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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Challenges and opportunities in catchment hydrology"
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Paolo Benettin\, ECHO (Laboratory of Ecohydrology)\, IIE\, 
 EPF Lausanne\nAbstract:\nCatchment hydrology deals with the study of flow 
 and transport at the scale of whole watersheds. It is a broad discipline t
 hat ranges from the study of precipitation to land as rainfall or snowfall
 \, to its infiltration into the soil and its (long) groundwater journey up
  to a main stream outlet. Catchments are the place where water interacts w
 ith soil and where it supports terrestrial life\, including human’s. The
 y are sometimes seen as large and heterogeneous biogeochemical reactors\, 
 or as fundamental organizing structures for landforms and ecosystems. From
  a water management point of view\, catchments are an ideal domain to form
 ulate (and close) the water balance. The main challenge with catchment hyd
 rologic processes is the intrinsic and wide heterogeneity of the natural e
 nvironment. Although technological development provides continuously impro
 ved ways to observe and sense the landscape\, our ability to aggregate het
 erogeneous processes\, especially in the subsurface\, is still inadequate.
  Catchments are also fertile land for new development and discoveries. Som
 e critical research questions\, bearing directly on some of the most press
 ing societal problems\, include how runoff is generated\, how long water (
 and solutes) are retained within a catchment\, what water plants have acce
 ss to and how hydrologic systems react to change.\n\nShort biography:\nPao
 lo Benettin is a research scientist at the Laboratory of Ecohydrology at E
 PFL since 2015. He owns a master and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering 
 from University of Padova\, Italy. His main research field is catchment hy
 drology\, with special interest in hydrologic transport and travel time di
 stributions. His work aims at bridging and implementing theories of transp
 ort at catchment scale with empirical evidence from field measurements.\n
  
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