Research

Our research activities are organized in six groups that are strongly interlinked among each other and with most research departments at Eawag:

Systems Analysis, Surface Waters
Description and handling of uncertainty in modelling for research and environmental decision support. Application focus on surface water management.

Soil, Groundwater, Catchments
Understanding and prediction of water and solutes storage and transfer in watersheds over a range of space and time scales.

Water, Environment and Food Security
Qualitative and quantitative modeling for integrated water, food and environment management.

Material Flows
Modelling and understanding the dynamics of flows and stocks in the anthroposphere focusing on the contamination of the environmental compartments.

Ecological Modelling
Development of mechanistic models of aquatic ecosystems. Application of these models in environmental research and decision support for environmental management.

Mathemathical Methods in Environmental Research
Development of stochastic models of complex natural and social systems and algorithms for parameter inference and prediction.