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EGU2023 OSPP Award
I am happy to share that my Poster & Presentation at EGU23 are awarded with an “Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation” award 🖼🏆 Thanks to all the people who came to my poster and sparked interesting and insightful discussions! If you want to check out my poster on “Detecting the occurrence of preferential flow…
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EGU24 Session on failed models and negative results
“Trial and error” is one of the fundamental principles of science, yet the errors are seldom published. Failed experiments, including negative results, statistically insignificant data, and imperfect modelling, are all natural parts of the scientific journey. However, publication bias, the tendency to only publish positive outcomes, leaves out a significant part of the story. At…
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🌾Protecting Harvests Part 4 – Breeding Drought Resistant Crops 🌽🌾
Droughts threaten our food production! In the last decade, crop failure due to drought lead to losses of 32 Billion USD in low income countries alone (FAO, https://www.fao.org/resources/digital-reports/disasters-in-agriculture/en/). Climate change will exercabate this crisis, since droughts will become more frequent. We need to adapt farming to ensure harvests and protect global food supply. Besides using…