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Sep 25
Taking Students form University of Bern and members of Swiss Geographical Society to an excursion to Leuk-Illgraben-Pfynwald
May 25
Presenting my student and my work at EGU25 Vienna:
EGU25-17859 | Orals | HS10.2 Do Trees Truly Take Up Winter Precipitation During Summer? (Elham Freund et al., Highlighted talk).
EGU25-11294 | Poster | HS2.5.1 Combined Data Assimilation of Satellite-Based Total Water Storage and Soil Moisture Data to Improve Global Evaporation Estimation (Haghdoost, Shekoofeh et al.)
Apr 25
Invited talk at University of Bern, Colloquium in Atmosphere, Climate and Earth Observation. I talked about: Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Interactions Under Climate Change: Insights from Moisture Manipulation Experiments at Pfynwald, Switzerland
Apr 25
Starting at WSL Zurich as a senior Scientist. Excited and Curious about this new chapter!
Mar 25
Conference on Missing links in drought research: linking plant physiology, soil hydrology, and climate science across scales, Ascona Switzerland: Presentation title: Drought Response Strategies of Pinus Sylvestris in a Long-Term Soil Moisture Manipulation Experiment: Insights from Pfynwald, Switzerland
Nov 24
Invited talk in IAC Colloquium, ETH Zurich, Do trees adapt to climate change? Soil and atmospheric moisture manipulation experiment at forest scale.
Sep 24
SwimScience, 2024, University of Zurich,
Soil, vegetation, atmosphere interactions in
a changing climate
Apr 24
Presenting the work in progress in Pfynwald on tree water uptake under soil manipulation experiment:
EGU24-15354 | Orals | HS10.8: Scots pine response to short-term dry conditions after long-term soil moisture manipulation experiment (Elham Freund et al. )
EGU24-759 | Posters | HS10.8
Forest Water Uptake Dynamics in the Long-Term Drought Experimental Site, Pfynwald – Intercomparison of Water Extraction and Isotope Analysis Methods (Maurus Villiger and Elham Freund)
Apr 24
Convening and chairing the hybrid session, HS2.2.3, "Advancing process representation for hydrological modeling across spatio-temporal scales” at EGU 2024.
Mar 24
"Tree Water Deficit workshop (TreeNet network) at WSL, Birmensdorf"
Mar 24
"Pfynwald workshop, long-term irrigation experiment and now VPD manipulation and rain exclusion experiment", Latest progress, WSL, Birmensdorf.
Nov 23
Zurich Hydrologist annual meeting, ETH Zurich, Talk title: Groundwater's fingerprint in stream network branching angles.
Oct 23
"Groundwater's fingerprint in stream network branching angles"is now Published in GRL, Volume 50. Issue 19. 16 Oct 2023. e2023GL103599
Sep 23
"SwimScience, annual science meeting by group of Hydrology and Climate, University of Zurich",
Talk title: Future resiLient forest in a chAnging climate (FLAME): isotope observations and mechanistic modeling of soil and vegetation water and energy dynamics
Sep 23
New publication by Rouholahnejad Freund et al. in Geophysical Research Letters: "Groundwater's fingerprint in stream network branching angles", accepted.
Aug 23
Field installation: In-situ xylem and soil water isotopes probes in long-term drought experimental site, Pfynwald, Switzerland.
Aug 23
Testing in-situ precipitation isotope sampler at long-term drought experimental site, Pfynwald, Switzerland.
Jul 23
New Master student join my group at University of Zurich
Apr 23
Convening and chairing the hybrid session, HS2.2.1, "Advancing process representation for hydrological modeling across spatio-temporal scales” at EGU 2023.
Apr 23
Highlighted talk "Groundwater’s footprint on the geometry of stream network"
” at GM9.1, EGU 2023.
Nov 22
Invited talk: presenting at Forschungsforum „2bis3“, University of Zurich on "Vertical and horizontal connectivity across scales".
Oct 22
Field installation: High frequency point dendrometers in long-term drought experimental site, Pfynwald, Switzerland.
Jul 22
Launching my EU funded Marie Curie Fellowship: "Future resiLient forest in a chAnging cliMatE (FLAME) at University of Zurich, Group of Hydrology and Climate.






