PROGRAM:

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

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

• Victoria Deman (UGent): The continents are losing moisture to the oceans: A four-decade atmospheric moisture transport analysis
• Lakachew Yihunie Alemneh (IHE Delft): Remote Sensing Methods for Water Quality and Invasive Plant Monitoring
• Jessica Ruijsch (WU): The latent potential of restoration: biophysical climate effects of land restoration in Africa
• Shawl Abebe Desta (VUB): Data-driven Fusion of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 for Land Cover Classification in the Logo-Ardibo Lakes , Awash Basin, Ethiopia
• Faidon Diakomopoulos (TU Delft): A probabilistic analysis of compound flooding in river confluences under different hydroclimatic conditions
• Barry van Jaarsveld (UU): Global hyper-resolution groundwater dataset for assessing historical and future groundwater dynamics
• Mira Anand (VUA): Strength and persistence of streamflow memory across Europe
• Betelhem Gebretsadik (U. Twente): Hydrological fluxes and biomass spatial variability in a bench terrace hillslope: effects of lateral groundwater flow and boundary conditions
• Valdrich Fernandes (WU): Interpretable and Transferable Machine Learning for Managed Aquifer Recharge Planning in Sandy Catchments
• Florence Tan (KUL): Predicting total uncertainty in fluvial sediment load observations with the SedUCE model

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 Boussinesq Lecture 2025: Axel Kleidon, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany, “How thermodynamics shapes the dynamics of the hydrological cycle and its response to global climate change”

14:50 Coffee break

15:10 Lieke Melsen, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, “It takes a village to run a model”

15:55 Wim Thiery, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, “will you live an unprecedented life?”

16:40 YHS-NL graphical abstract prize

16:50 Closure and drinks