The joint international workshop of the two EU-Projects MARSOL and FREEWAT were held on the 21st to 23rd April 2015 at Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna in Pisa. MARSOL means “Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought” and includes 8 demonstration sites around Europe and Israel where MAR is demonstrated to increase […]
The Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) held this year the 25th meeting of Doctoral Students in Hydrogeology organized by the Section of Hydrogeology of the German Society of Geosciences (FH-DGG). The event was organized by two Doctoral Candidates from TU Berlin sponsored by the FH-DGG. Due to field trips and other reasons, only six of […]
On 20-21 January 2015 all BMBF funded Junior Research Groups “Global Change 4+1” met for the Kick-off Meeting in Bonn. The Project Agency DLR invited also Mrs. Vera Stercken from BMBF and Prof. Klaus Eisenack from University of Oldenburg, who was leader of a Junior Research Group in the past. So it was a great opportunity […]
Over the past months ‘INOWAS’ became more than a word: it became a project, it became a team. We, the INOWAS team, wish all our readers, students, professors and colleagues a Merry Christmas, happy winter holidays together with the beloved ones and only the best of the best in the new year 2015.
At the end of November we had our 2nd meeting for this year with our project mentors, Prof. Liedl and Prof. Gräber. The meeting was mainly used to discuss the structure of the PhD theses of all doctoral candidates in our group. Beneath that a number of conferences to be held in 2015 were announced and we […]
Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) attracted over the years high interest from researchers due to its important contribution to sustainable management of water resources. For sharing knowledge on MAR processes, the INOWAS team initiated on the LinkedIn platform the ‘MAR Junior Research Network‘ dedicated to all individuals dealing with MAR at the early beginning of their career. The main objective […]
Save the date! IMWA Annual Conference 2016: Mining meets Water – Conflicts and Solutions. Venue: KUBUS Leipzig, Germany. Date: July 10-15, 2016. Internet: www.imwa2016.com.
The first bachelor thesis derived from the INOWAS project was written by Anna-Sophie Strues and defended successfully in November 2014. The research focuses on harvesting case studies on managed aquifer recharge (MAR) in Asia. Even though MAR sites are built in abundance by public and private investors in Asia there are comparatively few scientific case studies […]
When the INOWAS project started in May 2014 all group members were very enthusiastic to start something new! From that time till now, six months later, a lot has happened: more young scientists joined and creative work has been done at the computer, in the laboratory and also in the field. Nevertheless we are still […]
By the end of 2013 I was invited to give a keynote lecture at the upcoming 2nd DAAD Alumni Workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam. The workshop was organized by the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. The main organizer was Dr. Chu Thi Thu Ha, who received her […]