World Water Webinar with Professor Laurent Pfister

The rivers are alive: on the potential for living organisms as hydrological archives and tracers

Join Professor Laurent Pfister from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology for a webinar, part of the University of Birmingham’s World Water Programme.

This is part of a series of events exploring the great water challenges being faced around the globe. Come and take part in the discussions, and hear about the vital water sciences research taking place regionally, nationally and internationally. Discover how the University of Birmingham research community is playing its part. World Water Day 2021 is about what water means to people, its true value and how we can better protect this vital resource. 

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Laurent Pfister is a hydrologist at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), where he leads the Environmental Sensing and Modelling research unit. He is also an Affiliated Professor in Environmental Sciences at the University of Luxembourg and Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK). His research interests focus on the holistic understanding of hydrological systems in a context of global change. He has worked on innovative technologies, such as thermal IR imagery for mapping saturated area dynamics, terrestrial diatoms as hydrological tracers, and freshwater mussels for reconstructing past signatures of stream water d18O.