The beginning...

Every year, we have this hydrology fieldwork in Aveiro, Portugal, as part of our Master's Programme Hydrology. This is a great opportunity for students to gain practical experience and understand what hydrology is. This year our MSc students were Jeremy Croes, Thijs van Leeuwen, Pieter Pauw, Diego Miralles, Achille Mauri, Ellen Kwantes, Carmen Navarro, Andreas Antoniou, Robert Parinusa and Sebastian Ritter.

As always, the staff, that's me, Maarten Waterloo, and my colleague, Boris van Breukelen, started collecting all the equipment we needed for this fieldwork at our University. This year had been particularly busy for both of us and Boris and I were a bit stressed and hoped that we hadn't forgotten any instruments when we left the University in our big rented van.

Driving to Portugal took us 2.5 days and we were very happy to finally park our van close to our hotel on Saturday morning. Boris is a kite surfing addict and managed to get into the water on Saturday afternoon, even before any of our students had arrived from their excurion to the Algarve. I was just happy with the great Portuguese food.

Our students were all here on Monday and enjoyed the rented houses in the beach town of Barra. On Tuesday we had our first field day. The weather was rather cold, cloudy and we had some rain. We managed to get to the programme and were now all up to date with the local geology and our catchment measurement sites. A good start for the real work...

Posted by Maarten Waterloo