Scientific Projects

Current projects

The department Surface Waters is involved in the following projects investigating effects of dams and hydropower production:

• The African Dams Project ADAPT aims at investigating the effects of large dams on biogeochemical processes along the aquatic continuum from land to ocean in the Zambezi basin. [...]
  
  
• The effects of pump storage operations on particle dynamics in a proglacial alpine reservoir are investigated in a project in the high-alpine Grimsel reservoirs. [...]
  
  
• Within the framework of the EC-project MAIOLICA the methane emissions of several reservoirs and lakes, are investigated. [...]
  

Lake Brienz project

The downstream effects of the hydropower dams on Lake Brienz have recently been studied in a multidisciplinary project, ranging from physical properties like turbidity to primary productivity and fish yield. Several Eawag research groups were involved in this project. [...]