Water and Climate - VUB
@hydr-vub.bsky.social
Department of Water & Climate | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium | Posts on #climate #water #energy
Website: https://hydr.vub.be/ | GitHub: https://github.com/VUB-HYDR
Website: https://hydr.vub.be/ | GitHub: https://github.com/VUB-HYDR
❄️ We’re hiring!
The #bglacier group is looking for a motivated #PhD to join the #BECOOLproject and search for ancient ice near Princess Elisabeth Station in #Antarctica.
📋 Mix of modelling, remote sensing & fieldwork.
🗓️ Apply by 12 Dec: hydr.vub.be/media/attach...
Will you join us? 🙂
The #bglacier group is looking for a motivated #PhD to join the #BECOOLproject and search for ancient ice near Princess Elisabeth Station in #Antarctica.
📋 Mix of modelling, remote sensing & fieldwork.
🗓️ Apply by 12 Dec: hydr.vub.be/media/attach...
Will you join us? 🙂
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
❄️ We’re hiring!
The #bglacier group is looking for a motivated #PhD to join the #BECOOLproject and search for ancient ice near Princess Elisabeth Station in #Antarctica.
📋 Mix of modelling, remote sensing & fieldwork.
🗓️ Apply by 12 Dec: hydr.vub.be/media/attach...
Will you join us? 🙂
The #bglacier group is looking for a motivated #PhD to join the #BECOOLproject and search for ancient ice near Princess Elisabeth Station in #Antarctica.
📋 Mix of modelling, remote sensing & fieldwork.
🗓️ Apply by 12 Dec: hydr.vub.be/media/attach...
Will you join us? 🙂
Global farming practices are driving heat stress and water strain.
Read about our new findings just published in Nature Communications here: prez.ly/Xh0d
Read about our new findings just published in Nature Communications here: prez.ly/Xh0d
When Irrigation Backfires
Global farming practices are driving heat stress and water strain, VUB researchers warn
prez.ly
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Global farming practices are driving heat stress and water strain.
Read about our new findings just published in Nature Communications here: prez.ly/Xh0d
Read about our new findings just published in Nature Communications here: prez.ly/Xh0d
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Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend).
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Compounding future escalation of emissions- and irrigation-induced increases in humid-heat stress - Nature Communications
This study shows that future exposures to moist-heat increase more rapidly than those to dry-heat, and irrigation can further amplify moist-heat-related health risks. Improving irrigation efficiency a...
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend).
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 New paper alert!
Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉
Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉
Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Damage development on Antarctic ice shelves sensitive to climate warming - Nature Climate Change
Damages such as crevasses or cracks can be early indicators of ice shelf weakening. Here, the authors quantify changes in damage structures in Antarctic ice sheets, which show sensitivity to warming
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🚨 New paper alert!
Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉
Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research by postdoc Maaike Izeboud from the bglacier group in Nature Climate Change 🎉
Using 20 years of satellite data, she mapped Antarctic ice shelf fractures and showed how damage rises under high emissions but stabilises in low-emission futures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Honored to see our MeteoSaver software featured among the @time.com top-400 best inventions of 2025. MeteoSaver is a open-source weather data rescue software developed by @derrickmuheki.bsky.social working @hydr-vub.bsky.social @vubrussel.bsky.social
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
MeteoSaver: The Best Inventions of 2025: Special Mentions
Find out why MeteoSaver earned a special mention on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions.
time.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Honored to see our MeteoSaver software featured among the @time.com top-400 best inventions of 2025. MeteoSaver is a open-source weather data rescue software developed by @derrickmuheki.bsky.social working @hydr-vub.bsky.social @vubrussel.bsky.social
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
It was an honour to host this year's #OGGM workshop at @vubrussel.bsky.social . 3 days of #glacier modelling and so much more! Next year (10th year celebration!) the OGGM workshop will take place in #Obergurgl (24-28 AUG 2026)
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It was an honour to host this year's #OGGM workshop at @vubrussel.bsky.social . 3 days of #glacier modelling and so much more! Next year (10th year celebration!) the OGGM workshop will take place in #Obergurgl (24-28 AUG 2026)
Excited to be back on the #Morteratsch #glacier complex for our annual fieldwork. Together with colleagues from the Geography department, the coming week we will measure how the glacier is changing. Stay tuned for some updates!
@vubrussel.bsky.social #GLAMOS
@vubrussel.bsky.social #GLAMOS
September 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Excited to be back on the #Morteratsch #glacier complex for our annual fieldwork. Together with colleagues from the Geography department, the coming week we will measure how the glacier is changing. Stay tuned for some updates!
@vubrussel.bsky.social #GLAMOS
@vubrussel.bsky.social #GLAMOS
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"Revolutionary AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models": News article @nature.com describing efforts of @hydr-vub.bsky.social Researcher @derrickmuheki.bsky.social to rescue weather records from DR Congo using the MeteoSaver software he developed:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models
Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.
www.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Revolutionary AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models": News article @nature.com describing efforts of @hydr-vub.bsky.social Researcher @derrickmuheki.bsky.social to rescue weather records from DR Congo using the MeteoSaver software he developed:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Our ongoing climate data rescue work in DR Congo has been featured in the news articles of Nature Portfolio (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). As part of our project, Derrick Muheki (derrickmuheki.bsky.social) developed MeteoSaver, an open-source ML software for transcribing historical weather data.
‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models
Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.
www.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Our ongoing climate data rescue work in DR Congo has been featured in the news articles of Nature Portfolio (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). As part of our project, Derrick Muheki (derrickmuheki.bsky.social) developed MeteoSaver, an open-source ML software for transcribing historical weather data.
"Het risico op hittesterfte stijgt sterk. We moeten ons aanpassen aan escalerende hitterisico's", zegt Wim Thiery (wimthiery.bsky.social). Lusiter naar het volledige interview op Radio 1:
www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
VRT MAX
www.vrt.be
September 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"Het risico op hittesterfte stijgt sterk. We moeten ons aanpassen aan escalerende hitterisico's", zegt Wim Thiery (wimthiery.bsky.social). Lusiter naar het volledige interview op Radio 1:
www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...
Seppe Lampe (seppelampe.bsky.social), onderzoeker in onze groep, bespreekt de recente grote bosbranden in Europa en de rol van klimaatverandering bij grote bosbranden. Luister hier op Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/3FiQ...
open.spotify.com/episode/3FiQ...
Spotify – Web Player
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September 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Seppe Lampe (seppelampe.bsky.social), onderzoeker in onze groep, bespreekt de recente grote bosbranden in Europa en de rol van klimaatverandering bij grote bosbranden. Luister hier op Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/3FiQ...
open.spotify.com/episode/3FiQ...
Just in: A response to the European Commission Call for Evidence, on the needs for the upcoming EU climate adaptation plan (ECAP) from the new EGU Climate Hazard and Risk Task Force (including one of our members: Marie Cavitte) here: www.egu.eu/news/1470/th...
The EGU Climate Hazard and Risk Task Force provide evidence for the EU’s proposed ‘European climate resilience and risk management initiative’.
<p>The European Union’s proposed 'European climate resilience and risk management initiative' aims to set out a comprehensive framework and plan for action to support EU countries, notably on prepared...
www.egu.eu
September 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Just in: A response to the European Commission Call for Evidence, on the needs for the upcoming EU climate adaptation plan (ECAP) from the new EGU Climate Hazard and Risk Task Force (including one of our members: Marie Cavitte) here: www.egu.eu/news/1470/th...
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🌍🔥 Billions of children’s futures are at stake.
Kids born today face unprecedented heatwaves, floods & droughts if warming hits 3.5 °C.
Meeting the 1.5 °C Paris goal could protect millions. Urgent #ClimateAction is needed now!
Read our latest Research Showcase:
www.vscentrum.be/post/global-...
Kids born today face unprecedented heatwaves, floods & droughts if warming hits 3.5 °C.
Meeting the 1.5 °C Paris goal could protect millions. Urgent #ClimateAction is needed now!
Read our latest Research Showcase:
www.vscentrum.be/post/global-...
Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes
Millions of today’s children face unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, floods, droughts, and storms if global warming reaches 3.5 °C. Deep emission cuts to meet the Paris 1.5 °C goal could pr...
www.vscentrum.be
July 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🌍🔥 Billions of children’s futures are at stake.
Kids born today face unprecedented heatwaves, floods & droughts if warming hits 3.5 °C.
Meeting the 1.5 °C Paris goal could protect millions. Urgent #ClimateAction is needed now!
Read our latest Research Showcase:
www.vscentrum.be/post/global-...
Kids born today face unprecedented heatwaves, floods & droughts if warming hits 3.5 °C.
Meeting the 1.5 °C Paris goal could protect millions. Urgent #ClimateAction is needed now!
Read our latest Research Showcase:
www.vscentrum.be/post/global-...
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School's out for summer: What does extreme heat do to children?
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www.context.news/climate-risk...
School's out for summer: What does extreme heat do to children? | Context by TRF
What happens to a child's body when they sit in class during a heatwave and what does this mean for their long-term health?
www.context.news
July 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
School's out for summer: What does extreme heat do to children?
www.context.news/climate-risk...
www.context.news/climate-risk...
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In the absence of global climate mitigation, we project a regime shift to a world dominated by compound hazards or impacts. In our new paper by Gabriele Messori, we find that compound hazard occurrences will become the norm in many regions under RCP6.0 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
June 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
In the absence of global climate mitigation, we project a regime shift to a world dominated by compound hazards or impacts. In our new paper by Gabriele Messori, we find that compound hazard occurrences will become the norm in many regions under RCP6.0 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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🔥 Global mapping shows a 500%+ rise in compound climate hazards by 2100, especially heatwaves. Belgian research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel highlights the shift from isolated to concurrent events: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#ClimateAction
#ClimateAction
June 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
🔥 Global mapping shows a 500%+ rise in compound climate hazards by 2100, especially heatwaves. Belgian research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel highlights the shift from isolated to concurrent events: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#ClimateAction
#ClimateAction
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Paper in discussion at GMD on an AI/ML approach to data rescue of meteorological records from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... really impressive stuff from PhD student Derrick Muheki out of @wimthiery.bsky.social group.
MeteoSaver v1.0: a machine-learning based software for the transcription of historical weather data
Abstract. Archives of observed weather data present unique opportunities for scientists to obtain long time series of the historical climate for many regions of the world. Unfortunately, most of these...
egusphere.copernicus.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Paper in discussion at GMD on an AI/ML approach to data rescue of meteorological records from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... really impressive stuff from PhD student Derrick Muheki out of @wimthiery.bsky.social group.
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Over de verhoogde kans op een hete zomer volgend op een droge lente: www.knack.be/nieuws/milie...
Wordt het een droge en hete zomer? ‘De kans is zeker groter dan vorig jaar’
Na de uitzonderlijk droge lengte is de angst voor een hete zomer groter dan ooit.
www.knack.be
June 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Over de verhoogde kans op een hete zomer volgend op een droge lente: www.knack.be/nieuws/milie...
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Will you live an unprecedented life?
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Born into the Climate Crisis 2. An unprecedented life: Protecting children’s rights in a changing climate | Save the Children’s Resource Centre
The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it is a pressing reality that children are facing today. Despite having contributed the least to the climate crisis, the inherent intergenerational injustic...
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net
May 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Will you live an unprecedented life?
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"What will climate change mean for today’s children, and their children?" - A talk by climate scientist @wimthiery.bsky.social, one of the Architects of Hope selected by House of Sustainable Transitions.
🗓 July 2, 2025 – Online
Register: www.house-of-sustainable-transitions.be/details-en-r...
🗓 July 2, 2025 – Online
Register: www.house-of-sustainable-transitions.be/details-en-r...
June 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"What will climate change mean for today’s children, and their children?" - A talk by climate scientist @wimthiery.bsky.social, one of the Architects of Hope selected by House of Sustainable Transitions.
🗓 July 2, 2025 – Online
Register: www.house-of-sustainable-transitions.be/details-en-r...
🗓 July 2, 2025 – Online
Register: www.house-of-sustainable-transitions.be/details-en-r...
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This study was led by Luke Grant as part of his PhD in the bclimate group @hydr-vub.bsky.social and benefited from a wonderful collaboration with co-authors @innevanderkelen.bsky.social, @erichfischer.bsky.social, @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and Lukas Gudmundsson (@usyseth.bsky.social). 19/n
May 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This study was led by Luke Grant as part of his PhD in the bclimate group @hydr-vub.bsky.social and benefited from a wonderful collaboration with co-authors @innevanderkelen.bsky.social, @erichfischer.bsky.social, @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and Lukas Gudmundsson (@usyseth.bsky.social). 19/n
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NEW – Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C | @setupelz.bsky.social @robinlamboll.bsky.social @wimthiery.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social @cjsmith.be @shonali-p.bsky.social
Read here:
Read here:
Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C - Carbon Brief
Our findings show that some regions, such as western Europe and North America, will accrue net-zero carbon debt as soon as 2030.
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April 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
NEW – Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C | @setupelz.bsky.social @robinlamboll.bsky.social @wimthiery.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social @cjsmith.be @shonali-p.bsky.social
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What an interesting week we had at the 2nd EUTOPIA Groundwater Workshop and Conference in Dresden.
We built groundwater models of managed aquifer recharge systems and reflected on interdisciplinary ways of measuring the success of MAR.
We built groundwater models of managed aquifer recharge systems and reflected on interdisciplinary ways of measuring the success of MAR.
March 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
What an interesting week we had at the 2nd EUTOPIA Groundwater Workshop and Conference in Dresden.
We built groundwater models of managed aquifer recharge systems and reflected on interdisciplinary ways of measuring the success of MAR.
We built groundwater models of managed aquifer recharge systems and reflected on interdisciplinary ways of measuring the success of MAR.
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In our new paper in @pnas.org led by @setupelz.bsky.social, we coin and analyze the concept of net-zero carbon depth. We also highlight how net-zero carbon debt accrual and lifetime extreme event exposure compound towards a disproportionate climate change burden on current young generations
📢 New paper w/ G. Ganti @robinlamboll.bsky.social L. Grant @cjsmith.be @shonali-p.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social K. Riahi @wimthiery.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social
We examine a forward-looking measure to guide collective efforts in the era of climate overshoot: net-zero carbon debt.
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We examine a forward-looking measure to guide collective efforts in the era of climate overshoot: net-zero carbon debt.
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April 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In our new paper in @pnas.org led by @setupelz.bsky.social, we coin and analyze the concept of net-zero carbon depth. We also highlight how net-zero carbon debt accrual and lifetime extreme event exposure compound towards a disproportionate climate change burden on current young generations
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What's the fairest way to deal with the (inevitable) overshoot of 1.5°C?
New paper led by @setupelz.bsky.social explores the concept of "net zero carbon debt"
Here's the VUB press release: press.vub.ac.be/who-is-respo...
New paper led by @setupelz.bsky.social explores the concept of "net zero carbon debt"
Here's the VUB press release: press.vub.ac.be/who-is-respo...
March 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What's the fairest way to deal with the (inevitable) overshoot of 1.5°C?
New paper led by @setupelz.bsky.social explores the concept of "net zero carbon debt"
Here's the VUB press release: press.vub.ac.be/who-is-respo...
New paper led by @setupelz.bsky.social explores the concept of "net zero carbon debt"
Here's the VUB press release: press.vub.ac.be/who-is-respo...