
Microwave link applications
·      Tomographic reconstruction
·      Improved hydrological statistics
·      Copula integration of link, radar and gauge
·      Detection of faulty rain gauges
·      Radar rain rate adjustment
Experiments
·      Monostatic small scale experiment
·      Microwave and optical links
Simulation
·      EM-Simulation of scattering from hydrometeors
Exercises
·      Data preprocessing
·      Spatial methods

Venue
The winter school will take place in the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU) at Campus Alpine of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the Bavarian mountain village of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, located at the foot of Germany’s highest peak Mount Zugspitze.

Costs
Tuition, accommodation and meals are free for all participants. There will be no travel grants.

Target Group
The winter school is open to young researchers (PhD students & Post-Docs) worldwide in meteorology, hydrology, environmental sciences, signal processing applications, precipitation remote sensing.

Application
Participation is highly competitive and will be limited to a maximum of 25. Please send your application, including a motivation letter and a short CV, to Harald Kunstmann (harald.kunstmann@kit.edu).

Dates
15 December 2011: Applications due
22 December 2011: Notification of selected participants

Contact
Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Campus Alpin
Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19
82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Phone: +49 8821 183 208
E-Mail: harald.kunstmann@kit.edu

Lecturers (confirmed):

Prof. Harald Kunstmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Germany)
Prof. Uwe Siart (Technische Universität München, Institute for High Frequency Engineering, Germany)
Prof. Hagit Messer, Prof. Pinhas Alpert, Dr. Rana Samuels (Tel Aviv University, Institute for Electrical Engineering & Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Israel)
Prof. Remko Uijlenhoet (Wageningen University, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, The Netherlands)
Prof. Alexis Berne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Switzerland)
Dr. Hidde Leijnse (KNMI Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, The Netherlands)
Dr. Alon Rimmer (Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel)

Invitation to WMO Young Scientist Award Ceremony during the TU Delft Alumnisymposium 2011

Miriam Coenders — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:27:57 +0000

Dear Colleague,

It is a great pleasure to invite you for the award ceremony of the Young Scientist Research award of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) won by Ruud van der Ent. Ruud is a PhD student of the Water Resources Section of the TU Delft and he received the award for his paper “Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents” which he co-authored with Huub Savenije, Bettina Schaefli and Susan Steele-Dunne, published in Water Resources Research in 2010. See the news item in TU Delta (in Dutch).

The award will be handed to him during the Alumni Symposium of the TU Delft on Friday 7 October 2011 by Jeremiah Lengoasa (Deputy Secretary General WMO) and Frits Brouwer (Director KNMI). The full schedule of the symposium can be found here.

Later in the program Huub Savenije (professor of hydrology TU Delft) and Ruud van der Ent will present the award winning research during a session called: “Where does the rain come from?”.

You are cordially invited to attend this event. The complete event is free of charge and includes dinner and drinks. Master and PhD students and employees of TU Delft can register on the website above. Note, that due to the last minute inclusion in the programme it is not possible to select this session at registration. Therefore, everyone who wishes to register is asked to send an email containing your name and affiliation to Ruud van der Ent (r.j.vanderent@tudelft.nl ) before 20 September 2011.

We hope to see you there,

Huub Savenije

Majid Hassanizadeh receives the Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award

Miriam Coenders — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:29:16 +0000

Majid Hassanizadeh has been selected by the Soil Science Society of America to receive the Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award. Majid has received this award for his fundamental contributions to the physics of flow of fluids through soils. The first recipient of this award was Rien van Genuchten in 1998. More information on the Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Award can be found here. The award will be conferred on the 18th of October, 2011 during the Soil Science Society of America plenary meeting in San Antonio, Texas. For more information on the Soil Science Society of America plenary meeting, please click here

Majid Hassanizadeh has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize

Miriam Coenders — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:26:32 +0000

Majid Hassanizadeh has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award. According to Wikipedia, this is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to internationally renowned scientists and scholars, and is currently valued at € 60,000 with the possibility of further support during the prize winner’s life. In total, up to one hundred such awards are granted each year in all areas of science. Nominations must be submitted by established academics in Germany. The award is named after the late Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

Majid was nominated by his longtime collaborator Professor Rainer Helmig of Stuttgart University. The award is to be used for financing research collaborations with German universities in general, and with Stuttgart University, in particular.

Majid Hassanizadeh selected as the Darcy Lecturer for 2012

Miriam Coenders — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:21:26 +0000

The Board of Directors of the U.S. National Groundwater Association, at the recommendation of the Darcy Lecture Series Search Committee, has selected Majid Hassanizadeh as the Darcy Lecturer for 2012. The news was announced in the Association’s online newsletter, The Pump. The Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture Series in Ground Water Science was established in 1986 by the U.S. National Groundwater Association to foster interest and excellence in groundwater science and technology. The series has reached more than 70,000 groundwater students, faculty members, and professionals worldwide. Annually, a panel of scientists and engineers invites an outstanding groundwater professional to share his or her work with their peers and students

Boussinesq Lecture 2011

Miriam Coenders — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:07:22 +0000

Date: October 20, 2011. 13:30 – 17:00h
Speaker: Peter A. Troch, University of Arizona, USA
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Amsterdam, Tinbergenzaal
Subject: Catchment science: ecohydrology and organisation
Other speakers: Ryan Teuling (Wageningen University) and Christiaan van der Tol (University of Twente)

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 (see below)
12.30 Lunch for PhD students

13.30 Opening Boussinesq lecture with coffee and tea
14.00 Introduction by chairman
14.10 Peter A. Troch: “Catchment Hydrology: Keep Looking for Hydrologic Laws!”
15.00 Coffee break
15.15 Ryan Teuling: “Catchments as non-linear systems”
15.45 Christiaan van der Tol: “Water, carbon and energy balance of catchments”
16.15 Closure by chairman
16.30 Drinks

Note that the Boussinesq Lecture is preceded by the 2011 Ph.D meeting of the Boussinesq Center. The Boussinesq PhD meeting aims at bringing together young hydrology researchers from universities and research institutes in the Netherlands to discuss current research questions in hydrology.

Program PhD-meeting:
09:30-09:45 Reza Sadeghi (group Hassanizadeh, UU)
09:45-10:00 Yoshihide Wada “Modelling global water stress of the recent past: on the relative importance in water demand and climate variability” (group Bierkens, UU)
10:00-10:15 Dieuwke Schotanus (group Van der Zee, WUR)
10:15-10:30 Luciano Raso “Tree based scenario development” (group Van der Giesen, TUD)
10:30-10:45 Shervan Gharari “HAND” (group Savenije, TUD)
10:45-11:00 Ermias Teferi (group Uhlenbrook, IHE)
11:00-11:15 Stefanie Lutz “Modeling isotope signals of agrochemicals in catchments” (group Dolman, VU)
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12.30 Poster session
12:30-13:30 Lunch

Darcy Lecture: “Development of Reliable Hydrologic Data Sets in Difficult Environments: Case Studies from Benin, West Africa”

Miriam Coenders — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:02:07 +0000

By:
Stephen E. Silliman, Ph.D.

When:
16 September 2011, 10:00-11:00h

Where:
Deltares/TNO
Auditorium
DELTARES
Princetonlaan 6
3508 TA UTRECHT

Further info:
download

Synopsis
Reliable hydrologic data are critical for sound hydrogeologic analyses and for the subsequent policy decisions based on those analyses. Obtaining such data sets in the face of limited budgets and limited access to field sites can be a daunting challenge, particularly in rural regions in developing countries. Experience in Benin demonstrates that such challenges are best met through close collaboration with a number of in‐country entities (universities, local populations, government agencies, and NGOs) and integration of hydrologic expertise with political political, social, and cultural considerations.

This presentation focuses on a series of case studies from Benin directed at developing data sets involving: (1) regional water quality, (2) temporal variation in nitrate contamination in rural groundwater wells and (3) temporal variation in hydraulics and wells, water quality related to saltwater intrusion as well as anthropogenic contamination in coastal areas. This presentation demonstrates both the value of statistical analysis in the design and implementation of sampling plans in these difficult environments, as well as the power of close collaboration with in‐country colleagues and local populations