Together with IWA YWP Finland (International Water Association’s Young Water Professional), we organized a scientific publishing workshop for all the doctoral candidates across Nordic and Baltic countries. The variety of water-related topics was remarkable! The workshop was held by…
In mid-August Aino Peltola, Elina Lehikoinen and Matias Heino from Aalto University’s Water and Environmental Research Group got an exciting change to their regular schedule, when a group of secondary school students visited the laboratory to learn about water-related phenomena…
Among the key parts of our WDRG team and our research are master theses. Currently we have three project workers, who work on their thesis within our group. Veli-Pekka Toivianen “I hold a M.Sc. in Finance from the Aalto University…
The annual General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union was held in Vienna a month ago. This year three members of the WDRG were presenting, among more than 15000 other participants. I was there with a poster presentation of an…
Our doctoral candidate Matias Heino and Assistant Professor Matti Kummu examined the impacts of global climate oscillation on food production. The article “Two-thirds of global cropland area impacted by climate oscillations” was just published in Nature Communications. Heino et al….
On this year’s World Water Day, our Postdoc Fellow Suvi Sojamo joined an opinion piece by an international group of water academics and professionals explaining why the alarmist discourse on water wars is counterproductive to water security. There is…
March 22nd is the international World Water Day, established by United Nations in 1993. This year the theme, “the answer is in nature” emphasized the importance of nature-based solutions in managing and improving hydrology. How to control floods, droughts, and…
The 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security was organized in Cape Town, South Africa, in December 2017. Two doctoral candidates from the Water and Development Research Group (WDRG), Matias Heino and Elina Lehikoinen, travelled there to present their recent…
One of Aalto University’s goals is to educate doctors with relevant working skills required not only inside the academia but also in the industry. Successful education is a combination of the student’s contribution and high quality, persevering and systematic instruction….
Dr. Jialiang Cai, postdoctoral researcher at our WDRG, attended the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) during December 11-15. On December 13, he gave an oral presentation in the Water, Energy, and Society in Urban Systems II…