 |
|
||||||||||
Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics (STEP)
News
Jonas Von Ruette won the 2011 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award in Natural Hazards
Prof. Or selected as 2012 Boussinesq Lecturer
Dr. Massimiliano Schwarz received the PLANAT research award 2010
Dr. Ebrahim Shahraeeni was the recipient of the “Procter & Gamble Student Award” for his Poster
Dani Or’s AGU fellowship was published in the EOS magazine
Congratulations to Prof Dani Or for his AGU fellow
Upcoming seminar
Investigating entrapped air effects on water flow and solute transport
Date : Monday, May 14
Time : 13h00 to 14h00
Location: CHN Building, Room P12
More...
Previous seminars
How do freezing and thermal gradients damage steep alpine rock-walls?
Date : Tuesday, March 27th
Time : 14:00
Location : CHN P 12, ETH Zürich
Speaker : Lucas Girard, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Download : How do freezing...
"Theory of Pendular Rings Revisited"
Date: February 14th (2012)
Time: 10:30 to 11:30
Location: CHN building, room E 46, ETH Zurich
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Leonid Fel, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
"Experimental and Numerical Study of drying in porous media in the presence of gravity"
Date : Nov. 22 (2011)
Time : 14:30 to 15:30
Location : CHN building, room P12, ETH Zurich
Speaker : Andreas Yiotis, Laboratory FAST (Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques), Campus Universitaire, Orsay Cedex, France.
Abstract and map are attached.
Web site:
The Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics (STEP) research group endeavours to generate new knowledge and provide scientific bases for understanding, quantifying and predicting key processes taking place in soils and in other interlinked terrestrial compartments of the biosphere. STEP focuses on establishing links across disciplinary boundaries required for addressing complex issues that lie at interfaces between the physical environment and biological activity (microbial activity, plant function), or interfacial processes controlling mass and energy exchange between terrestrial surfaces and the atmosphere. We pursue fundamental approaches to problem solving that combine theory with experiments and emphasize quantitative and measurable solutions. We at STEP are committed to excellence and highest ethical conduct in our endeavors, and strive to maintain a stimulating and rewarding educational and research environment.
As members of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems (http://www.ites.ethz.ch/) and the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETHZ (http://www.usys.ethz.ch/index_EN) our research and education are aimed at fostering meaningful links between resource managers, educators and environmental policy makers to better address contemporary challenges related to changing patterns in climate, population, and natural resources use and availability.
STEP is a relatively new research group at ETH comprised of 15 scientific, technical and administrative collaborators working together to meet our group's mission and serve our students and enhance knowledge is various aspects of environmental physics.
STEP offers several courses focusing on Vadose Zone Hydrology and Soil Physics as well as Spatial Statistics and other practical courses serving the curricula of D-USYS and D-BAUG. We offer well-structured websites for each course with lectures, class notes and additional reading materials.
Wichtiger Hinweis:
Diese Website wird in älteren Versionen von Netscape ohne
graphische Elemente dargestellt. Die Funktionalität der
Website ist aber trotzdem gewährleistet. Wenn Sie diese
Website regelmässig benutzen, empfehlen wir Ihnen, auf
Ihrem Computer einen aktuellen Browser zu installieren. Weitere
Informationen finden Sie auf
folgender
Seite.
Important Note:
The content in this site is accessible to any browser or
Internet device, however, some graphics will display correctly
only in the newer versions of Netscape. To get the most out of
our site we suggest you upgrade to a newer browser.
More
information
