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Frédéric and Concetta joined the lab!

Published:12.03.25 — CHANGE has two new lab members: welcome Fred and Concetta!

Agrivoltaics pilot plant at Heggelbach Farm in Germany - Tobi Kellner, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Modeling ecohydrological dynamics in agrivoltaic systems

Published:11.03.25 — Our new paper on "Controls of Ecohydrological Grassland Dynamics in Agrivoltaic Systems" has just been published in Earth's Future!

Felix Bauer and Xinyi Luo join CHANGE!

Published:06.12.24 — Felix joined CHANGE as a PhD student, while Xinyi will stay with us for one year as a visiting PhD student! Welcome both!

Green Academy seminar: Food, from land to data

Published:26.11.24 — Sara gave a seminar on "Crop Production, Climate, and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities" at the 5th edition of the Green Academy seminar series

New paper on catchment metabolism

Published:10.10.24 — Our latest paper, led by postdoc Francesca Bassani and titled "Toward a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size", has just been published in PNAS!

Filippo Miele joins CHANGE!

Published:02.10.24 — As a Postdoc in the lab, Filippo will work on a new project focusing on carbon removal in wetland restoration!

FRAME kickoff workshop at EPFL

Published:27.09.24 — The kickoff workshop of the FRAME (A FAIR Protocol for Hybrid Models and Data in Hydrology) project was held in Lausanne on September 25-26!

Qiming Sun joins CHANGE and the SMART-AGRI project kicks-off!

Published:03.09.24 — As a PhD student in the lab, Qiming will work on assessing the benefits of climate-smart agriculture within the SNSF-project SMART-AGRI!

Contributive workshop Campus Piéton, EPFL ©Niels Ackermann (from https://doi.org/10.47982/spool.2023.1.06)

A new project on urban SURFACE co-design has just started!

Published:02.09.24 — CHANGE was awarded an ENAC Fribourg Grant to develop a co-design toolkit and methodology for the adaptation of Fribourg’s cantonal roads into multimodal passage-paysages.

From Weber et al. (2024), Hydro-pedotransfer functions: a roadmap for future development, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 3391–3433, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3391-2024.

Review article on pedotransfer functions highlighted in HESS!

Published:29.07.24 — The review article on “Hydro-pedotransfer functions: a roadmap for future development” has just been published and selected as Editor's highlight in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences!

Fair Data Principles - From Wikimedia Commons

Two new projects on Open Research Data in ecohydrology starting soon!

Published:13.07.24 — CHANGE received funding from the ETH Domain Open Research Data (ORD) Program for two new projects starting in Fall 2024!

Ecohydrology Summer School at EPFL Valais Wallis and ETH Zürich

Published:23.06.24 — We have just concluded the Ecohydrology Summer School, an intense and stimulating week between Zurich and Sion!

EGU General Assembly 2024

Published:22.04.24 — It was a busy and exciting week for CHANGE at the 2024 EGU General Assembly in Vienna!

Lavaux, Switzerland: Lake Geneva and the Swiss Alps landscape seen from Lavaux vineyard tarraces in Canton of Vaud (pexels.com)

New project on climate change impacts on Swiss crop suitability

Published:29.02.24 — CHANGE has received funding from the E4S Center to evaluate climate-driven changes in crop suitability across Switzerland.

Akash Koppa and Sebastián Vivero join CHANGE!

Published:02.02.24 — As a Postdoc in the lab, Akash will work on the development of hybrid modeling farmeworks for ecohydrological applications. As a Technician, Sebastián will be in charge of setting up monitoring campaigns and conducting drone surveys across several field sites in Valais.