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We’re the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Here you can follow our interdisciplinary research on land use, climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability, as well as project updates and events.
Excited to share and connect here!💚🌎🌱

🌍  𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 & 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗩𝗨 𝗔𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗺 💧 | Anne Van Loon 🟥 🌍  𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 & 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗩𝗨 𝗔𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗺 💧 I'm happy to announce that today (1 August) I have been promoted to 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 and my research group changes to ...

I'm not hanging around on Bluesky a lot anymore, but this promotion update is something to also share also here: I've been promoted to full professor! 🥳 www.linkedin.com/posts/anne-v...

#perfectstorm #droughts #floods | PerfectSTORM - Storylines of future extremes ------- 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰, 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 -------- The “𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘢𝘫𝘦𝘳𝘢” (𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦) has landed in Lima, Perú! With this interactive art exhibition curated by Heidi D. Mendoza and Milagros Ipa...

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Dialogues and travelling suitcase in Lima, Peru ——— 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗮, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘂 ———–“𝘚𝘦𝘲𝘶í𝘢𝘴 𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘳ú: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘭𝘢 𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘢 𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘰” We’re thr…

Heidi Mendoza, @alessiamatano.bsky.social, Ruben Weesie, Diego Marek, Elisa Armijos, Pedro Rau, Yulissa Estrada, Adriana Rojas, Andrés Figueroa, Milagros Iparraguirre, and many others helping, are organising a series of dialogues & exhibitions in Lima and Iquitos. perfect-storm.org/2025/05/31/d...

Not a bad place to work... With fresh coconut, a view on a branch of the Amazon river, preparing for our #PerfectSTORM project workshop and exhibition on droughts & floods in the Amazon region of Peru. I'm not complaining. 😊

📢 First DitA Webinar of 2025 - SAVE THE DATE 📢

March 27, 15:30–17:00 CET.

Bridging Science-Policy-Practice Gaps in Drought Risk Management & Resilience

Speakers:
✅ Dr. Daniel Tsegai (UNCCD)
✅ Dr. Ilyas Masih (IHE Delft)

continues in the next post...

Presentation by Ruben about his drought and floods project with @annevanloon.bsky.social

On this Int. Day of Women & Girls in Science, a call to action: read the work of female scientists, cite their papers, invite them for conferences, workshops & panels, nominate them for awards, collaborate with them on proposals. Fix the leaky pipeline with collaboration & recognition! #WomenInSTEM

I took the train & ferry from Utrecht to Helsinki (8h + 30h) for a workshop... and I totally loved it! 😍
#flyingless #slowtravel

Congratulations to Dr Raed Hamed! What an excellent PhD defence! Thanks also to the interesting questions of the opponents @anabastos.bsky.social @karinvdwiel.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social @agroclim.bsky.social Cheers to a great scientist and wonderful human being! 🎓🥂🎉

Happy new year!

Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world.

11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month.

Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

Our #GroundedExtremes project meeting in Madrid was a success! We discussed groundwater & drought issues in our case study locations, refined research plans & methodologies, did a Theory of Change exercise, discussed our Gender Equality & Social Inclusion strategy and visited the Alfamén region. 😍

𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙋𝘼𝙋𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙐𝙏!
𝘿𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙪𝙢 – 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙀𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙃𝙮𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡, 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨 by 43 authors from 34 institutions.
Based on literature & case studies we designed a typology and formulate 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.
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Not all on all papers. Just some of us collaborating on some papers.

The drought group writing week 2024 Last week we had our IVM group writing week in the beautiful province of Drenthe in the Netherlands! 17 drought group members joined: Shahana Bilalova, Davide Cotti, Lars de Graaff, Anna Luisa Hemshor...

The 2024 drought group writing week is a wrap!
hydrologicalextremes.org/2024/09/01/t...

Another exciting update from @Marit_vanTiel, who recently lectured on glacier hydrology at #Findelengletscher for @ige_eu. She captivated a group of curious young girls who might become future mountain hydrologists! 🌍🔬

📸: Fabienne Meier (Girls on Ice 2024)

IVM - VU Amsterdam Water & Climate Risk department day! We explored the interesting Waterloopbos & the beautiful city of Hasselt. We played the carillon, found the local streetart, and had drinks & dinner at a windmill. We had a lot of fun together! #HappyColleagues 😍

Grondwatermeter mei 2024

Grondwatermeter mei 2021

Droogteportaal

Het is goed nat op Vlieland! De grondwatermeter staat ver in het blauw (-25 cm), groot verschil met mei 2021 (-95 cm) terwijl dat ook een vrij nat jaar was. Droogteportaal laat ook extreem natte omstandigheden zien.

What a nice walk along the river Kromme Rijn, near Utrecht, in the Netherlands! 😍 #walkingrivers

Do you enjoy walking, do you like rivers? Then join this global initiative for walking along your local river on Sat 11 May, alone or with a group. Last chance to register TODAY! 👇 cirefluvial.com/walkingrivers/

If you are coming to #EGU24 too, check out the presentations of the IVM - VU Amsterdam #drought group.

Nice to travel to Vienna by train together with many colleagues and other geoscientists #train2EGU.

The VU IVM drought group almost complete today! First drought meeting for Jose Henao Casas joining us as postdoc on groundwater drought & Charles Wamucii visiting to present his PhD research on water distribution, modelling, serious games.

Happy to speak in the WARR seminar series this year, alongside long-time drought collaborator Lena Tallaksen! Please join us on 18 January. More info 👇

Researcher Exploring storylines of drought-flood events via data visualisation and art-science (f/m/... Do you have experience with data visualization and creative methods? Are you interested in bringing together qualitative and quantitative data on drought-to-flood events around the world? Please apply...

Vacancy alert! 📢

We are looking for a researcher on data visualisation & sci-art. Do you have the skills to combine qualitative & quantitative data on drought-to-flood events? Please apply.

Deadline: 10 Jan 24, expected start date: 1 Mar 24. More info: hydrologicalextremes.org/2023/12/07/p...

Postdoc position on Groundwater drought and adaptation (f/m/x) Do you have experience with groundwater data analysis and modelling? Are you interested in studying groundwater drought and designing sustainable adaptation measures? And do you want to develop your p...

Vacancy alert! 📢

We are looking for a postdoc on #groundwater #drought & #adaptation. PhD in groundwater data analysis & adaptation modelling? Interested in project management? Please apply.

Deadline: 10 Jan 24, expected start date: 1 Apr 24. More info: hydrologicalextremes.org/2023/12/07/p...

New interdisciplinary special issue with @eurogeosciences.bsky.social journals, including Geoscience Communication, on "Drought, Society, and Ecosystems" open for submissions! Submissions due by June 2024. 🔗For more info: gc.copernicus.org/articles/spe... #DroughtintheAnthropocene