Seminars

Making the most out of eddy covariance water and energy flux observations: Links to climate and the emerging grand challenge of water use efficiency
Speaker: Paul Stoy (Montana State University)
Time: Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 10:30
Place: CHN P12

Contaminated Sites: a new environmental challenge for China
Prof. Tao Long, Associate Director, Research Center for Soil Pollution Prevention and Remediation, Division of Soil and Groundwater Pollution.
Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection, China
Date : Monday October 13th 2015
Time : 13:30
Office : CHN P12 (ETH Zentrum)

Using wireless soil moisture sensor network data for the analysis of hydrological processes
Presented by : Dr. Heye Bogena, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Date : Tuesday, December 09 2015
Time : 10:30
Office : CHN G 46

Will increasing CO₂ increase global aridity?
Speaker: Prof. Michael L. Roderick (Research School of Earth Sciences and Research School of Biology, Australian National University)
Date: June 11, 2015
Time: 15:15 h
Location: CHN C14

Abstract:
One widely held view is that CO₂-induced warming will increase global aridity. However, the geoscience community have long held that the colder glacial periods are more arid than the warmer inter-glacial periods. This paradox remains a puzzle. In this seminar we use a combination of theory, observations and climate/vegetation models to investigate the aridity paradox.

"Why are land surface models performing so poorly?"
Informal seminar by Ned Haughton (Univ. of NSW, Australia)
Date : Monday 8 June 2015
Time : 11:30,
Location : CHN P12

Investigating entrapped air effects on water flow and solute transport
Date : Monday, May 14
Time : 13h00 to 14h00
Location: CHN Building, Room P12

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

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