📣📣📣 We are hiring!!! (Please repost) 3 PhDs in new research group “navigate" on urban-rural resilience in water scarcity crises, co-lead by Taís Carvalho & me at @ufz.de (start: 1 Feb): PhD 1 (behav. sci./econ.): is.gd/ty0BAX PhD 2 (data sci./ML): is.gd/Ed07qk PhD 3 (hydro-econ./ABM): is.gd/KEeESY

PYROPHOB - A research project into the forest of tomorrow www.pyrophob.de/forschung-2#... www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines...

Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River - Skålevåg - 2025 - Water Resources Research - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

EGU announces the 2026 awards and-medals Prof. Thorsten Wagener will receive the John Dalton Medal. This medal was established by the Hydrological Sciences Division and is awarded for distinguished contributions to hydrological science. www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...

Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit Beteiligung der Universität Potsdam hat nun drei neue Arten von #Baumkröten aus #Tansania beschrieben, die voll entwickelte Jungtiere zur Welt bringen. Die Entdeckung wurde jetzt in „Vertebrate Zoology“ veröffentlicht: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...

We will keep underestimating the scale and complexity of cascading #geohazards in high mountains without a fundamental shift in perspective, policies, and their implementation.☝️Developing scenarios to facilitate impact based forecasting schemes is a way forward doi.org/10.1038/s41561 @univie.ac.at

Impressions from the On Water dialog "Innovations for a water-resilient region" initiated by the Berlin University Alliance. #WasserWissen

NEW PAPER by Eibl et al. in Scientific Reports: rdcu.be/eOcYm Pool #geyser #Strokkur, #Iceland reacts to the weather: The higher the wind speed the longer the recurrence intervals. This effect can be observed down to the bubble reservoir at 24 m depth!

Prof. Thorsten Wagener introduced the Potsdam WaterHub during his keynote at the Geo.X Annual Meeting 2025. The theme of this year's Geo.X meeting was "Water in Motion".

😱 Every second person dies from unnecessary risk-taking behavior during #disasters. We need to educate the public to reduce #disaster mortality further. 👉 #ClimateChange is kicking in; we are facing more and more socio-natural #hazards without prior experience. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f

A new study in NHESS investigates the decreasing groundwater recharge rates in Brandenburg. Francke, T. and Heistermann, M. (2025): Groundwater recharge in Brandenburg is declining – but why?, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2783–2802, doi.org/10.5194/nhes...

Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950 | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....

A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just out in Science Advances with @topotoolbox.bsky.social: Submarine canyons preferentially form where the seafloor is steepest—not where rivers bring much sediment. Our global study reveals what controls canyon distribution and the world’s oceans. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Origin of North America's deepest canyon revealed www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... ...with contributions from a member of the WaterHub. This work has also been featured on scinexx: www.scinexx.de/news/geowiss...

Für ihre herausragenden Beiträge zum Verständnis und zur Minderung von Hochwasserrisiken sowie zur Entwicklung von kommunalen Anpassungsstrategien wurde Prof. Dr. Annegret Thieken durch die @egu.eu die Plinius-Medaille 2025 verliehen. Mehr Infos: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...

🏆 Celebrating outstanding science at #EGU25 🏅 Annegret Thieken – for shaping flood risk management pratices 🏅 Mariana Madruga de Brito – for her innovative use of NLP for climate impacts 🏅 Sergio M. Vicente Serrano – for advancing drought assessment tools Really inspiring work! 🙌 #NHDivision #ECS

Analysing 1,686 glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs), Veh et al. (2025) found that despite growing glacier lakes from climate change, GLOFs are getting smaller. Most dangerous ice-dammed lakes are declining. @unipotsdam.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s442...

New study uses global observations and shows that large-scale #irrigation changes local #rainfall, leading to more afternoon rain events 10 to 50 km downwind of irrigated areas. This can help constrain #climate models and support #WaterManagement. @gerics.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's my first blog entry on using #TopoToolbox with #Python. See how to run Boris Gailleton's GraphFlood and display water depth along with a longitudinal river profile. topotoolbox.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/p...

#Urbanisation has long raised #LandslideRisks. In #Medellín, we traced this link back nearly a century. #InformalSettlements face 2–3.5× more fatalities/km² than formal areas. Urban development strategies must consider #Geohazards. dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748... @humboldt-foundation.de @gfz.bsky.social

Do we do research, where it matters? Globally research on floods, droughts, and landslides is so biased that 100 times more people need to be affected in low-income countries before they receive a similar research attention than high-income countries agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

There is no need to use full landslide polygons in hazard models! We use topology & morphology to separate source & runout areas with <20% accuracy. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... Code: github.com/kushanavbhuy... Soon in #landsifier for easy use: pypi.org/project/land...

#Monsoon rains are vital to feeding billions but pose great risks during extreme events, such as the 2022 #Pakistan floods. We reviewed recent research on monsoon precipitation, focusing on complex networks that may have helped predict #ExtremeRainfall. 👉 Check out our synthesis

What a giant review. Sebastian Gnann from the @uni-freiburg.de (and formerly @unipotsdamwater.bsky.social) together with numerous coauthors (including myself) review how #topography affects to global terrestrial water cycle. doi.org/10.1029/2023... #hydrology #geomorphology