Research at the Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group

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Research at the Hydrology and Quantitative Water
Management Group

• Wageningen University

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Department of environmental sciences( 20 CHAIRS)

• SUB-DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
• Two chairs
• Chair Hydrology and quantitive watermanagement
• Chair Soil physics, ecohydrology, groundwater
  management
• Part of Centre for Water and Climate ( univ /
  alterra)
• other chairs
• Irrigation and civil engineering
• Aquatic ecology and water quality
• Meteorology
• Environmental system analysis

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Water cycle
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Flooding of river meuse
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Drought on the river meuse
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Research Topics

• The scope of our research is to study
  catchment-scale hydrological processes through
  advanced measurement, modeling and assimilation
  techniques.
• Our goals are
• Developing, testing and interpretation of
  advanced observation methods for hydrological
  fluxes and states at a range of spatial and
  temporal scales
• Developing catchment-scale hydrological models
  for water, sediment and solute transport
• Hydrological synthesis at the catchment scale
  with special attention to hydrological extremes
  (floods and droughts).
• Understanding the effect of climate change and
  other human influences on floods, droughts, and
  the dispersal of solutes and sediments.
• Integration of catchment hydrological knowledge
  to development technical tools for water
  resources management in multifunctional areas

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Hydrological Cycle at Catchment Scale
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Disciplines within HWM

• Hydrometeorology
• 4 PhD students and 1 Postdoc
• Funding through NWO and EU
• Ecohydraulics
• Started new research programme in September 2004
• Funding through NWO-WOTRO and EU
• Hillslope and Catchment-scale Hydrological
  Modeling
• 9 PhD students and 2 Postdocs
• Funding through NWO and EU
• Hydrogeology
• International leadership in drought related
  research
• 2 PhD student
• Funding through EU

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Research Facilities Hydrometeorology
National Observatory of the Atmosphere At Cabauw
(CESAR)
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Research Facilities Hydraulics Laboratory
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Rainfall runoff model Wageningen
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Research Facilities Hydrogeology
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Practical fieldwork students
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Reconstruction river outflow
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PhD and Postdoc Projects (October 2005)

• Arno Hilberts (2006) The role of complex
  hillslopes in catchment hydrology.
• Ryan Teuling (2006) Soil moisture variability
  and land surface parameterization.
• Shaakeel Hasan (2007) Time-variable gravity
  measurements to study the presence and movement
  of water at the surface and in the subsurface.
• Ali Talebi (2008) The role of subsurface flow on
  slope stability and surface erosion.
• Kaka Shahedi (2008) Land use change impacts on
  flood characteristics in ungaged basins.
• Hanneke Schuurmans (2008) Now-casting for
  operational water management.
• Joost Heijckers (2008) The accuracy of the water
  balance components at catchment scales.
• Hidde Leijnse (2008) Unraveling the
  microstructure of rainfall.
• Tessa van Wijnen (2008) Mass response functions
  to describe solute transport at catchment scales.
• Remco van de Beek (2008) Characterizing
  space-time variability of rainfall.
• Ruud Hurkmans (2008) Hydrological modeling of
  climate change/variability impacts on water
  availability in large river basins.
• Jantine Bokhorst (2009) Observation and
  parameterization of the hydrological component of
  land surface - atmosphere interactions.
• PhD Vacancy Estimating precipitation and
  evaporation using microwave links.
• Alexis Berne Marie Curie Fellowship and postdoc
  FLOODSite EU project.
• Patrick Bogaart NWO project on Catchment water
  residence time.
• Postdoc Vacancy BSIK project Adaptive capacity
  to extreme events in Rhine basin.