World Water Day Colloquium 2025

Monday, 31th March 2025, 13:00 -16:30 online

The Graduate Academy Water-People-Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim invites you to an online colloquium in celebration of UN World Water Day 2025.

This event will bring together leading experts from diverse disciplines, offering insights into the role of glaciers in hydrological systems and the broader implications of climate change on cryospheric environments. Through a series of presentations, speakers will explore how glacial retreat and ice sheet dynamics influence water resources, ecosystems, and societies.

Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A session, allowing for discussion and scientific exchange.

Participants can join the colloquium online via Zoom

https://uni-hohenheim.zoom-x.de/j/65971093005?pwd=F1pEbgTZgJZiCKOfVTZ43TDqzdLJLb.1
Meeting ID: 659 7109 3005
Passcode: USk2p6

With contributions from:

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Hagg

  • Professor for glaciology, hydrology and physical geography of high mountains at the University of Munich
  • University of Applied Science (HM), München
  • Title: “The hydrological effects of glacier retreat.”

Prof. Dr. Angelika Humbert

  • Glaciologist at the Alfred Wegner Institute
  • Professor at the University of Bremen (Faculty of Geoscience)
  • Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven and University of Bremen
  • Title: “The hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheets”

Dr. Tobias Hipp

  • Geo-/climate scientist, project manager and advisor for conservation and climate protection strategies
  • Deutscher Alpen Verein (DAV), München
  • Title: “Alpine future without ice – just nostalgia or a severe crisis?”

Program:

Time

Person / Institution

Title

13:00

Folkard Asch
Scientific Director Research Training Group

“Water – People – Agriculture”

 Opening

World Water Day Colloquium 2025

13:10

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Hagg
Professor for glaciology, hydrology and physical geography of high mountains at the University of Munich

University of Applied Science (HM), München

 

“The hydrological effects of glacier retreat.”

13:50

Prof. Dr. Angelika Humbert
Glaciologist at the Alfred Wegner Institute, Professor at the University of Bremen (Faculty of Geoscience) and Guest Lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt

Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven and University of Bremen

 

 “The hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheets.”

14:30

Coffee Break

 

14:50

Dr. Tobias Hipp
Geo-/climate scientist, project manager and advisor for conservation and climate protection strategies

Deutscher Alpen Verein (DAV), München

 

“Alpine future without ice – just nostalgia or a severe crisis?”

15:30

PhD Projects “Water – People – Agriculture” Research Training Group

Sreymey Ngoun
WPA Scholar

(Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics)

 

 

 

“Real color crop imaging for improved crop status monitoring in cassava”

16:10

Aaron Willmot
WPA Scholar

(Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics)

 

“Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical plantations”

16:40

Folkard Asch, Marcus Giese

Closing of the Colloquium