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News Leipzig’s groundwater levels are falling – what now? What does this mean for Leipzig and its floodplain forest? Our department head, Jan Fleckenstein, explains what’s behind this trend and what can be done about it in an interview with Sachsen Fernsehen. interview
New NitrAge project launched: Groundwater age dating supports the reduction of nitrate pollution in Germany How can the effectiveness of nitrate reduction measures for groundwater be precisely evaluated? Funded by the German Environment Agency (UBA), the NitrAge project is developing a methodical framework based on groundwater age dating—serving as a tool to bring objectivity to the debate and enable a reliable evaluation of groundwater protection in Germany. The project runs from September 2026 to November 2028.
About the project (German) Conference contributions
New Publications Wu, S., Soulsby, C., Zheng, Y., Musolff, A. , Tetzlaff, D. (2026):Science
Haase, U.,
Allen, D.C., Anlanger, C., Boëchat, I.G., Mendoza-Lera,
C., Cross, W.F., Ebeling, P. , Fernandes Cunha,
D.G., Fink, P., Finkler, N., Gücker, B., Lorke, A.,
Pasqualini, J., Patrick, C.J., Peipoch, M., Schröder,
O., Sponseller, R., von Schiller, D., Weitere, M.,
Brauns, M. (2026):Hydromorphological restoration
of streams does not ensure the recovery of ecosystem
functioning Glob. Change Biol.
Nguyen,
V.T. , Kumar, R., Ledesma, J.L.J. , Ebeling,
P. , Fleckenstein, J.H. , Musolff, A.
(2026): Explicit representation and
calibration of different landscape units for a robust
catchment DOC export model Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.
Jahnke,
A., Bai, Y., Brack, W., Carney Almroth, B., Diamond,
M.L., Dragsdahl, A.L.S.T., Escher, B.I., Fantke, P.,
Kühnel, D., MacLeod, M., Ragas, A.M.J., Sakschewski,
B., Schmidt, C. , Strauss, V., Treu, G.,
Villarrubia-Gómez, P., Wang, Z., Wendt-Potthoff, K.,
Ågerstrand, M., Caesar, L. (2026): Planetary boundary for novel
entities: time for a reboot Environ. Sci.
Technol.
Elagami,
H., Ahmadi, P. , Fleckenstein, J.H. , Thomas,
C.K., Babel, W., La Capra, M., Frei, S., Gilfedder, B.S.
(2026): Summer hydrodynamics as a dual
driver of microplastic retention and settling in shallow
water columns Water Air Soil Pollut.
Bäthge,
A., Ruz Vargas, C., Lischeid, G., Collenteur, R., Cuthbert,
M., Fleckenstein, J. , Flörke, M., de Graaf, I.,
Gnann, S., Hartmann, A., Huggins, X., Moosdorf, N., Wada,
Y., Wagener, T., Reinecke, R. (2026): A global-scale time series dataset
for groundwater studies within the Earth system Sci.
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