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Hydro Nation Scholar, Bas Buddendorf has just had a paper published in the Ecological Indicators journal, entitled: Spatio-Temporal Effects of River Regulation on Habitat Quality for Atlantic Salmon Fry. This paper demonstrates value of developing process based understanding of flow regime effects, that flow regulation effect on salmon fry habitat quality is spatio-temporally complex, that flow rules need to consider seasonal flow… Read More

Christopher Schulz, a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Edinburgh, the James Hutton Institute (Aberdeen) and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh, recently became the first scholar of the Hydro Nation Scholars Programme to finish his studies.
 

Read more about our Hydro Nation Scholars, their PhD topics and their knowledge exchange outputs by visiting our scholars’ page, which also contain links to papers and poster presentations.
 

Hydro Nation Scholar, Robert Šakić Troglić has just had a paper published in the Environmental Hazards journal, entitled: Taking Stock of Community–Based Flood Risk Management in Malawai: Different Stakeholders, Different Perspectives. This paper investigates the realities and challenges of CB-FRM as seen through a lens of different stakeholders. This publication is available to… Read More

Hydro Nation Scholar, Maricela Blair has just had a paper published in the Analytical Student Review, entitled: Micro- and Nanoplastic Pollution of Freshwater and Waste Water Treatment Systems. This paper with co-authorship from various academic institutions outlines how micro- and nanoplastic fragments originating from primary or secondary sources are contaminants of emerging concern. This publication is available for… Read More

Hydro Nation Scholar, Bas Buddendorf has just had a paper published in the Hydrological Processes journal, entitled: Metrics to Assess How Longitudinal Channel Network Connectivity and In-Stream Atlantic Salmon Habitats Are Impacted by Hydropower Regulation. This paper with co-authorship form various academic institutions which investigates the use of connectivity metrics and weightings to assess the impact or river barriers (impoundments)… Read More

Hydro Nation Scholar, Robert Šakić Trogrlić has just had a paper published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, entitled: "Science and Technology Networks: A Helping Hand to Boost Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030?. This paper with co-authorship from various academic institutions underlines the importance of Science and Technology (S&T) and S&T networks for effective… Read More

Hydro Nation scholar Christopher Schulz just published a paper in Ecological Economics, entitled: "Applying a 'Value Landscapes Approach' to Conflicts in Water Governance: The Case of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway". This paper, with co-authorship of his supervisory team of Julia Martin-Ortega, Antonio Ioris, and Klaus Glenk, is an application of Christopher's own theoretical framework on the role of values in water governance, that was published earlier this… Read More

Hydro Nation Scholar, Christopher Schulz, together with his supervisory team, recently published his first article in Ecological Economics entitled "The Value Base of Water Governance: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective". This conceptual paper looks at different theoretical approaches towards environmental values, integrates them into a new conceptual framework and explains how this framework can be applied for empirical research on values and water governance. It also serves as a theoretical base for Christopher's own PhD research. The publication is… Read More

Congratulations to Yuan Li for winning the poster competition at November's Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) 'Water Framework Directive Priority Substances – where should we control them?' conference, with her contribution 'Optimising the removal of steroid hormones and Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) from aqueous… Read More

Hydro Nation Scholar, Bas Buddendorf will be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting in San Francisco in December. Bas will be giving a talk titled 'Spatio-Temporal Effects Of River Regulation On Habitat Suitability For Juvenile Atlantic Salmon: Implications For Ecosystem Functioning.' His study focussed on the River Lyon, a tributary of the Tay, Scotland's largest river. Bas investigated the effects of different types of river regulation (hydropeaking, compensation flow and near-natural) on the hydraulic characteristics of downstream river reaches and inferred the… Read More

Hydro Nation Scholar, Robert Sakic Trogrlic attended HABITAT III - the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, where UN member state will establish global commitment to sustainable urbanisation through a global agreement – the… Read More

Nazli Koseoglu's blog 'Coastal freshwater aquifer joins the sea' is now available on the Life Plus 2 meters website. The Life Plus 2 Meters project is designed to help people think about and prepare for adapting to climate change. It is a non-commercial, crowdsourced project which allows authors to offer their vision of a climate-changed… Read More

In 2016, we will welcome a further five scholars to the growing Hydro Nation Scholars Programme. The Hydro Nation staff team and current scholars look forward to welcoming them to the programme at a welcome event in Autumn 2016 and supporting them in the commencement of their PhD studies.
 

In the run up to the launch of the Scottish Government's Hydro Nation Entrepreneurs Programme, a number of the Hydro Nation Scholars have met with programme organiser Adam Purvis, Power of Youth to give their thoughts on meeting the needs of the global water sector and engaging with entrepreneurs in Scotland and India. A number of scholars will also attend the Hydro Nation Entrepreneurs Summit in Edinburgh in September 2016.
 

Hydro Nation Scholar, Christopher Schulz will be presenting at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographic Society. The theme for the 2016 Annual Conference is nexus thinking, an approach that has attracted a surge of interest in the last five years among academics, policy-makers and third sector organizations. The aim of nexus thinking is to address the interdependencies, tensions and trade-offs between different environmental and… Read More

Hydro Nation Scholar, Bas Buddendorf's conference report for the EGU General Assembly 2016 has been published in the BHS newsletter 'Circulation' No. 130, after Bas received a travel grant to attend the conference. His conference report is available to download.
 

Ruby Moynihan's paper titled 'International law on protection of transboundary freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity' will soon be available in J Razzaque and E Morgera Biodiversity and Nature Protection Law (Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, forthcoming August 2016).
 

Hydro Nation Scholar, Christopher Schulz is participating in a Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop in Brazil on ‘Climate and Landscape Change in the Pantanal: assessing environmental vulnerabilities and future water security in Brazil's wetland wilderness.’ The aim of the event is to exchange ideas between British and Brazilian researchers with an interest in the Pantanal wetland and is open to early career researchers.
 

Christopher Schulz presented his research on values and water governance in the Upper Paraguay River Basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, at the "1° Simpósio Luso-Brasileiro sobre Modelos e Práticas de Sustentabilidade" to an… Read More