Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling

Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling

In SIAM, we develop and apply models and formal techniques in order to understand, demonstrate, and predict the behavior of natural, technical, social and economical systems that pertain to water and other natural resources. Read more

New Publications

Rizzo, R., Dziadosz, M., Kyathanahally, S.  P., Shamaei, A., & Kreis, R. (2022). Quantification of MR spectra by deep learning in an idealized setting: investigation of forms of input, network architectures, optimization by ensembles of networks, and training bias. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. doi:10.1002/mrm.29561, Institutional Repository
Qi, W., Feng, L., Liu, J., & Yang, H. (2022). Growing hydropower potential in China under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming and beyond. Environmental Research Letters, 17(11), 114049 (11 pp.). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac9c72, Institutional Repository
Zhang, X., Yang, H., Zhang, W., Fenicia, F., Peng, H., & Xu, G. (2022). Hydrologic impacts of cascading reservoirs in the middle and lower Hanjiang River basin under climate variability and land use change. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 44, 101253 (22 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101253, Institutional Repository
Kyathanahally, S. P., Hardeman, T., Reyes, M., Merz, E., Bulas, T., Brun, P., … Baity-Jesi, M. (2022). Ensembles of data-efficient vision transformers as a new paradigm for automated classification in ecology. Scientific Reports, 12, 18590 (11 pp.). doi:10.1038/s41598-022-21910-0, Institutional Repository
Viswanathan, M., Scheidegger, A., Streck, T., Gayler, S., & Weber, T. K. D. (2022). Bayesian multi-level calibration of a process-based maize phenology model. Ecological Modelling, 474, 110154 (16 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110154, Institutional Repository

News

October 10, 2022 –

Nature conservation pays off: amphibians benefit from new ponds - despite many causes of endangerment that still affect them. This is what researchers from WSL and Eawag found in a joint study using data from amphibian monitoring...

Nature conservation pays off: amphibians benefit from new ponds - despite many causes of endangerment that still affect them. This is what researchers from WSL and Eawag found in a joint study using data from amphibian monitoring in the canton of Aargau. The study was published in the scientific journal PNAS.

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Events

04. - 09.06.​2023,
12.00 pm
Eawag Kastanienbaum

14th Eawag Summer School

Projects

Bridging the gap between data science and mechanistic modelling for a better understanding of community composition.
Heterogeneous data platform for operational modeling and forecasting of Swiss lakes in collaboration with the Swiss Data Science Center.
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown empirical performance but they are still nevertheless a black-box function modeling data
Scalable Bayesian inference framework for uncertainty quantification in stochastic models using thousands of processors in parallel at the Swiss Supercomputing Center and ETH Zurich.
Mechanistic modelling of the macroinvertebrate community composition in rivers.
We compare invasions in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems primarily at large (national) spatial scales and among several higher-level taxa (insects, molluscs, crustaceans, all major vertebrate classes, and plants).
We use machine learning methods to predict the effects of chemicals on aquatic species.
Development of a semi-distributed hydrological model with a “flexible” approach. Testing and comparing of different model structures to combine modeling and experimenting into a learning process.