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Check out David Finger's findings on the impacts of climate change on Hydropower production

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:01

Impact of climate change on water resources in Switzerland and its implications for Hydropower production.

Watch and download then presentation here.

New publication: Identification of glacial melt water runoff in a karstic environment and its implication for present and future water availability

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:19

Finger, D., Hugentobler, A., Huss, M., Voinesco, A., Wernli, H., Fischer, D., Weber, E., Jeannin, P.-Y., Kauzlaric, M., Wirz, A., Vennemann, T., Hüsler, F., Schädler, B., and Weingartner, R. (2013): Identification of glacial melt water runoff in a karstic environment and its implication for present and future water availability, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 10, 2743-2788, doi:10.5194/hessd-10-2743-2013, 2013.

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New Grant announcment: CIRCLE-MED2-2013 Joint Call

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:07

New joint call for transnational research projects in “Adaptation to Climate Change from a natural and social science perspective: Water in coastal Mediterranean areas”. The funding countries of this call are France, Greece, and Portugal.
Deadline for submission is Monday 6th of May 2013 (18:00 CET).

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eco.mont: Call for papers

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 07:23

eco.mont - Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management
Registered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (Thomson Reuters)

We are already busy preparing issue 5/2 and invite you to submit a paper until June 2013 presenting your research in or on protected mountain areas.

“Global Regions”: Linking Conservation to Development

Monday, 18 March 2013 20:50

Engelbert Ruoss, Head “Global Regions” Programme, former Director of the UNESCO Venice Office, Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, e.ruoss@bluewin.ch

The concept, “Global Regions”, was launched in December 2012 (see www.globalregions.org). A Global Region is a territorial system, which interlinks environment, society and economy and bases its activities on local production cycles and the Biocapacity, particularly the available natural resources. The role is to launch the implementation of Sustainable Development worldwide. The Global Regions concept is therefore considered as a contribution to the post Rio+20 programme and should visualize the feasibility of the Sustainable Development paradigm locally.

Post-Doctoral position (water sector) with SAEON and the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Monday, 18 March 2013 16:29

Research undertaken by the candidate will be:

To review research regarding climate change impacts on the water sector that is of relevance to the Drakensberg.
Collate, verify and infill the historic stream flow and weather data from Cathedral Peak to a useable, verified and reliable product.
Develop, conduct and document protocols for time series analyses and routines for analysing historic and emerging catchment stream flow and weather data to detect patterns of natural variability from human induced change.
Recommend analysis protocols, critical research gaps and additional monitoring activities required to reduce model uncertainty.
The candidate will be expected to produce at least two papers, preferably more, in accredited scientific journals on the work conducted within the Post Doc.

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SAEON-University of KwaZulu-Natal: Post-Doctoral Position in the water sector (62.37 kB)

Project: Alpine hazards in times of climate change. Patterns of interpretation and strategies of action from the 18th to the 21st century

Thursday, 14 March 2013 07:52

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the FU Berlin, Urte Undine Frömming - Junior professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, u.froemming@fu-berlin.de
Climate change expands the realm of experience for the dependencies between society and nature to the most diverse locations and different times. The causal lines are no longer clear and unambiguous but blurred and multi-layered, which concerns both everyday life and the sciences. Nature, which in many concepts is thought to be a constant, must be reconceptualised as a socially influenced variable as a consequence of the evidence of climate change.