Hauser, KIT

Interview with Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann on intense precipitation events over small catchment areas. The connection between the position of the precipitation cell, its influence on the runoff calculation and advanced  flood water forecasting. Interview from minute 06:23. Forwarding to ARD media library (in German).

Susanne Benz

Groundwater is the largest unfrozen freshwater reservoir in the world. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have investigated how global warming affects its temperature and what this means for humans and nature. The study shows that by 2100, more than 75 million people are expected to live in areas where the groundwater exceeds the highest drinking water temperature limit set by a country.

Bettina Waibel, IWU

The new Institute for Water and Environment (IWU) initiated its activities in January 2024. It was created as a merger of the 'Institute for Water and River Basin Management (IWG)' and the 'Institute of Hydromechanics (IfH)'. The occasion was celebrated on 17 May 2024 with the participation of all IWU employees.

Harald Kunstmann

Harald Kunstmann received the German Hydrology Award 2024 from the German Hydrological Society in Berlin on 20 March 2024 for his outstanding achievements in hydrology in German-speaking countries. 

IAMT, KIT

KIT researchers study the adsorption of micropollutants by vertically aligned carbon nanotubes – Publication in Nature Communications.

Florian Wittmann

KIT researchers prove the great ecological importance of seasonal floodplains - Publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

KIT

The Competence Center for Material Moisture at KIT and the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research – Atmospheric Aerosol Research are cooperating in the field of phosphorus recovery. Years of research are now to be transferred into a pilot plant based on the P-RoC process patented by KIT.

Felix Dörr, KIT

The southern Mekong Delta in Vietnam is on average just 80 centimetres above sea level. Land subsidence of up to three centimetres per year leads to the loss of land and fresh water resources. As part of the ViWaT-Engineering research project, KIT researchers and partners have developed an innovative measuring system to record land subsidence.

AGW, KIT

Prof Goldscheider was appointed an Honorary Member of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in 2024. This programme was established by the GSA Council in 1909 and since then one or more honorary members have been appointed each year. Honorary members are international geoscientists who have made outstanding contributions to science.

KIT

Isabllella Schalko explains her research in the hydraulics lab of KIT.

KIT

Dr. Isabella Schalko is a Senior Research Assistant at ETH Zürich, Research Affiliate at MIT and KIT International Excellence Fellow.  

EBI, KIT

KIT's water research is involved in two projects in the land's funding line "Microorganisms as helpers in climate protection - using microbial processes for a climate-neutral future with innovative methods".

KIT

Public access contributes to greater transparency in science and makes it possible to jointly improve environmental predictions worldwide.

KIT

Researchers are using cave dripstones to reconstruct regional and global climate history - isotope composition provides information about seasonal precipitation levels.

Luca Glawion, KIT

KIT Researchers Use Deep Learning to Enhance the Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Coarse Precipitation Maps.

Christian Chwala, KIT

KIT researchers are using data from the mobile phone network to create rainfall maps in West Africa in order to improve flood forecasting in the data-poor region.

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

An EU project coordinated by KIT has tested a wastewater-based corona early warning system that contributes to a better Covid-19 situation assessment. The final report of the project has now been published (in German).

Christian Damm, KIT

Researchers of KIT are investigating the condition of the Rastatter Bruch fen on the Upper Rhine in connection with the water balance. The Minister of the Environment of Baden-Württemberg, Thekla Walker, informed herself about the project of the Department of Wetland Ecology on September 5, 2023.

Harald Horn

Researchers from the Engler-Bunte-Institut are involved in a project that practically implements microbially catalyzed hydrogen production from urine at the 2023 Federal Garden Show (BUGA). The BUGA 2023 was opened on 14.04.2023. 

Gabi Zachmann, KIT

The temperature of the land surface is mainly influenced by radiation, but evaporation and air movements also play a role. KIT researchers are involved in a study that shows that these complex processes can be explained with the help of simple and predictable patterns.

SWR

The TV station SWR has also published an article focusing on increasing groundwater extraction as a result of climate change. The article gets to the bottom of the question of how much various user groups want to extract today today and in the future, and how this may be campatible with sustainability.

Harald Kunstmann, KIT

KIT researchers are investigating the impact of a renaturation initiative in the African Sahel on local precipitation. In reforestation programs, the hope is that the new forest and increased evaporation will simultaneously generate more precipitation.

KIT

On July 5, 2023, numerous exciting activities and lectures on the topic of water will take place as part of the Science Week Environment & Resources.

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

To better cope with weather extremes like hailstorms, strong rain showers, and floods in the long term, researchers study their development and effects within “Swabian MOSES,” a program coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Bettina Waibel

On March 31, 2023, Prof. Laurent Schmitt visited the Institute for Water and River Basin Management. He gave a lecture on the topic "Navigation, hydropower, sediment legacies, functional restoration and transboundary management of the Upper Rhine" in the lecture series of the IWG (Seminar@IWG-WB).

Daniel Valero, KIT

Why should we study how plastics are transported in rivers? Dr. Daniel Valero (KIT-IWG) answers this question in Deutschlandfunk radio and talks about his recent experiments.

PTKA, KIT

On March 22, 2023, the public final event of the project ESI-CorA - Systematic Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater took place in Karlsruhe. 

ServusTV

Prof. Dr. Jochen Kolb talks about lithium extraction from Europe's largest ground water reservoir in the Upper Rhine Graben in a ServusTV report.

Frank Seidel, KIT

Good performance of KIT in the U.S. News University Ranking 2022-2023: KIT's water research ranks 48th, which is the top position in Germany. 

KIT

Towards Physical-Conceptual Modeling of Mass, Energy and Information Flows Using Mashine Learning Technology.

Ricky Mwanake, KIT

KIT researchers investigate seasonal influence of African streams and rivers on greenhouse gas emissions.

Marlon Maranan, KIT

Whether Flood Protection or Rainforest Preservation – the Study of Meteorological Relationships Makes Valuable Contributions.

Susanna Mohr

Rechearchers of KIT in conversation with the journal 'Hydrologie & Wasserbewirtschaftung (HyWa)' about the collaboration between meteorologists and hydrologists and about the Eifel flood in July 2021 (in German).

SWR

Professor Erwin Zehe, from the Institute of Water and River Basin Management (KIT), explains in a discussion with 'planet wissen' how increasing drought periods change the water cycle (report in German).

Markus Breig, KIT

KIT researchers aim to compile hydrological data to identify the effects of climate change on water cycles in Germany.

Dominik Kuhn, KIT

Current studies on the flood disaster in the Eifel in 2021 and on the future development of such extreme events.

Andrea Schäfer, KIT

KIT researchers are developing a solar-powered filtration system to treat drinking water from salty brackish water.

Markus Breig, KIT

KIT and BGR develop forecast models for the future development of groundwater levels based on artificial intelligence.

Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT

The KIT is involved in an EU project testing a wastewater-based COVID-19 early warning system. For one year, samples will be taken in waste water treatment plants at 20 pilot sites nationwide.

Michael Krayer

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are using high-performance computing to model how waterways’ sediment beds change and what those changes mean for pollutants moving downstream.

Harald Kunstmann, KIT

The Rüdiger Kurt Bode-Stiftung has awarded the 2021 Water Resource Prize to Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann (IMK-IFU). The prize is endowed with 100,000 euros.

H. Kunstmann, KIT

Higher Precision in Seasonal Meteorological Forecasts for Semi-Arid Regions Using Statistical Methods from KIT Help Decision Makers to Mitigate the Local Consequences of Climate Change.

ServusTV

Prof. Nico Goldscheider from the Institute of Applied Geosciences (KIT) can be seen in a report on the P.M. Wissen programme. He gives insights into the research in Kleinwalsertal in Austria, one of the test regions of the KARMA project (report in German).