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Dr. Layla Hashweh

Coordinator of SASSCAL Graduate Studies Programme in Integrated Water Resources Management (SGSP-IWRM)

Contact:
Federal Institute of Hydrology
P.O. Box 200253
56002 Koblenz, Deutschland

Telefon: +49 (0) 261 1306 5421
Email:

Dr. Layla Hashweh, a Palestinian raised in Jerusalem, has worked with different international organizations, and has several years of experience in the private, public, and NGO water sector in Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Europe, East Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia and South Africa.

Layla has a strong interdisciplinary background as she received her BSc in Agricultural Economics & Management with a minor in Environmental Studies from the Hebrew University in Israel. She then pursued her master’s degree in Hydrology and Water Quality working on the rehabilitation of a transboundary polluted stream at Ben Gurion University. Layla did her PhD in Hydrogeology with the Center for Development Research in Bonn, Germany, as part of the global food security initiative GlobE project ‘wetlands in East Africa’, focusing on the modelling of the endangered Ewaso Narok floodplain in Kenya. Layla spent the last two years working as a proposal manager for an engineering team, ensuring suitable country-specific design of water and wastewater systems. Layla is fluent in Arabic, English, and Hebrew, and has a high command of German.

Research interest

  • Water quality management
  • Food security and wetlands
  • Food-Water-Ecosystem Nexus
  • Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
  • Water policy and gender

Education

  • Dr. rer. nat. (Promotion in Hydrogeology and Geosciences), Bonn University, Germany – 2022.
    Doctoral Thesis: Modeling of Ewaso Narok floodplain: A study of the hydrochemistry and hydrogeology in a data-scarce environment
  • Master of Science in Hydrology & Water Quality, Ben-Gurion University, Israel – 2015.
    Master’s Thesis: The eco-hydrology of the cross-border As Samen-Hebron Basin: The chemical transformation of pollutants along the As Samen-Hebron stream and aquifer system in Israel and Palestine
  • Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics and Management & Environmental Studies, Hebrew University, Israel – 2011.

Publications

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Dr. Renee van Dongen-Köster

Project coordinator of the TG02-Project URSACHEN

Contact:
Federal Institute of Hydrology
P.O. Box 200253
56002 Koblenz, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 261 1306 5881
Email:

Research

  • Fluvial geomorphology
  • Sediment transport in rivers
  • River incision modelling
  • Quantifying erosion rates using Cosmogenic Nuclides.

Tasks

  • Project coordination of the URSACHEN-project: Uncertainties in the quantification of spatially and temporally varying particulate matter transport in rivers.
  • Quantification of global matter transport based on the GEMstat database.
  • Development of data products and analysis tools for the calculation of particulate matter transport.

Community contributions

  • 2019 – 2021: Board member of the German Young Geomorphologists
  • 2019 & current: Co-convening a session at the EGU in Wien titled “Crowd-solving Problems in Earth Sciences”
  • 2019 & 2020: Co-convening a session at the EGU in Wien titled “Novel Approaches in Geochronology: Quantifying Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Dynamics”

Research Experience

2016-2021: Doctoral student at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Department of Earth Surface Geochemistry – Potsdam, Germany

2015: Research Intern at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy – Potsdam, Germany

Teaching Experience

2016-2018: Student Assistant “Isotopic quantification of dates and rates in geomorphology” – Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Education

2009-2013 Master of Science, Soil Geography and Earth Surface Dynamics – Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2013-2015 Bachelor of Science, Soil, Water and Atmosphere – Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Publications in scientific journals

Van Dongen, R. Discharge variability and river incision along a climate gradient in central Chile. PhD thesis, http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-32011, 2021.

van Dongen, R., Scherler, D., Wittmann, H. and von Blanckenburg, F.: Cosmogenic 10Be in river sediment: where grain size matters and why, Earth Surf. Dynam., 7, 393–410, doi:10.5194/esurf-7-393-2019, 2019

Germer, S., van Dongen, R. and Kern, J.: Decomposition of cherry tree prunings and their short-term impact on soil quality, Appl. Soil Ecol., 117–118(January), 156–164, doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.05.003, 2017.

 

 

Conference contributions

van Dongen, R., Scherler, D., Wendi, D., Deal, E., Meier, C., Marwan, N., Mao, L. El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) controls on mean streamflow and streamflow variability in Central Chile. EGU 2022 (PICO).

van Dongen, R., Scherler, D., Deal, E., Meier, C., Mao, L., Lisac, I.  Discharge variability along a climate gradient in Chile: seasonality and (eco-)hydrological modulation by catchment attributes. EGU 2019 (PICO).

van Dongen, R., Scherler, D., Deal, E., Meier, C., Mao, L., Lisac, I.  Which catchment characteristics control the magnitude-frequency distribution of river discharge? AGU 2018 (poster).

van Dongen, R., Scherler, D., Wittmann, H., von Blanckenburg, F. Grain size-dependent 10Be concentrations in river sediment: Why they matter in high mountain landscapes. Central European Conference on Geomorphology and Quaternary Sciences, 2018 (talk).

van Dongen, R., Scherler, D., Wittmann, H., von Blanckenburg, F. Where do 10Be-derived denudation rates depend on grain size? EGU 2018 (poster).

van Dongen, R., Germer, S., Kern, J., Stoorvogel, J. Visual versus chemical evaluation: Effects of pruning wood decomposition on soil quality in a cherry orchard (Northeast Germany). EGU 2016 (PICO).

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