Thank you Benjamin! I agree that 3D visualizations are very helpful. QGIS also has a simple plugin to convert DEMs into STL and I used it for printing the Wigger catchment after burning the river network deep into the DEM for better visualization.

This looks powerful, but students can't look into the model if they want, right? I had a very good experience with @jpgannon.bsky.social's cuahsi.shinyapps.io/HBV-model/ for a class of ~100 bachelor students with mixed backgrounds. I definitely recommend it. We need more of these educational apps!

Coquet river near Longframlington, Northumberland, UK. Sometimes I wish I could have a research proposal featuring all the nice rivers I come across.

The first urban runoff after a few dry weeks can be very dirty, and it ususally goes straight into the river. The one in the movie is not an isolated spill: all the roads I crossed were the same color.

The new Ecotron system manufactured by UGT and funded by the UNIL Faculty of Geoscience and the Environment @fgse-unil.bsky.social is operational! It's a rather big machine with a very big potential for ecohydrological experimentation.

Here indeed Gianluca Botter introducing his impressive project

MS Student Alessio Nembrini showing Ilja van Meerveld his ongoing work: a continuous-tracer injection device to estimate streamflow and stage-discharge rates. The initially evident fluorescein is hardly visible after ~50 m as it mixes with the stream water. The fluorometer is 200 m downstream.

Youri Rothfuss (Federal Research Center in Julich, Germany) presenting us their lab on wheels: the IsoMobile. What a wonderful mobile infrastructure to measure water stable isotopes in-situ!