The collaboration between the Federal Agency for Water Management and the Technical University Vienna has two new contributors: Dušan Marjanović and Christopher Thoma started the work towards their doctoral degree in the HOAL 2.0 project.

Essential parts of the HOAL monitoring system were repaired or implemented to ensure a continued generation of hydrological data.

Open positions in the HOAL

Preventing or reducing erosion processes is an important factor in being able to use arable land in the long term and at the same time maintaining soil quality.

Therefore, two greened flowpaths were created in the HOAL Petzenkirchen. These should fulfill several functions. This greened flowpaths…

The use of drones for the recording of soil erosion is one of the most suitable technologies for capturing soil erosion. It allows for the quick, precise, and cost-effective assessment of the surface and its structure. Through the use of drones in combination with specialized software programs, data…

Open PhD position in the research project “Bacterial overland transport and modelling“

Heavy rains crossed the HOAL catchment area last week. In 24 hours, 160 mm of precipitation fell, the highest measured precipitation intensity was 57 mm / 10min. The highest measured discharge in the catchment area was > 800 l/s and the installed H-Flume there was overflowed. This was also proven by…

For measuring transpiration on trees, so called "Sap Flow sensors" were installed. In sum six stations were placed to be able to scale the sap flow for the hole forest.

Beside that, they are installed near groundwarter, discharge and soil moisture station.

>> View Sap flow installation (MP4)

As the catchment outlet (MW) is one of our most important measurment points, a new radar sensor is now installed for measuring the water level. Discharge can be monitored using the H-Flume's high discharge calibration curve. As the catchment outlet station - MW is one of our most important measuring…

In august Borbala Szeles, Patrick Hogan and Lovrenc Pavlin were on site, supported by Matthias Oismüller and Gerhard Rab, to maintain some of the weather station devices such as temperatur and soil heat flux sensors. The eddy covariance systems (evaporation) were checked and calibrated with a dew…