Emerging outcomes from a cross-disciplinary doctoral programme on water resource systems

Carr, Gemma; Blanch, A. R.; Blaschke, Alfred Paul; Brouwer, Roy; Bucher, Christian; Farnleitner, Andreas H.; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia; Loucks, Daniel P.; Morgenroth, Eberhard; Parajka, J.; Pfeifer, Norbert; Rechberger, Helmut; Wagner, Wolfgang; Zessner, Matthias; Blöschl, Günter

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“…Numerous others have highlighted the need for closer cooperation within hydrology and with other disciplines, and suggested ways forward through interdisciplinary projects, consortia, summer institutes and doctoral programmes (e.g. McDonnell et al 2007, Maidment et al 2009, Sivapalan et al 2011, Thompson et al 2011, Takeuchi et al 2013, Carr et al 2017. Dunne (1998) suggested that a slightly stronger coordination of research efforts would be beneficial to progress.…”

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Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

Blöschl

Bierkens

Chambel

et al. 2019

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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This paper is the outcome of a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts. The procedure involved a public consultation through online media, followed by two workshops through which a large number of potential science questions were collated, prioritised, and synthesised. In spite of the diversity of the participants (230 scientists in total), the process revealed much about community priorities and the state of our science: a preference for continuity in research questions rather than radical departures or redirections from past and current work. Questions remain focused on the process-based understanding of hydrological variability and causality at all space and time scales. Increased attention to environmental change drives a new emphasis on understanding how change propagates across interfaces within the hydrological system and across disciplinary boundaries. In particular, the expansion of the human footprint raises a new set of questions related to human interactions with nature and water cycle feedbacks in the context of complex water management problems. We hope that this reflection and synthesis of the 23 unsolved problems in hydrology will help guide research efforts for some years to come. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Activities Around More Integrated Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

Blöschl

Bierkens

Chambel

et al. 2019

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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325

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“…Interdisciplinarity is both a consequence of the type of societally relevant research questions being addressed in the HOAL, and it also provides an opportunity to address more complex research questions than would be possible by researchers from only one discipline. Students have clearly recognised that through collaboration with others they are able to gain knowledge and understanding that enables them to delve deeper into their own research topic (see Carr et al, 2015). Additionally, they often also see immediate benefits to their collaboration in the form of a data set, which provides further motivations for continuing to work collaboratively.…”

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The Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) in Petzenkirchen: a hypotheses driven observatory

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Broer³

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Abstract. Hydrological observatories bear a lot of resemblance to the more traditional research catchment concept but tend to differ in providing more long term facilities that transcend the lifetime of individual projects, are more strongly geared towards performing interdisciplinary research, and are often designed as networks to assist in performing collaborative science. This paper illustrates how the experimental and monitoring setup of an observatory, the 66 ha Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) in Petzenkirchen, Lower Austria, has been established in a way that allows meaningful hypothesis testing. The overarching science questions guided site selection, identifying dissertation topics and the base monitoring. The specific hypotheses guided the dedicated monitoring and sampling, individual experiments, and repeated experiments with controlled boundary conditions. The purpose of the HOAL is to advance the understanding of water related flow and transport processes involving sediments, nutrients and microbes in small catchments. The HOAL catchment is ideally suited for this purpose, because it features a range of different runoff generation processes (surface runoff, springs, tile drains, wetlands), the nutrient inputs are known, and it is convenient from a logistic point of view as all instruments can be connected to the power grid and a high speed glassfibre Local Area Network. The multitude of runoff generation mechanisms in the catchment provide a genuine laboratory where hypotheses of flow and transport can be tested, either by controlled experiments or by contrasting sub-regions of different characteristics. This diversity also ensures that the HOAL is representative of a range of catchments around the world and the specific process findings from the HOAL are applicable to a variety of agricultural catchment settings. The HOAL is operated jointly by the Vienna University of Technology and the Federal Agency for Water Management and takes advantage of the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems funded by the Austrian Science Funds. The paper presents the science strategy of the setup of the observatory, discusses the implementation of the HOAL, gives examples of the hypothesis testing and summarises the lessons learned. The paper concludes with an outlook on future developments.

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“…Art pieces included paintings and stone masonry, as well as flood survival kits (including sponges, sand, inflatable rubber and information material) which were handed out to the public in ment of the candidates' subsequent career path is therefore preliminary. Experience in other doctoral programmes suggests that strong interactions amongst researchers during the PhD continue to influence their later career paths (Carr et al, 2017(Carr et al, , 2018. It will be interesting to see whether such findings are also true for the WISE CDT programme.…”

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Hydroinformatics education – the Water Informatics in Science and Engineering (WISE) Centre for Doctoral Training

Wagener

Savić

Butler

et al. 2021

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The Water Informatics in Science and Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training (WISE CDT) offers a postgraduate programme that fosters enhanced levels of innovation and collaboration by training a cohort of engineers and scientists at the boundary of water informatics, science and engineering. The WISE CDT was established in 2014 with funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) amongst the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. The WISE CDT will ultimately graduate over 80 PhD candidates trained in a non-traditional 4-year UK doctoral programme that integrates teaching and research elements in close collaboration with a range of industrial partners. WISE focuses on cohort-based education and equips the PhD candidates with a wide range of skills developed through workshops and other activities to maximise candidate abilities and experiences. We discuss the need for, the structure and results of the WISE CDT, which has been ongoing from 2013–2022 (final year of graduation). We conclude with lessons learned and an outlook for PhD training, based on our experience with this programme.

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Emerging outcomes from a cross-disciplinary doctoral programme on water resource systems

Cited by 10 publications

References 51 publications

Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

The Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL) in Petzenkirchen: a hypotheses driven observatory

Hydroinformatics education – the Water Informatics in Science and Engineering (WISE) Centre for Doctoral Training

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