26.08.2019
How much water do you eat?
Our doctoral candidate, M.Sc. (tech.) Mika Jalava will defend his doctoral dissertation this Friday, 30.8.2019 at noon in Aalto, TU1 room in Maarintie 8. His dissertation, “The water we eat:…
12.03.2019
Master’s Thesis in a research group: threat or opportunity?
When I came up with the title “The value of open-source based river streamflow estimation in Southeast Asia”, my attempt to write a Master’s Thesis was a lot easier said than done; attempting to compose…
27.02.2019
Vertical farming: the myth of resource efficiency
Indoor vertical farming represents one of relatively fresh approach to food production. Scenarios of plant factories producing fresh greens year-around close to consumers have been published in media and they…
21.02.2019
Water Scarcity Atlas: introducing and showcasing global water scarcity analyses
The Water Scarcity Atlas (waterscarcityatlas.org) is a freely available educational tool to help us all make more sustainable choices in day-to-day life. It uses interactive global maps to provide an…
03.01.2019
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…
20.09.2018
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…
17.09.2018
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…
04.09.2018
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…
12.07.2018
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…
28.05.2018
Indian Ocean Dipole affects Australian crop growing conditions
Climate oscillations are weather cycles, where atmospheric or oceanic conditions, such as sea surface temperature (SST) or atmospheric pressure, fluctuate regularly. These fluctuations are often related to changes in temperature…