Analysing the contribution of re-activated former watercourses towards a more sustainable transformation of industrialized riverine landscapes

Project assigned to: Helena Galys
Supervisor: Thomas Ertl

An Interdisciplinary Planning Process for Stormwater Management on a River Catchment Scale - Using Modelling as a Tool

Project assigned to: Lena Simperler
Supervisor: Thomas Ertl

Climate Change Adaptation Through the Use of Captured Urban Streams Supported by Nature-Based Stormwater Management

Project assigned to: Philipp Stern 
Supervisor: Thomas Ertl

Culture of Risk in Spatial Planning

Project assigned to: Lena Junger 
Supervisor: Gernot Stöglehner 

Development of a bioassessment system to evaluate the ecological status of fresh waters in Uganda: the ecological diversity of Uganda’s freshwater systems

Project assigned to: Aine Amon
Supervisor: Wolfram Graf 

Vertical greening systems as a technology to enhance greywater reuse in the built environment

Project assigned to: Bernhard Pucher
Supervisor: Günter Langergraber

Effects of climate change on tolerance levels of river sediment contamination induced by point and nonpoint sources

Project assigned to: Peter Flödl
Supervisor: Christoph Hauer

Effects of floodplain restoration on nutrient retention and ecosystem services on reach and catchment scale 

Project assigned to: Martin Tschikof 
Supervisor: Thomas Hein 

Establishment and application of the Ti(III) reduction method for analysisof nitrogen isotopes in water samples at BOKU

Project assigned to: Monis Nolitha Gcakasi

Supervisor: Christine Stumpp 

Exploring Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relationships of Leaf Litter Decomposition in Streams

Project assigned to: Mourine Yegon
Supervisor: Wolfram Graf 

Exploring farmers’ intended behaviour and plausible scenarios for floodplain and wetland restoration in Austria

Project assigned to: Katharina Bauer
Supervisor: Erwin Schmid

Exploring the Impacts of Recent Industrial Revolutions on Industrialized Riverine Landscapes

Project assigned to: Lisa Schmalfuß
Supervisor: Christoph Hauer

Floodplains and their importance for flood risk reduction, ecology and socio-economics 

Project assigned to: Markus Eder 
Supervisor: Helmut Habersack

Fluvial sediment budget out of balance. An effect of climate change and anthropogenic influence on rivers 

Project assigned to: Michael Paster 
Supervisor: Christoph Hauer

Hydrological and biological interactions in high alpine ecosystem under specific focus of hydropower production 

Project assigned to: Alexander Auhser 
Supervisor: Wolfram Graf 

Intermittent flow – hydrological effects and impacts on benthic communities, ecological state and functioning of riverine systems

Project assigned to: Lana Židak
Supervisor: Wolfram Graf

Land-Water Governance for Socioecological Transformation: Catchment-based Strategic Approaches to Multi-Functional Land Use

Project assigned to: Melissa Hiltl
Supervisor: Gernot Stöglehner

Long-Term impacts of the agricultural management systems on soil degradation and hydrological processes

Project assigned to: Márton Tóth 
Supervisor: Christine Stumpp 

Impact of hydropower on river morphology and juvenile fish in Alpine river systems

Project assigned to: Kevin Merl
Supervisor: Stefan Schmutz

Impacts of connectivity changes on river meta-ecosystems

Project assigned to: Johannes Kowal
Supervisor: Thomas Hein

Impact of ship-induced waves on green and brown food webs along river shoreline zones in locations with different hydro-morphological characteristics

Project assigned to: Anna-Lisa Dittrich
Supervisor: Thomas Hein

Improving the identification of waterborne bacteria in Austrian groundwater using MALDI-TOF-MS 

Project assigned to: Aurora Gitto 
Supervisor: Thomas Ertl

Influence of land use/cover change on provisioning and regulating ecosystem services in a papyrus wetland in the Lake Victoria Basin in Kenya 

Project assigned to: Risper Ajwang' Ondiek
Supervisor: Thomas Hein

Material resources demand and flows of hydraulic structures to prevent societal impact of extreme events

Project assigned to: Christian Zimmermann
Supervisor: Gertrud Haidvogl

Modeling biodiversity patterns in relation to network connectivity in European streams, rivers, and deltas

Project assigned to: Anthony Basooma
Supervisor: Thomas Hein 

Modeling multi-scaled effectiveness of nature based solutions in river systems

Project assigned to: Damiano Baldan
Supervisor: Thomas Hein

Nature based solutions (NbS) for improvement of European lakes ecosystem quality

Project assigned to: Erika Yessenia Cuida López
Supervisor: Günter Langergraber

Organic carbon cycling in streams: process understanding and impacts of agriculture and droughts

Project assigned to: Matthias Pucher
Supervisor: Thomas Hein 

Quantifying the unseen – an assessment of the bottom dwelling fish fauna in the Austrian Danube

Project assigned to: Jakob Neuburg
Supervisor: Stefan Schmutz

Role of hydrological extremes (floods) for sediment transport and morphodynamics in the human-river system

Project assigned to: Roman Dunst
Supervisor: Helmut Habersack

Recreational angling in the meta-ecosystem Danube – a social-ecological approach for sustainable future management

Project assigned to: Nikolaus Töchterle
Supervisor: Gertrud Haidvogl

The effects of infrastructure development on aquatic biodiversity in river systems

Project assigned to: Dominik von Spinn
Supervisor: Thomas Hein

The impact of urban settlements on organic matter and nutrient flows in industrialized riverine landscapes – What can we learn from the past?

Project assigned to: Elise Karlsson Faudot
Supervisor: Günter Langergraber

The impact of wastewater discharge on greenhouse gas fluxes and carbon storage in a tropical riverine wetland: Lubigi wetland Kampala, Uganda

Project assigned to: Flavia Byekwaso
Supervisor: Thomas Hein 

The impact of water temperature increase on water quality in urban shallow groundwater bodies 

Project assigned to: Eva Kaminsky 
Supervisor: Christine Stumpp 

The Impacts of Low Flow, Drought and Warming to the Functioning of River Systems

Project assigned to: Farhana Sweeta Fitriana
Supervisor: Gregor Laaha

The partitioning and processes of reactive nitrogen emissions under scenarios of anthropogenic changes in agricultural watersheds

Project assigned to: Cong Wang
Supervisor: Karsten Schulz

Towards repeatable catchment experiments (REPEAT) An advanced understanding of catchment water transit times under varying hydrometeorological conditions 

Project assigned to: Hatice Türk 
Supervisor: Christine Stumpp 

Towards repeatable catchment experiments: Influence of hydro-meteorological variables on the runoff response at the catchment scale 

Project assigned to: Adriane Hövel 
Supervisor: Christine Stumpp 

Tracer tests and numerical models as a means to support better management of small agricultural catchments 

Project assigned to: Alba Canet Martí 
Supervisor: Günter Langergraber

Urban Stormwater Management in the face of Extreme Events and Failure Incidents - Using Systems Thinking and Participatory Methods to Inform Management Decisions and Enhance Resilience

Project assigned to: Katharina Kearney 
Supervisor: Thomas Ertl

Water transit time distributions as indicators for the vulnerability of riverine ecosystems under different pressures from social metabolism

Project assigned to: Karl Knaebel
Supervisor: Christine Stumpp