During the past few weeks, regulate researchers were speaking at two international conferences.

Fanny introduces our project in the EWA yearbook 2022 as one “European Highlight”.

In the new article Fanny, Robert and Linda are exploring the various pressures humans put on groundwater and discussing how human-groundwater interactions could be shaped more sustainably.

The United Nations has declared ‘Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible’ its theme for World Water Day on 22 March 2022. This is because policies and decision-makers have paid little attention to the global groundwater problem thus far. Read more about Groundwater as an invisible resource and (non-) visible problems

A brief overview of David’s various locations during his exploratory trip to Spain in November as well as his impressions of potential local conflicts around (ground) water.

During the week of September 6th-10th, regulate researchers will participate in several conferences on (ground) water. At these, they will present the regulate research approach.

On the ISOE-blog, Robert and Fanny provide an insight into the importance of the telecoupling concept in groundwater research. Additionally they present the research mode of the “regulate” project.

In the new ISOE blog called “Social Ecology. Crisis – Critique – Design”, Dženeta provides some research insights from her ethnographic fieldwork on renewable energy infrastructuring practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

At the Waterworlding Conference, Dženeta presented on subterranean waterworlding in the border region of Croatia and Bosnia. Afterwards Fanny and Dženeta moderated sessions in the international symposium bringing together social and cultural water studies.

Last week, we could finally meet all together in person. We used this day to reflect on the first months of the project and to work on various team products.

In the event ‘Meet the Scientist’ on June 23, 2021 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., ISOE scientists Robert and Stefan will present current results from water research in conversation with citizens.

Robert gave a talk on groundwater resources for BUND Saarland on April 13th 2021. The topic was, how climate change and societal demands potentially lead to conflict situations over groundwater resources among stakeholders.

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On the occasion of World Water Day, Robert talks about the state of our groundwater in an interview with radioeins.

On valuing groundwater: in an interview with PDmedien Fanny talks about key issues and how regulate intends to tackle them.

We congratulate one of regulate’s doctoral researchers, Dženeta Hodžić, for receiving the 2nd prize of the THESys award for her Master thesis!

We are happy to announce that regulate’s Practice Advisory Board (PAB) came together in late January to hold it’s first constituent meeting!

The German Federal Environmental Foundation held an online meeting on groundwater challenges and Robert and Hans Jürgen joined the panel.

By November 1st, the regulate team was completed and we had our first 3-day virtual retreat to pave the way for the next 5 years of groundwater research.

Robert was invited to the German TV show ‘alle wetter’ to talk about conflicts around groundwater under current drought conditions.

The research network GeoERA is holding a series of webinars towards a Geological Service for Europe in early November.

The parliamentary group Alliance90/The Greens held a drought dialog and Fanny provided an input on sustainable water management.

We are happy to announce that the junior research group ‘regulate’ was finally launched in early September and we are thrilled to start working!