Boussinesq Lecture 2023: Jay Famiglietti

Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023download
Location: KNAW Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam
Subject: Remote sensing in hydrology
Speaker: Jay Famiglietti, Arizona State University, USA
Other speakers: Ryan Teuling (Wageningen University) and Richard de Jeu (Planet Labs)

Registration: free of charge, but registration is appreciated. Please register here.

PROGRAM:

09:00 Walk in PhD-event with coffee and tea

09:30 Short presentations by PhD-students

  • Myrthe Leijnse (UU): Key drivers and pressures of water scarcity at global hotspots.
  • Constanza Maas (IHE): Cross-border groundwater impacts in Transboundary Aquifers: assessment and management units
  • Yousef Abuhaisi (VUA): High-Resolution Estimation of Methane Emissions from Boreal and Pan-Arctic Wetlands Using Advanced Satellite Data
  • Bob Zwartendijk (WU): Modelling the hydrological responses of a headwater catchment under shifting cultivation in upland Eastern Madagascar
  • Oriol Pomarol Moya (UU): The potential of hybrid simulation modelling in hydrology
  • Ileen Streefkerk (VUA): A coupled agent-based model to analyse human-drought feedbacks for agropastoralists in dryland regions
  • Enting Tang (U. Twente): Understanding the Effect of Revegetated Shrubs on Energy, Water and GPP Fluxes in a Desert Steppe Ecosystem Using STEMMUS-SCOPE Model
  • Janine de Wit (WU): Hydrological consequences of the measure controlled drainage with subirrigation
  • Erasto Mukama (VUB): Understanding the Interplay of Climate Variability and Human Activities in the Water Scarcity of the Great Ruaha Basin
  • Muhammad Ibrahim (TU Delft): Quantifying Temporal Evolution and Predictability of Deviations of Worldwide Catchments from their Parametric Budyko Curves

11:45 Introduction YHS-NL activity

12:00 Lunch for PhD-event attendees

12:45 YHS-NL graphical abstract competition

13:30 Walk in with coffee and tea

13:40 Introduction by chairman

13:50 Jay Famiglietti, Arizona State University, “Global water security as viewed from space: Critical research and adaptation pathways

14:50 Coffee break

15:10 Ryan Teuling (Wageningen University), “Earth observation in support of discovery in hydrology”

15:55 Richard de Jeu (Planet Labs), “The added value of commercial earth observation satellites”

16:40 YHS-NL graphical abstract prize

16:50 Closure and drinks