PROGRAM:

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

09:30 Short presentations by PhD-students (8 to 10)

• Titus Kruijssen (WU): High-resolution EC and Temperature depth profiles to delineate groundwater flow in fractured rock
• Haris Ali (IHE Delft): The Potential of Nature-Based Solutions for Drought Adaptation: Modelling and Application in the Aa of Weerijs Catchment, Netherlands
• Katoria Lekarkar (VUB): A conceptual representation of nature-based water retention measures to counter droughts
• Julia Rudlang (TU Delft): Using EStreams to Explore the Relative Roles of Climate and Landscape on Streamflow Behaviour in Europe
• Jonna van Mourik (UU): Regional drivers and characteristics of multi-year droughts
• Anoek van Tilburg (VUA): Multifunctional adaptation to sea-level rise: a low regret solution or a source of lock-in for future generations?
• Awad Mohammed Ali (WU): Global and regional tree restoration: Implications for hydropower in a warming world
• Lise Piepers (KUL): Water conservation with adjustable weirs in agricultural drainage ditches
• Anna Luisa Hemshorn de Sanchez (VUA): Current and future resilience of Dutch catchments
• Zengjing Song (U. Twente): Investigating Plant Responses to Water Stress via Plant Hydraulics Pathway

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 Hayley Fowler, Newcastle University, UK, “Are we ready for the storms ahead? Record-shattering rainfall and flood events in a rapidly changing climate.”

14:50 Coffee break

15:10 Boussinesq Award 2024 and lecture by award recipient Anne Van Loon (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), “Drought & flood, water & people”

15:55 Harry Zekollari, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE, “Melting Giants: What Disappearing Glaciers Mean for Downstream Water Supply and Floods”

16:40 YHS-NL graphical abstract prize

16:50 Closure and drinks