2025
publication

See our new report in the applied journal Aqua & Gas about the development of future river water temperatures in Switzerland.

Råman Vinnå, C.L., Bigler, V., Schilling, O.S., & Epting, J. (2025): Zukünftige Fliessgewässertemperaturen – Simulation schweizweiter Projektionen der steigenden Temperaturen in Fliessgewässern. Aqua & Gas 105 (7+8) URL: https://www.aquaetgas.ch/de/wasser/gew%C3%A4sser/20250707-ag7-8-simulation-fliessgew%C3%A4ssertemperaturen/

also read about it here:
https://www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/News/Uni-Research/Wie-stark-sich-Schweizer-Fliessgewaesser-erwaermen-werden.html

2025
publication

See our new original article on microbial community and dissolved gas dynamics in the hydrothermal system of Lavey-les-bains in Switzerland by Sebastien Giroud of Eawag.

Giroud, S., Deng, L., Lever, M.A., Schilling, O.S., & Kipfer, R. (2025). Resilience of Deep Aquifer Microbial Communities to Seasonal Hydrological Fluctuations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 122(0), e2422608122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422608122 

also read about it here:
https://www.eawag.ch/en/info/portal/news/news-detail/underground-microbial-life-more-stable-than-expected/

2025
team

It is our great pleasure to welcome Angela Welham to the Hydrogeology Research group. Angela is a PhD candidate and works in our Tracer Hydrogeology group at Eawag. The focus of her thesis lies on crosyphere-groundwater interactions.

2025
publication

Have a look at our commentary on the benefits of data sharing and FAIR open data in hydrological sciences in Nature Water:

Hill, R. A., Lin, S., Grape, E. S., Zhang, Y., Schilling, O.S., & Voiry, D. (2025). Stories of data sharing. Nat. Water, 3(7-10). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00375-7 

2024
publication

See our new original article on the first He4/U-Th dating of quaternary deposits in the journal Geology.

Tomonaga, Y., Buechi, M. W., Deplazes, G., & Kipfer, R. (2024). First dating of an early Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) glacial overdeepening in the Alpine Foreland using the 4He/U-Th method. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G52544.1

also read about it here:
https://www.eawag.ch/en/info/portal/news/news-detail/nuclear-waste-storage-needs-to-withstand-an-ice-age/

2024
team

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dr. Qi Tang  back in our team. She now has the role of senior scientist in the SNSF BRIDGE Discovery project Integrated Hydrological Modelling for Operational Forecasting and Decision-making, and is continuing to act as the national coordinator of the Water-Earth Systems PhD School

2024
publication

See our new perspectives article on Mountain-Cryospehre-Groundwater interactions in Nature Water. The article is the culmination of a fantastic workshop and initiative by the three lead authors and the Mountain Research Insititute MRI.

Van Tiel, M., Aubry-Wake, C., Somers, L. D., Andermann, C., Avanzi, F., Baraer, M., Chiogna, G., Daigre, C., Das, S., Drenkhan, F., Farinotti, D., Fyffe, C., de Graaf, I. E. M., Hanus, S., Immerzeel, W. W., Koch, F., McKenzie, J. M., Müller, T., Popp, A. L., Saidaliyeva, Z., Schaefli, B., Schilling, O. S., Teagai, K., Thornton, J. M., & Yapiye, V. (2024). Cryosphere-groundwater connectivity is a missing link in the mountain water cycle. Nat. Water, 2, 624-637. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00277-8

2024
publication

See our new review article on the hydrological application of eDNA in WIREs Water. The review has been  conducted in the framework of an eDNA4hydrology initiative launched by Dr. Natalie Ceperley.

URycki, D. R., Kirtane, A., Aronoff, R., Avila, C., Blackman, R. C., Carraro, L., Evrard, O., Good, S. P., Hoyos, D., López-Rodríguez, N., Mora, D., Schadewell, Y., Schilling, O. S., & Ceperley, N. (2024). A new flowpath: eDNA connecting hydrology and biology. WIREs Water, e1749. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1749

2024
publication

See our original paper on the simulation of large-scale/regional groundwater-surface water interactions in Journal of Hydrology:

Delottier, H., Schilling, O. S., & Therrien, R. (2024). Assessing the impact of surface water and groundwater interactions for regional-scale simulations of water table elevation. J. Hydrol., 639, 131641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131641

2024
publication

See our new original article on HGS-PDAF, the coupling of the data assimilation toolbox PDAF to the integrated surface-subsurface hydrological model HydroGeoSphere in the journal Geoscientific Model Development:

Tang, Q., Delottier, H., Kurtz, W., Nerger, L., Schilling, O. S., & Brunner, P. (2024). HGS-PDAF (version 1.0): A modular data assimilation framework for an integrated surface and subsurface hydrological model. Geosci. Model Dev., 17(8), 3559-3578. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3559-2024

2024
publication

Oliver Schilling contributed the prologue to the recent Aqua&Gas journal with a focus on water resources:

Schilling, O. S. (2024). Prolog: Daten für nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft nötig. Aqua & Gas, 9/24.

2024
publication

See our new outreach article the thermal use of underground structures in Aqua&Gas:

Epting, J., Affolter, A., Dresmann, H., Février, S., & Schilling, O. S. (2024). Thermischer Einfluss von Untergrund-Bauten - Evaluierungsansätze und Nutzenpotenziale. Aqua & Gas, 6/24.

2024
publication

The hydrogeology research group is currently editing a special edition in Frontiers in Water on “Advances in Integrated Surface—Subsurface Hydrological Modeling”, together with Prof. Matteo Camporese of Uni Padova and Prof. Hoori Ajami of UC Riverside. The submission window is now open and we invite relevant contributions to the topic.”