Soil moisture and scale
To understand more about the potential of remotely sensed soil moisture at varying scales Marcela Doubkova explores spaceborne radar data. Her interest focuses around…
Informing policy
Eleni Yeshaneh is dealing with an issue that is extremely important in many parts of the world – land degradation due to deforestation, agriculture, and other pressures. Her…
Phosphorous dynamics
Phosphorous is applied to agricultural land to optimise crop yields. After application it can reach streams and rivers where it can be detrimental for ecosystem health.…
Field experiments
Experiments are able to take advantage of the advanced data collection infrastructure. In 2011, Alexander Eder, and other students of the Vienna Doctoral Programme ran a flooding…
In the same area, Christina Frick is studying the capacity of standard faecal indicators (E.coli and intestinal enterococci) to detect faecal contamination. Bacterial standard indicators have been…
One of the best ways to learn about water resource systems is to study them in action. Fieldwork in our Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) gives students the opportunity to learn by doing.
Julia Derx is looking at the effect of groundwater fluctuations on the exchange of chemical and microbiological contamination between streams and aquifers. Based on 3-D groundwater modelling she…
