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  • Erik Karlsson new member of the steering committee

    Published Jan 15, 2025

    Erik Karlsson is the newest member of WaterCentre@KTH's steering committee, joining the centre in November 2024. Erik Karlsson is a strategist at Svenskt Vatten, the industry organization for Sweden's...

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  • Scientific Data on flow and storage changes of water on land around the world

    Published Jan 14, 2025

    If you want to know and use data for how water flows and water storages on land have been varying and changing in recent decades around the world, check out this new published data paper in Nature – S...

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  • New on-going project: Muddy terrains of environmental expertise

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    Published Dec 20, 2024

    Freshwater is an increasingly acute issue for cities in the context of the multifaceted climate crisis. In response to this, restoration of freshwater urban ecosystems is gaining momentum. However, re...

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  • Part 1: Remembering Our Roots, Re-connecting to the Ocean, and Reflecting on Our Prio

    A woman standing in shallow water holding an octopus
    Published Dec 20, 2024

    Authored by Gauri Salunkhe, based on her experiences during her 4.5 month field work in Fiji for her Master’s thesis project. This is part 1 of a two-part article that introduces the community-managed...

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  • New on-going project: Cascade

    The Cascade project workplan
    Published Dec 20, 2024

    CASCADE is an interdisciplinary research initiative that tackles the escalating risks posed by multiple hydrometeorological hazards, such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and their cascading effects on...

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  • WaterCentre@KTH co-hosted Hydrologidagarna

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    Published Dec 19, 2024

    ​​​​​​​Hydrologidagarna (Hydrology Days) is an annual conference arranged by members of the Swedish Hydrological Council. Hydrologidagarna 2024 was hosted by KTH, with WaterCentre@KTH forming part of ...

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  • KTH researchers nominated for Frontiers Planet Prize

    Published Dec 17, 2024

    KTH researchers Zahra Kalantari, Bijan Dargahi and Zipan Cai have been nominated for the Frontiers Planet Prize based on articles they have written or contributed to. Both articles are water-related.

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  • Mariel Perez Zabaleta on wastewater - “Blue gold”

    Mariel Perez Zabaleta presenting her research
    Published Dec 05, 2024

    In a world facing a serious water shortage, treating and recycling water based on its intended use could be part of the solution. Mariel Perez Zabaleta, a researcher at DTU, Denmark, introduced the co...

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  • “The importance of technology for our oceans”

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    Peter Sigray talking about his research in the arctic waters of Greenland
    Published Oct 04, 2024

    Water-related research at KTH covers a wide range of themes. A common denominator is the practical approach and the solution-oriented quality of projects and research areas. This makes it ideal for ex...

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  • Brigita Dejus on water-based epidemiology and an EU mission for the ocean

    Brigita Dejus presenting
    Published Oct 02, 2024

    In the latest WaterCentre@KTH lunch seminar, Doctor Brigita Dejus, Riga Technical University, Latvia, talked about the development of water-based epidemiology (WBE) in the young Baltic country. She ex...

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  • Gia Destouni is awarded the Baltic Sea Award

    Professor Gia Destouni is awarded for her research on the Baltic Sea. Photo: SU/Ingmarie Andersson
    Professor Georgia Destouni is awarded for her research on the Baltic Sea. Photo: SU/Ingmarie Anderss
    Published Sep 26, 2024

    Professor Georgia (Gia) Destouni has been awarded the Baltic Sea Award for her significant research contributions and guiding efforts to combat eutrophication in the Baltic Sea.

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  • Swedish-Colombian project on sustainable fishing presented to Colombia’s minister of science

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    Published Sep 13, 2024

    The Pacífico Econavipesca project is a collaboration between KTH, universities in Sweden and Colombia, local and reginal authorities as well as fishing associations in Guapi, Colombia. Taking advantag...

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  • Well-attended seminar on AI and water and carbon cycles with Professor Yeonjoo Kim

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    Professor Yeonjoo Kim presenting
    Published Sep 09, 2024

    Professor Yeonjoo Kim, Yonsei University, South Korea presented two examples of using artificial intelligence and process-based models to improve the prediction of water and carbon cycles in a well-at...

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  • Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Taikan Oki presented his work at KTH

    Taikan Oki during his presentation
    Photo: Karin Larsdotter, KTH Climate Action Centre
    Published Sep 06, 2024

    Professor Taikan Oki, University of Tokyo, participated in a seminar at KTH Campus on 29 August, the day after he received this year's Stockholm Water Prize from HM the King "Based on his world-renown...

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  • New blog post: Visiting Stockholm and World Water Week 2024 – a perspective from South Korea

    Published Sep 06, 2024

    “In August 2024, as part of the AI & Water Informatics Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in World Water ...

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  • New method against summer plague

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    A new method to collect the algae and sanitize the water during algal blooms (Photo:Mostphotos)
    Published Jul 03, 2024

    A new method to combat algal bloom has been developed at KTH and will be tested this summer in the waters off Klintehamn and Tofta on Gotland. ​​​​​​​"We will trawl up accumulations of cyanobacteria ...

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  • Water conflicts more frequent - how to solve them

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    - The trend in recent years is that conflicts over water have increased. We have not recognised this in time and have let things go in the wrong direction," says Zahra Kalantari. (Photo: Christer Gummeson)
    Published Jun 17, 2024

    Water is a scarce resource,causing an increasing number of conflicts. A project at KTH Royal Institute of Technology is exploring how nations and regions can better resolve the problems.

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  • KTH-researchers meeting with the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from Colombia

    Meeting with the minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from Colombia, Yesenia Olay
    Meeting with the minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from Colombia, Yesenia Olaya Requene https://minciencias.gov.co/direccion/ministra
    Published Jun 14, 2024

    Researchers at KTH met with the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from Colombia, Yesenia Olaya Requene, during a visit by a delegation from Colombia on the 13th June 2024.

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  • Photo gallery and proceedings from the Innovations for the Blue Planet 2024 conference

    Published Jun 10, 2024

    The international conference Innovations for the Blue Planet 2024 gathered renowned speakers and participants from several countries and fields, with water as the common denominator. Now, conference p...

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  • New on-going project: RESOLVE

    A passenger train on a railway track
    Photo: Dylan Burns, Unsplash
    Published Jun 04, 2024

    The European railways span nearly 230,000 kilometers across the continent, covering over 420,000 hectares of land and serving as a critical facilitator of human mobility and goods transportation for c...

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