Felipe Saavedra Melendez
Research interests
- Hydrological events and nitrate pollution at the catchment scale
- Large sample hydrology and water quality
- Deep learning and Explainable AI
Academic Background
| since 2024/01 | Researcher at the project "Elbe Extremes" |
| since 2020/10 | PhD Researcher "Watershed Dynamics and Hydrological Extremes" at the Department Catchment Hydrology, UFZ |
| 2018/02-2018/06 | Visiting Msc student at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2018/03-2019/10 |
M.Sc. Water Resources and Environmental Management Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile |
| 2014 - 2019 | Scientific researcher, Universidad de Chile |
| 2007/03-2013/10 |
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, with a specialization in Hydraulics, Sanitary Engineering, and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile |
Publications
2024 (1)
- Saavedra, F., Musolff, A., von Freyberg, J., Merz, R., Knöller, K., Müller, C., Brunner, M., Tarasova, L. (2024):
Winter post-droughts amplify extreme nitrate concentrations in German rivers
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (2), art. 024007 10.1088/1748-9326/ad19ed
2023 (2)
- Bieroza, M., Acharya, S., Benisch, J., ter Borg, R.N., Hallberg, L., Negri, C., Pruitt, A., Pucher, M., Saavedra, F., Staniszewska, K., van’t Veen, S.G.M., Vincent, A., Winter, C., Basu, N.B., Jarvie, H.P., Kirchner, J.W. (2023):
Advances in catchment science, hydrochemistry, and aquatic ecology enabled by high-frequency water quality measurements
Environ. Sci. Technol. 57 (12), 4701 - 4719 10.1021/acs.est.2c07798 - Wachholz, A., Dehaspe, J., Ebeling, P., Kumar, R., Musolff, A., Saavedra, F., Winter, C., Yang, S., Graeber, D. (2023):
Stoichiometry on the edge - humans induce strong imbalances of reactive C:N:P ratios in streams
Environ. Res. Lett. 18 (4), art. 044016 10.1088/1748-9326/acc3b1
2022 (1)
- Saavedra, F.A., Musolff, A., von Freyberg, J., Merz, R., Basso, S., Tarasova, L. (2022):
Disentangling scatter in long-term concentration–discharge relationships: the role of event types
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (23), 6227 - 6245 10.5194/hess-26-6227-2022
2020 (1)
- Saavedra, F., Cortés, G., Viale, M., Margulis, S., and Mcphee, J.: Atmospheric Rivers Contribution to the Snow Accumulation Over the Southern Andes (26.5° S–37.5° S), Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00261, 2020.