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…
Tutkijatohtorimme Suvi Sojamo kertoi YLE:n Aamu-tv:ssä maailman makean veden varoista ja veden niukkuudesta. Loppuuko vesi maailmasta? Sojamon mukaan makeaa vettä on riittävästi, mutta se on jakaantunut maapallolla hyvin epätasaisesti, niin maantietellisesti, taloudellisesti, poliittisesti ja sosiaalisesti tarkasteltuna. Veden niukkuuteen vaikuttavat myös…
Water is a crucial element not only for life itself, but our society is based on the availability of sufficient clean water resources. Unfortunately, the availability of clean, safe water is not self-evident. In addition to physical shortage of fresh…
This morning, our professor Olli Varis shared his knowledge on water resources and aspects of their sustainability on YLE Puhe (National Broadcasting Company). Together with Antti Rautavaara (Senior adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland) he discussed they factors controlling…