Basso

Watershed dynamics & environmental hazards

We develop new approaches to characterize water resources, environmental processes and hydrogeological hazards in data scarce systems. We also investigate the potential of cultural landscape restoration for water management and hazard mitigation, and the role of hydrological variability as driver of natural and industrial phenomena, such as floods, fluxes of particulate matters in river basins and the production of energy by means of hydropower plants.

Opportunities

We welcome ERASMUS+ Internship scholarship holders

interested in:
hydroclimatic data analysis
construction of databases from landscape, hydrological and historical information
data mining and machine learning

Sumra

Sumra Mushtaq

Doctoral researcher

Felipe

Felipe Saavedra

Doctoral researcher

Larisa

Dr. Larisa Tarasova

Researcher

Larisa

Hsing-Jui Wang

Doctoral researcher

Alumni

Andrea Domin

Master thesis (Technical University of Dresden), January 2019 - September 2019

Lisa Hennig

Master thesis (Technical University of Braunschweig), October 2017 - May 2018

Now at University of Bayreuth, Germany

Zohreh Ghazanchaei

Master thesis (University of Stuttgart), October 2017 - May 2018

Mayra Daniela Peña Guerrero

Internship (Technical University of Cologne), October 2017 - January 2018

Now at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies - IAMO, Germany

Mechanistic-stochastic and statistical methods for flood hazard assessment

  • Applications and further development of the Metastatistical Extreme Value distribution (MEV)
  • Further development of the PHysically-based Extreme Value distribution (PHEV!)
  • Assessment of the propensity of rivers to extreme floods

Regional analyses of event runoff features and causes

  • Large scale analyses of event runoff attributes
  • Identification of triggering spatio-temporal atmospheric and catchment conditions
  • Causative classification of runoff and flood events
Small hydro

Water-energy-ecosystem nexus in small run-of-river hydropower

  • Economic-hydroecologic optimization of small run-of-river hydropower plants
  • Methods to reconcile small hydropower and ecosystem services in river basins

Fluxes of solutes and particulate matters through river basins

  • Effects of hydrological events on solute mobilization and delivery
  • Roles of input stochasticity and river network morphology for fluxes of particulate matter
Terraces

Cultural landscapes for water management

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PREDICTED

Propensity of rivers to extreme floods: climate-landscape controls and early detection

(DFG Research Project, grant 421396820, 2019-2022)

SPATE

SPATE

Space-time dynamics of extreme floods

(DFG Research Group, FOR 2416, 2017-2023)

DYNAMO

Events as dynamic drivers of pollutant transport, turnover and export in catchments – from monitoring to models

Subproject 3: Effects of hydrological events on solute mobilization and delivery in German river catchments

(Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ PhD college, 2020-2023)

Index:

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2023 (6)

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2022 (9)

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2021 (3)

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2020 (8)

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2019 (1)

  • Tarasova, L., Merz, R., Kiss, A., Basso, S., Blöschl, G., Merz, B., Viglione, A., Plötner, S., Guse, B., Schumann, A., Fischer, S., Ahrens, B., Anwar, F., Bárdossy, A., Bühler, P., Haberlandt, U., Kreibich, H., Krug, A., Lun, D., Müller‐Thomy, H., Pidoto, R., Primo, C., Seidel, J., Vorogushyn, S., Wietzke, L. (2019):
    Causative classification of river flood events
    Wiley Interdiscip. Rev.-Water 6 (4), e1353
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2018 (3)

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2016 (1)

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