WaterHub @ UniPotsdam

Das Klärwerk Rosental ist das Hauptklärwerk der Großstadt Leipzig mit derzeit etwa 630.000 Einwohner:innen. / ©Leipziger Gruppe

Ein in Durban (Südafrika) installiertes System empfängt Urin und Grauwasser aus einem Gemeinschaftswaschraum. ©Uwe Schröder, Uni Greifswald

Aus #Abwasser nicht nur sauberes #Wasser, sondern auch #Strom und Nährstoffe gewinnen – mit mikrobiellen elektrochemischen Technologien (MET) ist das möglich. Forschende von Uni Greifswald und #UFZ haben einen Übersichtsartikel zum weltweiten Potenzial veröffentlicht.
👉 www.ufz.de/index.php?de...

Gletschervorstöße vorhersagen – ökologische Kipppunkte verstehen Medieninformation 06-02-2026 / Nr. 017

Wann und wie schnell können Ökosysteme „kippen“ und wie werden sie sich zukünftig entwickeln? Forschende der Uni Potsdam, des Potsdam-Instituts für Klimafolgenforschung und der TU München haben ihre Studie in „Nature Communications“ veröffentlicht: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...

A Systematic Review of Empirical Research on Behavioral Drivers of Households' Flood Risk Adaptation Over Time and Across Regions Review results on the research distribution, showing that studies are unequally distributed globally and not prioritized in highest-risk countries, and research scope, highlighting generally little p....

New review study shows, research on household flood adaptation has grown, but major gaps remain. High-risk countries—especially in the Global South—are understudied, and long-term data are rare. Future work should target most at-risk regions. #FloodRisk
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Study of firms hit by Germany’s July 2021 #Floods finds 62% had >€100k losses. Water depth and flow drove damage and downtime, but company size and preparedness mattered: precautions cut interruption up to 58%. Insights can guide policy and #FloodRisk planning.
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Combining #EarthSystemModels with river data from 50 basins, allowed for refined global #WaterCycle estimates: river flow and flow-to-precipitation ratios are lower than thought, #GlobalWarming may raise flow by ~7.8 mm/yr per °C.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolving resource potential of glacial lakes with ongoing deglaciation - Nature Water Lakes fed by melting and retreating glaciers are becoming important freshwater reservoirs, and their value depends on their storage capacity and sedimentation-dependent lifespan. This study estimates ...

Growing meltwater reservoirs – glacial lakes are both a resource and a habitat worthy of protection
New contribution from members of the WaterHub.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Predicting instabilities in transient landforms and interconnected ecosystems - Nature Communications The authors introduce a method to assess the stability of periodic (seasonal) systems without the need for complex data pre-processing and show that it can be used to predict the onset of glacier surg...

When and how quickly can ecosystems ‘tip,’ and how will they develop in the future? Researchers from the University of Potsdam, the PIK, and the TU Munich have developed a new method to measure how close an ecosystem is to a catastrophic tipping point.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation Wood density is central for estimating vegetation carbon storage and a plant functional trait of great ecological and evolutionary importance. However, the global extent of wood density variation is ....

The density of wood from trees and shrubs varies widely—not only between species, but also within them. Fischer et al. show, among other things, that plants growing in extreme environments have higher wood density than those elsewhere.
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Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellowship 2027
The Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences awards the Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellowship to support individuals who are committed to sustainable development.
www.rifs-potsdam.de/de/institut/...

Starkregen und Dürre - Wie gehen wir mit Wasserextremen um? | Pixi Wissen® YouTube video by Bilderbuch TV | Carlsen K

🎉 Yay, das Video zu unserem Pixi-Buch zu #Starkregen und #Dürre ist nun verfügbar:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTB...

Line graph comparing computation time (in seconds, log scale) versus data length N (log scale) for five Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) methods: RQA_RP, RQA_woRP, RQA_samp, RQA_samp², and RQA microstates. The graph shows that RQA_samp and RQA microstates consistently require the least computation time, while RQA_RP requires the most, with all methods increasing in time as data length grows.

Inspired by recurrence microstates, I developed an efficient, sampling-based approach for recurrence quantification analysis, significantly reducing computation time – and, consequently, energy consumption. Published today open access. #recurrence_plot
doi.org/10.1140/epjs...

Increasing glacial lake outburst flood hazard on the eastern Tibetan Plateau and implications for the Sichuan–Tibet Railway
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Das ist ein Collage. Im Vordergrund, in der Mitte des Bildes, sieht man den Globus. Im Hintergrund auf der linken Seite sieht man eine natürliche Landschaft: eine Wiese und den Himmel, auf der rechten Seite hingegen eine Industrielandschaft – rauchende Schornsteine und ausgetrocknete Erde. Die Grafik stammt aus AdobeStock. Der Autor ist Tryfonov.

Lecture: “Planetary Boundaries” (EN)

Professor Johan Rockström, the director @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, talks about planetary boundaries at the Potsdam Climate & Sustainability Lectures on January 13.

Further information about the event can be found at: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/veranstal...

Call for abstracts - Cross-Scale Processes and Interactions in Changing Mountain and Snow-Dominated Environments
www.egu26.eu/session/5772...

Call for abstracts - Advancing process representation for hydrological modelling across spatio-temporal scales
www.egu26.eu/session/55665

Polymer-specific transfer and retention of microplastics at the river–sediment–groundwater interface Microplastic particles (MPs) are ubiquitous across aquatic compartments, yet their transport and retention dynamics in surface water–groundwater syste…

Field study at two German rivers shows bank filtration removes >84% of microplastics from surface water to groundwater. Polymer type and river hydrodynamics—not particle size—control microplastic transport, retention, and accumulation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle Topography influences water and energy provided by the atmosphere, and the fate of water at and below the land surface Topography is associated with gradients and contrasts, whose interactions ex...

The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle - Gnann - 2025 - Reviews of Geophysics - Wiley Online Library has reached over 10000 views! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

„Nicht alles ist verloren, nur weil wir nicht alles gewonnen haben“ – Luisa Neubauer sprach bei den Potsdam Climate & Sustainability Lectures

Prominent German climate activist spoke at the Potsdam Climate & Sustainability Lectures
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines...

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Physics of Volcanoes 2026 (PoV-12) Event Timing: 18-20 February 2026 on site, in person, in Potsdam: 18 Feb 2026: 17:00 - 19:00 Icebreaker 19 Feb 2026: 09:15 - 18:15 Scientific Program + discussion, 19:15 Joint Dinner 20 Feb 2026: 09...

Registration for the 12th Physics of Volcanoes workshop including two GeoX-hosted discussion rounds is now open: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... It will be hosted at the @geowpotsdam.bsky.social of the @unipotsdam.bsky.social from 18 to 20 February 2026. Everyone interested in volcanoes is welcome.

#egu26 #urban #egu26 #urbanrisk #resilience #hazards #disasterriskreduction #urbanstudies #geoscience | Faith Taylor We welcome submissions to our #EGU26 session NH9.4: Urban Risk in a Changing World: Dynamics, Disruption & Resilience in Cities This session brings together research on how evolving socio-environment...

🌍 Call for abstracts for #EGU26: Urban Risk in a Changing World.
📌 Seeking work on multi-hazard interactions & urban vulnerability, innovative data tools, urban governance/resilience, and Transdisciplinary case studies.
🗓️ deadline: 15 Jan 2026
Join our session and share your research! #UrbanRisk

Strongly Heterogeneous Surface‐Water Warming Trends in High Mountain Asia Surface waters are warming significantly in High Mountain Asia Water is warming faster than land in most of the region 30-year warming trends have accelerated over the past decade

High Mountain Asia’s surface waters warmed from 1994–2023 (avg +0.1°C, up to +0.3°C), with faster warming in snow-covered areas and clear recent acceleration. Surface water is heating faster than nearby land, driven by rapid cryosphere changes. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Frontiers | On the value of mobile cosmic-ray neutron measurements for spatio-temporal soil moisture simulations High-resolution soil moisture measurements are indispensable for advancing hydrological modeling and improving environmental risk assessments at regional sca...

Integrating mobile CRNS soil-moisture data into the mHM model greatly boosts its ability to capture spatial and temporal moisture patterns. Forests remain challenging, but results show strong gains and good transferability for better hydrological forecasts.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/wat...

Super-Clausius–Clapeyron scaling of extreme precipitation explained by shift from stratiform to convective rain type Nature Geoscience - Warming-induced changes in extreme precipitation intensity that exceed the Clausius–Clapeyron scaling rate can be explained by a statistical shift from stratiform to...

Extreme rain intensifies faster on warm days mainly because weather shifts from gentle to convective storms. Big systems become more convective above ~14 °C dew point, boosting short-burst rainfall and flood risk.
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Call for abstracts for Session HS8.2.13 Multiscale Perspectives on Groundwater Recharge: From Field Observations to Integrated Models at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2026.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

I gave a seminar talk
about the growing threat of #landslides
at Earth and Life Institute - UCLouvain.
Here's a link to watch it:
📽️https://lnkd.in/dYRPJraX

It was a very productive visit thanks to Caroline Michellier, Erasmus Zu Ermgassen, and Olivier Dewitte.

Open PhD Position (75%, 3 years) in Landslide Research in the Geohazards Group at the University of Potsdam. More information can be found here: topotoolbox.wordpress.com/category/jobs/

The potential of Sentinel-1 time series for large-scale assessment of maize and wheat phenology across Germany Monitoring crop phenometrics is crucial for understanding crop conditions and dynamics. Dense time series are needed for accurate information. Recent work has shown that remote sensing data can be ...

This study shows that SAR data can map crop phenometrics more accurately than optical data. It’s a promising step for precision agriculture—better resource use, improved yield predictions, and more sustainable farming.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣📣 We are hiring!!! (Please repost)

3 PhDs in new research group “navigate" on urban-rural resilience in water scarcity crises, co-lead by Taís Carvalho & me at @ufz.de (start: 1 Feb):
PhD 1 (behav. sci./econ.): is.gd/ty0BAX
PhD 2 (data sci./ML): is.gd/Ed07qk
PhD 3 (hydro-econ./ABM): is.gd/KEeESY

PYROPHOB - A research project into the forest of tomorrow
www.pyrophob.de/forschung-2#...
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Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River Streamflow is the primary driver of suspended sediment transport, but its effect is modulated by temperature and freeze-thaw conditions There is a marked shift in suspended sediment dynamics when...

Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River - Skålevåg - 2025 - Water Resources Research - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...