Happy new year!
Last year was our success story in many ways. Here is a brief summary of our key achievements. Hopefully year 2019 will bring as much joy and success – happy new year! Research visits Exploring the World is among the…
Cape Town’s water crisis
As one of the most severe urban droughts in modern history, the Cape Town water crisis has flooded South African and international news in recent months. For Finnish, please scroll down. After an unprecedented three-year drought, the city is set…
How to write and excellent paper?
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…
Exploring water through art and science
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…
Runoff uncertainty, rice production and land acquisitions
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…
A new tool developed for downscaling runoff products
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…
Threats of global food production?
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….
Opinion piece: Why are water wars back on the agenda? And why we think it’s a...
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…
Happy World Water Day!
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…
Greetings from the Global Food Security –conference!
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…