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Water related research at the University of Potsdam and affiliated partners
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Christian Klassert
7 days ago
đŁđŁđŁ We are hiring!!! (Please repost) 3 PhDs in new research group ânavigate" on urban-rural resilience in water scarcity crises, co-lead by TaĂs Carvalho & me at
@ufz.de
(start: 1 Feb): PhD 1 (behav. sci./econ.):
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PhD 2 (data sci./ML):
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PhD 3 (hydro-econ./ABM):
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PYROPHOB - A research project into the forest of tomorrow
www.pyrophob.de/forschung-2#...
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines...
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FreezeâThaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River - SkĂ„levĂ„g - 2025 - Water Resources Research - Wiley Online Library
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FreezeâThaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River
Streamflow is the primary driver of suspended sediment transport, but its effect is modulated by temperature and freeze-thaw conditions There is a marked shift in suspended sediment dynamics when...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024WR039183
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UFZ
12 days ago
www.deutschlandfunk.de/tropenwaelde...
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Biologin Böhning-Gaese - "Tropische WĂ€lder spielen eine groĂe Rolle beim Klimaschutz"
Regenwald und COP30: Die tropischen WĂ€lder sind wichtig beim Klimaschutz. Um sie zu bewahren, will Brasilien den Fonds TFFF auflegen.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tropenwaelder-ihre-rolle-beim-klimaschutz-und-wie-man-ihren-schutz-finanziert-100.html
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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...
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EGU announces the 2026 awards and medals!
<p>The European Geosciences Union is honouring 52 people at all stages of their careers who have made substantial contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.</p>
https://www.egu.eu/news/1551/egu-announces-the-2026-awards-and-medals/
14 days ago
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UniversitÀt Potsdam
19 days ago
Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit Beteiligung der UniversitÀt Potsdam hat nun drei neue Arten von
#Baumkröten
aus
#Tansania
beschrieben, die voll entwickelte Jungtiere zur Welt bringen. Die Entdeckung wurde jetzt in âVertebrate Zoologyâ veröffentlicht:
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...
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Drei neue Krötenarten springen ins Rampenlicht
Medieninformation 06-11-2025 / Nr. 098
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninformationen/detail/2025-11-06-drei-neue-kroetenarten-springen-ins-rampenlicht
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
18 days ago
We will keep underestimating the scale and complexity of cascading
#geohazards
in high mountains without a fundamental shift in perspective, policies, and their implementation.âïžDeveloping scenarios to facilitate impact based forecasting schemes is a way forward
doi.org/10.1038/s41561
@univie.ac.at
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Impressions from the On Water dialog "Innovations for a water-resilient region" initiated by the Berlin University Alliance.
#WasserWissen
20 days ago
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Eva P. S. Eibl
22 days ago
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!
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Winds of change: meteorological influences on Strokkurâs geyser eruptions, Iceland
Scientific Reports - Winds of change: meteorological influences on Strokkurâs geyser eruptions, Iceland
https://rdcu.be/eOcYm
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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".
about 2 months ago
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
2 months ago
đ± Every second person dies from unnecessary risk-taking behavior during
#disasters
. We need to educate the public to reduce
#disaster
mortality further. đ
#ClimateChange
is kicking in; we are facing more and more socio-natural
#hazards
without prior experience.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f
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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 â but why?, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2783â2802,
doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
3 months ago
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Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950 | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950
Flood impacts in Europe (1950â2020) were driven mainly by changes in exposure and vulnerability, not long-term change in climate.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adt7068
3 months ago
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Rodolfo Nobrega
4 months ago
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...
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A scalable framework for soil property mapping tested across a highly diverse tropical data-scarce region
Reliable soil property maps are essential for environmental modeling, yet conventional mapping methods remain costly and time-consuming. We developed âŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950289625000326?via%3Dihub
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Sedimentary Systems Group - FU Berlin
6 months ago
Just out in Science Advances with
@topotoolbox.bsky.social
: Submarine canyons preferentially form where the seafloor is steepestânot where rivers bring much sediment. Our global study reveals what controls canyon distribution and the worldâs oceans.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Seafloor slopes control submarine canyon distribution: A global analysis
Submarine canyon distribution is driven by slope inclination, linking tectonic and thermal forces to canyon formation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv3942
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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...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2413069122
6 months ago
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UniversitÀt Potsdam
7 months ago
FĂŒr ihre herausragenden BeitrĂ€ge zum VerstĂ€ndnis 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...
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HochwasserschĂ€den reduzieren â Plinius-Medaille der EGU fĂŒr Potsdamer Umweltwissenschaftlerin Annegret Thieken
Medieninformation 29-04-2025 / Nr. 043
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninformationen/detail/2025-04-29-hochwasserschaeden-reduzieren-plinius-medaille-der-egu-fuer-potsdamer-umweltwissenschaft
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EGU Natural Hazards Division
7 months ago
đ Celebrating outstanding science at
#EGU25
đ Annegret Thieken â for shaping flood risk management pratices đ Mariana Madruga de Brito â for her innovative use of NLP for climate impacts đ Sergio M. Vicente Serrano â for advancing drought assessment tools Really inspiring work! đ
#NHDivision
#ECS
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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.
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@natureportfolio.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
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Progressively smaller glacier lake outburst floods despite worldwide growth in lake area - Nature Water
By quantifying changes in lake area before glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) worldwide from 1990 to 2023, this study shows that despite the overall growth in total lake area and hazard potential, p...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00388-w
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Nature Communications
8 months ago
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...
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Observational evidence of increased afternoon rainfall downwind of irrigated areas - Nature Communications
Large-scale irrigation changes local rainfall patterns, leading to more afternoon rain events 10 to 50 km downwind of irrigated areas. These findings will help constrain climate and weather forecastin...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58729-y
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Wolfgang Schwanghart
7 months ago
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...
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Python TopoToolbox and GraphFlood
Many have probably waited for this. And here we go. Letâs try out TopoToolboxâ Python version. Our aim will be to calculate flow depth along the Big Tujunga river and display the resultâŠ
https://topotoolbox.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/python-topotoolbox-and-graphflood/
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
8 months ago
#Urbanisation
has long raised
#LandslideRisks
. In
#MedellĂn
, we traced this link back nearly a century.
#InformalSettlements
face 2â3.5Ă more fatalities/kmÂČ than formal areas. Urban development strategies must consider
#Geohazards
.
dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748...
@humboldt-foundation.de
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Lina Stein
about 1 year ago
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
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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004590
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
11 months ago
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...
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
11 months ago
#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
. đ Check out our synthesis
add a skeleton here at some point
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Wolfgang Schwanghart
11 months ago
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
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The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle
Topography influences water and energy provided by the atmosphere, and the fate of water at and below the land surface Topography is associated with gradients and contrasts, whose interactions ex...
https://doi.org/10.1029/2023RG000810
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