Annual Report 2013 Hydrology and Water Resources Chair Group Head of Chair Group: Prof. Michael McClain 0 Summary of 2013 For the Hydrology and Water Resources (HWR) Chair group, 2013 was a year of change in staff and leadership. Prof. Stefan Uhlenbrook, head of the Chair Group since 2005, was appointed Vice Rector of Academic and Student Affairs, and Prof. Michael McClain took over as Head of the Chair Group. Associate Professor Jan Nonner retired after 24 years at UNESCO‐ IHE, and was replaced by Dr. Tibor Stigter, Senior Lecturer of Hydrogeology and Groundwater Resources. Despite the changes the group maintained a productive programme of education, project and research activities, and service in the scientific community. Chair Group members maintained the HWR Specialization in the Water Science and Engineering MSc programme. A total of 34 MSc students were involved in the program,12 completed their thesis projects (9 in HWR and 3 in Ecohydrology) and graduated, 11 others completed the taught part of the program and began their thesis projects, and 11 new participants joined the specialization in October. A total of 21 PhD researchers from 13 different countries are engaged in the research activities of the chair group. One of these defended his PhD in 2013 and 2 others submitted draft PhD theses. There are 20 projects ongoing with significant involvement of chair group members, including 4 new projects in 2013. Project activities are being carried out in major river basins in African, Asia, and the Americas with funding coming mainly from the European Union, Dutch and American development agencies, and the Asia Development Bank. During the course of these projects, chair group members carried out more than 50 international missions to collaborate with fellow researchers and provide advisory services to government agencies (upto minister level), river basin authorities, interstate commisions, university partners, and other UNESCO centres. Project and research activities resulted in 45 publications, 33 of which were published in refereed journals and 17 of which appeared in SENSE Category A journals. Scientific products of the chair group were also presented in more than 20 international conferences, symposia, and colloquia. Chair group members served as session conveners and organizors of many of these events and served the scientific community in many other ways, including editorial responsibilities for 6 scientific journals, and service of the committees or many scientific organizations. Some 'sound bites' to assess the outcome/impact 1 Chair group staff as of 31 December 2013 Position Name Appoint‐ ment (fte) Research input (fte) Remarks Professors Dr. Michael McClain, MSc Dr. habil. Stefan Uhlenbrook, MSc 1.0 0.3 0.4 0.2 Uhlenbrook was 0.7 FTE Vice Rector of Student and Academic Affairs. Associate Professors Jan Nonner, MSc Dr. Yangxiao Zhou, MSc Dr. Jan Willem Foppen, MSc Dr. Ann van Griensven 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.4 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.3 Retired in June, 2013 Part‐time VU Brussel Senior Lecturers Dr. Raymond Venneker Dr. Shreedhar Maskey, MSc Dr. Thom Bogaard, MSc Dr. Jochen Wenninger Dr. Tibor Stigter, MSc 1.0 1.0 0.2 1.0 1.0 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.4 0.4 Staff exchange TU Delft Started in August 2013 Lecturer Dr. Johannes van der Kwast, MSc 1.0 0.4
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Annual Report 2013 Hydrology and Water Resources Chair Group Head of Chair Group: Prof. Michael McClain
0 Summary of 2013 For the Hydrology and Water Resources (HWR) Chair group, 2013 was a year of change in staff and leadership. Prof. Stefan Uhlenbrook, head of the Chair Group since 2005, was appointed Vice Rector of Academic and Student Affairs, and Prof. Michael McClain took over as Head of the Chair Group. Associate Professor Jan Nonner retired after 24 years at UNESCO‐IHE, and was replaced by Dr. Tibor Stigter, Senior Lecturer of Hydrogeology and Groundwater Resources. Despite the changes the group maintained a productive programme of education, project and research activities, and service in the scientific community. Chair Group members maintained the HWR Specialization in the Water Science and Engineering MSc programme. A total of 34 MSc students were involved in the program,12 completed their thesis projects (9 in HWR and 3 in Ecohydrology) and graduated, 11 others completed the taught part of the program and began their thesis projects, and 11 new participants joined the specialization in October. A total of 21 PhD researchers from 13 different countries are engaged in the research activities of the chair group. One of these defended his PhD in 2013 and 2 others submitted draft PhD theses. There are 20 projects ongoing with significant involvement of chair group members, including 4 new projects in 2013. Project activities are being carried out in major river basins in African, Asia, and the Americas with funding coming mainly from the European Union, Dutch and American development agencies, and the Asia Development Bank. During the course of these projects, chair group members carried out more than 50 international missions to collaborate with fellow researchers and provide advisory services to government agencies (upto minister level), river basin authorities, interstate commisions, university partners, and other UNESCO centres. Project and research activities resulted in 45 publications, 33 of which were published in refereed journals and 17 of which appeared in SENSE Category A journals. Scientific products of the chair group were also presented in more than 20 international conferences, symposia, and colloquia. Chair group members served as session conveners and organizors of many of these events and served the scientific community in many other ways, including editorial responsibilities for 6 scientific journals, and service of the committees or many scientific organizations.
Some 'sound bites' to assess the outcome/impact
1 Chair group staff as of 31 December 2013
Position
Name
Appoint‐ment (fte)
Research input (fte)
Remarks
Professors
Dr. Michael McClain, MSc Dr. habil. Stefan Uhlenbrook, MSc
1.0 0.3
0.4 0.2
Uhlenbrook was 0.7 FTE Vice Rector of Student and Academic Affairs.
Associate Professors
Jan Nonner, MSc Dr. Yangxiao Zhou, MSc Dr. Jan Willem Foppen, MSc Dr. Ann van Griensven
1.0 1.0 1.0 0.4
0.1 0.4 0.4 0.3
Retired in June, 2013 Part‐time VU Brussel
Senior Lecturers
Dr. Raymond Venneker Dr. Shreedhar Maskey, MSc Dr. Thom Bogaard, MSc Dr. Jochen Wenninger Dr. Tibor Stigter, MSc
1.01.0 0.2 1.0 1.0
0.40.4 0.1 0.4 0.4
Staff exchange TU Delft Started in August 2013
Lecturer Dr. Johannes van der Kwast, MSc 1.0 0.4
AIO ‐ ‐ ‐ All PhD researchers are on fellowship basis
TOTAL 8.8 3.55 Considering Sitgter with 0.4 FTE and Nonner as 0.5 fte
2 Research and educational profile
2.1 Research lines Three main research lines dominate the chair group's research agenda (for further details see research agenda at the website of the chair group). The related projects will require undertaking applied and fundamental research. The scale of integration varies significantly from lab‐scale experiments to large scale hydrological modelling. In the lines on hydrological processes (no. 1) and ecohydrology (no. 2) experimental work is carried out to improve the understanding of dominating hydrological processes, and with the aim to develop process‐oriented models that are able to make predictions for hydrological systems under current and future changed circumstances. 1 HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES NEAR THE EARTH'S SURFACE This research line focuses in particular on improving the understanding of near‐surface processes of the land phase of the hydrologic cycle (surface and shallow subsurface processes), in particular the movement of water and associated substances near the earth's land surfaces, the physical and chemical interactions with earth materials accompanying that movement, and the vegetation and biological processes that conduct or affect that movement. The nature of this type of research is experimental and field oriented, and attempts to assess the scales (spatial and temporal) and magnitude of processes in their natural environment, which includes arid to humid climates and cold to temperate and tropical regions, 'soft' and 'hard' rock areas, and natural to human affected habitats. Better understanding of related hydrological processes through experimental research provides the basis for improved process‐based modeling ‐ much needed in particular in the developing world to predict the impact of changes (e.g. climate, land use) on hydrological systems. A main objective is to connect the knowledge of quantitative hydrology, i.e. groundwater dynamics, flow pathways, residence times and mixing of different water compartments etc., with the water quality. The main regional emphasis is on semi‐arid conditions. This research is positioned in between the more fundamental sciences (e.g. physics, chemistry, biology), on the one hand, and the applied sciences (e.g. civil engineering, hydraulic engineering) on the other. This research line encompasses:
● Catchment and hillslope hydrology; ● Preferential flow systems (fissures, karstic limestone, and vadose zone); ● Evaporation, interception and transpiration; ● Hydrological systems analysis; ● Water balance evaluation; and ● Transport of pollutants in groundwater.
In order to study water fluxes, the driving forces of these fluxes and their causal relationships, we employ standard field data collection techniques focused on geology (e.g. mapping, auger drilling, electrical resistivity tomography), surface water discharge (e.g. stream discharge, water quality such as temperature, EC and natural isotopes), hydrometeorology, hydrogeology and flow field characteristics (e.g. piezometer installation, automated groundwater monitoring at various temporal scales), tracer methods (multiple artificial and natural tracers incl. DNA, bio‐colloids and stable isotopes) and hydrochemistry (major and minor cations and anions). Experiments are carried out under controlled conditions in the lab (column experiments, lysimeters etc.) as well as in the field. 2 ECOHYDROLOGY Ecohydrology is a widely recognized interdisciplinary science integrating hydrological, ecological, and biogeochemical processes. Ecohydrological processes regulate many environmental conditions within aquatic systems, maintaining water quantity and water quality within ranges suitable to native flora/fauna and the services they provide. Human interference in natural ecohydrological processes is the basis for many pressing environmental problems, including the most ubiquitous forms of water pollution (eutrophication, hypoxia, and acidification), related degradation of ecosystem services (loss of soil fertility, declines in fisheries, invasions of exotic species, and outbreaks of pathogens), and accelerating climate change (e.g. non‐industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and carbon sequestration). Ecohydrology addresses the underlying physical, chemical, and biological processes that manifest these problems as well as the processes that are the keys to ultimately solve them. In developed areas, knowledge of ecohydrological processes serves to enhance the highly engineered systems already in place, while in less developed areas ecohydrological processes may serve as the primary means for managing water quantity and quality through natural attenuation of contamination and natural regulation of flow levels. The science includes well developed methodologies of field sampling, laboratory analysis, experimentation, and computer modelling.
Research in this theme involves multidisciplinary field, laboratory, and modeling techniques. Direct measurements are made of surface water flows and groundwater levels, and chemical and isotopic tools are utilized to trace the spatial and temporal interactions of flowpaths, including uptake by plants (i.e. xylem water). Biogeochemical and ecological methods focus on measurement of flow‐related processes such as nutrient and organic matter retention along surface and subsurface flow paths, hypoxia related to high and low flow events, and flow‐ and wetness‐related controls on spatial and temporal patterns of productivity in river and wetland (including GDEs). A wide variety of modeling approaches are applied, including physically based modeling, cellular automata, and fuzzy logic. Emphasis is also placed on model‐supported decision making. 3 BASIN HYDROLOGY AND GLOBAL CHANGES With the increasing population, expanding urbanization, modernised lifestyles, climate changes and other global changes the pressure for sustainable planning and management of our finite water resources is more evident than ever. Consequently, the role and importance of hydrological research in river basin of various scales have increased. In particular, we are facing increased challenges in predicting the [future] state of the water resources in view of the impacts from climate and anthropogenic changes to hydrological system dynamics. The key objectives of this research theme contribute to the understanding of hydrological processes at basin scales and modeling of these processes to predict the space‐time availability of water resources and water cycle dynamics, including impacts from global changes. We primarily focus our research to the river basin scale typically varying from a few thousand to several hundred thousand square kilometers. Identification and quantification of the cause and effect relationships and predicting the impacts for the future at the large scale can only be achieved through process‐based modeling. Large scale modeling typically encounters data requirements beyond the classical rainfall‐runoff simulation. Therefore, representation of hydrological processes at appropriate detail and integration of comprehensive remote sensing and ground observations into the modeling system form the framework for our research methodology. Within this framework, it is also important to acknowledge possible sources of uncertainty, and to provide reasonable assessments of uncertainty in model results.
2.2 Educational programme/specialisation for which the HWR chair group is responsible
● MSc Programme of Water Science and Engineering Hydrology and Water Resources specialisation
Staff members of the Chair Group contribute to a number of other MSc programmes/specialisations and short courses at UNESCO‐IHE and to some extent at Delft University of Technology (Uhlenbrook, Bogaard) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (van Griensven).
3 Major achievements
3.1 Research ● 34 papers in journals and 17 papers in A‐category journals (according to SENSE/KNAW criteria) were published in
2013. Currently, >20 papers are in review/in press. ● 45 publications in total (incl. books, book chapters, conference papers, professional publications etc.) were
published in 2013. ● Mr. David Love (promoter: Uhlenbrook and Van der Zaag), Zimbabwe, defended his PhD successfully in 2013. In
addition, Ms. Hoang and Mr. Ebrahim, who belong to the HERBD chair group (professor Mynett) defended their PhDs. Anne van Griensven was the co‐promoter of Hoang and co‐supervisor of Ebrahim.
● Two PhD researchers (Ms Yurong Hu (China) and Mr Omar Munyaneza (Rwanda)) submitted their draft PhD thesis, and the defenses are foreseen in 2014. 8 more PhD researchers plan to submit their draft theses in 2014.
● New Chair Group‐led projects started in 2013, i.e. SCUSA GREY, MaraFlows, Wetland‐Irrigation: Co‐management of wetland ecosystems and irrigation for enhance livelihoods in the Lake Victoria Basin, and PRoACC II.
● Member of several steering committees of international conferences and organsation of sessions at conferences or fora (EGU, HydroEco, OpenWater, SWAT 2013, and Stockholm World Water Week)
● Publication of two special issues, one in in Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology (Editors: M. E. McClain and P. J. DuBowy) and another in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (Editors A. van Griensven, G. Di Baldassarre and Y. Mohamed)
3.2 Education ● Graduation of 9 MSc students in the specialisation Hydrology and Water Resources and 3 in the specialization
Ecohydrology at UNESCO‐IHE. ● Contribution to the supervision of several other MSc students in other programmes/specialisations at UNESCO‐
IHE and partner universities (TU Delft, VU Brussels). ● 11 MSc students enrolled in 2012 as WSE‐HWR participants completed the taught part and started the research
part in October 2013. ● 8 new students joined the WSE‐HWR specialization and 3 new students joined the Ecohydrology specialization in
2013.
3.3 Advisory/Capacity building projects
Advising the Scientific Information Centre of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of the Aral Sea Basin (Central Asia) on integrated water resources management in the basin. The project was concluded this year with a regional workshop in Tashkent (23‐25 Jan 2013).
Supporting the Brazilian government in the development of new UNESCO Category II Centre ‐ HidroEx.
Advising the government of Rwanda in improving the national hydrologic data and information system.
New advisory role to Niger Basin Authority in integrated water resources managment.
Teaming with the University of the West Indies in capacity building in the Caribbean.
Strengthening the integrated water resources management curriculum in universities of South Africa.
Member of the center commissioned science review team of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI, headquater in Colombo, Sri Lanca)
3.4 Societal impact/outreach
● Chair Group members are active members of a number of professional organisations such as IAH, IAHS, AGU, EGU, UNESCO‐IHP, IFI, WMO‐CHy, WWF, CERG, EPI Water, etc.
● Prof. McClain serves on the editorial board of the journal Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology and serves on the steering committees of the Freshwater Program of Diversitas, and the Global Environmental Flows Network.
● Prof Uhlenbrook serves in a number international science steering committees, scientific committees of international conferences and is member of the editorial boards of the following journals: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS, since November 2004), Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung (Hydrology and Water Management, in German; since 2008) and Nile Basin Water Science and Engineering Journal (2010‐2013). He presented the work of UNESCO‐IHE to non‐academics and policy makers at various meetings (e.g. Stockholm Water Week, Budapest Water Summit, IHP network etc.). Furthermore, he serves at the taskforce of the European Innovation Platform Water (EPI Water), advizes the Netherlands Research Council on the new programme MVI Water (societal releant innovation water), serves at the board of the Dutch research school SENSE, and is member of the review panel of Swedish development oriented research (SRC‐SIDA).
● Dr. Bogaard is guest editor of a HESS special issue. He is treasurer of the Treub Maatschappij (Organization for supporting research in the tropical regions). In addition, he is member of the board of the CERG (Centre European des Risques Geomorphologique (Specialized Centre of Council of Europe EUR‐OPA Major Hazard Agreement).
● Dr. Venneker is a member of the IAHS Working Group on Education in the Hydrological Sciences. ● Dr. Foppen serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Quality. ● Dr. van Griensven serves on the editorial board of the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS, since 2012),
Environmental Modelling and Software (since 2012) and is guest editor of the journal wires‐water. She is also board member of the international Environmental Modelling and Software Society (since 2012), Soil and Water Assessment (SWAT) foundation (since 2012), the Belgian committee for UNESCO‐IHP (since 2013), the OpenMI executive committee (since 2010). She is also editing special issues of the J. of Water Resources Management and for Phys. Chem. Earth.
● Dr. Maskey served in the Scientific Committees of two international conferences: the 8th EWRA conference on “Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context” (held in Porto, 26‐29 June 2013) and the conference on “Climate Change, Water Resources and Disasters in Mountainous Regions: Building Resilience to Changing Climate” (held in Kathmandu, 27‐29 Nov 2013). He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Nile Basin Water Science and Engineering Journal, and also guest editor of a HESS special issue on Drought Forecasting and Warning (2013‐2014).
● Dr. Van der Kwast serves in the Scientific Committee of the GMES and Africa Long Term Management of Natural Resources Workshop, Sharm el‐Sheikh Egypt, 25‐26 June 2013. He also serves in the Scientific Committee of the Open Water Symposium, 16‐17 September 2013.
● Dr. Stigter is guest editor of a Special Issue of the journal Regional Environmental Change, which will be published in January 2014. He was second editor of the book Groundwater and Ecosystems that was published by Taylor
and Francis this year. He was also a member of the scientific committee for the workshop "Governar a água: uma parceria Estado – Sociedade" held in Lisbon in October, and is currently involved in analyzing the results.
● J. Nonner, MSC has been appointed editor of the MENA countries water files to be published on the Fanack web site starting from April 2014.
● The staff members of the Chair Group contributed to the review of many papers to a number of key water journals.
3.5 Miscellaneous
The PhD student Ms Aline Saraiwa (promoters: Uhlenbrook and Van der Zaag) won the L'Oreal‐Unesco "For Women in Science" Subsaharan Africa award (15,000 Euros) and receive a grant from the Swedish International Foundation of Sciences (10,000 Euros).
4 Research Here, we only listed projects that are carried out by UNESCO‐IHE and a HWR Chair Group member plays an essential role. Chair Group members contribute to many more projects that are not listed here, e.g. Dr. A. van Griensven during her time at the VU Brussel, Dr. Bogaard during his time at Delft University of Technology, and Dr. Stigter with continuing projects at the University of Lisbon.
4.1 Research projects initiated during 2013 SCUSA GREY: installation of 20 grey water filters in a slum in Kampala and the effects on downstream water
quality. This DUPC funded project commenced second half of 2013. A detailed workplan was developed and is currently being implemented (Foppen – project leader).
MaraFlows +: Enhancing the Impact of MaraFlows and Bridging to Future DGIS Activities in the Mara River Basin. This DUPC funded project commenced second half of 2013 and is translating the scientific outcomes of the UPaRF MaraFlows project into a Bayesian Network model intended to assist local resource managers’ decision making (McClain – project leader)
Wetland‐Irrigation: Co‐management of wetland ecosystems and irrigation for enhance livelihoods in the Lake Victoria Basin. This UPaRF project focuses on research into water management approaches and policy protocols to ensure sustainable irrigation & drainage development in and around vulnerable wetland ecosystems. Professor McClain supervises a postdoc in this project.
● With the completion of PRoACC ( phase I) ‐ Post‐doctoral programme for research on Climate Change Adaptation with special emphasis on the Mekong River basin, PRoACC II (2013‐2014) has been initiated in 2013. Dr. Maskey coordinates one of the four themes on Sediment and Nutrients. Professor Uhlenbrook (programme director) leads the programme together with Dr. J. Evers (programme manager).
● SWIBANGLA: managing saltwater intrusion impacts on drinking water in Bangladesh. The research project was granted to Deltares, UNESCO‐IHE and CEGIS consortium by IRC Wash facility. The Fact Finding Mission was held during 6‐10 July, 2013. The visits acquired knowledge on salinity problems, impacts, and possible measures; and identified Bangladesh institutes (stakeholders) for salinity investigation, monitoring, and data sources. Detailed working plans for data collection, modelling, monitoring, and information dissemination were made (Zhou).
● Riskoman‐GAM: groundwater in the Incomati: a research project to add groundwater component to Riskoman project. A visit was made in November 2013 to identify issues in groundwater development and management in Mozambique. The idetintified research questions are (1) genaisis of saltwater distribution in the western area of Maputo; (2) seawater intrusion along the coast of Maputo; (3) interactions of groundwater ‐ Lower Incomati River; (4) dynamics of natural groundwater recharge. A post MSc student is collecting data and doing analysis. These research questions will form core contents of her PhD research (Zhou).
● In December 2013 UNESCO‐IHE was notified that it had been awarded an €8 million grant from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kenya for a new €10.72 million project entitled the Mau Mara Serengeti (MaMaSe) Sustainable Water Initiative. The start date of the Initiative is 1 January 2014.
4.2 On‐going research projects/activities
● Comparative research of groundwater management of coastal areas in Southeast Asia was approved by the MoU of ADB and UNESCO‐IHE partnership fund. The objectives of the project are to analyse problems caused by groundwater mismanagement in coastal areas and to develop mitigating measures to reduce the impacts. The case study areas are Bohai Bay in China, Jakarta in Indonesia, Cebu in Philippines, and Mekong Delta in Vietnam. A project analysis workshop was held in March 2013 at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The workshop formulated
scenarios to mitigate problems of groundwater depletion, seawater intrusion and land subsidence; and developed indicators for Groundwater Governance Index (GGI) for each case study.Groundwater models are being constructed to simulate effects of scenarios by all case studies. (Zhou).
● DEWFORA ‐ Improved Drought Early Warning and FORecasting to strengthen preparedness and adaptation to droughts in Africa; an EU FP7 research project. The project officially started in January 2011. UNESCO‐IHE's team is led by Dr S. Maskey. The main contribution of UNESCO‐IHE is in the development of a hydrological model (coupled with meteorological forecasts by ECMWF) for drought forecasting in selected river basins in Africa. (Maskey, Trambauer, Werner, Uhlenbrook, Masih)
● Blue Nile Hydrosolidarity project ‐ In Search of Sustainable Catchments and Basin‐wide Solidarities; Transboundary Water Management of the Blue Nile River Basin; funded by NWO‐WOTRO and DUPC (led by Prof P van der Zaag, IWSG department), co‐supervision of PhD students Mr Ermias Terefi and Mr Sirak Terlak and post‐doc Mr Melesse Temesgen (Uhlenbrook, Wenninger).
● SCUSA ‐ Integrated approaches and strategies to address the Sanitation Crisis in Unsewered Slum Areas in African mega‐cities (SCUSA), led by Dr. JW Foppen; collaboration with Makerere University and the Kampala City Council in Uganda; supervision of PhD student Mr Philip Nyenje and overall project management (Foppen, Uhlenbrook)
● SSI‐2‐ The Smallholder System Innovations (SSI) programme phase 2, led by Dr. Mul and Prof. P. van der Zaag, UNESCO‐IHE. The strategic alliance with the local chair holder of the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of Dar es Salaam, made in 2011, continued in 2012 in order to carry out a hydrological systems analysis of the Pangani River Basin, together with 3 MSc students from UNESCO‐IHE. (Foppen, McClain)
● ECOLIVE ‐ Ecology of Livelihoods, Nyando wetland, Kenya, funded by DUPC (led by Dr A van Dam), supervision of PhD student Mr Patrick Khiza (Wenninger, van Griensven, Uhlenbrook)
● RISKOMAN ‐ Risk‐based operational water management for the Incomati River Basin (RISKOMAN), funded by DUPC and led by Prof P. van der Zaag (MAI department); collaboration with Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique and Komati Basin Water Authority in Swaziland; co‐supervision of PhD student, Aline Saraiva Okello, (van der Zaag, Uhlenbrook, Masih)
● EXACT ‐ Small scale water treatment and artificial recharge project. Total budget: 2.3 million Euro (DUPC funded). Principal partners are the Ministry of Water and Irrigation of Jordan, the Palestinian Water Authority and the Israeli Water Authority (Nonner, Petrusevski, and Sharma). Project activities in Jordan were rounded off with a seminar held in Amman, Jordan in May 2013.
● AGLOCAP ‐ Adaptation to Global Change in Agricultural Practices, with a case study in a Himalayan River Basin in Nepal, in collaboration with Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and Department of Irrigation, Nepal. Two PhD students Dinesh Bhatt (at UNESCO‐IHE) and Anshul Agarwal (at AIT) contributing to the project as full time PhD students. Dr. Maskey serves as external member of doctoral committee of Mr. Agarwal. (Maskey, Uhlenbrook, Prasad)
● UWIRA ‐ Impact of untreated wastewater on natural water bodies: Integrated risk assessment. Institute of Environmental and Water Studies at Birzeit University (Birzeit, Palestine), Water and Environmental Studies Institute at An‐Najah National University (Nablus, Palestine) and the Palestinian Water Authority (Al‐Bireh, Palestine) (Wenninger, Venneker, Uhlenbrook; UPaRF; € 680,000).
● MaraFlows ‐ Environmental Flows for People and Ecosystems in the Mara River Basin, Kenya/Tanzania, funded by DUPC and USAID at total level of €638,338 over four years; project coordination and co‐supervision of 2 PhD students (McClain, Mul, Uhlenbrook, Irvine); partnering with University of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) and Egerton University (Kenya).
● EU‐FP7 project “AQUAREHAB”, ‘Development of rehabilitation technologies for multipressured degraded waters and the integration of their impact in river basin management’, (2009‐2013), 423000 € out of ~7 milion total project budget, main contributor for UNESCO‐IHE, project leader for U‐IHE and WP6 leader (van Griensven, van der Kwast).
● EU‐FP7 project “EnviroGRIDS”, Gridded Earth Observation System for Assessing and Predicting Black Sea Basin Sustainability and Vulnerability, (2009‐2013), 492000 € out of ~6.2 milion total project budget, initiator and main contributor for UNESCO‐IHE, initiator and contributor for U‐IHE (van Griensven, van der Kwast).
● KULTURisk: aims at developing a culture of risk prevention by means of a comprehensive demonstration of the benefits of prevention measures. (EU environmental project ‐ landslide expert and member of project coordination team; Boogard).
● EU‐FP7 project "AfroMaison", Africa at meso‐scale: Adaptive and integrated tools and strategies on natural resources management, (2011‐2014), € 278,111out of € 4,000,000 total project budget for UNESCO‐IHE (van der Kwast, van Griensven)
4.3 List of on‐going and new PhD/post‐doctoral research projects Here, we only listed the PhD researchers where the main promoter is part of the HWR Chair Group. Chair Group members contribute to the supervision of many more PhD researchers, i.e. A. van Griensven with promoter professor Mynett (River Basin Development chair group) or J.W. Foppen with promoter professor Lens (Pollution Prevention and Resource
Recovery chair group). PhD students co‐supervised by professor Uhlenbrook that are registered only at Delft University of Technology are also not listed. PhD students that graduated in 2013 are displayed in grey.
PhD fellow, country Promotor(s) Supervisor(s) Title research project Start
year Proposal accepted End year
1 D. Love, Zimbabwe and UK
S. Uhlenbrook, P. van der Zaag
R. Owen, S. Twomlow
Water and land use strategies to increase food production in the semi‐arid tropics, with particular emphasis on the potential of alluvial groundwater
2005 2005 Sept. 2013
2 C.L. Wong, Malaysia
S. Uhlenbrook R. Venneker Assessment and modelling of large‐scale hydrological variability in Peninsular Malaysia
2006 2007 2014
4 O. Munyaneza, Rwanda
S. Uhlenbrook J. Wenninger, S. Maskey, Wali
Water resources assessment and prediction in the Rwandan catchments
2008 2009 2014
5 Ermias Teferi Demessie, Ethiopia
S. Uhlenbrook Belay Simane, J. Wenninger
Past‐present‐future land use in the Blue Nile and impacts on hydrology
2008 2009 2014
6 Sirak Tekleab Gebrekristos, Ethiopia
S. Uhlenbrook, H. H.G. Savenije
Y. Mohamed, J. Wenninger
Hydrological processes and modelling in the Blue Nile river basin
2008 2009 2014
7 P. Nyenje, Uganda
S. Uhlenbrook, J.W. Foppen Hydrological Implications of improved sanitation in slum areas, Kampala, Uganda
2008 2010 2014
8 P. Khiza, Kenya S. Uhlenbrook, J. Wenninger, A. van Griensven
Hydrology of Nyando wetland, Kenya (ECOLIVE project)
2009 2010 2014
9 Yurong Hu, China
S. Uhlenbrook, S. Maskey Climate Change Impacts in the Upper Yellow River
2009 2009 2014
10 Marmar Badr Ahmed, Egypt
S. Uhlenbrook, D. Solomatine
A. Jonoski Groundwater modelling in Nile Delta
2009 2010 2015
11 H. Calderon, Nicaragua
S. Uhlenbrook Development of innovative tracer methods to observe surface water‐groundwater interactions in seasonal rivers
2009 2010 2014
12 Yang Zhi, China S. Uhlenbrook Y. Zhou J. Wenninger
Surface water‐groundwater interactions in Erdos Plateau, China
2009 2010 2014
13 A. Saraiva Okello, Mozambique
P. van der Zaag S. Uhlenbrook
I. Masih, G. Jewitt
Hydrological predictions for risk‐based operational water management for the Incomati River Basin
2010 2011 2015
14 P. Trambauer, Urugay
S. Uhlenbrook S. Maskey, M. Werner
Drought forcasting in Africa 2011 2011 2015
15 D. Bhatt, Nepal S. Uhlenbrook S. Maskey An integrated approach for adapting agriculture and water
2010 2011 2015
management to global changes ‐ with a case study of a Himalaya river basin in Nepal
16 E. Natumanya, Uganda
S. Uhlenbrook, M. McClain
M. Mul Spatial‐Temporal Dynamics of Flow Regime and Water Resources in the Mara Basin, Kenya
2010 2011 Suspended due to illness
17 Frank Masese, Kenya
M. McClain, K. Irvine
G. Gettel Spatio‐temporal Dynamics in Trophic Resources and Transfers among Food Webs in the Mara River
2010 2011 2014
18 Seleshi G. Yalew, Ethiopia
P. van der Zaag
A. van Griensven, M. Mul, J. van der Kwast
Integrated Assessment of Land Use and Water Resources Management in the Upper Blue Nile River Basin
2011 2011 2015
19 Yared Ashenafi Bayissa, Ethiopia
S. Solomatine, S. Maskey
S.J. van Andel, S. Maskey
Drought assessment and forecasting for the Upper Blue Nile Basin by assimilating remotely sensed data into a hydrological model
2011 2012 2015
20 Reem F.M.O. Digna, Sudan
P. van der Zaag, S. Uhlenbrook
Y. Mohamed, W. van der Krogt (DELTARES)
On optimising the operation of the multi‐reservoir system in the Eastern Nile basin considering water and sediment fluxes
2012 2013 2016
21 Khalid Hassaballah, Sudan
S. Uhlenbrook
Y. Mohamed Hydrology of the Dinder National Park ‐ Blue Nile subbains Rahad and Dinder
Prof. M. E. McClain Towards an understanding and application of environmental flow requirements for human welfare in East African
Rivers. EGU General Assembly 2013, 8 April, Vienna, Austria
EGU General Assembly 2013 session HS10.10/BG4.5 ‐ Environmental and anthropogenic change effects on interlinked ecohydrological systems ‐ physical constraints, ecological adaptation and societal decisions. 8 April, Vienna, Austria [co‐convener]
Flow Regime and Downstream Controls on the Aquatic Biogeochemicstry of the Mara River Basin, Kenya. HydroEco 2013, 14 May, Rennes, France [keynote presentation]
Inaugural Presentation and mini‐symposium “Ecohydrology at UNESCO‐IHE: Understanding and Working with Nature for Sustainable Water Resources Development”. 20 June, Delft, The Netherlands.
Stockholm World Water Week session Eflows: Bridging Climate, Political and Institution Borders. 5 Sept, Stockholm, Sweden [co‐convener and moderator]
La aplicación de caudales ambientales en América del Sur: ¿dónde estamos y hacia dónde vamos? 1st Congreso en EcoHidrología para América Latina y El Caribe (CELAC‐PHI 2013), 11 November, Santiago, Chile. [keynote presentation]
Prof. S. Uhlenbrook 21‐23 February, inivite lecture at Uppsala University, Sweden
20 March, invited opening presentation at SENSE A1 course for PhD students of SENSE, Appeldorn, The Netherlands
5‐8 May, presentation at New Nile Conference, Khartuom, Sudan
29‐31 May, keynote in a session of the 5th Delft Symposium on Water Sector Capacity Development : Developing Capacity from Rio to Reality, Delft, The Netherlands
24‐25 June, invited lecture at Water Horizons Conference, Berlin, Germany
2‐5 September, invited presentation at capacity building seminar at Stockholm Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden
16‐17 September, invited presentation at international flood management workshop at Swiss Re, Zurich, Zwitzerland
8‐11 October, invited presentation in the Water Governance and Capacity Building sesssion of the Budapest Water Summit, Budapest, Hungary
25 October, invited panelist at seminar on Human Right to Water and Sanitation organised by the German Embassy to UNESCO, HQ UNESCO, Paris, France
10‐12 November, keynote presentation and chair of session/panel discussion at NEXUS conference, UNU FLORES, Dresden, Germany
26‐30 November, opening keynote presentation at International Conference on Climate Change, Water Resources and Disasters in Mountainous Regions Building Resilience to Changing Climate, visit of ICIMOD, and UNESCO‐IHE alumni meeting, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. A. van Griensven ● Organisor of the second OpenWater conference, Brussels, 2013. ● Scientific committee member of the international SWAT2013 conference, Toulouse, July 2013
Session co‐organisor for EGU, Vienna, 2013.'
Vélez C., Gimeno P., Shrestha N.K., van Griensven A.; Bauwens W.; Pereira F. (2013): Surrogate models in decision support systems for water quality management. AGUA 2013 ‐ Risk Management in the Water Cycle, 15‐18 October 2013, Cali, Colombia (oral presentation).
Yalew, S., P. van der Zaag, Mul, M., Uhlenbrook, S., Teferi, E., van Griensven, A., van der Kwast, J. (2013). Coupled hydrologic and land use change models for decision making on land and water resources in the Upper Blue Nile basin, Abstract, EGU General Assembly 2013 (oral presentation).
Hoang, L., A. Mynett, A. van Griensven, 2013. Modelling water and nitrogen transport andtransformation across the landscape at river basin scale using SWAT. Proc. of 2013 IAHR, World Congress, Chengdu, China (oral presentation)
Hoang, L., A. van Griensven, A. Mynett, 2013. Modelling the effeciency of nitrate removal by denitrification in the SWAT model, 2013 International SWAT conference. Toulouse, France (oral presentation)
Mijail Arias‐Hidalgo, Biswa Bhattacharya, Arthur Mynett, and Ann van Griensven Combining rainfall data from rain gauges and TRMM in hydrological modelling of Vinces River Basin in Ecuador, Abstract, EGU General Assembly 2013 (poster presentation).
Tolessa L.O., Nossent, J., van Griensven, A. and Bauwens W. Incorporating rainfall uncertainty in a SWAT model: the river Zenne basin (Belgium) case study, Abstract, EGU General Assembly 2013 (poster presentation).
Kayastha, N. Solomatine, D. Shrestha, D. van Griensven A., Use of different sampling schemes in machine learning‐based prediction of hydrological models' uncertainty, Abstract, EGU General Assembly 2013 (poster presentation).
van der Kwast, J. REACHER: a Decision Support Tool to Evaluate Scenarios of Measures for the Reduction of Pollution fluxes, Abstract, OpenWater2013, September 17‐18, Brussels (oral presentation).
Dinkneh Teklesadik, A., van Griensven, A., Velez, C., Advanced Catalog Service for Sharing Data and Application models in a River Basin, Abstract, OpenWater2013, September 17‐18, Brussels (oral presentation).
Tolosa Leta O., A.van Griensven, W. Bauwens, The impact of considering different sources of uncertainty on a SWAT model, Abstract, OpenWater2013, September 17‐18, Brussels (oral presentation).
Shrestha, N.K. A.van Griensven, W. Bauwens, Development of a stream water temperature model as a component model for OpenMI based integrated modelling of river Zenne, Belgium ‐ Abstract, OpenWater2013, September 17‐18, Brussels (oral presentation).
Yalew, S. & van Griensven, A., (2013). The Use of Google’s Earth Engine to Assess Loss of Vegetation Cover in the Anger Valley, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia, Abstract, OpenWater2013, September 17‐18, Brussels (poster presentation).
van Griensven, A., Alemayeh, T., Nyolei. D., Kilonzo, F. , Bauwens, W. On the use of Using Remotely Senseding data observations to improve the evapotranspiration calculations of a distributed hydrological model with SWAT, International SWAT2013 conference, Toulouse, France (oral presentation)
Tolessa Leta, O., Dinkneh, A., van Griensven, A., Anibas, C., Bauwens, W., Evaluating the simulation of evapotranspiration and groundwater‐surface water interaction using the SWAT: the river Zenne basin (Belgium) case study, International SWAT2013 conference, Toulouse, France (oral presentation)
Tang, T. van Griensven, A., Adapting SWAT for the Modeling of Pesticide Transport for a Tile‐drained River Basin, International SWAT2013 conference, Toulouse, France (oral presentation)
Dr. J. van der Kwast A framework for coupling land use and hydrological modelling for management of ecosystem services. ICWRE
2013, Geneva, Switzerland, 9‐11 April [keynote presentation]
Integrating in‐situ measurements , process‐based modelling and remote sensing data for soil moisture mapping.
TOMaDD 2013, Cayenne, French Guyana, 13‐14 June [invited speaker] Land‐cover change and its influence on surface energy balances. Mini‐symposium “Ecohydrology at UNESCO‐IHE:
Understanding and Working with Nature for Sustainable Water Resources Development”, Delft, the Netherlands,
20 June A spatial decision support system for integrated natural resources management. GMES and Africa Long Term
Management of Natural Resources Workshop, Sharm el‐Sheikh Egypt, 25‐26 June 2013 Development of a Spatial Data Infrastructure for the water sector of Benin. Open Water Symposium and
Workshop, Brussels, Belgium, 16‐17 September REACHER: a decision support tool to evaluate scenarios of measures for the reduction of pollution fluxes. Open
Water symposium and Workshop, Brussels, Belgium, 16‐17 September Development of a Spatial Data Infrastructure for the water sector of Benin. Global Geospatial Conference 2013,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 4‐8 November REACHER: a decision support tool to evaluate scenarios of measures for the reduction of pollution fluxes. Second
European Symposium on Water Technologies & Management, Leuven, Belgium, 20‐21 November Dr. J. W. Foppen
Application of synthetic DNA in stream tracer injection experiments. CUASHI Web Seminar (http://cuahsi.org/SeminarDetails.aspx?id=57).
Using synthetic DNA tracers in environmental waters: effect of filtering. The 12th Geoparc Conference, Salerno, Italy, September 2013.
Hydrogeology of the watershed of the Rü d' al Plan or Ennebergerbach in the Dolomites. Town hall presentation S. Vigilio, Italy, September 2013.
Groundwater issues in the Pangani Basin. SSI‐2 final workshop presentation Nelson Mandela University, November 2013.
Development Of A Methodology For The Application Of Synthetic DNA In Stream Tracer Injection Experiments. Jan Willem Foppen and Thom Bogaard. AGU Fall Meeting 9‐13 December, San Fransisco, USA.
Dr. Shreedhar Maskey
Climate change impacts and adaptation research in the (melting) Himalayan region. Nagoya University GCOE Seminar, 7 Aug 2013. Nagoya, Japan.
Drought modelling and forecasting in Africa – With a focus on hydrological drought. 41st GCOE‐ARS Seminar, 23 Aug 2013, Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Japan. [invited lecture]
Climate change and the melting Himalayas – Impacts and adaptation. Kyoto University GSS Seminar, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, 26 Aug 2013, Japan. [invited lecture].
Modelling hydrological droughts in (semi‐)arid basins. EWRA conference 2013, 26‐29 June, Porto, Portugal. Challenges of hydrological modeling for climate change studies in the Koshi river basin in Nepal. International
Conference 2013, 27‐29 Nov, Kathmandu, Nepal. [also chaired a session]. Dr. J. Wenninger
Khisa, P., Wenninger, J., Van Griensven, A. Uhlenbrook, S. 2013, Ecohydrological functioning of Nyando Wetland
in a changing catchment and climate context, Ecolive Final project dissemination seminar, 15‐17 May 2013,
Kisumu, Kenya. Dr. Y. Zhou
Groundwater‐surface water interactions and vegetation dependency in the Hailiutu River Catchment of China, presented to 40th International Conference of IAH in Perth, Autralia, in September 19, 2013
4.5 Research outputs
1. PhD theses
Linh Hoang, The effect of riparion zones on nitrate removal by denitrifocation at the river basin scale, UNESCO‐IHE, Delft, December 4, 2013 (promoters A. Mynett and A. van Griensven).
Girma Yimer Ebrahim, Modelling and management of groundwater systems, UNESCO‐IHE, Delft, December 4, 2013 (promoters A. Mynett/A. Jonoski, co‐supervisor A. van Griensven).
Shenlan Lu, Drainage basin modelling on phosphorus transport through the upland to the receiving water, Aarhus University, Denmark, December 12, 2013 (promoters: H. Estrup, R. Srinivasan and A. van Griensven).
Love, D., 2013. Water resources strategies to increase food production in the semi‐arid tropics with a special emphasis on the potential of alluvial groundwater. Successfully defended on 12 September 2013, TU Delft & UNESCO‐IHE (promoters: S. Uhlenbrook and P. Van der Zaag).
2. Academic publications 2.a1 In refereed journals (A – category)
Arias‐Hidalgo, M., Bhattacharya, B., Mynett, A. E., and van Griensven, A.(2013), Experiences in using the TRMM
data to complement rain gauge data in the Ecuadorian coastal foothills, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 17, 2905–2915.
Ebrahim, G. Y., Hamonts, K., van Griensven A., Jonoski A., Winnie Dejonghe, W. and Mynett, A. (2013).
Numerical simulation of groundwater‐surface exchanges using temperature in a heavily modified river,
Hydrological Processes, 27(11), 1634‐1645.
Essa, W., van der Kwast, J., Verbeiren, B., Batelaan, O. 2013. Downscaling of thermal images over urban areas
using the land surface temperature‐impervious percentage relationship. International Journal of Applied Earth
Observation and Geoinformation, 23, 95‐108.
Foppen, J.W., Seopa, J., Bakobie, N., Bogaard, T.Development of a methodology for the application of synthetic
DNA in stream tracer injection experiments (2013) Water Resources Research, 49 (9), pp. 5369‐5380.
Hu Y, Maskey S and Uhlenbrook S (2013). Expected changes in future temperature extremes and their elevation
dependency over the Yellow River source region. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. (HESS), 17, 2501‐2514.
Lutterodt, G., Foppen, J.W.A., Uhlenbrook, S. Escherichia coli strains harvested from springs in Kampala, Uganda:
Cell characterization and transport in saturated porous media (2013) Hydrological Processes 28:1973‐1988.
Lv, J., Wang,X., Zhou, Y., Qian,K., Wan,L., Eamus, D., Tao, Z., 2013, Groundwater‐dependent distribution of
vegetation in Hailiutu River catchment, a semi‐arid region in China. Ecohydrology, 6, 142–149.
DOI:10.1002/eco.1254
Minaya, V., McClain, M.E., Moog, O., Omengo, F., Singer, G.A. 2013. Scale‐dependent effects of rural activities on
benthic macroinvertebrates and physico‐chemical characteristics in headwater streams of the Mara River, Kenya.
Ecological Indicators, 32(0), 116‐122.
Nyenje, P.M., Foppen, J.W., Kulabako, R., Muwanga, A., Uhlenbrook, S. Nutrient pollution in shallow aquifers
underlying pit latrines and domestic solid waste dumps in urban slums (2013) Journal of Environmental
Management, 122, pp. 15‐24.
Ranasinghe, R., Duong, T.M. Uhlenbrook, S., Roelvink, D., Stive, M., 2013: Climate‐change impact assessment for
Groundwater–surface water interactions, vegetation dependencies and implications for water resources
management in the semi‐arid Hailiutu River catchment, China – a synthesis. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 2435–
2447, 2013. doi:10.5194/hess‐17‐2435‐2013
2.a2 In refereed journals (B – category)
Chung, J.W., Foppen, J.W., Lens, P.N.L. Development of Low Cost Two‐Step Reverse Transcription‐Quantitative
Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays for Rotavirus Detection in Foul Surface Water Drains (2013) Food and
Environmental Virology, 5 (2), pp. 126‐133. Ebrahim, G.Y. , Jonoski, A. van Griensven, A. Di Baldassarre G. (2013), Application of downscaling techniques to
evaluate climate impacts: application to the Upper Beles River Basin, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia. Hydrology
Research, 44(2), 377‐398. Ehret, U., Gupta, H. V., Sivapalan, M., Weijs, S. V., Schymanski, S. J., Blöschl, G., Gelfan, A. N., Harman, C., Kleidon,
A., Bogaard, T. A., Wang, D., Wagener, T., Scherer, U., Zehe, E., Bierkens, M. F. P., Di Baldassarre, G., Parajka, J.,
van Beek, L. P. H., van Griensven, A., Westhoff, M. C., and Winsemius, H. C.: Advancing catchment hydrology to
deal with predictions under change, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 10, 8581‐8634, doi:10.5194/hessd‐10‐8581‐
2013, 2013. Elshamy, M., Di Baldassarre, G., van Griensven, A. (2013). Characterizing climate model uncertainty using an
informal Bayesian GLUE framework: An Application to the River Nile, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 18(5),
582‐589. Hu Y, Maskey S and Uhlenbrook S (2013). Downscaling daily precipitation over the Yellow River source region in
China: A comparison of three statistical downscaling methods. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 112:447‐460. Katukiza, A.Y., Ronteltap, M., van der Steen, P., Foppen, J.W.A., Lens, P.N.L. Quantification of microbial risks to
human health caused by waterborne viruses and bacteria in an urban slum (2013) Journal of Applied
waterborne viruses in a slum environment in Kampala, Uganda (2013) Journal of Water and Health, 11 (2), pp.
358‐370. Jin, X., Guo, R.H. , Zhang, Q., Zhou, Y., Zhang, D., Yang, Z., 2013, Response of vegetation pattern to different
landform and watertable depth in Hailiutu River basin, Northwestern China, Environmental Earth Sciences, DOI
10.1007/s12665‐013‐2882‐1 McClain, M.E. 2013. Balancing Water Resources Development and Environmental Sustainability in Africa: A
Review of Recent Research Findings and Applications. Ambio, 42, 549–565. McClain, M.E., PJ DuBowy, M Zalewski. 2013. Ecohydrology for harmonization of societal needs with the
biosphere potential Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology 13: 3‐5. Santos, F. D., Stigter, T. Y., Faysse, N., Lourenço, T. C. 2013. Impacts and adaptation to climate change in the
Mediterranean coastal areas: the CIRCLE‐MED initiative. Regional Environmental Change, 1‐3.
Shrestha N.K.; Leta O.T.; De Fraine B.; Garcia‐Armisen T., Ouattara, N.K., Servais, P., van Griensven A.; Bauwens
W. Modelling Escherichia coli dynamics in the river Zenne (Belgium) Hydroinformatics, doi:
10.2166/hydro.2013.171 Trambauer P, Maskey S, Minsemius H, Werner M and Uhlenbrook S (2013). A review of continental scale
hydrological models and their suitability for drought forecasting in (sub‐Saharan) Africa. Physics and Chemistry of
Trambauer P, Dutra E, Maskey S, Werner M, Pappenberger F, van Beek LPH, and Uhlenbrook U (2013). Comparison of different evaporation estimates over the African continent. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 10, 8421–8465, doi.: 10.5194/hessd‐10‐8421‐2013. [accepted for HESS]
Khisa, P., Uhlenbrook, S., Van Dam, A., Wenninger, J., Van Griensven, A., Abira, M., 2013, Ecohydrological characterization of the Nyando wetland, Lake Victoria, Kenya: A State of System (SoS) analysis, African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 7(6), pp. 417‐434, DOI: 10.5897/AJEST2013.1426
Zhou, Y., Dong, D., Liu, J., Li, W., 2013, Upgrading a regional groundwater level monitoring network for Beijing Plain, China. Geoscience Frontiers 4, 127‐138. Doi.10.1016/j.gsf.2012.03.008
2.a4 Guest editorships special issues refereed scientific journals
Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 1‐96 (2013). Ecohydrology for harmonization of societal needs with the biosphere potential. Edited by M. E. McClain and P. J. DuBowy
Guest editor for special issue on Special issue in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth on “Hydrology, land‐use and climate in the Nile Basin: recent modelling experiences”, published 2013. Edited by A. van Griensven, G. Di Baldassarre and Y. Mohamed.
Seibert, J, Uhlenbrook, S., Wagener, T., 2013: Hydrology education in a changing world. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 1393–1399, doi:10.5194/hess‐17‐1393‐2013.
2b In other journals
J.C. Nonner, G di Napoli, V. Lagendijk, J. Heijkers (2013) Upscaling and downscaling of the Holocene covering layer in groundwater models, Stromingen (in Dutch), Dutch Hydrological Society
2.c1 Book chapters in refereed books (A – category)
McClain, M. E. and A. L. Subalusky (2013) Surface flows for people and wildlife in the transboundary Mara River Basin, pp. 67‐82 in P. Paron, D. O. Olago, and C. T. Omuto (eds.) Kenya: A Natural Outlook. Environmental Resources, Hazards, and their Management, Elsevier.
2.c2 Book chapters in refereed books (B – category)
None
2.c3. Book chapters in refereed books (C – category)
Foppen, J.W., and G.B. Engelen. Hydrogeology of the watershed of the Rü d' al Plan or Ennebergerbach in the Dolomites.
2.d1 Monographs
● None
2.d2 Editorships scientific books
None
2.e Proceedings (full papers only)
Bovolin V., Cuomo A., Guida D., and Foppen J.W., 2014. Monitoring activity at the Bussento river (Italy) karst
system. XII IAEG Conference Turin, September 2014.
Foppen, J.W., and T. A. Bogaard. Using synthetic DNA tracers in environmental waters: effect of filtering. 12th
Geoparc Conference (Salerno, September 2013).
Gonzalez Angarita, A., McClain, M., Londoño, A., Ocampo, M.F., 2013 Dinámica del Caudal y Calidad del Agua en
El Río Chinchiná (Caldas, Colombia). Transactions of AGUA 2013: El Riesgo en la Gestión del Agua.
Maskey S and Trambauer P (2013). Modelling hydrological droughts in (semi‐)arid basins. Procs. 8th Int. Conf.,
European Water Resources Association, 26‐29 June 2013, Porto, Portugal.
Mussá FEF, Zhou Y, Maskey S, Masih I and Uhlenbrook S (2013). Trend analysis on dry extremes of precipitation
and discharge in the Crocodile River catchment, Incomati basin. Procs. 14th WaterNet/ WARFSA/GWP‐SA
symposium, 30 Oct‐1 Nov 2013, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Sijapati S, Maskey S, Timilsina U, Ezee GC, Acharya S, Timilsina B and Lasiwa P (2013). Diverse scenarios of impact
and adaptation of global changes on water resources and agricultural practices. Procs. (on CD) 1st World
Irrigation Forum, 29 Sep – 5 Oct, Mardin, Turkey.
Trambauer P, Werner M and Maskey S (2013). Seasonal hydrological forecasting for drought early warning in the
Limpopo River basin. Procs. 14th WaterNet/ WARFSA/GWP‐SA symposium, 30 Oct‐1 Nov 2013, Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania.
Vélez C., Gimeno P., Shrestha N.K., van Griensven A.; Bauwens W.; Pereira F. (2013): Surrogate models in decision
support systems for water quality management. AGUA 2013 ‐ Risk Management in the Water Cycle, 15‐18
October 2013, Cali, Colombia.
Wang L, van Gelder PHAJM, Vrijling JK, Ranasinghe R and Maskey S (2013). Coping with uncertainties in climate
change adaptation of river dikes using risk‐aversion of economic optimization. Procs. 8th Int. Conf., European
Water Resources Association, 26‐29 June 2013, Porto, Portugal.
2.f Scientific reports ordered by an external contractor
None
3. Professional publications and products (incl. IP)
None
4. Publications for the general public (optional)
DNA down the drain. Article in Delta, the magazine of the Technical University Delft (http://delta.tudelft.nl/article/dna‐down‐the‐drain/27328).
5. Other results of scientific esteem and acknowledgement
Inaugural Address of Prof. Michael McClain: “Applying Ecohydrology to Enhance Water Resource Development and Management”, 20 June 2013 at UNESCO‐IHE in Delft.
6. Unpublished conference papers
None
5 Education
5.1 Modules of the Master programmes and specialisations coordinated by the Chair Group
Programme Name of module Date offered Name of coordinator
WSE All modules (# 1‐15) All year. Dr. J. Wenninger
5.2 Regular modules in which Chair Group staff members have lectured in 2013
Programme Name module Name of lecturer
Topic
WSE All HWR modules (# 1‐15) All staff
members
See Handbook at MOODLE
WSE SWAT Summer Course, #13 S. Maskey Hydrological processes in SWAT
WRM The Water Resources Assessment, # 5
J. Nonner Groundwater resources assessment
ES‐WM‐MWI The Water Resources System, # 2
J. Nonner Groundwater resources (T. Stigter has taken over this course)
ES Int'l fieltrip and Fieldwork, #9
R. Venneker Hydrological practices
WSE/ES Water Quality Assessment J.W. Foppen Groundwater Quality
WSE/ES Environmental Monitoring and Modelling
J.W. Foppen Groundwater Quality Monitoring
ES Climate Change in Integrated Water Management, #11
R. Venneker, J. Wenninger
Tools for water resources planning under scenarios of change
ES Introduction Environmental Science, #2
J. Wenninger Introduction to Hydrology
UWS Hydrology, Water Supply and Water Demand Management and GIS, #2
J. Wenninger Introduction to Hydrology
UWS Integrated Urban Water Management, Demography, Public Health
J. van der Kwast
Introduction to GIS
ES Water Quality Assessment, #5
J. van der Kwast
Water Quality Modelling
UWS Integrated Urban Water Management, Demography, Public Health
J. van der Kwast
Introduction to Hydrology
ES Introduction to Environmental Science, #1
T. Y. Stigter Groundwater Hydrology
UWS Hydrology, Water supply and water demand management and GIS, #1
T. Y. Stigter Groundwater Hydrology
WM The water resources system, #2
T. Y. Stigter Groundwater Hydrology
WSE Summer course, #13 J. Wenninger, A. van Greinsven
Nitrogen management in river basin context
5.3 MSc theses finalised during 2013
Programme Name student Title thesis Supervisor/Mentor(s)
WSE‐HWR Pawan Bhattarai Improving Hydrological Process Modelling of The Koshi River Basin in Nepal
S. Uhlenbrook/S. Maskey
WSE‐HWR Raman Maharjan Coupling Hydrological Model with Delft‐FEWS for Flood Forecasting in Bagmati Basin, Nepal
S. Uhlenbrook/S. Maskey, M. Werner
WSE‐HWR Russelle G. Pandaraoan
GIS based hydrological flood modelling (WetSpa) under data scarcity: A case study in Binahaan catchment, Province of Leyte, Philipines
S. Uhlenbrook / J. van der Kwast
WSE‐HWR Shaza O.I. Gameel Nile water resources assessment in Sudan M. McClain /
R. Venneker
WSE‐HWR Nancy Koech Surface water resources and water demand assessment in the Nyando catchment, Kenya
M. McClain /J. Wenninger, S. Maskey
WSE‐HWR Fatima E.F. Mussa Groundwater as an emergency source for mitigating impacts of drought hazards in the Incomati river basin ‐ Case study of the Crocodile river catchment
S. Uhlenbrook/Y. Zhou, S. Maskey, I. Masih
WSE‐HWR Sakhile A. Ndlovu Hydropower reservoir optimisation for facilitating decision making for environmental flows allocation in the Zambezi basin
A. Mynett /
M. Werner
WSE‐HWR Mwasiti A. Rashid Water balance of the Kahe groundwater basin in the Pangani river basin, Tanzania
M. McClain /J.W. Foppen
WSE‐HWR Mesenbet Y. Sebhat Water balance of the Juba and Shabelle rivers in Ethiopia‐Somalia
M. McClain /J. Wenninger
Erasmus Mundus Ecohydrology
Stevo Lavrnić Nutrient Accumulation and Removal in Two Novel Constructed Wetlands (CW): Duplex‐CW and Roof‐CW
M. McClain / J. J. van Bruggen M. Zapater Pereyra
Erasmus Mundus Ecohydrology
Kyle Boodoo An investigation of the impact of various environmental flow allocations on the flow regime and hydropower operations along the Rio Chinchiná (Caldas, Colombia)
M. McClain
Erasmus Mundus Ecohydrology
Juan Enrique Galecio Valdes
Hydrodynamic and ecohydrological modelling In a tropical wetland: the Abras de Mantequilla Case study, Ecuador
A. Mynett / A. van Griensven G. Alvarez
5.4 Other educational activities (specify type: short courses, tailor made courses, refresher seminars,
online courses, and invited lectures)
Type Name of course / topic Lecturer
3 week short course offered at UNESCO‐IHE River Restoration and M. E. McClain
Rehabilitation.
10‐day short course in Praia, Cape Verde, in cooperation with UNESCO Cat II Centre HidroEx
Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring
M. E. McClain
9‐day short course in Maputo, Mozambique, in cooperation with UNESCO Cat II Centre HidroEx
Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring
M. E. McClain
T. Y. Stigter
5‐day short course in Santa Fe, Argentina, in cooperation with UNESCO Cat II Centre HidroEx
Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring
M. E. McClain
T. Y. Stigter
5‐day short course in Manila, Philippines for IWAVE project in cooperation with IAEA, and local Philippine parties
Introduction to Hydrogeology with emphasis on recharge
J.W. Foppen
J. Nonner
5‐day refresher seminar in Kampala, Uganda. Nuffic funded, in cooperation with Makerere UNiversity
Integrated water and sanitation management in urban slums and the surrounding environment
J.W. Foppen,
various
1‐day lecture at Delft Technical University, Master Program, CIE4440
Hydrological Processes and measurements, Tracers, 2013‐10‐17
J.Wenninger
5‐day short course in Butare, Rwanda, within RIWSP project
Water Resourses Planning R. Venneker,
J. Wenninger
5‐day short course in Manila, Philippines, within IAEA IWAVE project
Water Resourses Assessment J. Wenninger,
R. Venneker
5‐day short course offered under DEWFORA project in Zaragoza, Spain
Advanced course on Drought forecasting and its use in informed decision making
S. Maskey, M. Werner, I. Masih, P. Trambauer
5‐day course in Dresden for Erasmus Mundus Flood Risk Management (HI‐FRM)
Introduction to GIS J. van der Kwast
6 Advisory / Capacity Building 6.1.1 Advisory projects (indicate partners, budget and funding source)
● Integrated Water Resources Management in the Aral Sea Basin (IWRM‐ASB) project in collaboration with Scientific Information Centre of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of the Aral Sea Basin (SIC‐ICWC), Tashkent (de Schutter, Maskey, Prasad). Dr. Maskey is contributing as key advisor in developing an integrated Aral Sea Basin management model under the project.
● Support to the establishment of the HidroEX International Centre for Education, Capacity Building, and Applied Research in Water (Funds: 693,000 Euro) (McClain)
● Support to the Rwanda Integrated Water Security Program (RIWSP) Component on Strengthening National Hydrologic Data and Information Systems for IWRM (with Global Water for Sustainability Program, ICIWaRM, Winrock International, World Vision International and CARE International;funding USAID) (Venneker, Wenninger).
● Contributions to the NPT project in Rwanda to set up the WREM MSc programme at the National University of Rwanda (Uhlenbrook, Maskey, Wenninger)
● Identifying ground water in the Chandragiri Buried Valley, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, as part of the Bagmati River
Project funded by ADB (Budget: USD 200,000) (Foppen)∙ ● Satellite‐based water monitoring and flow forecasting system in the Niger River Basin, Development phase (with
Niger Basin Authority and EARS Environmental Monitoring; funding ORIO) (Venneker, Maskey, Wenninger) ● Prof. Uhlenbrook was member of an external review committee assessing the research programme of the
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) together with Dr. Claudia Sadoff (World Bank, lead economist
SE Asia, committee leader) and prof. Dorota Haman (Univ. of Florida, USA) (duration Sept 2012 ‐ April 2013) 6.2 Capacity building projects (indicating partners, budget and funding source)
● IWAVE‐IAEA groundwater availability enhancement project for Omani Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Management. The project includes (1) characterisation of aquifers; (2) groundwater monitoring; and (3) groundwater modelling [Zhou and Jonoski]
● IWAVE‐IAEA, Water Availability Enhancement Project, Training and support programme in the Philippines (Venneker, Wenninger)
● Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resources Management in South Africa; NICHE/ZAF/016 and 062; UNESCO‐IHE, ITC, IRC, Pegasys, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), University of the Western Cape (UWC), Wageningen University. (Funds: 1,500,000 Euro, NICHE), (Wenninger)
● Capacity Development of Higher Education on Integrated Water Resources Management at CUET; NICHE/BGD/081; UNESCO‐IHE, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET), Bangladesh. (Wenninger)
● Establishment of a water institute to deal more effectively with water and sanitation problems; NICHE/BEN/167; VHL, WUR, Deltares, TUDelft, UNESCO‐IHE. (Funds: 2,800,000 Euro, NICHE [van der Kwast and de Schutter]
7 Miscellaneous
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Annexes: Annual reports of the PhD student
Name Dinesh Bhatt Country Nepal
Address in The Netherlands UNESCO‐IHE, Delft
Address abroad Department of Irrigation, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
MSc degree
Year 2009
Discipline Water Resources Engineering
University or institute Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering
Promotor(s) Prof. Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook
Supervisor(s)
Dr. Shreedhar Maskey (main supervisor)
Sponsor(s)
UpaRF Cat II Dr. Krishna C. Prasad
Dr. Luna Bharati (IWMI, Nepal)
Mr. Suman Sijapati (DOI, Nepal)
Starting date PhD April 2010 Expected date PhD defense (mm/yy) 12/2014
Give title of thesis (provisional is ok) An integrated approach for adapting agriculture and water management to global changes with a case study of a Himalayan River Basin in Nepal
If you expect your PhD study is expected to take longer than 4 years, please briefly describe why: 7 months sick leave in 2012/13.
If PhD research proposal was accepted by Academic Board, give date (mm/yy) 12/2011
Overview of locations of study and time allocation (in months)
UNESCO‐IHE, Delft 24
Department of Irrigation (DOI), Nepal 24
Number of publications in internationally refereed journals (accepted/ submitted) 1 accepted
Number of publications for conferences or seminars (accepted / submitted) 3
Number of other publications (reports, lectures notes, books, book chapter etc.) 1 (accepted)
Give an overview of papers, presentations, lectures, etc. produced in 2013 1. Bhatt. D., Maskey, S., Babel, M.S., Uhlenbrook, S., Prasad, K. (2013) Climate trends and impacts on crop
production in the Koshi river basin of Nepal. Regional Environmental Change (accepted). 2. Maskey, S., Bhatt, D., Uhlenbrook, S., Prasad, K., Babel, M.S., 2013. Adaptation to climate change impacts on
agriculture and agricultural water management ‐ a review. In: Smakhtin, V., Johnston, R., Hoanh, C.T., (eds.) Climate Change and Agricultural Water Management (accepted).
3. Bhatt, D., Maskey, S., Uhlenbrook, S., Babel, M.S., Prasad, K.C. (2013) Impact of climate trends on crop production and potential adaptation options in a Himalayan river basin of Nepal. International Conference on Climate Change, Water Resources and Disasters in Mountainous Regions: Building Resilience to Changing Climate. 27‐29 November, 2013, Kathmandu Nepal.
4. Maskey, S., Bhatt, D., Bhattarai, P., Agarwal, A., Uhlenbrook, S. (2013) Challenges of hydrological modeling for climate change studies in the Koshi River basin in Nepal. International Conference on Climate Change, Water Resources and Disasters in Mountainous Regions: Building Resilience to Changing Climate. 27‐29 November, 2013, Kathmandu Nepal.
5. MSc. Thesis co‐supervision – Institute of Engineering, Tribhuwan University, Nepal
Give an overview of planned papers, presentations, lectures, etc. planned for 2014 1. Submit paper: Assessment of possible adaptation measures in agriculture using SWAT (crop modelling). 2. Submit paper : Hydrological assessment of Koshi river basin using SWAT model (Joint paper) 3. Thesis writing
Date of submission: 12/13/2013 Did Promotor agree to this annual report? Yes/No
Name Marmar Badr Mohamed Ahmed Country Egypt
Address in The Netherlands UNESCO‐IHE, Department of Water Engineering, PO Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, The Netherlands.
Address abroad 10 El Nadi El gaded street, New Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
MSc degree
Year 2007
Discipline Civil engineering
University or institute
Tanta University
Promotor(s)
Prof. Stefan Uhlenbrook Prof. Dimitri Solomatine
Supervisor(s) Dr.Andreja Jonoski
Starting date PhD Dec.2009 Expected date PhD defense (mm/yy)
Dec.2014
Give (provisional) title of thesis The climate change and development impacts on the groundwater resources in the Nile Delta, Egypt.
Give brief explanation if PhD study is expected to take longer than 4 years The research plan is very ambitious and is covering the whole Nile Delta, However, the researcher is going to work as hard as she can to cover the needed tasks in the proposed time frame.
If PhD research proposal was accepted by Academic Board, give date (mm/yy) 25‐Feb.2011
Overview of locations of study and time allocation (in months)
UNESCO‐IHE, Delft 6 Month/yr
Egypt 6 month/yr
Number of publications in internationally refereed journals (accepted/ submitted) 1
Number of publications for conferences or seminars (accepted / submitted) ‐‐‐‐
Number of other publications (reports, lectures notes, books, etc.) ‐‐‐‐‐
Give an overview of deliverables produced in 2013 (Papers, presentations, lectures, etc.) ‐ A review paper has been submitted to HESS Title: A Review of Seawater Intrusion in the Nile Delta Groundwater System ‐ The basis for Assessing Impacts due to Climate Changes and Water Resources Development. ‐ A second paper is under internal review with mentor Title: Delineating the seawater/freshwater interface in Nile Delta using 3D modeling. ‐ I Have granted full approvel for sense 2 with 3 ects. ‐ I have developed a regional 3D groundwater model covering the whole Nile Delta. I have calibrated the model. ‐ I have been participating in a project within the MoU between the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment of the Government of the Netherlands and UNESCO‐IHE Institute for water education. Title: Comparative modeling study of salt water intrusion in the Nile Delta aquifer for assessing impacts from sea level rise due to climate change and development induced increases in groundwater abstractions Several presentations and meetings with core group. ‐ Presentation in a conference entitled: climate change into regional coastal protection and environmental management, in Egypt to give an overview of my research which was held from 26 to 29 of Sept 2013. ‐ I have attended a seminar about groundwater management in Nile Delta in the Groundwater Research Center in Egypt in March.2013.
Give an overview of deliverables to be produced in 2012 (Papers, presentations, lectures, etc.) ‐ A paper entitled: Delineating the seawater/freshwater interface in Nile Delta using 3D modeling ‐ A paper entitled: Climate change and development Scenarios for seawater intrusion in Nile Delta, Egypt ‐ A paper entitled: adaptation options in Nile Delta It is proposed to finish my Ph.D. thesis by the end of December 2014
Date of submission: 18‐12‐2014 Did Promotor agree to this annual report? Yes/No
Name Frank O. Masese Country Kenya
Address in the Netherlands UNESCO‐IHE, P.O. Box 3015 2601 DA Delft, Department of WS&E, The Netherlands
Address abroad Moi University, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, P.O Box 1125, Eldoret, Kenya
MSc degree
Year 2008
Discipline Aquatic Science and Fisheries Management
University or institute Moi University
Promotor(s) Prof. Kenneth Irvine Prof. Michael McClain
Supervisor(s)
Dr. Gretchen Grettel
Sponsor(s) MaraFlows Project
Starting date PhD May 2010 Expected date PhD defense (mm/yy) June 2014
Give title of thesis (provisional is ok) Dynamics in trophic sources and transfers among food webs in the Mara River, Lake Victoria basin
If you expect your PhD study is expected, to take longer than 4 years, please briefly describe why: The study is expected to take 4 years
If PhD research proposal was accepted by Academic Board, give date (mm/yy) October 2011
Overview of locations of study and time allocation (in months)
The study is being conducted in the Mara River basin that is transboundary between Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa. The study is investigating the different sources of organic matter to the river, how this varies spatio‐temporally and the linkages in energy flow among food webs in the river. Influences of flow variation on basal energy resources in the river will also be investigated. The Mara River offers a good set up for this study because of its land use influences, notably; mixed small‐scale agriculture in the upper reaches, forestry and large‐scale farming in the upper‐middle reaches, protected areas (the Mara Game Reserve and the Serengeti National Park) in the middle catchment and the expansive Mara Swamp in the lower reaches.
The study will take 30 months (2½ years) of field activities and experiments in Kenya. Visits to Delft will be made for about 3 months in the second and third years of the programme to analyse samples, discuss results and progress with supervisors and attend additional course work and/or seminars.
Number of publications in internationally refereed journals (accepted/ submitted) 2/1
Number of publications for conferences / seminars (presented) 4/3
Name Aline Maraci Lopes Saraiva Okello Country Mozambique
Address in The Netherlands NA
Address abroad PO Box 10721, Meerensee 3901, Richards Bay, South Africa
MSc degree
Year 2008‐2010
Discipline Hydrology and Water Resources
University or institute UNESCO‐IHE
Promotor(s) Prof.S. Uhlenbrook Prof. P. Van der Zaag
Supervisor(s)
Prof.S. Uhlenbrook
Sponsor(s)
UPaRF Prof. P. Van der Zaag
NFP Prof. G. Jewitt
WRC Dr. Ilyas Masih
Starting date PhD 01.Sep.2010 Expected date PhD defense (mm/yy) Jun/15
Give title of thesis (provisional is ok) Bridging the gaps between Hydrology, Land use and Water Management using Tracers and Water Resources Modeling in the Incomati Basin
If you expect your PhD study is expected to take longer than 4 years, please briefly describe why: Because of maternity leave and working part‐time.
If PhD research proposal was accepted by Academic Board, give date (mm/yy) 12/11
Overview of locations of study and time allocation (in months)
UNESCO‐IHE, Delft 4
CWRR, UKZN, South Africa 6
Field work in Nelspruit area in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique 2
Number of publications in internationally refereed journals (accepted/ submitted) NA
Number of publications for conferences or seminars (accepted / submitted) 5
Number of other publications (reports, lectures notes, books, etc.) NA
Give an overview of papers, presentations, lectures, etc. produced in 2013 ‐ Presentation at Global Water Systems Project International Conference on Water in the Anthropocene, 21‐24 May 2013, Bonn, Germany ‐ Presentation at Work Conference WGS‐ICMA on Remote Sensing Cooperation 25‐28 February 2013, Nelspruit, South Africa ‐ Awarded L'Oreal‐Unesco "For Women in Science" Subsaharan Africa fellowship, 15000 Euros ‐ Received the IFS Grant, 10987 USD. It was channeled through UKZN, to fieldwork activities
Give an overview of planned papers, presentations, lectures, etc. planned for 2014 ‐ Paper on hydro‐climatic variability of Incomati using IHA approach ‐ Paper on runoff generation processes on Incomati River Basin, abstract accepted to HSJ Special Issue ‐ Paper on water quality of Incomati ‐ Paper on hydrologic modeling of Incomati
Date of submission: 6 December 2013 Did Promotor agree to this annual report? Yes/No
Appendix List of agreed compulsory courses/modules, including the assessment if completed Introductory SENSE Course “Environmental research in context” (Apeldoorn, The Netherlands)
3‐5 September 2012 Credits: 2 ECTS
Organization of PhD seminar at IHE 1‐3 September 2012 Credits: 2 ECTS
Rapperteaur of Incomati Basin Science Symposium Special Session (4 November 2012) of the International Conference on Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development 5‐7 November 2012 Credits: ? ECTS
Python and Land surface modeling with PC‐Raster, May 2013
List of publications in international refereed journals (planned for 2014) ‐ Paper on hydro‐climatic variability of Incomati using IHA approach ‐ Paper on runoff generation processes on Incomati River Basin, abstract accepted to HSJ Special Issue ‐ Paper on water quality of Incomati ‐ Paper on hydrologic modeling of Incomati List of papers for conferences and seminars Global change issues in the Incomati Basin, Presentation at Global Water Systems Project International Conference on Water in the Anthropocene, 21‐24 May 2013, Bonn, Germany List of MSc thesis supervised/part supervised MSc Vivian Camacho Suarez ‐ co‐supervision MSc Robert Sunday ‐ Examination committee and partial support on fieldwork activities MSc Fatima Mussa ‐ partial support on fieldwork activities
Name Patricia Trambauer Country Uruguay
Address in The Netherlands Westplantsoen 74, 2613GN, Delft
Address abroad San Carlos de Bolivar 6415, 11500, Montevideo, Uruguay
MSc degree
Year 2008/2010
Discipline Hydrology and Water Resources
University or institute UNESCO‐IHE
Promotor(s) Stefan Uhlenbrook
Supervisor(s)
Shreedhar Maskey (main supervisor)
Sponsor(s) DEWFORA (EU, FP7) Micha Werner
Starting date PhD February 2011 Expected date PhD defense (mm/yy) Feb 2015
Give title of thesis (provisional is ok) Hydrological drought forecasting in Africa at different spatial and temporal scales
If you expect your PhD study is expected to take longer than 4 years, please briefly describe why:
If PhD research proposal was accepted by Academic Board, give date (mm/yy) Jan 2012
Overview of locations of study and time allocation (in months)
UNESCO‐IHE, Delft Fulltime
Number of publications in internationally refereed journals (accepted/ submitted) 1 published 1 in press
Number of publications for conferences or seminars (accepted / submitted) 3 accepted
Number of other publications (reports, lectures notes, books, etc.) 4 project reports
Give an overview of papers, presentations, lectures, etc. produced in 2013 Journal papers: Trambauer P, Maskey S, van Beek L.P.H., Werner M., Pappenberger F, Uhlenbrook S. Hydrological modelling and
identification of historic hydrological droughts in the Limpopo river basin. In preparation, to be submitted to HESS, special issue: DEWFORA in December 2013
Trambauer P, Dutra E, Maskey S, Werner M, Pappenberger F, van Beek L.P.H. and Uhlenbrook S. (in press) Comparison of different evaporation estimates over the African continent. Hydrol Earth Syst Sci.
Trambauer P, Maskey S, Winsemius H., Werner M, and Uhlenbrook S. (2013) A review of continental scale hydrological models and their suitability for drought forecasting in (sub‐Saharan) Africa, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2013.07.003.
Oral presentations: Trambauer P, Werner M, Maskey S. Seasonal hydrological forecasting for drought early warning in the Limpopo river
basin. 14th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP‐SA Symposium, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, October 2013. Trambauer P. Seasonal hydrological forecasting for early warning in the Limpopo River Basin Bousinesq PhD event
2013. Bousinesq center Amsterdam, October 2013. Trambauer P, Maskey S, Werner M. A comparison of different continental actual evaporation estimates for Africa to
improve hydrological drought forecasting from modelled indicators. Conference EGU. Vienna, Austria, April 2013.
Project reports: Deliverable 4.9 of DEWFORA Project: Guidelines for downscaling and refinement of continental hydrological models
to regional scale, December 2013. Deliverable 4.8 of DEWFORA Project: Skill of developed regional hydrological models to forecast hydrological
drought, June 2013. Lectures: Lecturer in "Advanced Course: Drought forecasting and its use in informed decision making". Zaragoza, Spain, 23‐27
September 2013 including preparation of material for the online course.
Give an overview of planned papers, presentations, lectures, etc. planned for 2014
Journal Papers:
Trambauer et al.: Hydrological drought forecasting and skill assessment for the Limpopo river basin Trambauer et al.: Downscaling of continental hydrological model to regional scale (working title)
Date of submission: 09/12/2013 Did Promotor agree to this annual report? Yes/No
Name Yang Zhi Country China
Address in The Netherlands Poptahof Noord, 394, 2624 Delft, The Netherlands
Address abroad 14#601 Xinxinjiayuan, No 355 Xinye Road, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, China
MSc degree
Year 2004
Discipline Hydrology and water resources
University or institute UNESCO‐IHE
Promotor(s) S. Unhlenbrook, Wan Li
Supervisor(s)
Yangxiao. Zhou
Sponsor(s) CSC fellowship Hu Fusheng
Other sources Jochen. Wenninger
Starting date PhD 2009 Expected date PhD defense (mm/yy) Nov/2014
Give title of thesis (provisional is ok) Quantitative assessment of Groundwater and Surface water interactions in Erdos plateau, China
If you expect your PhD study is expected to take longer than 4 years, please briefly describe why:
If PhD research proposal was accepted by Academic Board, give date (mm/yy) 08/10
Overview of locations of study and time allocation (in months)
UNESCO‐IHE, Delft 4
China, Ordos 8
Number of publications in internationally refereed journals (accepted/ submitted) 1/1
Number of publications for conferences or seminars (accepted / submitted) 0/0
Number of other publications (reports, lectures notes, books, etc.)
Give an overview of papers, presentations, lectures, etc. produced in 2012 Papers Journal paper: Z. Yang., Y. Zhou., J. Wenninger., S. Uhlenbrook., (2013) A multi‐method approach to quantify groundwater/surface water‐interactions in the semi‐arid Hailiutu River basin, northwest China. Hydrogeology Journal. DOI 10.1007/s10040‐013‐1091‐z Conference paper Z. Yang., H. Liu., L. Gu., (2013) Rational Utilization on Dredged Sludge with Heavy Metals in Xinbian River Conservancy Project. Proceeding of the 35th IAHR World Congress, Chengdu, China
Give an overview of planned papers, presentations, lectures, etc. planned for 2013 Papers 1.The water balance analysis in semi arid Bulang sub‐catchment with comparison of GIS based evapo‐transpiration estimation and groundwater model , Northwest China. 2. Estimation of the water use with baseflow separation and groundwater module in semi arid Hailiutu river, Northwest China.
Date of submission: 13/Dec 2013 Did Promotor agree to this annual report?
Add the following appendices: List of agreed compulsory courses/modules, including the assessment if completed (only for non‐UNESCO‐IHE MSc holders) List of publications in international refereed journals List of papers for conferences and seminars List of other publications List of training received and specification of ECTS (see PhD handbook) List of education provided (description of the nature, dates and time spent) Appendices: Z. Yang., Y. Zhou., J. Wenninger., S. Uhlenbrook., (2013) A multi‐method approach to quantify groundwater/surface water‐interactions in the semi‐arid Hailiutu River basin, northwest China. Hydrogeology Journal. DOI 10.1007/s10040‐013‐1091‐z Z. Yang., H. Liu., L. Gu., (2013) Rational Utilization on Dredged Sludge with Heavy Metals in Xinbian River Conservancy Project. Proceeding of the 35th IAHR World Congress, Chengdu, China
