PROGRAM:

08:50 Walk in PhD-event with coffee and tea

09:20 Short presentations by PhD-candidates (5)

• Nathalie Rombeek (TU Delft): Quantifying spatial rainfall variability using a high-density rain gauge network of personal weather stations
• Tarun Sadana (VUA): NBS, reforestation, and floodplain restoration
• Bryan Marinelli (WU): Global projections of groundwater sustainability
• Mutaz Abdelaziz (IHE Delft): Enhancing confidence in flood hotspots mapping in a large river basin integrating multiple data sources and tools
• Kwint Delbare (UGent): Improving event-scale and long-term estimates of rainfall interception using a modular analytical modelling framework

10:30 Microbreak/Bio-break

10:40 Short presentations by PhD- candidates (5)

• Denise Ruijsch (UU): The impact of multi-year drought on vegetation
• Hassan Mohammed (WU): Better Drought Monitoring in the Netherlands: Moving Beyond Precipitation Deficit
• Clemens Breuss (VUA): Modelling thermokarst lakes and landscape evolution in Arctic lowlands
• Prajwal Khanal (U. Twente): Predicting daily 20-Meter Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration via Multimodal Deep Learning
• Maria Nakkazi (VUB): Future nutrient pollution poses a threat to Africa’s freshwater fishes.

11:50 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 2026: Sampurno Bruijnzeel, King’s College London, UK, “Not seeing the soil for the trees: making forest hydrology more ‘inclusive”

14:50 Coffee break

15:10 Miriam Coenders, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, “Sensing the non-sensible”

15:55 Micha Werner, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands, “Putting Hydrology to work: Matching Scales, Meeting Needs”

16:40 YHS-NL graphical abstract prize

16:50 Closure and drinks