At the Land Use and Water Quality Conference (LUWQ2019) in Aarhus, Denmark (3-6 June),  Biowater is organising a special session on: ‘Land and water management for a sustainable bioeconomy’  In a world with bioeconomy we will (increasingly) use renewable biological resources from land and sea – such as crops, tree biomass, fish, animals and micro-organisms. This change will most likely mean

A special section with the title: ’Riparian Buffers’ are published from Journal of Environmental Quality as an outlet from the LUWQ2017 Conference in den Haag, The Netherlands. Marc Stutter from James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, who is within the BIOWATER consortium, has together with three co-authors edited this special issue that contains an overview paper with the title: ‘Current

SWAT – Soil and Water Assessment Tool – is a much used modelling tool for simulation of catchment processes. BIOWATER’s first course in this model was held during the last week of May 2018, at the University of Aarhus. A new SWAT Course is now planned for 27-29 May 2019 in the Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University Campus, Aarhus, see full information in

A new paper on hydropeaking was recently published in NATURE Scientific Report: “Changes in short term river flow regulation and hydropeaking in Nordic rivers”. The main author is Biowater PhD-student Faisal Bin Ashraf, who studies at the University of Oulu. In a future with more focus on renewable energy, it is likely that the role of hydropower as a load

A review of the functionalities of 11 integrated buffer zones (IBZ) located in Denmark, Great Britain and Sweden has recently been published. The IBZs under investigation were established between 2012 and 2014 at five locations in Denmark, Great Britain and Sweden. Each IBZ consisted of two compartments: an aquatic part called a ditch or pond and an infiltration zone planted with

  What will the future look like in the Nordic countries? Will we follow a green road, or will we go for less sustainable pathways? Will presently indigestible plants be common food for us tomorrow? Future scenarios were some of the main questions discussed during BIOWATER’s first summer camp, which was held at Sandbjerg Manor, just outside Sønderborg in Denmark

Next year, the LAND USE AND WATER QUALITY (LUWQ) Conference will be held in Århus, Denmark (3-6 June 2019). LuWQ2019 is an international and interdisciplinary conference on the cutting edge of science, management and policy, to minimise effects of agriculture and land use changes on the quality of groundwater and surface waters. BIOWATER is convening a special session on Land

In Biowater’s Module 2, researchers are investigating the cycles of nutrients, carbon and water, and how these are affected by land use and climate change. A new paper (open access) examines the impact of global change on carbon cycles in a small, forested catchment. The paper gives the results of 30 years of measurements, as well as sediment dating and

A SWAT PhD course will be held for Biowater PhD students in Silkeborg, Denmark, on 27 May – 1 June 2018. The objectives of the course are to give students a thorough understanding of catchment modelling – hydrology and water quality, to learn how to set up, calibrate and validate a catchment model and to perform scenario analyses, to provide