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…
14.05.2018
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…
03.04.2018
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…
23.03.2018
Opinion piece: Why are water wars back on the agenda? And why we think it’s a bad idea!
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…
22.03.2018
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…
12.03.2018
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…