Mariette Vreugdenhil started to prepare an evaluation campaign of the European Space Agency's Sentinel-1A satellite, which is a polar-orbiting, all-weather, day-and-night radar imaging mission for land and ocean services.

The campaign will contain measurements of vegetation water contents, crop…

Today micro meteorologist Patrick Hogan moved one of the mobile eddy covariance stations again to a new spot in the HOAL catchment. For the next months the station will measure the atmospheric conditions over a winter barley field.

The results of this measurements will again help to understand the…

Today Rasmi Silasari is in the field for making ground control measurements for calibrating her camera, which is mounted on the top of the HOAL weather station mast. The camera makes regularly pictures and movies of a certain part of a field, where regularly overland flows occur after heavy…

Philipp Stadler is in the field today to operate the regularly maintenance works of the BACTcontrol devices, which he is using for his investigations of fecal pollution in the HOAL stream.
With the support of a colleague, the devices are removed from the sample location at the catchment outlet and…

Applications are open for 7 PhD student positions in the Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems

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…