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Our PhD journey so far: zero first-author articles in two years

Getting started with things is always a bit of a hassle. Completing a PhD is a relatively massive and relatively vague thing. We’ve now been getting vaguely started for a couple of years, and in the meantime, we’ve massively questioned…

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Pioneering excellence in research and education

Majakka is our 5-year project that focuses on co-creating practices, mechanisms and culture to improve doctoral education and water research, aiming to educate top-notch game changers and to strengthen our international research excellence. The project was recently awarded with Aalto…

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How to read scientific articles and take notes

You cannot do research without reading articles, and you will lose much time and become frustrated without the proper approaches to reading. I’m going to introduce a systematic method for reading research papers and taking notes in this blog. A…

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Yes, you’re a professional writer! A letter to fellow researchers on...

Dear scientist, Are you a professional writer? Have you thought about it? You probably consider writing to be an important and essential part of your work, but maybe you leave the title “professional writer” to those who have studied writing…

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Maintenance – The Key to Water Infrastructure Development

Water development projects continue to struggle with sustainability. “Rehabilitation” is a common term used for the construction of new water systems to replace systems that have failed prematurely. Prematurely failing water infra is a serious threat to achieving the Sustainable…

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Kuivuus voi yllättää hitaudellaan

Tämä blogi on julkaistu alun perin vesi.fi sivustolla   Tämän kesän kesä- ja heinäkuun kuumuus ja sateettomuus saattavat kuivattaa kaivoja ja heikentää satoja. Kuivakausi vaatii kuitenkin aikaa kehittyäkseen vakavaksi ongelmaksi. Kuivakausi voi kestää useita kuukausia tai jopa vuosia. Kesä- ja…

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Zooming into development challenges: Co-learning with partners in Tanzania,...

  In this blog entry, Matleena Muhonen discusses some of the challenges Aalto’s multidisciplinary master’s level SGT Studio course has encountered during the pandemic. Many of the common practices are being challenged in both pedagogical and practical sides. At the…

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Engaging online learning?

In this blog post, Sara Heikonen writes about her insights on remote learning that she has gained through two different roles: writing her master’s thesis in the Water and Development Research Group and working as a programme-level course assistant in…

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A “nexus” approach to quantify economic-social-environmental synergies and...

Sustainable water management is one of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) and is characterized by a high level of interdependencies with other SDGs from regional to global scales. Many water assessment studies are restricted to silo thinking, focusing…

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Invisible soil water is critical for global food security

A newly published study highlights the impacts of green water variability on global crop yields Water consumed by farming comes from either rainfall or irrigation. The water from rainfall is called green water, and it accounts for around 90% of…

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