Nordic Hydrological Conference 2026

18.8.2026 08:00

Alandica Kultur och Kongress

Program

 

Abstracts in Oral Sessions           Abstracts in Poster Session

 

DAY 1: Tuesday, 18th of August

8:00-9:00

Registration & Badge pick-up, Entrance Foyer

9:00-9:15

Welcoming session, Stora salen

Björn Klöve, Petteri Alho & Torill Engen Skaugen

9:15-9:40

Opening Speech, Stora Salen

Magnus Eriksson

9:40-10:20

Keynote, Stora Salen

Lena Merete Tallaksen

10:20-10:50

Coffee break, Entrance Foyer

10:50-11:30

Keynote, Stora Salen

Harrie-Jan Henricks-Franssen

11:30-13:00

Lunch Break, Entrance Foyer

13:00-14:45


 

 

Parallel Sessions

Water Governance, Society and Transformative Action, Part 1

Chair. Trine Jahr Hegdahl (ok)

Auditorium (2nd floor)

Ecology & Climate Change Impacts

Chair. Oliver Koit

Ryssö (2nd floor)

Snow, Ice and Cold-region Processes

Chair. Pertti Ala-Aho

Ramsö (3rd floor)

13:00-13:15

Assessing Sociohydrological Impacts of Water Diversion using Hydrogeodesy and Participatory Approaches

Martin Maranon, Stockholm University

Spatial patterns and long-term trends in ecological flow in the Baltic Sea Basin

Riina Raasuke,Estonian University of Life Sciences

Morphodynamics under Ice: Mapping Bed Shear Stress in a Subartic Ice-covered River

Marijke De Vet, Aalto University

13:15-13:30

Societal impact of socio-hydrological research – a strategic approach and lessons learnt

Mia Pihlajamäki, Aalto University

Land use drives uneven taxonomic and functional biodiversity loss in Nordic freshwaters

Henna Pääkkö, University of Oulu

High resolution river ice monitoring through camera systems in Finland

Jiahui Qiu, University of Oulu

13:30-13:45

Cities Living With Water: An integrative literature review on transformative urban water management

Christop Gocht, University of Oulu

Detecting Spatial Early Warning Signals of Hydrologic Destabilization Across Amazonian Ecoregions.

Marisol Dominguez, Texas A&M Agrilife Research-El Paso; Budyko Research Institute., Inc.

The ability of LSTM to model snowmelt versus rainfall generated floods

Sigrid Jørgensen Bakke, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE)

13:45-14:00

Observing water with smartphones - experiences from the CrowdWater project

Jan Seibert

Mapping dynamic instream habitats with multispectral ALS and 2D hydraulic modeling

Emmy Kärkkäinen, University of Turku

Modelling the impacts of climate change on river ice in Finnish rivers

Reeta Vaahtera, Aalto University

14:00-14:15

Image generative-AI supporting the co-design of urban nature-based solutions with different stakeholders 

Luma Gabriela Fonseca Alves, University of Turku

Estimating climate change adaptation measures in lake regulation in Oulu River catchment, Finland

Miia Kumpumäki, Finnish Environment Institute

Multi-Task Deep Learning for Snow Depth Estimation, Forecasting, and Severity-Graded Anomaly Detection in the Nordic Region

Jenberia Getnet Demil, University of Oulu

14:15-14:30

Future proof nature-based solutions fit to the local contexts: Four water related cases from global south

Simo Sarkki, University of Oulu

Role of hydrodynamic modelling in generating fish habitat-flow rating curves in MesoHABSIM: Lithuania case

Karolina Gurjazkaite, Lithuanian Energy Institute

Coupled hydro–thermal mechanisms driving sub–arctic riverbank erosion

Hailay Zeray Tedla, Aalto University

14:30-14:45

 

Combined air – water temperature and stream chemistry measurements for investigating stream water origin in mountainous snow-dominated catchments

Theodore Kuhn, University of Colorado Boulder

Extending the open-source 2D river ice model KHIONE with Eulerian continuum-rheology surface ice dynamics

Heli Yu, University of Oulu

14:45-15:15

Coffee break, Entrance Foyer

15:15-16:45


 

Parallel Sessions

Water Governance, Society and Transformative Action, Part 2

Chair. Mia Pihlajamäki

Auditorium (2nd floor)

Monitoring & Observation Technologies

Chair. Eliisa Lotsari

Ryssö (2nd floor)

Arctic Hydroclimate & Processes

Chair. Petteri Alho

Ramsö (3rd floor)

15:15-15:30

Evaluation of trade-offs between ecological, societal and management objectives in Vantaa River catchment, using indicator analysis and participatory mapping

Anita Poturalska, Aalto University

A framework for non-perennial streams: from sparse data to network dynamics

Nicola Durighetto, University of Oulu

Three Decades of Change: Linking Hydrology and Carbon Cycling Across Arctic Ecosystems

Torben Christensen, University of Oulu

15:30-15:45

Letting communities ask the questions: extreme citizen science for water protection

Jaanus Terasmaa, Institute of Ecology at School of Natural Science and Health, Tallinn University

Exploring river velocities among different Finnish rivers through UAV monitoring

Jan Olsman, Aalto University

Bridging hydroclimate and ecosystem monitoring for catchment-scale understanding of Arctic system change

Johanna Mård, Uppsala University

15:45-16:00

Saving the Baltic Sea starts beyond agricultural land: Why a food system perspective is crucial for unlocking transformative pathways

Tanya Santalahti, University of Turku

Implementation of an agile sensing network for informing river health

Connie Tulloch, UWE, Bristol

Climate-driven extreme winter thaw disrupts baseflow hydrology and activates summer like primary production in a subarctic stream

Kaisa-Riikka Mustonen, University of Oulu

16:00-16:15

Catchment-based planning and digitalisation of water sector in Finland: Experts’ insights

Alexandra Malmström, Aalto University

Lauri Ahopelto, Finnish Environment Institute

Development of a Continuous Flow Monitoring System: Application to a Compound River–Floodplain Setting

Seyed Mahdi Jafari Mohammadi, Aalto University

Towards Integrated Monitoring of the Svalbard Water Cycle

Ivar Berthling, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate

16:15-16:30

Transboundary water resources monitoring and modelling using remote sensing and artificial intelligence

Tatiana Solovey, Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute

Quality control of high-frequency sensor data using SentemQC

Sofie Van't Veen, Aarhus University

3 Years of Turbulent Fluxes at a Sub-Arctic Peatland and the Uncertainty in Water and Carbon Dynamics

Jon Cranko Page, University of Oulu

18:00-20:00

Ice Breaker - Åland Maritime Museum & the Pommern Ship

 

DAY 2: Wednesday, 19th of August

8:30-9:00

Morning coffee, Entrance Foyer

9:05-9:45

Keynote, Stora Salen

Simon Stisen

9:45-10:25

Keynote, Stora Salen

Fernando Jaramilllo

10:30-12:00

Poster session, Auditorium

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break, Entrance Foyer

12:30-14:00

General Assembly, Ramsö (3rd floor)

14:00-15:45

 

 

Parallel Sessions

Sustainable Water Management & Engineering Solutions, Part 1

Chair. Hannu Marttila

Auditorium (2nd floor)

Drought

Chair. Harri Koivusalo

Ryssö (2nd floor)

AI & Machine Learning

Chair. Mehdi Rasti

Ramso (3rd floor)

 

14:00-14:15

Spectral-based Indices for assessing flow regime alterations in dammed rivers: A global perspective

Ramin Faal Gandomkar, University of Oulu

Hydrological droughts in Denmark: New insights from observations, integrated national hydrological modelling, and future projections

Ida Seidenfaden, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Near real-time flow conversion in heavily vegetated rivers: leveraging ML to provide automatic high-frequency discharge for time-critical applications

Rasmus Ringgaard, Agency for Green Transition and Aquatic Environment

 

14:15-14:30

Cross-scale translation of Hydrological Information in Nordic catchments: Bridging Global, National, and Catchment Models with in-situ Observations

Asvath Kunadi, Aalto University

New drought monitoring tool for Denmark

Lucas Dalgaard Jensen, Danish Meteorological Institute

Automated anomaly detection for industrial discharge monitoring: A simulation-based comparison of methods

Hung Bui, University of Oulu

14:30-14:45

Multi-objective calibration and extended validation of the National Hydrological Model of Denmark

Raphael Schneider, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Department of Hydrology

 

Drought-driven crop yield forecasting in Sweden through a machine-learning framework

Claudia Canedo Rosso,Karlstad University

Enhancing the Robustness of Deep Learning Hydrological Models in High-Latitude Catchments

Bilal Liaqat, University of Turku

 

14:45-15:00

Noora Veijalainen: Projected hydrological changes in Finland with CMIP6 climate scenarios

Noora Veijalainen, Finnish Environment Institute

 

Future climate change impacts on drought frequency and intensity in the Nordic and Baltic region using the Euro-CORDEX ensemble

Ruben Häberli, University of Copenhagen and the Danish Meteorological Institute

Multivariate error detection using spatio-temporal attention - MEDUSA

Simo Ylönen, University of Oulu

 

15:00-15:15

Evaluating flexible process-based hydrological configurations against data-driven benchmarks: a large-sample study across 109 Norwegian catchments

Olga Silantyeva, University of Oslo

 

Text-mining applications to study drought risk to drinking water supply in the Nordic region

Jeanne Fernandez, Uppsala University

Sensitivity of SWOT-Derived Lake Water Levels and Surface Extent to Data Products and Processing Choices

Christina Elena Albus, Lund University

 

15:15-15:30

Assessing ocean alkalinity enhancement using mining side streams: life cycle, regulatory, biology and economic perspectives

Jari Silander, Finnish Environment Institute

 

Changes and drivers behind observed meteorological summer droughts in Denmark

Tobias Nørkjær Holmgaard, Danish Meteorological Organization (DMI)

Minimal local recalibration for Sentinel-2 chlorophyll-a monitoring across heterogeneous inland waterbodies

Mateusz Piejak, Department of Hydrobiology and Protection of Ecosystems, University of Life Sciences in Lublin

 

 15:30-15:45

Environmental and technical factors behind Legionella risk in Finland

Ellinoora Savonen, University of Oulu

 

Global daily 9 km remotely sensed soil moisture (2015–2025) with microwave radiative transfer-guided learning

Sheng Wang, Aarhus University

15:45-16:15

Coffee break, Entrance Foyer

16:15-17:30

Parallel Sessions

Sustainable Water Management & Engineering solutions, Part 2

Chair. Michael Butts

Auditorium (2nd floor)

Watershed & Reach Scale Modelling

Chair. Toomas Tamm

Ryssö (2nd floor)

Floods, Precipitation, & Freshwater Vulnerability, Part 1

Chair. Sigrid Jørgensen Bakke

Ramsö (3rd floor)

16:15-16:30

Environmental Loads of Emerging Contaminants in Finnish WWTP Effluents: Seasonality and Plant-Specific Variations on Consistently Detected Compounds

Robel Sahilu Bekele, University of Oulu

Nutrient Mobilization Risk Index for Climate-Adaptive Management in A Northern River Basin

Abubaker Omer, Aalto University

Compound flood estimation in an urban catchment

Anne Fleig, Hydrology Department, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE)

16:30-16:45

Data-driven optimization of mine water monitoring for sustainable mining

Hafsa Ahmed Munia, Geological Survey of Finland GTK

The WSFS‑Vemala water quality and nutrient load model system supporting planning and decision‑making in Finland

Maiju Narikka, Finnish Environment Institute

High resolution rainfall and flood forecasting in Denmark: Operational experiences from an out-of-season, record-breaking precipitation event

Emma Dybro Thomassen, Danish Meteorological Institute

16:45-17:00

Integrated Water Balance Modeling - Sustainable and Climate-Adapted Water Management in the Borken Catchment using MIKE SHE

Philipp Huttner, DHI A/S

Runoff components highlight differences in similarly performing hydrological models: Examples from SWAT+ and HYPE model setups

Arturs Veinbergs, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies (LBTU)

Complementing knowledge of compound flooding with direct estuarine measurements

Tua Nylen, University of Turku

17:00-17:15

Why these variables? A systematic foundation for global hydroclimatic impact data cubes

Asvath Kunadi, Aalto University

Model Calibration of Sediment–Water Phosphorus Exchange and Oxygen Dynamics in a Boreal Lake

Kseniia Kortunova, University of Eastern Finland

Advancing urban flood simulation and prediction by machining learning

Linmei Nie, Centre for Sustainable Development and Innovation of Water Technology (CSDI)

17:15-17:30

Synthetic drainage network generation for urban catchments: An adaptive approach customized for northern cities

Francesco Dell’Aira, Aalto University

Landslide indices based on output from a rainfall-runoff model

Thomas Skaugen, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate - NVE

Opportunistic rainfall observations: current status and applications

Jonas Olsson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

18:30-23:00

Conference Dinner - Arkipelag Hotel, Banquet Hall

 

DAY 3: Thursday, 20th of August

09:00-09:30

Morning Coffee, Entrance Foyer

09:30-11:00

 


 

Parallel Sessions

Agriculture, Part 1

Chair. Ali Torabi Haghighi

Auditorium (2nd floor)

Digital Twins & Digital Infrastructures, Part 1

Chair. Cintia Bertacchi Uvo

Ryssö (2nd floor)

Floods, Precipitation, & Freshwater Vulnerability, Part 2

Chair. Tua Nylen

Ramso (3rd floor)

09:30-09:45

The application of geospatial datasets for planning of water quality monitoring and implementation of water and nutrient retention practices

Ainis Lagzdins, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

Beyond Digital Models: Using Bibliographic Analysis to Define Digital Twin Maturity in Water Sciences

Anna Autio, University of Oulu

Mining flood impact information from newspaper articles: insights from Denmark and perspectives on AI-based automation

Jonas Wied Pedersen, Danish Meteorological Institute

 

09:45-10:00

Smart irrigation-drainage-reservoir system for climate-resilient water management:
the RE-WATER project

Alireza Gohari, University of Oulu

How Can Citizen Science Be Integrated into Digital Twin–Enabled Decision Support to Enhance Crop Yield?

Mojtaba Naghdyzadegan Jahromi, University of Oulu

Open knowledge networks for compound flood hazard analysis: from static inundation maps to dynamic intelligence about cascading infrastructure risk

Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California

 

10:00-10:15

Water Management Strategies for Boreal Acid Sulfate Soils: When can we meet the EU Water Framework Directive?

Peter Österholm, Åbo Akademi

To Twin or not to Twin? Towards Critically Framed and Transformative Digital Solutions for Catchment-based Water Resource Management

Mirjami Lantto Klein, Aalto University

Hydropeaking mitigation under constrained conditions: an infrastructure-based gravity-driven solution at the Montta hydropower plant, Finland

Ali Mchayk, University of Oulu

 

10:15-10:30

Nutrient load in the Archipelago Sea as a challenge for the agri-environmental programme

Katri Rankinen, Finnish Environment Institute

Human-in-the-Loop Multi-Agent Systems with LLM for Interactive Hydrological Decision Support

Mehrdad Rostami, University of Oulu

Assessing vulnerabilities of freshwater supply in Sweden using the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) and other state-of-the-art hydrogeodetic technologies.

David Lindao Caizaguano, Stockholm University

 

10:30-10:45

Drainage waters from underpasses as a significant iron source to downstream waters

Elina Niemelä, University of Oulu

Flexible geospatial-aware data management platform for research projects

Ville Mäkinen, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI)

Improvement of comprehensiveness in watercourse mapping with machine learning

Justus Poutanen, National Land Survey of Finland

 

10:45-11:00

 

Digital workflows for tracing Vantaanjoki river signals into the Gulf of Finland

Anna-Kaisa Ronkanen, Finnish Environment Institute

 

11:00-12:30

Lunch break, Entrance Foyer

12:30-13:15


 

Parallel Sessions

Agriculture, Part 2

Chair. Ali Torabi Haghighi

Auditorium (2nd floor)

Digital Twins & Digital Infrastructures, Part 2

Chair. Cintia Bertacchi Uvo

Ryssö (2nd floor)

Groundwater

Chair. Anna-Kaisa Ronkanen

Ramsö (3rd floor)

12:30-12:45

Hydrological variability threatens water quality in agricultural settings

Darrell Tang, University of Oulu

Broadened access to hydrological models in mining through a digital water platform

Stefan Ploum, DHI Group

How has the annual groundwater cycle changed in Finland over the past 50 years?

Pietari Pöykkö, University of Oulu

12:45-13:00

Nordic agriculture under hydroclimatic extremes

Sahand Ghadimi, University of Oulu

The Digital Waters Architecture: co-creating a digital twin of the hydrosphere using shared research infrastructure 

Elizabeth Carter, University of Oulu

High resolution modelling of groundwater recharge with MIKE SHE

Philipp Huttner, DHI A/S

13:00-13:15

The cooperation network for monitoring agricultural loads and the effects of mitigation measures

Maria Kämäri, Finnish Environment Institute

Persona-Based UX Evaluation of a VR Digital Twin for Geospatial Exploration: Oulankajoki Supersite

Siamak Ahmadzadeh Bazzaz, University of Oulu

Resolving Groundwater Flow Paths in Volcanic Systems Through Combined Isotopic, Geochemical, and eDNA Tracers

Stephanie Musy, University of Oulu

13.20-13.30

Prizes for best student orals & posters, Auditorium

Torill Engen Skaugen

13.30-14.00

Next years conference, Auditorium

Jolanta Jēkabsone

14:00-14:10

Short info on evening's social programs, Auditorium

Hanna Holappa

14:10-14:20

Thank you & Last words, Auditorium

Björn Klöve

14:20-14:45

Last Coffee, Entrance Foyer

16:00-18:00

Social program (Ship cruise 1)

19:00-21:00

Social Program (Ship cruise 2)

17:00-19:00

Social program (Tastillery Tour)

 

Posters 

1A Yanni Yang, University of Oulu

Interconnected groundwater–surface water interactions and carbon transport across a subarctic river valley

1B Adnan Asif Rifat, University of Turku

Vegetation Structure Mitigates Nighttime Urban Heat During Heatwaves: Insights from 22 Years of Observations in a High-Latitude City

2A Andis Kalvans, University of Latvia

Surface water and ocean topography (SWOT) data for poorly gauged catchment management plans

2B Can Ding, Aalto University

Seasonal Heat Budget Dynamics of a High-Latitude River System: A Case Study of the Vantaanjoki River, Finland

3A Sajjad Mohammadzadeh Vatanchi, University of Oulu

Short-term scheduling of cascade hydropower plants: Coupling HBV-light with FlexTool

3B Janne Torvela, University of Oulu

Simultaneous calibration of multiple inexpensive temperature sensors for IoT applications

4A Bergur Einarsson, Icelandic Meteorological Office

Dissemination of flood hazard information, for decision support in long-term planning, to local population and stakeholders in Iceland

4B Galina Kapanen, Tallinn University

Enabling collaborative efforts for systemic change in Estonian river basin management (LIFE SIP WetEST)

5A Darius Jakimavičius, Lithuanian Energy Institute

Ice Cover Dynamics and Flood Hazards: Impacts of Shifting Climate Normals on Riverine Flood Risks

5B Parsa parvizi, University of Oulu

Hybrid hydrological–machine learning framework for high-resolution soil moisture prediction in a sub-arctic catchment

6A Mariah Josten, University of Turku

Drivers and Decay of Ferry-Induced Waves in a Complex Archipelago

6B Sadegh Kaboli, University of Turku

A six-decade assessment of interannual variability and long-term shifts in peak snowmelt flood timing in unregulated boreal catchments

7A Hannu Marttila, University of Oulu

Ecosystem-level Monitoring of Environmental Impact after Peatland Rewetting

7B Jonna Tauriainen, University of Oulu

Linking hydrological variability, microbial community processes, and greenhouse gas dynamics in a subarctic stream network

8A Kibrewosen Zewdu Belay, Lithuanian Energy Institute

Quantifying Harmonisation-Induced Uncertainty in Long-Term Land Cover Datasets across Eastern Baltic Transboundary River Basins

8B Moinul Islam, University of Oulu

A Multimodal Vision-Language Transformer for Uncertainty-Aware Inland Water Quality Estimation

9A Waqar Khalid, University of Turku

Vegetation and Flow Controls on Meandering River Point Bar Development: High-Resolution Evidence from the Subarctic

9B Heidi Salo, Aalto University

Drainage Research Association: providing Long-Term Field-Scale Monitoring Data from Finland

10A Seyed Hossein Hosseini, Aalto University

Enhancing Hydrological Model Simulations Through Spatiotemporal Deep Learning and Explainable AI

10B Sampo Soini, University of Turku

Architectural understanding and allostratigraphic approach of ice-marginal complexes as basis for better groundwater management

11A Fainaz Inamdeen, Lund University

Effects of Floods in River Björkaån on Water Quality in Lake Vombsjön, Sweden.

11B Mohammadreza Hassani, Aalto University

Stormwater Quality Dynamics During Urban Construction: A Counterfactual Paired-Catchment Analysis

12A Jolanta Jekabsone, Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre

Ecological flow assessment on-line tool as a suitable instrument to support water management

12B Dalia Grendaitė, State Scientific Research Institute Nature Research Centre

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Lake Heating in a Nuclear Cooling Reservoir: The Case of Lake Drūkšiai

13A Jacob Vejby, Agency for Climate Data, Denmark

Drought Ensemble for MONitoring (DEMON): an evapotranspiration-based drought-stress monitoring product for Denmark

13B Grith Martinsen, Danish Meteorological Institute

The importance of terrain features in Danish hydrology and their representation in hydrological models for flood warnings

14A Laura Menezes, Technical Development Solutions (TDS)

Furata: A Digital Platform for Integrated Hydrological Monitoring and Data-Driven Water Management

14B Farid Mousavi, University of Oulu

A Memory of Snow for Cold Climate Urban Flood Digital Twins with Spatiotemporal Deep Learning

15A Pamela Abderdaal, Institute of Ecology at Tallinn University

Preliminary insight into microbial community diversity in relation to redox processes in Estonian groundwater systems

15B Ieva Siksnane, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

Seasonal variability of nitrogen compounds in Latvian river catchments: insights from the LIFE GoodWater IP project

16A Haizhou Zhang, University of Turku

Collaborative situational awareness in multi-robot systems for environmental monitoring

16B Matin Rafipour Langeroudi, University of Oulu

Robust Reservoir Operation in Glacier-Fed Hydro-Energy Systems Under Climate Change

17A Līga Klints, Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre

Flood frequency analysis and trend detection in river basins of Latvia under recent climate change

17B Milad Shamsi Anboohi, University of Oulu

Assessing snow-related features for melt-season runoff prediction in boreal catchments

18A Joonatan Kama, Estonian Environment Agency

Enhancing satellite-based flood mapping with HAND terrain analysis: a pilot study in Estonia

18B Egle Saaremäe, Estonian University of Life Sciences

Development of national design storm hyetographs for urban drainage modelling: a case study in Estonia

19A Xiao Lu, University of Oulu

Uncovering water table and thermal regimes variation in boreal peatlands after restoration

19B Shahin Nourinezhad, University of Oulu

Machine-Learning Insights into Changing Finnish Lake Ice Regimes in Response to Climate Forcing

20A Ingibjörg Þórðardóttir, Icelandic Meteorological Office

Establishing reference values for permissible abstraction from bedrock groundwater bodies in Iceland

20B Emil Karlsson, Aalto University

Digital twin-assisted anomaly detection in water process systems

21A Nikola Rystwej, AGH University of Krakow

WELLth Kraków! © - Where security flows from nature

21B Elsa Culler, University of Oulu

An investigation of post-wildfire changes in hydrologic parameters using data assimilation in a southern California watershed

22A Maedeh Edraki, University of Oulu

Lake Influence on Streamflow Extremes in Small Finnish Catchments

22B Simon Stisen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Modelling water table depth dynamics in peatlands for GHG emission upscaling

23A Juho Jakkila, Finnish Environment Institute

Climate change impacts on hydrological extremes in Finland: an impact response surface approach

23B Sami Ghordoyee Milan, University of Oulu

From dry spells to flash droughts: an event-based framework for detecting surface, root-zone, and compound hydroclimatic responses across Finland

24A Amirhossein Nourian, University of Turku

Safe ship routing using satellite imagery and deep reinforcement learning

24B Maria Kämäri, Finnish Environment Institute

Gypsum soil amendment reduces phosphorus load to the Baltic Sea

25A Mikhail Sandzhiev, University of Eastern Finland

Real-time spatial mapping of metal concentrations in environmental waters for ecological monitoring using a portable XRF device

25B Svava Björk Þorláksdóttir, Icelandic Meteorological Office

Hydromorphological classification system for rivers and lakes - Use and challenges 

26A Tuomas Haapala, Aalto University

Influence of changing climate conditions on standardized meteorological indices and extreme events in northern regions

26B Elina Kasvi, University of Turku

Effects of Hydroclimatic Variability on Source-to-Sea Material Fluxes from an Agricultural Catchment to Estuary in the Northern Baltic Sea

27A Raine Kortet, University of Eastern Finland

Does warmer weather in autumn actually mean colder under-ice bottom water temperatures of lakes in winter?

27B Augustinas Žilys, Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI)

Approaches to Sedimentation Control in European Reservoirs for Sustainable Water Resource Management

28A Julia Nowosad, University of Life Sciences in Lublin

A Google Earth Engine application for Sentinel-2-based regional monitoring of chlorophyll-a in inland waterbodies

28B Oliver Koit, Tallinn University

Stress testing Estonia's streams. A composite climate vulnerability index for river catchments

29A Stein Beldring, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate

Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Norway

29B Mehran Mahdian, University of Eastern Finland

Linking watershed management practices to ecological status variations: a long-term explainable AI assessment

30A Marika Teini, University of Eastern Finland

Legal protection of small water bodies in Finland: Application, interpretation, and biodiversity implications

30B Yuju Chun, Sungkyunkwan University

Regional Drought Analysis Using CR-Based Evapotranspiration and Atmospheric Evaporative Demand

31A Ajay Ajay, University of Oulu

Utilizing atmospheric water vapor isotopes (δ18O & δ2H) for evapotranspiration partitioning in the subarctic

31B Jaakko Nissilä, University of Oulu

Wastewater management data for impact assessment in Finland - scalability of national and regional data in the case site of Tana River catchment

32A Elina Heikkilä, University of Eastern Finland

Derogations from the Strict Protection of Species Listed in Annex IV(a) of the Habitats Directive – An Empirical Analysis of Finland’s Derogation Practice

32B Bhattarabhop Viriyaroj, Aalto University

Unveiling characteristics of the global crop production system

33A Linnea Blåfield, University of Turku

From Intermittent Observations to Continuous Monitoring: Advancing Under-Ice River Flow Measurements

33B Harri Koivusalo, Aalto University 

Integration of digital tools for assessing hydrological extremes in rural and urban areas

34A Iiro Seppä, University of Turku

Spatial heterogeneity of catchment rainfall-runoff drivers in Finland: robust deep learning feature importance approach

34B Dilshan Dissanayaka, University of Eastern Finland

Is there any surface charge-dependent toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles on whitefish early life stages?

35A Raffa Ahmed, University of Oulu

Hydropower in Cold Climates: A Systematic Review of Operational Challenges, System Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation Strategies

35B Alexandra Nyberg, Åbo Akademi

The effects of gypsum amendment on soil geochemistry and element leaching in laboratory conditions

36A Ghunwa Shah, Gdansk University of Technology

Evaluation of the performance of the Rain-on-Mesh approach for hydrological simulation in HEC-RAS model

36B Philipp Huttner, DHI A/S

The River Thames Scheme: Predict the influence on surface and groundwater for the largest european flood defense project with a fully coupled MIKE SHE and MIKE+ River model

37A Beata Plutova, University of Turku

Combined impacts of hydroclimatic variation and agriculture management practices on runoff-nutrient export in a cold climate region

37B Joshua Johnson, Aalto University

Evaluation of remotely operated vehicle -mounted imaging and positioning techniques for topographic measurements under river ice cover.

38A Ashutosh Taral, University of Oulu

Modelling seasonal and decadal variability of snow conditions across Finland using SnowModel

38B Christine Kaggwa Nakigudde, University of Oulu

Temporal Downscaling of Summer Extreme Precipitation Under CMIP6 Climate Scenarios Using a Stochastic Bartlett-Lewis Rainfall Model

39A Kolbjørn Engeland, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE)

Prediction of low-flow indices in ungauged catchments

39B Ramin Faal Gandomkar, University of Oulu

Modeling future snow cover dynamics under SSP scenarios with LSTM: Insights from Northern Finland (2025–2100)

40A Pierre Jaouen, University of Oulu

Evaluation of forecast-driven predictive groundwater models for controlled subsurface drainage

40B Noora Manninen, Salaojayhdistys ry

Hydrological efficiency of subsurface drainage and its economic impacts on crop growth conditions in boreal agricultural soils

41A Temitope Akinyemi, University of Turku

Geomorphic diversity in a subarctic river: Insight from Tana River

41B Nicola Durighetto, University of Oulu

The Stage Cam Box: edge-computing camera-based water level monitoring in small streams

42A Pooya Mahmoodi, University of Oulu

Reconstructing Historical River Ice Dynamics in Northern Finland Using Digitized Newspapers and Hybrid NLP–Crowdsourcing Approaches

42B Doyoung Kim, Sungkyunkwan University

Spatiotemporal Variability of Soil Moisture: Multi-Sensor Observations at the Eoseom Korea Hydrometeorological Observatory

43A Simon Fahrländer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

A network perspective on coupled atmospheric moisture flows and virtual water trade

43B Supriya KC, University of Oulu

Spatiotemporal analysis of phenological events alteration through Growing Degree Days across Finland

44A Elham Kakaei Lafdani, University of Turku

A mechanistic framework linking drought processes to water quality dynamics through hydrological drought typology in boreal river systems

44B Anna Vilhunen, Aalto University

Towards Learning-centricity: Doctoral Supervisors’ Self-Reported Development Needs and Learning Trough Supervision Training

45A Mojtaba Shafiei, NIBIO

Water Framework Directive implementation in Norway: Challenges and opportunities in the era of data-driven approaches

45B Petra Saari, Åbo Akademi

Impacts of ship wakes on reproductive effort and recruitment success of Fucus vesiculosus

 

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Starts:   18.8.2026 08:00
Ends:   20.8.2026 14:00

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Alandica Kultur och Kongress

33 Strandgatan
22100 Mariehamn

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The Nordic Association for Hydrology (NHF)