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For his “outstanding contributions to hydrology” Günter Blöschl was awarded the 2015 Robert E. Horton Medal at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, California.

Follow this link to the citation of the medal award.

The Austrian magazine "Universum", which is presenting monthly reports about science and nature, reports in its December journal on several pages about the research in the HOAL.

On a two day campaign the 'Vakimpak' device, which induces seismic waves in the ground, is operated in the HOAL catchment. At the device a drop weight is pulled up in a closed pipe and during the upwards movement vacuum is generated in this pipe. The weight later is dropped and forced by vacuum and…

Prof. Blöschl gives an interview on Austrian television about the research in the HOAL catchment. He explains the aim of the HOAL, which is among other things a more precise prediction of floods. The results of the research in the HOAL should provide fundaments for flood models and simulation…

A mobile eddy covariance station has been recently set up again on a field with bare ground conditions. The setup followed directly after the farmer ploughed the field. For the next months the device will stay at this field, to measure the evaporation at the bare conditions of the soil. Later…

Thomas Bauer (Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, TU Wien) carries out soil consolidation investigations in the HOAL catchment. On a defined spot close to the HOAL weather station he is making pictures from the soil surface on a regularly schedule which he is later analysing using the…

A Symposium on "Hydrological Process Research" is being held from 6 to 7 October 2015 in Petzenkirchen, Lower Austria, on the occasion of the presentation of the Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) Petzenkirchen.
Numerous water experts from academia and administration meet to discuss advances in…

The paper "The Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) in Petzenkirchen: a hypotheses driven observatory" is under discussion in the online journal "Hydrology and Earth System Sciences".

Please download discussion paper here.