In the fall of 2019, a weather phenomenon known in Spain as “DANA” or “Gota Fría” devastated the south-eastern part of the country. Torrential rains of 460 mm in 24 hours caused…
Featured image © Irina Nazarova | Dreamstime.com Venla Niva shares insights from a recent article exploring the interplay of environmental and social factors behind human migration. The project was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…